New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to grant any relief to Pabubha Manek, a senior Gujarat BJP leader, who was disqualified as MLA from Dwarka constituency by the Gujarat High Court last year. A bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, M.R. Shah and A.S. Bopanna dismissed the application filed by Manek in his pending petition seeking stay on the High Court order. Manek moved the apex court challenging the High Court order and sought a stay on it, as he intended to contest the Rajya ...Read More

Jamnagar: Devbhumi Dwarka district of Gujarat may lose green category status as two cases have been detected in district's Bet Dwarka area. It is learnt that two persons (40 year old male Karim and 28 year old woman Farzana) detected positive had returned from Ajmer in Rajasthan to Bet Dwarka on April 30. Bet Dwarka is an island surrounded by Arabian sea on all sides. The island has presence of 8200 inhabitants as part of 1640 families. The district collector has declared entire Bet Dwark...Read More

Dwarka: Six including priest offering services at Dwarkadhish temple were held by police in a raid at Virmeshwar nagar of Dwarka town on Monday. Police recovered Rs. 52,000 cash. Police had received information that one Sanjay Rameshchandra had rented a unit for gambling activity on the third floor in Virmeshwarnagar based house. Accordingly, the police team conducted raid and held Jayesh Kishor Thakrar, a priest in Dwarkadhish temple and also a member of Dwarka municipality along with S...Read More

Mumbai: Actor Akshay Kumar was in for a pleasant surprise on Sunday morning when a fan met him after walking 900 kilometre in 18 days from Dwarka to arrive in Mumbai on Sunday. Sharing a video of the fan, Akshay wrote on Instagram, “Parbat from Dwarka..Met Parbat today, he walked over 900 kms all the way from Dwarka and planned it in a way to reach Mumbai in 18 days to catch me here on a Sunday. If our youth use this kind of planning and determination to achieve their goals, then there’s ...Read More

Dwarka/Dakor (Gujarat): Two of the world famous Lord Krishna temples situated in Gujarat, the Jagat Mandir in Dwarka and Shree Ranchhodraiji Maharaj Mandir in Dakor are seeing a flood of visitors on Janmashtami today when at midnight the idols will beautifully decorated with ornaments especially used for the occasion. The deputy administrator of the Jagat Mandir of the Dwarkadheesh form of lord Krishna in Dwarka said that special ornaments are used to decorate the idol of Dwarkesh for ...Read More

Ahmedabad: In a unique programme ‘Rajadhiraj’ with Dwarkadheesh and Dwarka as theme;Pichhvai paintings of Lord Dwarkadheesh for the first time, a Coffee Table Book and a music album were unveiled by Chief Minister of Gujarat at YMCA in Ahmedabad today. Besides the Chief Minister,Vaishnavacharya HH Dwarkeshlalji Maharaj, Deputy Chief Minister Shri Nitinbhai Patel, Shri Anant Ambani, Energy Minister Shri Saurabh Patel, Minister of State for Food and Public Distribution Shri Dharmendrasinh Jade...Read More

Ahmedabad: Lord Dwarkadheesh and Punyanagari Dwarka are closely associated with life of people in Gujarat. A unique programme with Dwarkadheesh and Dwarka as theme “Rajadhiraj” has been organised from 5 to 7 PM at YMCA Club, SG Road, Ahmedabad on August 9, 2019. It is an initiative by Shri Dhanraj Nathwani, who is vice chairman of Dwarka Mandir Vyavasthapan Samiti and Group President at Reliance Industries Ltd. Popular singers Parthiv Gohil, Kirtidan Gadhavi and Kinjal Dave will perform live...Read More

Dwarka: In the wake of approaching cyclonic storm VAYU, Perhaps first time in the history of the world famous Jagat temple of lord Dwarkadheesh here, two mast flags (shikhar dhhwaj) have been put in place. A priest of the ancient temple, which was among the four top most pilgrimage places for Hindus, today said that two flags were put on the shikhar of the temple because of the strong winds caused by the approaching cyclone. 'It is first time in my life time that I am seeing t...Read More

Mumbai: Ginger has expanded its presence in Gujarat with the signing of a new hotel in Dwarka. With the addition of this hotel, Ginger will have eleven hotels in the state. The new hotel will have 99 rooms, an all-day diner, a meeting room and a fitness centre. The hotel is a management contract agreement with Bluerock Hospitality Ventures Pvt. Ltd and is slated to commence operations by the end of May 2019. Deepika Rao, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ginger said, “We a...Read More