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Thirty-five crore menstruating women in India. Twenty pads in a month per woman. You do the math. One sanitary pad could take 500 to 800 years to decompose as the plastic used is non-biodegradable and can lead to health and environmental hazards. About 12.3 billion or 1,13,000 tonnes of used sanitary pads are dumped in […]
Gujarat government has transferred 2012-batch IAS officer AB Patel, CEO of Vadodara Urban Development Authority (VUDA), Vadodara. Patel is appointed as Joint Chief Electoral Officer in the office of Chief Electoral Officer, Gujarat State. The transfer order is issued by IAS AK Rakesh, Additional Chief Secretary of Gujarat, General Administration Department.
Malaika Arora shared a few stunning photographs on her Instagram stories in which she can be seen showing off her bold lips and new hairstyle. Malaika can be seen taking a selfie with a mirror in the first image, but in the second, she is showing off her bold lips and new hairstyle. The actress […]
Dalpat Kataria (34), a homoeopathic doctor from Bhavnagar, received a Whatsapp message and a call from an unknown number in March 2021. After listening to the caller, a Kajal Patel from Ahmedabad’s Nikol area, he befriended her. Later, the girl called the doctor to a hotel in Surat. She mixed an intoxicating substance in the […]
Surat: Gujarat BJP President, CR Paatil, addressed a gathering at Vibrant Weavers Expo 2022 in Surat, on Friday. During the event, he asked the people to stay cautious of people offering freebies. However, Paatil did not mention any names and hit out at Arvind Kejriwal and AAP. He said, “One man is going around Gujarat […]
The Uttar Pradesh government’s decision to not authorise the prosecution of Chief Minister Adityanath in a 2007 hate speech case was rejected by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The decision was made by a bench that included Chief Justice NV Ramana, Justices Hima Kohli, and CT Ravikumar. Parvez Parwaz, a Gorakhpur-based activist, brought the case […]
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. – Dale Carnegie Have you worked for a boss who was frequently in the midst of a panic attack? Though they had a prestigious degree and were technically brilliant, they were dramatic about the smallest of things and […]
In August, Congress saw opposition from two of its top party figures. The first was Ghulam Nabi Azad, a prominent figure and a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, who quit his position as the head of the J&K Congress campaign committee on August 16 just hours after being appointed to it. He also […]
The second Shaame Art show was inaugurated with fanfare at the Hutheesing Centre in Ahmedabad on Thursday evening, with actor Aarjav Trivedi as the chief guest. The first Shaame Art show was held in December last year and the Hutheesing Centre now plans to make it a bi-annual event. “We want to make it a […]
A petition calling for limitations on ‘freebies’ given out by political parties was sent to a three-judge bench by the Supreme Court on Friday. Ashwini Upadhyay, head of Bharatiya Janata Party, filed a public interest lawsuit. He asked the court to instruct the Election Commission to forbid political parties from promising specific social welfare benefits […]
Gujarat’s Congress Party is ready to enter fray with its new strategy and past learnings. Known to declare candidates at the end moment, Gujarat Congress plans to declare 100 candidates even before the notification arrives. Gujarat Congress in-charge Raghu Sharma mentioned, on Friday, that the first Screening Committee meeting will take place on September 5 […]
Adani Group on Friday refuted New Delhi Television’s (NDTV) assertions that regulatory restrictions prevented the news network’s founders from selling their business shares. Sought after by the Adani Group, owned by Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani, NDTV claims to be one of the remaining independent voices in India’s polarising media scene. Given that the billionaire […]
Texas: Close on heels of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi vandalised and curse words scribbled across a Manhattan neighbourhood last week, the video of a woman hurling racial slurs towards a group of Indian-American women in Plano, Texas is now viral on social media. The video shot in a parking lot outside “Sixty Vines” restaurant, […]
Finally, Ghulam Nabi Azad did it. After months of speculation and an open dissent with the Congress high command, the veteran leader on Friday morning, sent his resignation to party chief Sonia Gandhi. In effect, he has quit Congress and resigned from all its posts. This comes days after Azad resigned as Campaign Committee chairman. […]
Union Road Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari has announced that the government is formulating a new model where small investors would be allowed to invest in infrastructure projects. Giving an outline of ‘ InvITs’, he said the government will be listing InvITs on stock exchanges to enable retail investors to trade in units. The […]
Protesting against the precarious condition of the roads in Ahmedabad city, the Congress councillors used a novel way to highlight the issue. Some of the badly damaged roads were mocking “renamed” ‘Mayor Kirit Parmar Road’ and ‘Commissioner Lochan Sehra Road’. Shehzad Pathan, the leader of opposition in AMC and the Congress councillor from Danilimda and […]
With assembly elections around the corner, the ruling BJP has started a three-pronged survey. Senior leaders of the party, a professional private agency and Intelligence Bureau (IB) sleuths have been roped in for the surveys, to be completed in four weeks’ time. The survey will be conducted in all the five zones of Gujarat namely, […]
It appears that in India, no TrueBlue law enforcer, howsoever insignificant, will let a potential bribing opportunity go by without encashing the same. The animal catchers hired by the Gnadhinagar Municipal Corporation through an outsourcing agency proved just that. Manoj alias Bablu Shanaji Thakor and Bunty Jayantibhai Waghela, animal catcher and driver in the Stray […]
Fighting against all odds, Yash Jain from the Ahmedabad chapter of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has secured an all-India rank (AIR) 12 in CS executive programme exam. With his father diagnosed with cancer while he was preparing for the exams, Yash had to take up a part-time job to run the […]
Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, both incidentally run by the BJP are claiming that the other state is owing them money with respect to the Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam. Narmada Control Authority (NCA) is a kind of battlefield with both the states countering each other on a variety of issues. The Narmada Control Authority (NCA), in […]
