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The project in Kerala inked by the previous Congress-led UDF regime with the Adani Group in August 2015, was planned to make the seaport operational in 1,000 days. Set out to be inaugurated by December 2019, the project is well behind schedule. While the ongoing protest by fishermen, backed by Church has entered its 80th […]
The United States issued a travel advisory for its citizens while travelling to India. It asked the American citizens to exercise “increased caution” while in India. Citing “crime”, it mentioned rape being one of the fastest-growing crimes in India. The Travel Advisory pointed out that sexual assault has occurred at tourist sites and in other […]
Gujarat Director General of Police (DGP) Ashish Bhatia has ordered a probe into the incident in which five Muslim men, accused of hurling stones at garba in Undhela village, were publicly flogged by the police on October 3. Kapadvanj Deputy Superintendent of Police V N Solanki has been asked to conduct the inquiry and submit a report, […]
Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Lochan Sehra, IAS (2002 batch), has been transferred as joint secretary with promotion. In deputation, he will serve the Government of India. Lochan Sehra was appointed as the Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner on December 23, 2021, in which he has spent less than a year. Sandeep J Sagale (IAS 2007 batch), district officer […]
Gujarat Education Minister Jitu Vaghani on Friday accused Aam Aadmi Party Supremo Arvind Kejriwal of playing vote-bank politics and cheating the people of Gujarat. This comes after AAP minister, Rajendra Pal Gautam, recently attended a mass conversion gathering where people allegedly took a pledge to not worship Hindu gods and goddesses. Over 10,000 people on […]
Senior Congress leader and candidate for the party’s presidential polls Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday asserted that if becomes the head of the grand old party, the remote control would be with him. Kharge said, “A lot of people say I am a remote control and work from behind. They say I will do what Sonia […]
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) in Gujarat registered a case against the owners of buffaloes that were hit by the Mumbai-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat express, in which the front portion of the train was damaged, officials said. The nose cone cover of the driver coach of the semi-high speed train, which got damaged after hitting the […]
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries Ltd, is setting up a family office in Singapore. The Mumbai-based business tycoon is the latest in a series of ultra-rich people to pick Singapore for their family offices, the organisations set up to manage the affairs of wealthy clans by joining the likes of hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio […]
The Gujarat Vidyapith is one of the few remaining bastions of Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy. Such is the zealousness towards Gandhian principles on the Vidyapith campus that anyone who heads it needs to be attired in khadi in day-to-day life. The compulsory Khadi attire was the reason why Gandhi’s grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi ruled himself out as […]
PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate healthcare facilities worth Rs 712 crore in Ahmedabad on October 11. PM Modi is going to visit Gujarat from October 9-11. Kidney Research Centre, UN Mehta Hospital will be a beneficiary of these developmental projects. UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre will have medical facilities which include: a […]
The Health and Food Department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has taken stringent action against three hotel and restaurant operators in the state for flouting guidelines. Hotel Dev Palace, Chetak Chivda and Gajanand Pauva House were sealed indefinitely for running food centres without adequate hygienic conditions, registration and for violating Schedule 4 norms. Schedule 4 is food […]
Nearly a week after videos went viral that appeared to show Bajrang Dal members beating up four Muslim youths at a Garba venue on SindhuBhavan Road, city police arrested five members of the right-wing group for the attacks. Sarkhej police said that the events in question happened on the night of September 27. They said […]
29 % of households in Gujarat having tap water at home, face water shortages, an audit survey by the ministry of water resources reveals. While 99% of such families have a water connection in functioning status and 87 % of families get water regularly, 20% of households receive water supply thrice or four times.. 6% […]
Nearly a week after the new Vande Bharat Express train between Mumbai Central and Gandhinagar was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the train suffered minor damages on Thursday morning after it hit cattle on tracks in Gujarat. The incident occurred at 11.18 am between Gairatpur and Vatva stations. The train sustained damage after it […]
BJP leader Sangeet Som has stoked controversy yet again with his polarising statements. While speaking at a ‘Shastra Puja’ ceremony organised by the Rajput Utthan Sabha on Vijaya Dashami in Kheda village in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district, Som extolled the Rajput community to take up arms as the population of only a particular community was […]
While the Indian markets opened on Thursday after the Vijayadashmi holiday, Rupee opened at 81.52 against the dollar at the inter-bank foreign exchange market. However, by the end of the trading day, it attained 81.94, it’s another all-time low continuing it’s regular slide. The Indian currency registered a decline of 32 paise over it’s American […]
A painter and a student, both residents of Jai Aarti Society in Vejalpur, have filed police complaints against each other after they clashed over a pet dog defecating near the house. Praful Parnaliya, who works as a painter at Seth CN Vidyalaya, objected to his neighbour Karan Singh Parmar, a student, allowing his pet dog […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday released its fourth list of 12 candidates for the Gujarat Assembly elections. The party has ensured that tickets are given to people from a cross-section of society, including teachers, businesspersons and tribals. The Arvind Kejriwal-led party had earlier announced 29 candidates for the Gujarat Assembly polls. With Thursday’s […]
PM Modi is going to lay the foundation stone and dedicate healthcare facilities of RS 712 Crore from Ahmedabad civil hospital on 11 October. In UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre, He will dedicate a new hostel building at a cost of Rs 71crore. This hostel will have 10 floors, 176 rooms , […]
At least eight people, who had gone for idol immersion, were drowned in the Mal river due to flash floods in North Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district. It is said that a large number of people had gathered on the banks of the river to immerse the idols of Goddess Durga. Four women were among those killed […]
