Gandhinagar: Gujarat is No.1 in installation of rooftop solar projects with installed capacity of 261.97 Mega Watt (MW) as on 23 July, 2019. Total rooftop solar installation in India stands at 1,700.54 MW. Gujarat is followed by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu with 198.52 MW and 151.62 MW respectively. Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy and Power Shri R. K. Singh provided the information in Rajya Sabha on July 23, 2019 while replying to a question raised by MP Shri Parimal Nathwani. Ac...Read More

New Delhi: In financial year 2018-19, the country’s total collection of Direct Taxes stood at Rs. 11,37,685.41 crore, in which Gujarat stood at No. 5 position with total Direct Tax collection of Rs. 49,021.69 crore. The States that preceded Gujarat are Maharashtra (Rs. 4,25,390.84 crore), Delhi (Rs. 1,66,405.42 crore), Karnataka (Rs. 1,19,796.51 crore) and Tamil Nadu (Rs. 74,238.94 crore). Union Minister of State for Finance Shri Anurag Thakur provided the information in Rajya Sabha on July 9,...Read More

Gandhinagar: Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar and Gujarat BJP OBC front leader Jugalji Thakor have emerge victorious in the the bye-polls for two Rajya Sabha seat in Gujarat which was held in the assembly premises here today. Jaishankar received 104 votes while Thakor has got 105 votes each, much higher than the 88 first priority votes required to win. Their opponents from Congress Gaurav Pandya and former minister Chandrikaben Chudasama have got 70 each. There ...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat MLAs Alpesh Thakor and Dhavalsinh Zala today resigned from assembly. Both have given resignation from membership of assembly to assembly Speaker. Both were elected for the first time as MLA in year 2017 general elections of Gujarat Assembly. Alpesh represents Radhanpur assembly seat in North Gujarat. His close aide and Congress MLA Dhavalsinh Zala represents Bayad assembly seat in North Gujarat. Alpesh and Dhavalsinh were issued whip by Congress party to vote for Congres...Read More

Gandhinagar: While victory of two candidates of BJP is certain in Rajya Sabha bypoll happening today, the only thing to see is how much more votes BJP candidates can go beyond party's existing strength in the assembly. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said, the party candidates have received support of Sharad Pawar led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Chhotubhai Vasava led Bharatiya Tribal Party(BTP) MLAs. While NCP has one MLA - Kandhal Jadeja, BTP has two MLAs who had won assembly seats i...Read More

Gandhinagar: The by-polls for two Rajya Sabha seat in Gujarat will be held in the assembly premises here tomorrow. Looking at the arithmetic of the state assembly ruling BJP candidates External Affairs minister S.Jaishankar and Jugalji Thakor (Lokhandwala) were almost certain to win. The seats fell vacant following resignations of union ministers Amit Shah and Smriti Irani. Both offered their resignations after their election to Lok Sabha in recently concluded gen...Read More

Gandhinagar: In an apparent attempt to avert chances of cross-voting, the main Oppostion Congress today flocked 62 of its total 71 MLAs and took them away for stay in a resort in North Gujarat before the July 5 Rajyasabha bye-polls on two seats of Gujarat. Party MLA's except for dissident Alpesh Thakor and Dhaval Zala, and seven other loyal ones including deputy leader of the party in the assembly Shailesh Parmar, Vikram Madam and Gyasudding Sheikh assembled at the house of Leader of O...Read More