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Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel virtually inaugurated a wildlife rehabilitation Centre at Daskroi’s Bilasia village in Ahmedabad Friday, as part of the state’s Karuna Abhiyan (campaign for compassion), launched during Uttarayan to save birds injured by sharp kite strings. The statewide Karuna Abhiyan from January 10 to 20 will include dialogue among various cooperative organisations […]
Actor Nora Fatehi on Friday recorded her statement before a Delhi court as a witness in the Rs 200 crore extortion case. The actor recorded her statement before Metropolitan Magistrate Akriti Mahendru in the case, also involving alleged fraudster Sukesh Chandrashekhar and actor Jacqueline Fernandez, being investigated by the Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived here on Friday for a day-long visit to the Jammu region, where he reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Shah’s visit came just days after twin terrorist attacks in Dhangri hamlet killed seven members of the minority community and injured 14 others. The possibility of Shah visiting […]
A visa agent from the Ahmedabad, Memnagar area filed a complaint with Satellite police on Thursday, alleging that two men from Daman defrauded him of Rs 13.50 lakh by promising him six visas to Bulgaria and one to the United Kingdom. Jaydeep Nakrani, 36, a resident of Sahajanand residency flats near Helmet Cross Roads, stated […]
On Thursday, a 34-year-old man from Gujarat was arrested for allegedly making a hoax call on Tuesday threatening to blow up Dhirubhai Ambani International School with a time bomb. According to the BKC police, the accused, Vikram Singh Jhala, is a driver who lives in Morbi, Gujarat, with his family. He was taken from his […]
In the early hours of Friday in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, a speeding bus collided with a truck, killing ten people and injuring at least 22, according to police officials. According to officials, many of the 45 passengers on the private tourist bus were going to the temple town of Shirdi in the Ahmednagar district while […]
The man accused of peeing on an elderly woman co-passenger on an Air India flight, Shankar Mishra, told the Delhi court on Wednesday that his act was neither motivated by a desire for sex nor intended to offend the complainant’s modesty as he sought bail in the case. In Delhi Court, Shankar Mishra said, “I […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to hold a meeting with economists at NITI Aayog on Friday, sources said. The Prime Minister in the meeting will seek the opinions and suggestions of the economists and will also assess the state of the Indian economy and its challenges, ahead of the Union Budget. The Budget Session […]
The Supreme Court remarked on Friday while requesting a report from the police officer looking into the cases that hate speeches were made at religious gatherings in the nation’s capital in 2021 that “no palpable progress” had been made by the Delhi Police. The incident pertained to December 2021 and the FIR in the case […]
The Gujarat Police has filed 464 cases against usurers lending on high interest rates and arrested 316 of the 762 moneylenders booked across the state in the last week after the government launched a drive, a statement said. The Gujarat government had launched a ‘mega-drive’ against such lenders and held 939 ‘Lok Darbars’ to hear […]
Sukesh Chandrashekhar, the prime accused in a Rs 200-crore money laundering case has written to Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena about “mental harassment and threats” by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Delhi minister Satyender Jain. Chandrashekhar has alleged that the AAP leader was harassing him to withdraw complaints filed against him and others […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the world’s longest river cruise, the MV Ganga Vilas, on Friday, which will travel 3,200 kilometres across 27 river systems in five Indian and Bangladeshi states in 51 days. The MV Ganga Vilas is India’s first cruise ship, departing from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and travelling to Dibrugarh in Assam […]
As many as 608 residential buildings in Ahmedabad have no valid fire “no-objection certificate” (NOC) as of Thursday, said the Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Service. Multiple cases were filed against the commercial buildings in Ahmedabad for not having valid NOC but they complied and there are only two commercial buildings where the process for fire […]
Rajasthan Tourism will be extending a moving palace experience and culinary experience around millets to the International guests being hostess as buyers at the forthcoming 12th edition of the Great India Travel Bazar (GITB) which is scheduled between April 23 and 25 in Jaipur. Gayatri Rathod, principal secretary of Tourism in Rajasthan after meeting with […]
Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation(RIICO)Chairman Ashutosh Pednekar wrote to RIICO Managing Director recommending the establishment of two distinct industrial zones to encourage solar component manufacturing in the state. Now, RIICO wants to find two places that make solar components: one in western Rajasthan and another in the NCR. According to RIICO MD Shivprasad Nakate, the RRECL […]
The trade between India and China reached an all-time high of $135.98 billion in 2022, while New Delhi’s trade imbalance with Beijing first crossed the $100 billion threshold despite tense diplomatic relations. According to the yearly Chinese customs figures, overall Sino-Indian trade for 2022 has risen to $135.98 billion, surpassing the $125 billion record by […]
The Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Cell has arrested a 22-year-old Rajasthan youth on charges of laying a honey trap, impersonating a CBI officer, and extorting Rs 2,69,32,000 from a businessman. Ajit Rajian, Deputy Commissioner of Police for the Cyber Crime Cell, stated in a statement that Talim Khan, 22, of Bharatpur, Rajasthan, was arrested on Thursday. […]
The Gujarat government Thursday issued a circular that, industry players say, will help regularize more than 30,000 illegal structures located in various industrial estates operated by state-run Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC). The announcement will cover all illegal constructions done till January 12, 2023, in over 70,000 industrial units in 220 GIDC operated industrial estates […]
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said that his government’s Chiranjeevi Health Insurance scheme should be implemented across the country. Gehlot said at the closing ceremony of the All India Presiding Officers’ Conference at Rajasthan that the Centre should also take the initiative to introduce a Social Security Act and implement the Old Pension […]
An appeal by an extension officer who lost his job after submitting a reportedly fake certificate that showed his last drawn salary to be higher than it was, has been rejected by the Gujarat High Court. Ghanshyam Menat was engaged in the case; he was a Banaskantha district extension officer assigned to the Amirgadh panchayat. […]
