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Chacha Nehru’s Balvatika spread over six acres on the banks of Kankaria Lake in Ahmedabad, has been left to neglect. The once teeming with energy and chatter of small children address, now wears a deserted and dilapidated look. Abandoning the iconic Balvatika speaks as much about an ignore from authorities as it does about the […]
On February 3, the Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel at the Ahmedabad railway station noticed a man who alighted from Puri-Ahmedabad Express. His luggage was unusually heavy, especially for a man of his appearance. The suspecting police set him aside for interrogation and the 30-year-old daily wager from Bihar immediately broke down and confessed to […]
The Gujarat government’s decision to double the jantri or the annual statement of rates (ASR) for immovable properties in the state has had a Domino Effect on the real estate market. Reports claim that land deals to the tune of Rs 2,000 crore in Ahmedabad have been put on hold. These deals were in the […]
The Gujarat High Court has taken a major step forward in modernising the district court system, launching a pilot project to stream all district court hearings in real time. This initiative was inaugurated by Supreme Court Justice MR Shah, who remarked that no one can now bluff and claim that their case was not called […]
Rescue teams were still searching for survivors buried in the rubble of thousands of buildings destroyed in Turkey and Syria by massive earthquakes and aftershocks that killed over 15,000 people. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited a “tent city” in Kahramanmaras, where people are living, amid calls for the Turkish government to send more aid […]
In a case that dates back to 2003, the Ahmedabad civil court finally dispensed a judgement, Wednesday, that allows a remarried widow to benefit from her first husband’s pension and allowances. A jawan with the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Rajesh Palsapagar, died in a road accident in Amravati in December 2003. Posted in Ranchi, […]
A total of 1,070 vehicles including 1,053 private and 17 commercial vehicles have been scrapped in Gujarat since January 2022. In all, 5,426 vehicles including 5,359 private and 67 commercial vehicles were scrapped across the country at registered vehicle scrapping facilities (RVSFs). Union minister of road transport and highways, Nitin Gadkari, provided this information in […]
Legislation to limit the use of TikTok in the United States will be put to a vote this month, the House Foreign Affairs Committee announced in January. The chairman of the committee, Republican Representative Michael McCaul, is developing legislation that would give the White House the power to put a ban on TikTok owing to […]
Despite Gujarat University (GU) issuing notice to vacate the residential quarters to as many as eight illegal occupants in its premises and warning them to vacate them latest by Thursday, only one of them has done so. Two others have sought a few months’ extension, but a majority of them have not bothered to take […]
Close on heels of the Gujarat HC recently issuing a directive to ensure licensing and hygiene standards are met with for shops selling poultry and meat, civic bodies across the state have cracked the whip on meat vendors, traders and shops. In effects, in Vadodara and Surat, livestock meat remained unavailable for the seventh day […]
Indian-American girl, Natasha Perianayagam has been named to the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth’s list of the world’s brightest students, based on the results of above-grade-level tests of over 15,000 students across 76 countries. For the second consecutive year in a row, Natasha Perianayagam has been named to the list of the world’s brightest […]
The recent 100 percent revision of jantri (ready reckoner for land price) rates by the Gujarat government has raised the hackles of real estate groups and associations. NAREDCO (National Real Estate Development Council) Gujarat along with Ahmedabad Builders Association, Gandhinagar Builders Association, and Maninagar Builders Association among other real estate developers, property buyers, landowners and […]
Delegates visiting Ahmedabad for the Urban20 (U20) summit enjoyed shopping, travel and some cultural activities ahead of the event on Thursday. Ahmedabad will for the first time host the U20, a meeting of representatives of major cities of G20 countries to discuss urban issues and challenges. Representatives from 35 different nations will participate in the […]
The market value of Google’s parent company’s shares dropped by more than $100 billion on Wednesday as a result of the Bard chatbot advertisement providing incorrect information and the AI search event’s lack of information regarding how it will respond to Microsoft’s ChatGPT challenge, according to analysts. The mistake in Google’s advertising, which aired on […]
The Indian government’s Patent Office has granted a patent to a team from MS University for their innovative furniture design. Dr Sarjoo Patel, Khyati Trivedi, and Fatema Dahodwala, three inventors from the Faculty of Family and Community Sciences (FFCS), have created a joint bed design with an attached partition set with the safety of people […]
The court sent the main accused in the Morbi Bridge collapse. Jaysukh Patel, MD of Oreva Company, to jail after his 7-day remand period; the police did not request additional remand. A complaint was filed at the Morbi City B Division Police Station in this regard, and on January 31, 2023, Jaysukh Patel gave a […]
US First lady Jill Biden kissed Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff on the lips ahead of the State of the Union Address on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. The video was shared by journalist Benny Johnson on Twitter. “Did Jill Biden just kiss Kamala’s husband on the LIPS?.” In the video that has gone […]
The Animal Welfare Board of India has issued an appeal to couples to celebrate February 14 as “Cow Hug Day”, it stated that it “will bring emotional richness” and “increase individual and collective happiness”. Board officials said that the appeal was issued on the Union fisheries and animal husbandry ministry’s direction. Signed by Dr Sujit […]
Union Information & Broadcasting Minister Anurag Singh Thakur stated in a written reply to the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that the fact-check division of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) had uncovered more than 1,100 instances of fake news so far. Since its start, the PIB, according to him, has responded to over 37,000 complaints. Kerala Congress […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday replied to the debate on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address and praised India’s achievements in Lok Sabha. He said that after decades of political instability, India finally has a stable and decisive government. India has become the second largest manufacturer and is emerging as the manufacturing […]
