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Installation charges for utility lines – whether overhead or underground – will see a steep increase as the apex planning body of the city, the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (Auda), has resolved to charge as much as 15 times the jantri rates for land on which electric poles or towers are installed. Earlier, Auda had […]
A resident of Ahmedabad was convicted in a human smuggling case by a US court in July 2019. After serving a year-long sentence, he returned to India only to resume his illegal business, said investigators probing human smuggling rackets in the state. Bhavin Patel’s name has now cropped up in the Dingucha case in which four […]
A police circular issued on January 20 prohibits the use of microphone systems and instruments in public spaces, and permission is needed to play music and use public address systems. The circular permits the use of the microphone systems on certain conditions. For religious places, it says, “In temples, churches and mosques, the sound of […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to the village of Malaseri in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district to attend a celebration honouring the 1,111th birth anniversary of the local deity Devnarayan, who is worshipped by the Gujjar population nationwide on Saturday. According to a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, the Union culture ministry has also invited Rajasthan […]
Availability of residential quarters at Gujarat University (GU) on rent at cheap rates and lack of norms about their use and eviction is creating a lot of chaos. There are many instances of PhD students who have not vacated their houses even three years after finishing the course. Due to illegal occupation of 1BHK houses, […]
American journalist Angad Singh has been blacklisted despite being an OCI card holder “for misrepresenting facts in his application for obtaining a journalistic visa” and violating certain norms. Justice Prathiba M Singh, Friday, granted time to the Centre’s counsel to obtain instructions and file an affidavit confirming whether any proceedings have commenced against Angad Singh, […]
Two Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jets crashed in the Pahadgarh region of Morena in Madhya Pradesh. Morena additional superintendent of police Rai Singh Narwariya said, “An air force team is reaching the spot to confirm about the plane and number of people present in it. Police found a hand near the plane.” According to […]
Voices Against Autocracy (VAA) revealed that in addition to censorship, the Chinese government has changed the norms and procedures to force doctors to conceal COVID-related fatalities or postpone updating them on death certificates. The official tally of COVID deaths in China has likewise stopped including deaths that happened outside of hospitals. Amid mounting international pressure, […]
A man was detained for allegedly threatening to carry out serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad on Republic Day, police said on Saturday. Station House Officer of Maniyar police station Praveen Singh said that Om Prakash Paswan, a resident of Devrar village, was taken into custody by a team of the Gujarat Police Friday night. Officials […]
A special court in Mumbai ordered that Pradeep Sharma, a suspect in the Antilia bomb scare case and a former police officer, be promptly taken into the prison from a hospital in Pune where he has been receiving treatment on Friday. After reading the report of a medical expert committee, Special NIA Judge AM Patil […]
At Ahmedabad City Police Headquarters in Shahibaug on Friday, a Lokdarbar with the subject “May We Help You” was held under the sponsorship of City Police, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), and other banks. In Ahmedabad and throughout the state, according to Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi, immediate action is being taken against usurers. […]
Between April 2019 and March 2022, as many as 5,000 trees were felled to make way for track laying work of the bullet train and Metro projects. This happened, of course, with permission from the Parks and Gardens Department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). Of the total count, 2,398 were axed in 2019-20 while another […]
Between the master of ‘em all and underlings, it is always a sorted deal. A tiff here or a breach there, it all falls into place with admonitions and a pulling up of sorts. In the end, alls well that starts and ends with the master. Little wonder then that the BJP-ruled Morbi civic body […]
Gautam Adani, the richest man in Asia and India, had a significant decline in his fortune on Friday, as he dropped to seventh place on the global rich list. Adani’s wealth decreased by more than $22.5 billion to $96.8 billion over the day, based on the Forbes Real Times Billionaire Index. On the rich list, […]
When it comes to giving Netramani lenses to cataract patients, Gujarat leads the nation. The percentage of blind people in Gujarat is expected to drop to 0.25 percent by 2025. Rushikesh Patel, the Health Minister, made this statement as he approached the Police Parade Ground in the Shahibaug area of Ahmedabad district to salute the […]
Beginning February 1, Twitter users will have the option to contest account bans and will be subject to the new reinstatement standards set forth by the social media site. Twitter accounts will only be terminated under the new guidelines, which came after billionaire Elon Musk bought the company in October, for serious or persistent infractions […]
Since it came to their attention that drug traffickers had started smuggling drugs on trains for interstate and intercity unlawful commerce, the state police have enhanced monitoring at railway stations in an effort to combat drug trafficking. When they discovered that the baggage screening equipment at Kalupur Railway Station was not in working condition and […]
17 Pakistani nationals imprisoned in the country were repatriated on Friday, the Pakistan high commission said in New Delhi. The Pakistani mission said on Twitter that “Seventeen Pakistani nationals imprisoned in India were repatriated today via the Attari-Wagah border after hectic efforts of the Pakistan high commission, the Pakistan foreign ministry, and the cooperation of […]
In the men’s second round of the UTT National Ranking Table Tennis Championships 2022, which was played at the Indoor Stadium in Surat on Friday, a rusty-looking Sharath Kamal lost to 22-year-old Aakash Pal of Railways. Sharath, who had just returned from a trip to Qatar, made numerous unforced errors and appeared uneasy against the […]
Bharatiya Janata Party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting has begun at the party headquarters in Delhi to finalize the names of the candidates for the upcoming Tripura Assembly Elections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Party’s national president JP Nadda, union home minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and other members of CEC and Tripura Core […]
