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Gujarat exhodous - UP, MP and Bihar migrants fleeing – fearing rape backlash

Hindi-speaking migrants are fleeing Gujarat after Gujarati mobs started attacking non-Gujaratis following alleged rape of a 14-month old girl.

Non-Guratis, mainly from UP, Bihar and Madya Pradesh have crowded the bus-stations waiting for buses which will take them to their native states.

Some landlords have also asked them to vacate their premises and leave.

India crush West Indies inside three days, enjoy home comforts

Rajkot, Oct 6 : India pulled off their biggest win over West Indies in one of the most ludicrous mismatches in recent times, inflicting on the hapless visitors an innings and 272-run humiliation inside three days in the first Test here Saturday.

India dominated the game, amassing 649 for nine in their first innings before bowling out the West Indies twice on day three, to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.

Bihari man rapes 14 month girl in Gujrat – locals angry with non-Gujratis

A Bihari factory worker has raped a 14 month old girl in Sabarkantha district of Gujrat. Angry locals protested in streets, and attacked people from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Protesters attacked the ceramic factory where the alleged rapist works, and torched the vehicles.

Protests were also held in Sabarkantha, Mahesana, Gandhi Nagar and Ahamdabad, where protesters damaged the houses and shops owned by non-Gujratis.

1,000 farmers oppose bullet train project in Gujarat HC

Ahmedabad, Sep 18 (PTI) As many as 1,000 farmers affected by the proposed Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train submitted affidavits in the Gujarat High Court Tuesday, voicing their opposition to the project.

A division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice V M Pancholi is hearing five petitions challenging the land acquisition process for the high speed rail project.

Ishrat fake encounter case: Order on two ex-cops' likely on Aug 7

Ahmedabad, Aug 4 (PTI) A special CBI court, hearing the discharge applications of former police officers D G Vanzara and N K Amin in Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case, is likely to pass its order on August 7.

Special CBI court Judge J K Pandya said the order, which was listed for today, will be passed on Tuesday.

The court had last month concluded hearing arguments of the two accused retired police officers, the CBI and Ishrat's mother Shamima Kauser, who had challenged Vanzara's discharge plea.

Gujrat: Rajputs, Dalits clash over youth sporting moustache

Ahmedabad, 2 Aug 2018; PTI:  Members of Dalit and Rajput communities clashed in an Ahmedabad neighbourhood after Karadia Rajputs, an OBC group, allegedly objected to a Dalit youth wearing shorts and sporting a moustache, police said today.

The clash took place in Kavitha village on Tuesday night, following which members of both the groups have filed complaints against each other at Bavla police station, P D Manvar, deputy superintendent of police, said.

He added that up to five people from the Rajput community have been detained for questioning.

BJP's "Hitlershahi" can't stop my fight: Hardik

PTI; Ahmedabad, Jul 25 : Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel today said the BJP's "Hitlershahi" cannot prevent him from fighting for "truth, farmers, youth and poor", soon after he was awarded a two-year jail term in connection with a rioting case.

A sessions court in Visnagar town of Gujarat's Mehsana district today sentenced Hardik Patel and two of his aides -- Lalji Patel and A K Patel -- to two years imprisonment in a case of rioting and arson lodged against him and 16 others in July 2015. Later, the three were granted bail by the same court.

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