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Gujarat has a child malnutrition problem. It has had one for years. Now, the state government has decided to cut the quantity of snacks served to schoolchildren under the PM Poshan scheme. The government has reduced the daily snack quantity from 50 grams to a weekly average of 46.8 grams. According to reports, every Monday […]
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ), India’s largestand the world’s fastest-growing integrated transport utility which handles nearly 27 per cent ofIndia’s port cargo volumes, has operationalised India’s first Port of Refuge (PoR), addressing a longstanding gap in maritime emergency infrastructure, creating a structured mechanism to handlemaritime emergencies and vessels in distress.A PoR, as […]
A commission is set up to hold the government accountable. And it has no end to public complaints. Last year, the Gujarat State Vigilance Commission recorded a substantial hike in numbers where complaints against government departments are concerned. Over 11,000 grievances were recorded in a year. The data was tabled in the Gujarat Assembly. It […]
US President Donald Trump’s administration has once again stirred controversy, this time with a proposal to include his signature on American paper currency ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary. This is the first time such a thing will happen in the US since 1861. The US Treasury Department announced on Thursday that future US dollar notes […]
Amid fears of a fuel price surge triggered by the ongoing US–Israel conflict with Iran and tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, the government on Friday reduced excise duty on petrol and diesel by ₹10 per litre each. This brings central taxes down to ₹3 per litre on petrol and effectively zero on diesel. However, […]
There is a kind of teacher the world rarely sees, one who follows a student home, waives his fees, funds his training, and then simply never leaves. M S Qureshi was that kind of teacher. The Ahmedabad cricket coach died on Wednesday at the home of his former student Sanjay Limbachiya, where he had lived for […]
“Disturbed areas” is out and “specified areas” is in. And the collectors who oversee them now have significantly more power. The Gujarat Assembly passed an amendment to the Disturbed Areas Act that reshapes how property transfers are handled in sensitive localities. The Bill (formally, the Gujarat Prohibition of Transfer of Immovable Property and Provision for […]
In a significant shift amid intensifying tensions in the Middle East, Iran has indicated that vessels from five “friendly nations,” including India, will not face a blockade in the strategically critical Strait of Hormuz. The announcement, made by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, underscores a nuanced recalibration of regional alignments—particularly in the context of India’s […]
A significant proposal is taking shape in the corridors of Parliament. The government wants to expand the Lok Sabha to 816 seats (up from 543) and use that expansion to finally put the women’s reservation law into action. Home Minister Amit Shah reportedly pitched the idea at a Monday meeting with Opposition leaders in the Parliament building. The plan would reserve […]
This Gujarat Dentist Spent Five Years Looking At 2.23 Lakh Teeth…Here Is What He Found Dr Jayasankar P Pillai had a simple but ambitious question. Can a tooth tell you where in India a person came from? To find out, he reportedly spent five years travelling 37,000 kilometres across 23 states, collecting dental samples from […]
A phone call between US President, Donald Trump, and Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, made less than 48 hours before the strikes began, may have sealed Iran’s fate. On the line was a piece of intelligence that neither leader could easily ignore. Netanyahu used the phone call to convince Trump to seize a rare intelligence window […]
For six decades, Lothal stayed silent. Then the diggers returned. Now, fresh excavations have created a new mystique around Lothal in Gujarat. The last major dig at Lothal happened 60 years ago. What the archaeologists are finding beneath the soil is making them rethink the port’s story entirely. The Archaeological Survey of India began the […]
It was another bruising Monday for Indian investors. The US-Iran conflict shows no sign of easing. India’s financial markets are paying a steep price for it. In a single session, Rs 14 lakh crore of investor wealth simply evaporated. The Sensex crashed 1,837 points, or 2.46%, to reach 72,696 when Vibes of India made this article […]
Among 66 electricity distribution utilities assessed nationwide, Adani Electricity Mumbai Limited (Adani Electricity) part of the ports-to-power conglomerate Adani Group has retained its position as India’s top-ranked distribution utility for the second consecutive year, with a score of 92.5, reflecting consistent performance across key parameters. This is reflected in the latest Distribution Utilities Ranking […]
The headlights kept coming. One after another, cars slipped into 10 Rajaji Marg well past 10 pm, long after Delhi’s political corridors had begun to wind down. It was an unusual sight. The first list for the Kerala Assembly polls was already out. Yet, something clearly wasn’t over. A late-night meeting of the Congress Central […]
An energy squeeze is rippling through Gujarat’s core industries. The shop floors are feeling it. From jewellery workshops in Ahmedabad to textile mills in Surat, a shortage of LPG cylinders is forcing cutbacks, delays and rising costs. Labour crunch is reportedly making it worse.The jewellery trade is hurting. Artisans depend on LPG-fuelled flame torches for the […]
The snub hasn’t been forgotten. And with a new IPL season just around the corner, all eyes are back on Shubman Gill: bat in hand, a point to prove, and something to say to the selectors who left him out. It’s a different matter that India didn’t quite miss him in the T20 World Cup. […]
Ahmedabad Crime Branch has cracked a sensational 2021 cold case murder from Raipur in Chhattisgarh, arresting a fugitive involved in a brutal contract-killing-turned-robbery case that had remained undetected for years. The crime was originally registered under the jurisdiction of Tikrapara Police Station in Raipur. The case relates to the murder of Shakuntala Yadav, widow of […]
No personal trainer. No fancy gym. No miracle supplement. Just a guy, a basic apartment gym, and five months of showing up. Which, for most of us, is already the hardest part. A story has surfaced on how he laid out in unusual detail how he lost 20 kg between October 2025 and March 2026. […]
“Research has shown that those most desperately seeking happiness tend to be less happy. So if true happiness is best achieved indirectly, without paying too much attention to it, that is something Finnish people excel at.” – Frank Martela, Finnish philosopher, psychology researcher And so, Finland has woken up again as the happiest country. This, […]
