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A Gujarat bill facilitating registration of criminal cases against persons who stage protests in violation of Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) has received Presidential assent, officials said Wednesday. The Code of Criminal Procedure (Gujarat Amendment) Bill, 2021, was passed by the State Assembly in March last year. The bill seeks to […]
Eight accused people arrested over the Morbi bridge collapse Monday withdrew their bail applications after the Gujarat High Court indicated it was not inclined to exercise its discretion in favour of the accused before the filing of the chargesheet. In December, eight of the nine arrested moved for bail. Oreva Group managers Dinesh Dave and […]
Veteran actor Satish Shah has claimed that London’s Heathrow airport staff member made racial comments to him. The actor said that he responded to the staff member’s racial slur by saying, “Because we are Indians.” According to the “Sarabhai vs. Sarabhai” actor, the airport staff asked his colleague in a perplexed manner how Shah was […]
In Gujarat, police seized 1,334 kg of ganja worth Rs 1.33 crore concealed as medicinal tablets from a bus in Bharuch city and arrested five people in connection, officials said on Wednesday. The Bharuch police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) kept a watch near Zadeshwar crossroad on the city’s outskirts on Tuesday and intercepted a private […]
Supreme Court judge Justice Bela M Trivedi Wednesday recused herself from hearing a batch of pleas challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case in which she was gang-raped and seven members of her family were killed during the 2002 Gujarat riots. A bench of Justice Ajay Rastogi and Bela […]
Rishabh Pant, a star wicketkeeper-batsman for India, will relocate from a hospital in Dehradun to one in Mumbai, where he will receive extensive treatment for ligament damage to his knee and ankle, according to BCCI sources on Wednesday. “Rishabh is being shifted to Mumbai for diagnosis and treatment of his ligament injuries and decide upon […]
Sonia Gandhi, a Former President of the Congress, admitted to the Ganga Ram Hospital on Wednesday. Her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra accompanied her to the hospital. Sonia Gandhi, according to sources, has been suffering from a respiratory infection. The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which entered Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday evening, required Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi […]
This month, the University Grants Commission (UGC) is expected to release a draft of regulations for public comment that will significantly alter the higher education landscape by allowing foreign universities to establish campuses in India, allowing Indian universities to open facilities abroad, and tightening regulations to ensure better quality controls at private institutions. By March, […]
Biz Tycoon Gautam Adani’s group on Tuesday said it will pay an additional Rs 48.65 a share to NDTV stockholders who tendered their shares in its open offer to help match what it had paid to buy out a stake of the news broadcaster’s founders. Adani Enterprises in a stock exchange filing said it will […]
Close on heels of arrests following rhino horns being sold openly in the market, the Vadodara police and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau have unearthed a thriving illegal ivory smuggling racket. Four persons were arrested on Wednesday and investigation reveals that the nexus spans the entire country. Preliminary findings reveal that ivory artefacts are being sold […]
In 2018, Gujarat University launched a Higher Payment Program (HPP) in 32 courses to boost the intake of students and generate revenue from the initiative. Under the revenue-sharing program, the concerned department was to deposit 30% of the total fee collected under HPP with the university. The rest 70% is retained by the HPP conductor […]
Torrent Power, based in Ahmedabad, has made a non-binding offer (NBO) for ReNew’s 350 MW and 750 MW of solar and wind power assets at an equity value of around USD 450 million, with valuation discussions still ongoing. Torrent Power has previously been involved in green energy transactions, and was in the running to acquire […]
Sidharth Malhotra and Kiara Advani, stars of the television film Shershaah, are reportedly getting married in the first week of February in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The eagerly anticipated nuptials are expected to last two days and include a sangeet, haldi, pheras, and a reception ceremony. A number of Bollywood celebrities, including Varun Dhawan, Manish Malhotra, and […]
Jeremy Renner posted a photo of his battered face to Instagram and wrote that he was “too messed up now to type.” Following the tragedy outside his Reno, Nevada, home on Sunday, the Avengers star was airlifted to the hospital. According to the local sheriff, Renner was run over by his own snow plough, which […]
The Director General of Police (DGP) has been advised to have the clippings of the “Pathaan” movie song “Besharam Rang” and other obscene content removed from social media as they are having a “detrimental impact on the psyche of adolescents,” according to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district. The CWC, Bahraich […]
The Weeknd, a Canadian singer, was taken aback when his song “Blinding Lights,” which he released in 2019, surpassed all previous records for Spotify streaming. On New Year’s Eve, the 32-year-old celebrity, real name Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, announced the news on Twitter. He responded by writing, “FOR NEW YEARS???” in response to the news that […]
A total of 17 trains heading to Saurashtra will be affected between January 4 and 16 with one pair of trains being cancelled, four being short-terminated, one rescheduled and six expected to be running late by 20 to 150 minutes due to track-laying work between Surendranagar and Rajkot. The work is underway between the Vagadiya-Than-Lakhamanchi-Daladi […]
President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the Constitution Park in the Governor’s House in Jaipur on Tuesday. Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot were present. The Constitution Park will display the historical journey of the making of the Constitution of India and its implementation through sculptures, photographs, models and artistic forms. The President said […]
The new Omicron variant XBB.1.5 has raised fears of a fresh wave of illness, and the Gujarat government is not taking chances. Putting in place preventive measures, it approached the central government for precautionary vaccines. The central government has responded by allocating 6 lakh vaccine doses to the state. These include 5 lakh Covishield doses […]
President Droupadi Murmu will inaugurate the 18th National Scout and Guide Jamboree, at Rohat in the Pali district of Rajasthan today. The President reached Jaipur yesterday on a two-day visit to the state. Rajasthan is hosting Jamboree after 66 years. Over 35,000 scouts and guides from all over the country will participate in this 7-day […]
