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Migrants in Surat waiting for buses to reach the railway station, on May 29.

Surat, a tinderbox

When the lockdown was announced, many employers in the Surat belt apparently promised to look after their workers during the shutdown. As the weeks we

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In Ahmedabad on June 1 after lockdown restrictions were relaxed.

Judicial rebuke

Gujarat’s inept handling of the COVID-19 crisis draws a sharp reaction from the High Court.

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Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad. A file picture.

Gujarat High Court pulls up State government for mismanagement of COVID crisis

The Gujarat High Court came down heavily on the State government in a strongly worded order rapping the administration for the gross mismanagement of

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Police detain migrant workers following a protest against the denial of transport for them to travel to their home towns in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha and other States, in Ahmedabad on May 18.

Jignesh Mevani writes to Gujarat C.M. for steps to send migrants home

The migrant crisis in Gujarat is showing signs of escalating into a human rights issue. There is first-hand information that lakhs of migrants are str

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Migrants stand in a queue after the police detained them following a clash with security personnel, in Ahmedabad on May 18.

Cavalier approach

The Gujarat government faces criticism for incompetence and mismanagement in handling the alarming COVID situation in the State.

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Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra speaks to mediapersons on April 6.

Ahmedabad municipal commissioner transferred

Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra has been transferred to the position of Commissioner, Rural Development. Nehra, an Indian Administrative

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Collecting samples using the Rapid antibody test kit.

ICMR partners with pharma major in Gujarat for production of indigenous antibody test kits

The Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) National Institute of Virology (NIV) at Pune has developed and validated the indigenous IgG ELISA test

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Migrant labourers clashing with the police in Surat on May 5, demanding to be sent home,

Sudden spike

Decades of low spending on health extracts a price in Gujarat as the crisis deepens.

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Outside their homes during the lockdown at Dharavi on April 3.

Mumbai’s ticking bomb

“If we don’t die from the disease, we will die of starvation,” says Lakshmi Umape, 45, who lives in the sprawling Geeta Nagar slum near the Wo

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Paramilitary forces patrolling a street in Goa on March 29.

Goa COVID-19 free, says CM, but opposition says it is too early to declare State safe

GOA Chief Minister Pramod Sawant announced on April 19 that all seven COVID-19 positive cases in the State had been discharged and that the State was

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Gautam Navlakha arrives at the office of the NIA in New Delhi to surrender, on April 14.

Teltumbde and Navlakha surrender before NIA

The Dalit scholar and academic Anand Teltumbde and the civil rights writer Gautam Navlakha surrendered before the National Investigation Agency (NIA)

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Farmers loading vegetables on a truck before being transported to cities, in Murbad taluka area of Thane, Maharashtra, on April 7.

AIKS seeks proactive measures to further reduce farm distress in Maharashtra

In spite of the Maharashtra government permitting supply chain for essential goods to run as usual, farmers across districts in the State are reportin

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