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Time of India
7 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Anand civic body to set up two English medium schools
Vadodara: After getting the status of a municipal corporation, the Anand civic body will, for the first time, start two English medium primary schools. A proposal to start new English medium primary schools at the cost of Rs 2.5 crore was approved by the state govt. The decision of the state govt comes after Anand's BJP MLA Yogesh Patel raised the demand to start English medium schools in the municipal corporation area for the benefit of students from low-income groups. Patel raised the demand for the primary schools after Anand municipal commissioner Milind Bapna presented the first budget of the newly formed Anand Municipal Corporation. The state govt recently sanctioned Rs 148 crore for development works in the Anand municipal limits. "The new primary schools will help girls and boys from humble families study in English medium from Classes 1 to 8 due to the decision taken by the state govt," said Patel. "
Time of India
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Four more arrested for provocative social media messages
Surat/Vadodara: Four more people, including a former councillor of Karamsad in Anand, were booked for alleged inflammatory and misleading messages on social media about the and subsequent . Two offences were lodged in Surat and one each in Anand and Vadodara's Savli all, police have booked 15 persons across the state for allegedly uploading 'anti-national' and 'morale-breaking' content on social media in the wake of Operation Sindoor launched by the Indian armed these 14 FIRs, two each were registered in Kheda and Kutch districts, while one each was lodged in Jamnagar, Junagadh, Valsad, Banaskantha, Anand, Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Patan and Panchmahal districts, an official release police in Anand arrested Mithilesh Amin, 52, a former councillor of the Karamsad municipality, for spreading "false, misleading and " on social media to "spread hatred" and "attempt to endanger the sovereignty, unity, and integrity of India".In January, as chairman of the Sardar Samman Sankalp Andolan Committee, Amin led an agitation against the amalgamation of Karamsad town into the new Anand Municipal Corporation. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The protest, which called for a 'Karamsad bandh', was against the BJP-led state statement said that Amin, in a Facebook post, made objectionable writings on Operation Sindoor, criticising the govt of India and the Indian Army. Cybercrime police on Sunday registered a case against Amin for publishing false or misleading information that jeopardises the sovereignty, unity and integrity, or security of Savli, a 63-year-old man was arrested for a message allegedly insulting the Indian flag and PM Narendra Modi. "On Monday, we produced in court, which remanded him to police custody for three days," said Savli inspector MB Jadeja. In Surat city, the Amroli police arrested a 40-year-old businessman, Dipen Parmar, for allegedly posting an objectionable video on his Facebook page 'Jago India.' Parmar tried to convey a baseless and misleading message, the Amroli police said in a statement. In another offence, the crime branch booked Jitendra Singh, who allegedly shared a message in a WhatsApp group of a shopping complex. The accused shared a message on Friday in the group, claiming that all commercial establishments should allow their employees to leave before 7pm. he message, bearing a minister's name at the bottom, was worded in a way that implied it had been issued by the minister.
