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The Sabarmati Riverfront is the crown jewel of Ahmedabad, but its beauty is inaccessible to the city’s elders and those with disabilities. The project, built for Rs 1,400 crore, has nine elevators on both sides, but only one is unlocked and functional. Also, there are very few ramps to enable disabled people to move from […]
Bollywood actor and director Satish Kaushik opened a first-of-its-kind inflatable digital theatre in the Sardarshahar town of Rajasthan’s Churu district. PictureTime Digiplex has developed the theatre. Shah Rukh Khan’s spy thriller Pathaan was screened at the theatre following the inauguration. Together with Vikas Malu’s Kuber Entertainment, the theatre was built. PictureTime said in a press […]
Gujarat witnessed rainfall in several areas, including Vadodara, Bhavnagar, and Panchmahal. Earlier the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) forecast called for a drop in the state’s lowest temperature and the chance of light rain over the following two to three days. Vadodara and Bhavnagar recorded 0.2 and 0.4 mm of rainfall on Saturday, compared to one […]
Congress party’s ambitious Bharat Jodo Yatra will conclude its nearly 5-month long run on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar. Rahul Gandhi will unfurl the national flag at Lal Chowk in the city on Sunday and mark the end of the foot-march that began on September 7, last year. The Bharat Jodo Yatra’s J&K leg […]
Porbandar district collector Ashok Sharma on Saturday said that the administration wants the coastal district to become a major attraction for birdwatchers and to have a school of ornithology of its own. He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of Bird Count Porbandar Wetlands, 2023, a bird census organised by the Bird Conservation Society of Gujarat […]
A Court of Inquiry has been set up to ascertain the cause of the crash of the two Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jets, a Sukhoi 30 and a Mirage 2000, which killed an experienced pilot Saturday. Experts, including former IAF veterans, told The Indian Express, that given the level of “complexity” in such advanced […]
The Second UTT National Ranking Championships were held on Saturday at the Indoor Stadium in Surat, where S. G. Sathiyan played his best TT to stop Harmeet Desai’s (PSPB) win the men’s title. The world No. 40 won his first national ranking title in nearly three years, defeating the 2022 Gujarat National Games champion and […]
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan says the box office success of Pathaan is making him feel like a proud father. Pathaan, which was released on Wednesday, has raised a total of Rs 313 crore worldwide. The actor said that he is “loving it” that the audience is enjoying the spy action thriller, and to celebrate the […]
The central government on Saturday renamed the Mughal Gardens at Rashtrapati Bhavan to Amrit Udyan in order to mark Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, celebrating 75 years of India’s independence. Navika Gupta, the deputy press secretary to President Droupadi Murmu, said that “on the occasion of the celebrations of 75 years of independence as ‘Azadi ka […]
Nicole Kidman has rejoined the HBO family and will star in the new limited series “The Perfect Nanny” on the premium cable network. In the show, which is based on author Leila Slimani’s book of the same name, Kidman will appear alongside “PEN15” co-creator Maya Erskine. Kidman previously starred in HBO’s critically praised series “Big […]
In Gujarat, there will be cloudy weather and unseasonal rains during the next 24 to 48 hours, according to the Meteorology Department. Arvalli, Panchmahal, Kheda, Vadodara, Surat, and Bhavnagar districts in Gujarat experienced unseasonal rainfall. Light rain fell in some parts of Ahmedabad this morning. Dr. Manorama Mohanty, in charge of the Ahmedabad Met Center, […]
There is a complex relation between politics and business. Take the instance of the dairy industry and Gujarat. If 17 years ago, an anguished Dr Verghese Kurien, pre-empting his removal, stepped down as founder-chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), the slew of “removals/ resignations” in recent times of big names in the […]
Bharat Mata pictures will be installed at both ends of every flyover in the city, as per the decision made by the financially strapped Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to spend Rs 55.32 lakh. In order to put the artwork at the ends of each flyover and railroad bridge in the city, the local government floated […]
An Indian Air Force pilot was killed after two fighter jets, a Sukhoi Su-30 and a Mirage- 2000 crashed in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday. While the two Su-30 pilots received minor injuries, the Mirage pilot died in the crash after being fatally injured. The wreckage of the crashed aircraft was discovered in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, and […]
Pratima Bhoumik, a Union minister from Dhanpur, was named to the BJP’s first list of 48 candidates for the Tripura Assembly elections on Saturday. According to Rajib Bhattacharjee, the party’s state president, who arrived in the state late Friday night from New Delhi with other senior leaders, the party, which is now in control in […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the ceremony commemorating the 1111th “Avataran Mahotsav” of Bhagwan Shri Devnarayan Ji in Bhilwara, Rajasthan, today. Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister expressed happiness at getting the opportunity to be present on the auspicious occasion. The Prime Minister stressed that he has not come here as a Prime Minister but […]
After nearly three decades working in NDTV, Veteran journalist Sreenivasan Jain has decided to leave the organisation. The channel’s Group Editor said that he would be stepping down through a Tweet today: “Hi all. An amazing, nearly three-decade-long run at NDTV comes to an end today. The decision to resign wasn’t easy, but .. it […]
Despite being a leading state in exports, Gujarat has performed “rather poorly in providing access to credit to exporters”, observed the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) in its annual State Focus Paper for 2023-24. The paper, unveiled last week at Gandhinagar, pointed out that Delhi, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal were ahead […]
Acting on a tip-off, six teams from Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s Health Department (South) conducted a surprise check on clinics in the Lambha ward area, Friday. Not only were some of the clinics running without the requisite permit, two of the 10 “doctors” rounded up for further interrogation, were “practicing” without a medical degree at all. […]
In the Bharatpur area of Rajasthan, one aircraft crashed on Saturday. According to police superintendent Shyam Singh, the plane went down in a field near the city’s Ucchain neighbourhood. But whether it was a helicopter or a plane was not immediately apparent. Additionally, it was not yet known if it was a military or civil […]
