Gujarat Sarpanch

A video showing a former village sarpanch showering cash from the top of his house in Gujarat's Mehsana district is going viral on social media.

Aam Aadmi Party or AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal will attend a conclave of sarpanches or village heads at Surendranagar today on the final day of his two-day visit to poll-bound Gujarat.

A Dalit bridegroom was stopped from riding a horse and his wedding procession was pelted with stones in Gujarat's Banaskantha district, leading the police to file a case against 28 people, including a village sarpanch, said officials.

The Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a sarpanch in Sabarkantha district of the state for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh from a factory owner, officials said on Friday.

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Saturday urged sarpanchs in the state to take steps for making their villages coronavirus-free in the next 15 days.

Husband of a Dalit sarpanch was allegedly beaten to death using sticks and pipes by around six men when he was going on his motorcycle on Ranpur-Barvala road in Botad district on Wednesday, police said.

In Gujarat's Mehsana district, the village sarpanch, along with some other village leaders, had issued a diktat asking the villagers to boycott the Dalit community members as a Dalit man rode a horse during his wedding.

A woman sarpanch in Gujarat's Amreli district was directed by the district administration to undergo a DNA test to prove that she was not the mother of her reported third child.

The stream of mourners at the home of Ibrahim Belim has not thinned since the weekend, when a crowd of about 5,000 people attacked the main Muslim neighbourhood in the village of Vadavali in north Gujarat

A Muslim woman was allegedly forced to remove her headscarf at an event attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Gujarat today. Shaharban Saidalavi was part of a delegation from Kerala and was invited to the event held in Gandhinagar meant to felicitate women achievers on the occasion of the International Women's Day. The police denied the alleg...

Gujarat's State Election Commission announced today that over 80 per cent voted in the elections held to elect members and Sarpanches in 8,624 gram panchayats across the state.

Polling to elect members and sarpanchs in 8,954 gram panchayats across Gujarat was held peacefully today with authorities predicting a higher voter turnout as against that in the last elections.

Polling to elect members as well as sarpanchs in 8,954 gram panchayats across Gujarat is being held today with villagers queuing up outside polling booths since morning.

Two Dalit men were thrashed allegedly by a group of self-styled cow vigilantes for refusing to dispose the carcass of a calf in a village in Gujarat's Saurashtra region.

A village sarpanch in Chhota Udaipur district of Gujarat allegedly humiliated an 18-year-old local boy and a 17-year-old girl for eloping together a few weeks ago, a police official said.

A video showing a former village sarpanch showering cash from the top of his house in Gujarat's Mehsana district is going viral on social media.

Aam Aadmi Party or AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal will attend a conclave of sarpanches or village heads at Surendranagar today on the final day of his two-day visit to poll-bound Gujarat.

A Dalit bridegroom was stopped from riding a horse and his wedding procession was pelted with stones in Gujarat's Banaskantha district, leading the police to file a case against 28 people, including a village sarpanch, said officials.

The Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a sarpanch in Sabarkantha district of the state for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh from a factory owner, officials said on Friday.

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Saturday urged sarpanchs in the state to take steps for making their villages coronavirus-free in the next 15 days.

Husband of a Dalit sarpanch was allegedly beaten to death using sticks and pipes by around six men when he was going on his motorcycle on Ranpur-Barvala road in Botad district on Wednesday, police said.

In Gujarat's Mehsana district, the village sarpanch, along with some other village leaders, had issued a diktat asking the villagers to boycott the Dalit community members as a Dalit man rode a horse during his wedding.

A woman sarpanch in Gujarat's Amreli district was directed by the district administration to undergo a DNA test to prove that she was not the mother of her reported third child.

The stream of mourners at the home of Ibrahim Belim has not thinned since the weekend, when a crowd of about 5,000 people attacked the main Muslim neighbourhood in the village of Vadavali in north Gujarat

A Muslim woman was allegedly forced to remove her headscarf at an event attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Gujarat today. Shaharban Saidalavi was part of a delegation from Kerala and was invited to the event held in Gandhinagar meant to felicitate women achievers on the occasion of the International Women's Day. The police denied the alleg...

Gujarat's State Election Commission announced today that over 80 per cent voted in the elections held to elect members and Sarpanches in 8,624 gram panchayats across the state.

Polling to elect members and sarpanchs in 8,954 gram panchayats across Gujarat was held peacefully today with authorities predicting a higher voter turnout as against that in the last elections.

Polling to elect members as well as sarpanchs in 8,954 gram panchayats across Gujarat is being held today with villagers queuing up outside polling booths since morning.

Two Dalit men were thrashed allegedly by a group of self-styled cow vigilantes for refusing to dispose the carcass of a calf in a village in Gujarat's Saurashtra region.

A village sarpanch in Chhota Udaipur district of Gujarat allegedly humiliated an 18-year-old local boy and a 17-year-old girl for eloping together a few weeks ago, a police official said.