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On the second day of its voyage after being hailed off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 30, unidentified miscreants threw stones at the freshly launched Vande Bharat Express in Malda, North Bengal. Despite the fact that no passengers were hurt, the impact broke the glass of a coach C-13 door. The Railways Act’s […]
The Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) in Ahmedabad were lesser on the New Year eve compared to December 31, 2021. According to Gujarat EMRI-108 data, 66 road accidents were registered on Saturday compared to 73 on December 31, 2021. Also, the average for Saturday was lower than normal days in the entire year. As per EMRI […]
The next time you rush through the airport in Ahmedabad, be aware that you can end up paying a fee. If a car approaches the airport to pick up or drop off passenger speeds, the airport authorities have decided to levy a punishment of Rs 1,000. This was done because driving too fast endangers the […]
Wildlife activists in the Little Rann of Kutch have pressed alarm bells over alleged encroachment inside the Wild Ass Sanctuary. The activists have sought urgent intervention from state forest and environment minister Mulu Bera. Their report charges some “big salt manufacturing unit” with setting up base inside the reserve and operating “heavy machinery” therein. The […]
Gunjan Patidar, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, has left the company after more than ten years, the food aggregator Zomato announced on Monday. Today, he submitted his resignation. Zomato stated in its regulatory filing that Patidar was not a Key Managerial Personnel (KMP). “Gunjan Patidar was one of the first few employees of Zomato and […]
For the first time, India is constructing “permanent vertical bunkers” of concrete to station BSF troops right at the strategically Sir Creek and ‘Harami Nalla’ marshy area along the India-Pakistan International Border in Gujarat, official sources said. The union Home ministry has sanctioned a Rs 50 crore fund for the construction of eight multi-storeyed bunkers […]
At 3.27 am on Monday, 11 coaches of the Bandra Terminus-Jodhpur Suryanagari Express train derailed in the Rajkiawas-Bomadra stretch of the Jodhpur division. Although no fatalities were reported, an official indicated that 26 passengers were hurt. “11 coaches were impacted due to derailment of Bandra Terminus-Jodhpur Suryanagari Express train. No casualties reported yet. Higher officials […]
According to Founder and Group CEO Ritesh Agarwal, OYO saw a record 4.5 lakh or more bookings on New Year’s Eve, the company’s biggest bookings per hotel per day for India in the previous five years. Agarwal spoke about the “busiest day of the year” for the travel technology business in a series of tweets, […]
The IMF Chief projected that this year will witness a third of the world’s countries in recession and warned that 2023 will be “tougher” than last year due to the slowing of the economies of the US, EU, and China. The Chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, delivered these sobering statements on […]
Along Pakistan’s maritime border, the Indian Coast Guard conducted substantial anti-drug training. On Monday, the exercise was carried out off the coast of Gujarat close to Okha and Sir Creek. In connection with the Mundra port drug bust case, where heroin worth more than Rs 20,000 crore was recovered in September 2021, the National Investigation […]
Bharatiya Janata Party leader and MP Tejasvi Surya took a swipe at former Chief Minister of Karnataka and JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy on Monday, after he compared Amit Shah to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. According to Surya, Kumaraswamy’s choice of an “unparliamentary word” reveals his “political frustration.” “JDS Party has already become an endangered party. […]
In the most hostile, marshy, and challenging terrain of Creeks and Harami Nalla in Gujarat’s Bhuj sector in 2022, the Border Security Force (BSF) captured 22 Pakistani fishermen and seized 79 fishing boats. “BSF Gujarat is further strengthening its hold along Sir Creek and Harami Nalla area by establishing permanent bases,” an official statement said. […]
A day after the tragic Navsari accident in which nine were killed when a bus collided with an SUV, 10 people died on spot in a similar crash in Rajasthan. The tragedy, reported from Sikar’s Maji Sahab Ki Dhani on Palsana-Khandela Road, unfolded when the driver of the SUV lost control of the vehicle and […]
The National President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Yuva Morcha, Tejasvi Surya is on a 2 day visit to Gujarat. He had launched the ‘Good Governance Yatra,’ saying that the after the landslide victory of the Gujarat Assembly will have an impact on Karnataka, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in 2024. […]
Indian-origin Sumitra Devi, who moved to Rajasthan after getting married in Pakistan, is an exceptional example of social service. Since operating the Kasturba Seva Sansthan in Kasturba Gandhi’s honour for 32 years, Sumitra has been inspired by her commitment to service. She has been the mother to more than 2,000 abandoned children up to this […]
On trail of gangster Raju Thehat’s murder in Rajasthan, who was shot dead in Sikar, Rajasthan, on December 3, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Sunday, nabbed a man believed to be the alleged supplier of arms and ammunition to the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi gang. Trailing the case, led the Rajasthan police to nab the […]
Winter vacations have prompted schools in Rajasthan to be closed. According to Jagdish Meena, the District Education Officer for Jaipur, these holidays are set, but if the cold wave intensifies, the appropriate decision would be made. The schools will resume on January 6, 2023, after being shuttered through January 5, 2023. According to sources, the […]
In Amreli, Gujarat, on Sunday, India received its first mobile In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) machine for animals. Union Minister Purushottam Rupala inaugurated the mobile IVF lab. The IVF mobile van was “dedicated in a collaborative endeavour of the Government of India and Amar Dairy,” the minister stated. “This is India’s first IVF mobile unit. With […]
Ashok Gehlot, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, has given his approval to an additional budgetary proposal of Rs 14.80 crore for a number of tribal-related programmes, including a boost to the state’s educational infrastructure. A 7-story dormitory (Centre of Excellence with Modern Facilities) will be built in Udaipur’s Chitrakoot Nagar, according to an official release. […]
Justice BV Nagarathna, who differed from the majority view and wrote a dissenting judgment, said: “Scrapping of Rs 500, Rs 1,000 series notes had to be done through legislation, not through notification. Parliament should have discussed law on demonetisation, process should not have been done through gazette notification. Parliament cannot be left aloof on issue […]
