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After being the hottest place in the state for more majority days in the last week, including Saturday, Ahmedabad received a respite from high temperatures on Sunday. The city received some showers on Sunday and the citizen welcomed the pre-set of the monsoon. Areas like Bodakdev, Gota, Maninagar, Sola, Vadaj and Vastrapur received heavy rain […]
Gujarat saw a marginal dip in cases reported Sunday. As on June 12 morning, according to the PIB brief, 140 new cases were reported from the previous day. This was 14 less than the confirmed new 154 cases in the state detected on Friday. The highest number of cases (79) was reported from the city […]
“If there is nothing to hide, why is the Congress in such a panic mode?” questioned Gujarat BJP president, C.R. Paatil. He was speaking at a press conference held in the city, Sunday. The leader charged the grand old party of Indian politics of making “crores of rupees.” As he put it: “If the Gandhis […]
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) organised a valedictory ceremony for NEEV participants to award course certificates for successful completion of the courses, on Friday. NEEV, a community outreach programme of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), successfully trained nearly 150 rural youth and women in six skill development courses from April to June […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party has tasked party president JP Nadda and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to reach out to allies as well as the Opposition party to zero in on a consensus candidate for the July 18 presidential elections. According to a BJP press release from New Delhi, “JP Nadda and Rajnath Singh have been given the responsibility of agreeing on the candidate of […]
Surat is all set to get two new bridges later this month. The first one is the newly refurbished Ring Road flyover bridge. The other is the country’s first three-layer flyover connecting Man Darwaja to Sahara Darwaja and the latter to Puna Gam. The Ring Road Bridge was set for a June 16 inauguration. However, […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on a day-long visit to Gujarat, Sunday, harped on rural development as the key factor to becoming self-reliant. He stressed on the need to uplift the rural sector to achieve the target of making India a $5 trillion economy. His day was portioned into three important events. In the morning, […]
A 15-member team from the United Kingdom (UK) paid a visit to the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), led by British Deputy High Commissioner to Gujarat and Rajasthan, Peter Cook. While welcoming the delegation , Proffessor S P Mehrotra, Professor In-charge, External Relations, IITGN, said, “We are delighted that the delegation chose to visit IIT […]
Fenil Goyani, who was sentenced to death by a district court for the killing of 21-year-old Grishma Vekaria, has filed an appeal with the Gujarat High Court to reverse the judgment. According to sources, the court may hear Goyani’s appeal next week. The district special court, on May 5, sentenced Fenil Goyani of Surat district […]
By Samaira Jindal Cast – Chris Pratt as Owen Grady Bryce Dallas Howard as Claire Dearing Laura Dern as Dr. Ellie Sattler Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant DeWanda Wise as Kayla Watts BD Wong as Dr. Henry Wu Mamoudou Athie as Ramsay Cole Director: Colin Trevorrow De-extinct dinosaurs […]
The Chamber of Commerce has organised a three-day exhibition in Atlanta to promote Surat’s textile sector. At the expo, there are stalls displaying yarn from Surat to finished cloth. According to the Chamber, overseas purchasers have fallen in love with Surat fabrics. The Chamber’s Global Textile Trade Fair entered its second day on Saturday. Many […]
Leaders of the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti and the newly formed Sardar Sanman Sankalp Samiti (SSSS) were detained in Surat district’s Bardoli on Sunday before they could hold their rally demanding the renaming of Narendra Modi stadium in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad. The Motera cricket stadium, which was rechristened as Narendra Modi stadium, was earlier named after Sardar Patel. The Sardar Sanman Sankalp Samiti was recently constituted to rustle […]
Five grant-in-aid institutions and a self-financed college associated with Gujarat University in Ahmedabad have written to the university requesting permission to close their operations this year. The institutions claimed numerous reasons, but according to sources, the real reason is the private universities, where these colleges expect larger profits. According to sources, the institution receives requests […]
Communal clashes erupted last night in Borsad town of Anand district, following a dispute over a plot of land that has been a matter of conflict between groups from two communities. The small dispute soon turned into full-blown mob clashes as people from both communities joined the fight. According to the police, people from one […]
In a country where the Opposition is refusing to cluster itself under a joint umbrella, regional players while denting BJP’s prospects, inadvertently end up splitting opposition votes. As is being predicted in the case of Gujarat Assembly elections. Elections to the 182-member assembly in Gujarat, which has been ruled by the BJP for over two […]
It’s been 14 days since two Indian army soldiers have been missing in Arunachal Pradesh. Harendra Negi and Prakash Singh Rana, both of whom are from Uttarakhand, were identified as the two 7th Garhwal Rifles soldiers. The army has not issued any official statement regarding this incident, yet. According to Mamta Rana, Prakash Singh Rana’s wife, […]
In wake of the Nupur Sharma Hate Speech, several states registered protests after the Friday prayers. The situation in minority-dominated pockets in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal has been simmering since with the state administration clamping down, either by way of Sec. 144 or bulldozers razing property belonging to “alleged” rioters and “suspected” conspirators. Javed […]
By Samaira Jindal Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) yesterday held a convention on the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) of women in the workplace Act, 2013, and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act. The event was aimed at raising awareness regarding the two acts and empowering people to come forward and take action […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah today stated that rural development is essential to making the country independent, ‘which began when PM Modi came to power in 2014’. He further cited Mahatma Gandhi saying that the ‘soul of the country lies in the villages’. “Gandhi ji had said country’s soul resides in villages. Thus, if you’ve to […]
Avengers Endgame, from Marvel Comics, has long been one of the cult films that has remained at the top of Rotten Tomatoes’ rating charts in the list of best films of 2022. However, this has changed as the film RRR has surpassed Avengers Endgame in Rotten Tomatoes rankings. SS Rajamouli’s blockbuster starring Ram Charan, NTR […]
