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Sending optimistic signals about the rising Indian economy, global brokerage firm Morgan Stanley feels that the 30-share BSE Sensex may hit 80,000 within the next year. The share market benchmark indices continued to rise for the fifth straight day. Morgan Stanley has predicted that the bull run is here to stay in 2023. According to […]
The Barry Callebaut Group, largest manufacturer of premium chocolate and cocoa products worldwide, announced that its third manufacturing facility will be built in Rajasthan. The brand-new compound and chocolate factory is located in the Ghiloth industrial district of Neemrana, about 120 kilometers southwest of Delhi. After the new chocolate factory is finished, India will surpass […]
Tuesday marks the conclusion of the first round of election campaigning in Gujarat’s 89 seats. Voting for the first phase will take place on December 1. Voting will take place for the remaining 93 seats on December 5. J P Nadda, President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and Union Minister Smriti Irani are scheduled to […]
The Gujarat Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 833 candidates who are contesting in the Gujarat Assembly Elections Phase II in the following 93 constituencies. As many as 330 of 1,621 candidates, or around 20%, contesting the elections have criminal cases registered against them. Among the […]
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi how long he would exploit his humble background for political gain instead of seeking votes on the basis of performance. At a rally at Dediapada in Gujarat, he asked, “For how long will you exploit your humble origin? ‘Main gareeeb hun, mujhe gaaliyan dete […]
“Gaslighting” is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. It means behaviour that’s mind-manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful. Lookups for the word on merriam-webster.com increased 1,740 percent in 2022 over the year before. It was a word looked up frequently every single day of the year. There also were deepfakes and the dark web. There were deep states and […]
The Supreme Court on Monday disapproved of a remark made by Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on the collegium system of appointing judges. Rijiju, at a TV event, had hit out at the mechanism to appoint Supreme Court and high court judges, saying the collegium system is “alien” to the Constitution. “Mr Attorney General, I […]
Calling out the controversial film, The Kashmir Files, as “propaganda” and “vulgar”, Israeli filmmaker and a jury chief at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Nadav Lapid, said he was “shocked” and “disturbed” by its inclusion in the competitive section. Sharing the jury report during the closing ceremony of the 53rd edition of IFFI […]
There is an increasing craze among real estate developers in Ahmedabad to plan luxury apartments. Approximately 3000 new apartments ranging from Rs 2 crore to Rs 10 crore are to be launched in Ahmedabad city over the next three years. Industry specialists say that as the target market is an elite-class society, the competition among […]
The Centre told the Supreme Court on Monday that religious freedom does not include the fundamental right to convert others to a particular religion, and that it certainly does not include the right to convert an individual through fraud, deception, coercion, or allurement. The central government said that it is “cognisant of the menace” and […]
As Gujarat gears up for the assembly elections this week, PM Modi continued his campaign in Gujarat today, speaking at public meetings in Palitana and Anjar. PM Modi said in his first rally of the day that the Bhavnagar and Saurashtra regions embody ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat.’ In his second address at Anjar, PM Modi […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday alleged that the Congress party’s mindset is of “well-wishers of terrorists” and for being skeptical about the Batla House encounter that occurred in 2008, which was an act of terrorism. PM Modi stated during his speech at a public rally in Surat, Gujarat, the Batla House encounter was an […]
The election heat wave in Gujarat will be over by the end of this month when the scheduled elections in two phases, December 1 and 5 will occur. In the meantime, political leaders are accusing each other of using provocative and misleading speeches in their campaigns. Congress’s new president Mallikarjun Kharge accused the dominant leaders […]
When James Cameron released Avatar in 2009, science fiction overwhelmed all of us with its extraordinary visuals and animations. The movie stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver in the prime roles and is situated in the mid-22nd century when humans are populating Pandora. Pandora is a lavish livable moon in […]
More than 2,000 km from Gujarat, a tsunami of protest is taking shape in Vizhinjam in Kerala. Vizhinjam is located close to Kerala’s capital city Thiruvananthapuram, and the bone of contention is a project by Ahmedabad-based billionaire Gautam Adani. Back in 2015, an Adani Group company called the Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Limited started constructing […]
“I want our son back; neither allowances nor any election promises are of interest to us. “I haven’t seen him in two years,” said Ankita Thapariya, the mother of Ankit, a fisherman imprisoned in Pakistan for illegally entering the neighboring country’s water territory. The situation is no different for the families of 655 fishermen from […]
Two Gujarati brothers, one in ninth grade and the other in the sixth, are suddenly center stage in a rather unlikely arena for children – politics – and it is none other than the Prime Minister who has now spoken about the duo, just days after the opposition Congress filed a complaint with the Election […]
Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur said on Sunday that Gujarat will conduct the “Grand Olympics” in the future. In the poll-bound state, he addressed the media persons at Kamalam, the BJP’s Gujarat headquarters. When asked about the capability of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar to host international sports events such as the Olympics, he said, “Not only […]
Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi, made another written prediction about the Gujarat Assembly election results today in Surat, claiming his party will win seven to eight seats in ‘diamond city’ Surat and form the government. He had earlier said that Congress would get fewer than five seats. He stated again on Sunday that […]
A violent crowd presided over by the Latin Catholic church on late night Sunday attacked Vizhinjam police station in Thiruvananthapuram in the demonstration against the construction of the new Adani port. The group targeted the police station with the help of sticks and bricks and assaulted police officials post an arrest of a person. The […]
