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A dispute over a penalty of Rs 300, incurred more than six decades ago, continues to take its toll on the fourth generation of two families in a Sabarkantha village. The dispute dates to the 1960s when Harkha Rathod, a Dungari Bheel from Temba village in Poshina taluka, fought with fellow tribesman Jetha Rathod. A […]
The great rush for the ‘safe and secure’ jobs continues in Gujarat. At Gujarat University (GU), for the position of 92 clerks, the university authorities have received 8,000 applications or roughly 87 candidates for every seat. Of these, 3,000-odd candidates or 37.5 percent of aspirants have master’s degrees or more than one degree. Sources said […]
The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Gujarat government on bail petitions by some convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 Godhra train coach-burning case. On December 15, the Supreme Court granted bail to one of the accused in the infamous 2002 Godhra train carnage. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the […]
International Holding Company (ADX: IHC), the diversified Abu Dhabi-based conglomerate, announced today that it would invest AED 1.4 billion (USD 400 million) through its subsidiary Green Transmission Investment Holding RSC Limited in the Adani Enterprises Further Public Offering (FPO), the Indian multinational publicly listed holding company and a part of Adani Group. IHC’s first investment […]
Students at Vidyamandir Trust School in Palanpur created an ATM device that uses RFID technology to save the patient’s prescription and medical history. It dispenses the necessary medications based on the doctor’s prescription. Simply swipe the Health ATM card as usual and select the medication you require. As it is currently in production, people will […]
Life Insurance Corporation said on Monday that its exposure in the Adani Group is 0.97 per cent of its total assets under management at book value. LIC’s AUM( Assets Under Management) was Rs 41.66 lakh crore at the end of September last year. LIC stated in the statement that “LIC’s total holding in Adani Group […]
The Budget session of Parliament begins on Tuesday with the maiden address of President Droupadi Murmu to the joint sitting of both Houses. While the government’s priority will be to seek approval on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address and the Finance Bill, the Opposition is raring to corner it on a range […]
Two people were injured and as many Sikh men were detained when two separate brawls broke out between Khalistani activists and pro-India demonstrators in Melbourne during the so-called ‘Punjab independence referendum’, the police said on Monday. India has already asked the Australian government to curb the anti-India activities of Khalistani separatists and also attack Hindu […]
A Gandhinagar court found the self-styled godman Asaram Bapu guilty in a woman disciple rape case registered against him in 2013. Sessions Court Judge DK Soni reserved its order on the quantum of sentence for Tuesday (January 31). Due to a lack of evidence, the court acquitted six other accused, including Asaram’s wife. As per […]
Annie Wersching, 45, best known for her roles as FBI agent Renee Walker in the television series ’24’ and as Tess in the video game ‘The Last of Us,’ died on Sunday morning in Los Angeles. As per her spokesperson, she had been fighting cancer for many years. Annie was born in St. Louis, Missouri, […]
Mike Pompeo has said that among the dozens of world leaders he met as the United States Secretary of State he found the ‘most unpleasant’ was Chinese President Xi Jinping, who threatened to stop sending PPE kits to America if it kept asking for accountability from Beijing on COVID-19. In his book titled “Never Give […]
The President of India Droupadi Murmu will address the 31st Foundation Day of the National Commission for Women in Delhi on January 31st, 2023. The theme of the programme is ‘Sashakt Nari Sashakt Bharat’ aimed at acknowledging and celebrating the stories of women who have excelled and paved their journey to leave a mark. A […]
Madhvendra Singh has been appointed as the Gujarat Maritime Cluster’s first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) by Gujarat Ports Infrastructure Company Limited. The Gujarat Maritime Cluster (GMC) is the country’s first commercial maritime cluster of its kind, with the goal of developing a hub for international-standard maritime services. In GIFT City in Gandhinagar, the Gujarat Maritime […]
Kanti Sodha Parmar, a former legislator from Central Gujarat’s Anand assembly seat, joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today at the state party headquarters in Shri Kamalam. Parmar had previously resigned as a state delegate and primary member of the Congress party. Parmar is a director of the AMUL district milk cooperative federation, so […]
A Delhi court on Monday reserved for January 31 its order on the bail application of Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on a woman on board an Air India flight from New York to New Delhi. The police have opposed the bail application, saying India has been defamed internationally because of the incident. The judge […]
The six-laning work of Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway has been delayed by three years. There are numerous traffic diversions and road blockages on the highway and the project is going on for the past five years. The communication between the contractors and the authority and the notices issued by the authority became public through two (RTI) replies. The […]
Rays Power Infra has signed an agreement with the Rajasthan government to construct a 1,800 MW solar park. The entire project is estimated to be worth Rs 9,140 crore. The company said in a statement that “In accordance with India’s far-reaching goal of converting existing fossil-fuel energy generation into renewable energy output, the Solar Park […]
Rajasthan has the most universities in India, followed by Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. The report also included the names of the districts with the most colleges, according to the Ministry of Education’s latest All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) Report Rajasthan has 52 state private universities, 26 state public universities, 7 deemed universities, 5 […]
An Ahmedabad-bound Vistara flight from Delhi was diverted to Rajasthan’s Udaipur due to low visibility, officials said on Monday. The flight is now scheduled to arrive in Udaipur at around 9.10 a.m., according to Vistara. “Flight UK959 from Delhi to Ahmedabad (DEL-AMD) has been diverted to Udaipur due to low visibility at Ahmedabad Airport and […]
The latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring (GEM) report covering 47 countries for 2021-22 – carried out by EDII for India – indicated that compared to the last year’s sharp nosedive in entrepreneurial activities, this year saw a rise – almost matching pre-Covid levels of entrepreneurial activities numbers. The survey indicated that among BRICS countries, India saw […]
