Gandhinagar: Gujarat Congress's General Secretary DD Rajput has resigned from party. Rajput is Tharad Rajput Samaj's President. He was candidate of Congress party for Tharad assembly seat in 2017. Rajput has resigned ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, polling for which is scheduled on 7 May. A state level office bearer, Rajput's resignation is a major blow for the party especially in Banaskantha where Congress has fielded Wav MLA Geniben Thakor as its candidate against BJP's Dr. Rekhaben...Read More

Banaskantha: Under the Tharad Sipu Reservoir Pipeline Project, a 70 km long pipeline near Mahajanpura in Tharad, laid at the cost of Rs. 592 crores, was inaugurated by Shankar Choudhary, the Speaker of the Gujarat Assembly and Tharad MLA. The opening of the gates of the Narmada Canal marked the commencement of the water supply. The project involved laying a 70 km long pipeline from Tharad to Seepu Dam. The state government planned the pipeline project to provide water from the Narmada main ca...Read More

Tharad: Gujarat Vidhansabha Speaker, Shankarbhai Chaudhary, and Minister of Health, Rishikeshbhai Patel, today broke ground and laid the foundation stone for the new ultra-modern district hospital in Tharad. The hospital, estimated to cost Rs 54.16 crore, will be constructed in the border area and will provide modern health facilities to the local population. A significant number of border area leaders and local residents participated in the hospital's groundbreaking ceremony. Tharad in Ba...Read More

Gandhinagar: Dr. Rekhaben Chaudhary is the only new female candidate announced in the first list of Lok Sabha candidates from Gujarat for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Dr. Chaudhary is the granddaughter of Galbabhai Chaudhary who founded Banas Dairy. She is M.Sc, M.Phil., and Ph.D(Mathematics). She is 44 years old and a resident of Palanpur. Dr. Rekhaben has worked as a professor in the Engineering college for the last 20 years. Dr. Chaudhary is the wife of Dr. Hitesh Chaudhary who is in BJP'...Read More

Palanpur: A Hindu youth was sodomized by Muslim men in Hadad village of Danta belt in Banaskantha district. The village today observed a strike protesting the incident. The locals marched in a rally and reached the local police station demanding prompt and strict actions against the accused. As per the Hindu organization Bajrang Dal Gujarat - On the day of Ramlala Prana Pratishtha at Ayodhya-based Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir, a young man who became Hanuman was caught by Muslim youth in Hadad of B...Read More

New Delhi: The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi addressed ‘Viksit Bharat Viksit Gujarat’ program via video conferencing today. During the programme, the Prime Minister inaugurated and performed Bhoomi Poojan of more than 1.3 lakh houses across Gujarat built under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) and other housing schemes. He also interacted with the beneficiaries of Awas Yojna. Addressing the gathering, The Prime Minister expressed happiness that people from every part of Gujarat are conn...Read More

Palanpur: Gujarat Chief Minister today dedicated and performed ground breaking for several initiatives of Banas Dairy and Bank. The Chief Minister launched Kisan Credit Card which avails loan at zero percent interest to farmers and cattle keepers. The idea is to connect cooperatives to only cooperative banks so that cooperative to cooperative interaction can grow further. The Kisan Credit Card initiative was first launched in Banaskantha and Panchmahal districts as a pilot project. It has bee...Read More

Banaskantha: Four members of the same family lost their lives in an accident involving a truck and a car on the Tharad-Deesa highway. The incident occurred while the family was returning home from Unjha. The accident happened on the highway near Khorda of Tharad. The family, traveling from Unjha to their home, collided with a dumper truck. As the accident unfolded, bystanders rushed to help, but the severity of the incident resulted in the agonizing death of four family members. The condition...Read More

Palanpur: Banas Dairy is likely to commission four gobar gas-based CNG pumps this year. One such pump will come up near Radhanpur, the other near Vinchhivada, the third shall be near Agathala and the fourth will come up near Bhukhla. The decision to set up four such pumps was taken after the success of the first such pump near Dama on Deesa-Tharad road. Around a dozen villages near Dama sell cow and buffalo dung to Dama-based CNG pump where gas is generated using dung. The farmers earn ...Read More