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As anticipated, 1986 batch IAS officer Pankaj Kumar has been appointed as the new chief secretary of Gujarat. He takes over from Anil Mukim, who served as Gujarat Chief Secretary from 2019. Mukim retired in August 2020 and was given two extensions, each of six months. Pankaj Kumar started his career from Mahuva in Bhavnagar […]
Jio, which has been the largest telecom operator in Gujarat, had continued to remain revenue market share leader in the quarter ending on June 30, 2021. Compared with the previous quarter Jio’s revenue in the state increased by 7% or Rs80 crore from Rs1,045.55 crore in the quarter ending on March 31, 2021, to Rs1,125.73 […]
[Updated] Gujarat Govt asserts it has no political agenda, will move Supreme Court Gujarat High Court on Thursday refused the state’s plea to rectify its earlier order of putting a stay on the operation of key sections of the “anti-love jihad” law relating to interfaith marriages, and the BJP government asserted that there was no […]
The Vadodara police reached Uttar Pradesh today to take custody of two persons currently lodged in Lucknow jail on the charges of diverting money from a charitable trust for alleged illegal religious conversions and to provide legal help to anti-CAA protestors as well as those arrested in Delhi communal riots. The accused — Mohammad Umar […]
The central government has once again increased the FRP paid by sugar mills to sugarcane growers this year. The government has increased the FRP (Fair and Remunerative Price) of sugarcane by Rs 5 per quintal to Rs 290 per quintal for the year 2021-22. Last season, the Modi government had increased the FRP by Rs […]
The BJP Tamil Nadu expelled a YouTuber, Madan Ravichandran and his associate, Venba from the party citing his anti-party activities as the reason. Announcing their expulsion from the BJP, party state general secretary Karu Nagarajan said that both were removed from the primary membership and appealed the party workers to not have any ties with […]
The US web service provider, Yahoo has shut down its news services in India. The decision was taken in purview of changes in the rules of foreign investment limit (FDI). The new rules of the Government of India says that no media outlets in the country are allowed to invest more than 26 per cent. […]
The import curbs at airports and ports in China add to the woes of manufacturers already stricken by an acute scarcity of chipsets for smartphones, leading to the market analysts chopping their 2021shipment estimates for the second time this year. TechArc has reduced its projections by 7 percent extra while IDC mentioned that the trade […]
After the April-May nightmare, is a third wave of Covid-19 coming? There is perhaps not a single family who may not have lost a dear one – be it a relative or a friend – to the second wave. Everyone wants to know if the virus would rear its head again, more so if it […]
In a startling allegation, a Delhi-based Gujarati woman has accused an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator, Mukesh Ahlawat, and his bodyguard of repeatedly raping her. After the police allegedly refused to take her complaint about this, the woman told mediapersons on Wednesday that the AAP MLA from Sultanpuri, whom she knows for 10 years, and […]
Kerela has reported 31.445 new cases and 215 deaths in the 24 hours that ended at 8 am on Wednesday. The number of active cases in the state has reached 1.7 lakh. The active cases in India have dropped down to 3.22 lakh and Kerela accounts for almost half of the active cases at 1.59 […]
The United States has been hit hard once again by Covid Crisis and more than 25,000 Americans are currently admitted to the ICU. The highest number of Americans have been admitted to the ICU since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic. According to the latest figures, there are 1.49 lakh new cases of Covid-19 in […]
Education Minister, Bhupendrasinh Chudasama has announced that offline classes will also begin from September 2 for grades 6 to 8 in the schools of the state. A meeting of the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister, Vijaybhai Rupani and Deputy Chief Minister, Nitinbhai Patel today decided to start 6 to 8 offline classrooms, the education […]
The Ministry of Home Affairs announced that all Afghan nationals must travel to India only on e-Visa on Wednesday. In an official statement, the Centre said that owing to the prevailing security situation in Afghanistan and the visa process streamlined by the introduction of the e-Emergency X-Misc visa, e-Visa has been made mandatory for Afghan […]
The largest technical university in the state, Gujarat Technological University on Tuesday launched new online courses on Vedic Indian knowledge systems.These 12 new courses include the study of Vedas, ancient architecture, Indian arts, Dharma and religion, Political Science, Arthashastra and global footprints of Indian diaspora among others in collaboration with the Pune-based Bhishma School of […]
Former Chief Commissioner of Income Tax D P Kar has petitioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ordering a probe against recently retired Revenue Secretary A B Pandey for his alleged involvement with Infosys and dubiously granting many big tenders for the flopped network of GST and new Income Tax portal. In a detailed six-page complaint […]
(Image for representation purpose) Samnath Patel (name changed), working at government school number 23 in Ahmedabad’s Behrampura, was on Tuesday morning asked to report for duty at the Tagore Memorial Hall. A non-teaching official assignment is not unusual for Patel or government teachers, but this coincided with the State Government’s much-touted Shikshak Sajjata Survekshan or […]
The Enforcement Directorate filed a prosecution complaint against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh’s personal secretary Sanjeev Palande and personal assistant Kundan Shinde in a money laundering case against the politician for allegedly taking a bribe of up to Rs 100 crore. The probe agency had arrested Palande and Shinde on July 1, claiming […]
Amidst the campaign of Taliban to reconquer Afghanistan gathering pace in the month of June, hundreds of people were losing their lives in the fight and a huge chunk of Afghan nationals was fleeing. A 38-year-old photojournalist for Reuters based in New Delhi decided to cover the story, telling his boss, “If we don’t go, […]
A political slugfest of sorts has broken out between the ruling Shiv Sena and its former partner Bharatiya Janata Party with the arrest of union minister Narayan Rane after three FIRs for his alleged remarks of slapping Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray during his Monday’s rally in Raigad. The FIRs have been lodged against Rane […]
