Gujarat  

The witness in the allegedly 'fake' Sohrabuddin encounter case told the court, 'During that time, Sohrabuddin told me he had got money from DG Vanzara to kill Gujarat's home minister Haren Pandya and he completed the job. I then told him that what he did was wrong and he had killed a good person'

Justices Hemant Gupta, R Subhash Reddy, M R Shah and Ajay Rastogi, who are the Chief Justices of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Patna and Tripura High Courts, respectively, will be sworn in as Supreme Court judges today

Jayaprakash Narayan of the Lok Satta Party was part of the committee that surveyed villages on the banks of Narmada and found that the 'grievances' that Medha Patkar's Narmada Bachao Andolan cry hoarse about were baseless.   

The ongoing harvesting in Amreli district is pointing out at a drop of 30% in the yield of cotton and groundnut. Six of its 10 taluks (sub-division) have received less than 40% rainfall.
 

There is a sizeable section of Gujarat's population that wants Ahmedabad to be renamed as Karnavati. While a section of Hindus want Hyderabad to be renamed as Bhagyanagar, the city is the capital of Telangana, which is not under BJP rule