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Chinese President Xi Jinping has held a video conversation with the soldiers stationed along the India-China border in eastern Ladakh and inspected their combat readiness, official media reported on Friday. The Chinese President addressed the troops from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) headquarters in Beijing on the border defence situation in Khunjerab under the Xinjiang […]
A Three-day long basic training session on Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear materials (CBRN) was conducted from 18th Jan as part of handling the emergency at the Ahmedabad airport. The National Disaster Management Authority, Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority organised training at the airport for stakeholders and first responders in case of emergencies. As an […]
People staying in temporary relief camps in subsidence-hit Joshimath have sought permanent rehabilitation at a safe location where they do not have to face the same crisis again. Joshimath, the gateway to famous pilgrimage sites like Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib and international skiing destination Auli, is facing a major challenge due to land subsidence. Authorities […]
A 34-year-old Indian man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after he pleaded guilty to his role in a USD 3.5 million international drug smuggling conspiracy that brought illegal opioids from India and Singapore into the US. Manish Kumar shipped millions of illegal and unapproved pills to the US to people […]
Two days after the death of Riya Sagar, the Class 8 student of Amrutlal Virchand Jasani Vidyamandir (AVJV) on Rajkot’s Gondal Road—who died after collapsing in her classroom due to coldwave—the District Education Officer (DEO) issued an advisory, asking for delayed opening of schools in the morning in view of the cold weather. Following the […]
With cyber security, war on drugs and threats from across the border among their top agenda, chiefs of all state police forces and paramilitary organisations are meeting in Delhi for three days. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval will address the annual meet. Around 350 top police […]
Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) in Gujarat are preparing suggestions for final draft of the Regulation of Common Effluent Treatment Plant Rules 2022 released by the Union ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC). The ministry has vested powers in CETP operating agencies to take stringent action against non-compliant member units. The draft rules […]
This year, only 88,000 students have opted for standard maths while the lion’s share of 8 lakh students have opted for basic maths in Class 10 in Gujarat. This comes to 22,000 less students opting for advanced version of maths as compared to 1.10 lakh students who had chosen standard maths in 2022 while 6.61 […]
Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has imposed a penalty of Rs 30 lakh on Air India as well as suspended the licence of the pilot-in-command of the New York-Delhi flight in which a person allegedly urinated on a female co-passenger. In the incident, which happened on November 26, 2022, the watchdog has […]
After a row erupted over the opening of the emergency exit door of an IndiGo aircraft by BJP MP Tejasvi Surya, Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai who was also onboard at the time of the incident, has said that Surya “accidentally touched the emergency door” but it was not his fault that the flight […]
Glass cups and earthen kulhads will replace paper cups at tea stalls as the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s decision to ban paper cups in the city will come into force from Friday. The AMC decision was taken after it was found that paper cups clogged the drains. According to Harshad Solanki, Director of Solid Waste Management […]
In a PIL case hearing in December, the Gujarat High Court upheld that schools affiliated to Central Boards such as CBSE and ICSE “cannot refuse to implement the state government policy of teaching the local language as one of the mandatory subjects in Classes I to VIII.” In pursuance of the same matter, the HC, […]
It is well known and widely accepted that medicare, dental and ophthalmology procedures in India are relatively cheaper while being no less competent than in developed nations around the world. Little wonder then that NRIs who visit their motherland on an annual break during winters often choose to “deal with issues” in India where surgery […]
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot reached Pathankot and took part in the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra where he walked along with Rahul Gandhi. CM Ashok Gehlot said, “We have implemented OPS in Rajasthan and many States have also accepted OPS. We have implemented more than one scheme in Rajasthan. The public mood in Rajasthan is in […]
Nearly three months after the Morbi suspension bridge collapse which left 135 dead and several others injured, the Gujarat government issued a show-cause notice to the Morbi civic body, Wednesday. The notice, issued by the state urban development department questions the relevance of the civic body’s existence when “it had clearly failed discharging basic duties.” […]
The Rajasthan government plans a circuit-based masterplan to strengthen the state’s tourism infrastructure, a senior department official has said. Rajasthan attracts 20–25 million tourists each year because of its rich heritage, art, and culture. The proposed masterplan will assess the infrastructure gaps in each circuit, which will help the government prepare for budgetary support. The […]
The state government is likely to extend the deadline of applying for regularisation of illegal construction applications by payment of impact fee. The last date for filing applications is February 17. With less than 10,000 applications received from across the state, sources shared that the government is mulling a deadline extension. Making matters even more […]
Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, stated on Thursday that Gujarat will receive an additional ₹12,600 crore from the Central government for the building of roads, bridges, and logistic parks in the state. The fund will include ₹6,000 crore for the creation of multimodal logistics parks in the state and ₹1,000 crore […]
The Bollywood megastar was a special guest to inaugurate the showpiece game featuring some of the world’s best footballers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A combined team from Saudi clubs Al Nassr — who recently signed Cristiano Ronaldo — and Al Hilal took on Paris St Germain, which had Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Neymar Jr among […]
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has come out in defence of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi after a controversial BBC documentary claimed that the British government was aware about the Indian leader having an alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots. On Wednesday, During Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons, an Opposition […]
