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Gandhinagar court sends The Wire columnist Ravi Nair to jail for missing hearing; Gujarat HC issues notice: Here’s what happened

Shraddha Pandey - 20 September, 2026

Ravi Nair was taken into custody and sent to jail on 17th September after a Gandhinagar court issued a non-bailable warrant against him on 3rd September in connection with his petition against his conviction and one-year simple imprisonment in a criminal defamation case against the Adani Group.

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Kidnap, assault, and death threats: Gujarat AAP vice-president arrested for kidnapping and threatening woman accountant who exposed benami deals

OpIndia Staff - 30 March, 2026

The victim claimed she was warned that she would be killed and buried if she spoke out.

Love Jihad in Gujarat: Altaf Wali Khan pretends to be ‘Sahil Desai’ to trap a minor Hindu girl in Gandhinagar, sexually exploits her; arrested...

OpIndia Staff - 28 March, 2026

Altaf lured the minor Hindu girl into a relationship and has been sexually exploiting her for the past few months.

Culture and History

“We offered them sweets for 150 years, still they attacked us”: Hindus in Gujarat’s Bahiyal village end Topru-Sakar tradition with Muslims after stone pelting...

OpIndia Staff - 23 October, 2025

However, during Navratri recently, Hindus performing Garba in Bahiyal were attacked with stones by Islamists. The Islamic rioters also targeted Hindu shops and temples. In view of the violent display of Islamist hatred for Hindus, the local Hindus decided to completely stop this tradition on New Year's Day.

Crime

Gujarat: Muslim mob attacks Garba celebration, vandalises Hindu temples, victims narrate ordeal as police detain 60 accused

OpIndia Staff - 25 September, 2025

Eyewitnesses revealed that the Muslim mob selectively attacked the shops belonging to Hindus and left the shops of Muslims unharmed.

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IIT Gandhinagar professor Ashish Xaxa dismissed from service, was in the spotlight for his controversial social media posts, has called Gujarat a ‘scam society’

OpIndia Staff - 15 August, 2025

IIT Gandhinagar, which has been in the news for controversies related to its professors , has dismissed one of the professors Ashish Xaxa. This information has been given by the institute itself through an RTI reply.

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Propaganda on Ram Mandir, support for Umar Khalid, trolling for PM Modi: Social Media posts of another professor of IIT Gandhinagar go viral

OpIndia Staff - 22 June, 2025

In his posts Professor Amit Arora expressed support for terrorist organisation Hamas and Umar Khalid, an accused under the UAPA in connection with anti-Hindu Delhi riots.

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