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For some Indian families in the US, the question of whether to return to India is no longer only about a job. There is also a house to pay for. Families who bought homes during their years of employment in the US are now facing a difficult choice as job losses and uncertainty around H-1B-linked […]
On October 2, several trader and business groups across India plan to put their UPI QR codes, sound boxes and other digital payment devices under black cloth. The symbolic protest, being called “No UPI Day,” is aimed at opposing the proposed 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on certain UPI transactions above ₹2,000. The charge is […]
Adani Airports is looking to change the way its airports make money, with a bigger focus on retail, leasing and city-side development instead of regulated airport charges. As India prepares for a major expansion in air travel, Adani Airports is working on a strategy to make its regulated airport revenue a much smaller part of […]
Mumbai Indians have announced that Lisa Keightley has decided to move on from her role as Head Coach of Mumbai Indians, with Luke Williams appointed as her successor ahead of the 2027 Women’s Premier League season. Mrs. Nita M. Ambani, said, “We are delighted to welcome Luke Williams to the Mumbai Indians family. Luke is […]
Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari today laid the foundation stone for a 2,000-bed Adani Arogya Mandir at Bengal Silicon Valley Tech Hub, New Town, Kolkata. Closely aligned with West Bengal’s 2026 Healthcare Vision, the project, to be executed by the Adani Foundation, will cater to over 200,000 inpatients and more than 2 […]
For 97 voters in Goa, the problem was not that they failed to prove their eligibility. They did. Their cases were examined by election officials, documents and objections were considered, and the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) concluded that they should be included in the electoral roll. Yet when Goa published its final electoral roll on […]
A voter trying to get his or her name added to the electoral roll may never know what happens behind the computer screen. But in Goa, 97 people who had submitted documents and were found eligible by Electoral Registration Officers still failed to make it into the final voter list. The reason was not a […]
A 2023 POCSO case in Anand has taken a fresh turn after the Gujarat High Court found that an important part of the evidence used to decide an accused’s age was still unclear. The case involves two accused who were teenagers when the alleged offences took place. One of them, born in 2003, was to […]
A ₹10,000 salary dispute has allegedly turned into a ₹24-crore loss for four textile traders in Surat. Police have arrested a former accountant in connection with the September 9 fire at Shyam Sangini Textile Market in Saroli, alleging that he deliberately started the blaze at his former employer’s shop after a workplace dispute. The accused, […]
A Class 4 student in Ahmedabad reportedly came home in tears and locked himself inside a room after an incident at school, leaving his mother worried about what had happened. The 9-year-old boy has alleged that his school principal and a teacher beat him with a ruler after questioning him about a note he had […]
A medical test meant to help a family find a possible stem-cell donor has now led to a rape complaint and a police investigation in Gujarat’s Morbi. The woman, whose husband is suffering from blood cancer, approached the police on September 9, 2026, alleging that she was raped in 2020 by the husband of a […]
For some Indian-origin politicians in American conservative politics, supporting the same movement they believe in has not always been enough to escape questions about where they belong. From social media attacks to comments about their ancestry, several Indian-American figures on the US political right have faced a different kind of challenge — proving, or being […]
Honourable Chief Minister of Assam Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma today laid the foundation stone for Adani Power Limited’s (APL) 3,200 MW Ultra-Supercritical Thermal Power Plant (USTPP) at Chapar in lower Assam’s Dhubri district. The ₹48,000-crore project is expected to generate up to 20,000 jobs in the construction phase and around 5,000 jobs once operational, adding […]
A routine Saturday morning at Marwadi University in Rajkot turned into a tragedy when 19-year-old Sobarnika Venkatesh Alla, a second-year engineering student from Andhra Pradesh, died after falling from the 10th floor of her hostel building. The incident took place at around 10.30 am in the ‘A’ wing of the girls’ hostel on the university […]
A room prepared for what appeared to be a birthday celebration became the scene of a tragedy in Gujarat’s Amreli district, where a 40-year-old man and his five-year-old daughter were found dead. Police said the man, Kishore Dhanak, a construction site supervisor, allegedly killed his daughter Himanshi before dying by suicide. The incident came to […]
Gujarat likes to call itself “Vibrant.” Big investments, big summits, big GSDP numbers. But two very different pieces of news this month put that branding to the test — one is a global ranking of cities, the other is a heartbreaking case from Amreli. Put together, they ask a simple but uncomfortable question: does Gujarat’s […]
For many schoolchildren, sugary drinks, packaged snacks and processed food have become part of their everyday diet. But new directions for schools across Gujarat are putting the spotlight on just how much added sugar children consume without always realising it. Children aged 4 to 10 get about 13% of their daily calories from added sugar, […]
A day that began with a routine examination at IIT Bombay ended in tragedy on Friday evening after a second-year student, who had been caught using a mobile phone to upload the exam question paper on ChatGPT, was found dead in his hostel room. His death triggered a protest by more than 400 students on […]
A laboratory test finding and questions over product claims have put three Nestlé India infant nutrition products under regulatory scrutiny, with the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) initiating three separate adjudication cases against the company. The action covers NAN Excella Pro Stage 1, Lactogen Pro 1 and a follow-up formula manufactured by […]
India’s population story is changing. With the country’s fertility rate falling below the replacement level, a recent working paper has questioned whether population control should continue to be treated as a goal of government policy. The paper, “The Ghost of Population Past,” says India now needs to adjust its family-planning approach to reflect this demographic […]
