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A college student from Dindoli, Surat, lost Rs2.48 lakhs by falling into the trap of a team of scammers. The student had applied for a job at the Surat airport through a social media platform. A few days later, someone called the student and managed to extort Rs2.48 lakhs in the name of online exam, […]
Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday detained Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut for alleged involvement in the Patra Chawl land scam. The action was taken after the ED conducted searches at Raut’s residence. The search and questioning carried on for nearly nine hours. Later, the ED officials asked Raut to join them at their offices for […]
Gujarat registered a total of 942 new covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours on Sunday. The state witnessed recoveries of 679 covid-19 patients and deaths of two in the last 24 hours. The tally of total number of covid-19 cases reached 12,55,171, total recoveries reached 12,37,664 and death toll rose to 10,970. With this, […]
Getting the third Gold and an overall sixth medal for India, Achinta Sheuli lifted a combined weight of 313 kg in Mens’s 73 kg event at the Commonwealth Games 2022. The 20-year-old weightlifter, who hails from West Bengal, lifted a total of 143 kg in the snatch and 170 kg in clean and jerk. He […]
Dalit Shakti Kendra, an organization working for the rights of Dalits in Gujarat has organised a Bhim Yatra with the stated purpose marked as bringing social awareness to the unresolved issue of social evil “untouchability” which is prevalent in Gujarat and India since centuries. The high point of the Yatra would be an 1111 kg […]
Additional Principal Judge Dilipkumar Dhirajlal Thakker refused to grant bail to activist Teesta Setalvad and former Gujarat DGP RB Sreekumar. The order was significant for the remarks it made. It read: “It apparently appears that Zakia Jafri had been used as a tool by both the applicants-accused and others with a view to accusations levelled […]
Swami Paramatmananda Saraswati, today, said that India might be celebrating the 75th year of independence, but the country gained real cultural independence only after Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in 2014. He insisted that by the time the Britishers left India, they had already managed to inculcate the Leftist principles among the people. This […]
After being rejected 12 times by publishers, Harry Potter has emerged as a sensational children and young adult book series. Beloved by all, it has a huge fan base of people from all ages and backgrounds. On Harry Potter’s birthday, we bring to you 20 quotes of Harry Potter we all loved. “It is our […]
To felicitate the 43rd Vikram Sarabhai Memorial, Dr Krishna Ella delivered a lecture on Innovation and Entrepreneurship on July 30, 2022, at Ahmedabad Management Association. The tradition of Vikram Sarabhai Memorial lectures began in 1977 under Vikram A Sarabhai- AMA Memorial Trust. Many renowned figures and Nobel laureates from India and abroad have also delivered […]
Arvind Kejriwal is visiting Saurashtra for the second time in seven days. He will be attending Pran Prathishta Mahotsav on the campus of Sanjaybhai Rajyaguru College in Rajkot on Monday. He is set to perform the evening aarti of the 25 foot Rudrash Shivalinga with former Congress MLA Indranil Rajyaguru. Later in the evening, they […]
Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and National Investigation Agency (NIA) teams this morning managed to capture a suspect, Jalil Mullah, from Bhagatalao of the Sayedpura area in Surat. The man, who is likely to be younger than 25 years old, allegedly has a connection with the Jammu & Kashmir’s Al-Badr terror group. The police seized several documents […]
An event organised in Agra to felicitate Geetanjali Shree on her winning the International Booker Prize was cancelled at the last minute.. A complaint was booked against the writer for alleged inappropriate comments about Hindi deities in her novel “Ret Samadhi”. The celebration event was to be held at a five-star Hotel in Agra. The […]
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has refuted all claims by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), saying that he was not connected to the Patra Chawl land scam case. He also said that the raids conducted by the ED on his properties this morning were part of vendetta politics and had no concrete basis. Tweeting this morning […]
Gujarat BJP minister Arjunsinh Chauhan has been accused of rape and illegal confinement of a woman. He is Gujarat’s rural development minister and an MLA from Mahemdavad town of Gujarat. On July 27, Hitesh Patel, a former Sarpanch of Haldarvas village of Mahemdavad town filed an application to the village authorities alleging that Chauhan confined his […]
Following the shocking incident that involved Punjab health minister Chetan Singh Jauramajra, vice-chancellor at Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) and one of the top spinal surgeons in India, Dr Raj Bahadur, resigned from his post. Bahadur has said that he had never been more humiliated in his life with a career spanning over […]
Nishant Vyas, the suspended principal from a city municipal school, who was accused of sexually harassing a student, was caught by the police on Saturday in Surat. Police had got information that Vyas had gone to meet someone near his house. Another victim of Vyas’s sexual harassment has come forward, and a new offense is […]
Recycling of gold has increased with a raise in import duty on gold and the gradual increase in its price. Figures from gold refineries and jewellers indicate that 70 kg of gold is being recycled in Ahmedabad every day. That is a huge increase from 40 kg a day in 2019-20. Recycling of gold is […]
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has taken up an initiative to increase the safety and security of the people in the state. The state government plans to increase the number of areas in the state that will have surveillance through CCTV cameras. In the first phase, the state government has decided to identify public places having […]
The Raska water supply plant had to be shut for the fifth continuous day on Saturday when a dark brown liquid appeared in the water. It is a mark of shame that the authorities have still not been able to find the root cause of the problem.Officials have revealed that since Tuesday, there had been […]
