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Adani Group managed Sardar Vallbhbhai Patel International Airport (SVPIA) and has completed the recarpeting work on its 3.5 km long runway in a record time of 75 days. This time scale is an all-time best among brownfield runways in India. The quantity of asphalt laid for the recarpeting was equivalent to a 200 km stretch […]
Located 106 kms from Ahmedabad, Madal Bechraji is all set to become the hub of electric vehicle manufacturing not just in Gujarat but in India. Similarly, Sanand at 22 kilometres from Ahmedabad, was chosen for the Tata Nano Plant. Soon, Ford and Honda also set up shop in the same town. Why Sanand and Bechraji? […]
Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday visited two government schools in Gujarat and questioned the BJP government on their 27 years of rule in the state. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi’s deputy chief minister pointed out, “I visited government schools in Bhavnagar and was shocked to see that there were no […]
The Union Health Ministry issued a statement on Wednesday saying that the evidence does not suggest that the new Coronavirus variant XE has been detected in Mumbai. The statement came after a news broke out that a woman who came from South Africa has tested positive with XE variant. Official sources of the Health Ministry […]
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani is the tenth richest person in the world, followed by Infrastructure tycoon Gautam Adani and his family. Shiv Nadar of HCL Technologies is the third riches person on the list. Adani made it to the 11th spot on the list of Forbes’ annual world’s billionaires. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk […]
The energy chocolate bar that the BJP presented to its 400 Members of Parliament at its Central Parliamentary Committee meeting on Tuesday has been developed by the party’s Gujarat unit for massive distribution among malnourished children across rural areas in the State. The energy bar wrapper has a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and […]
A number of Gujarat-bound trains have been cancelled due to ongoing work of doubling of tracks in Ahmedabad, officials of the North Western Railway informed on Wednesday. The railway tracks between Deodar-Mitha-Bhabhar-Devgam-Radhanpur stations of the Palanpur-Samakhali railway section of the Ahmedabad division are being doubled. Movement of trains on this route will be affected due […]
APM Terminals Shows The Way In Port Enterprise at Pipavav A successful public-private enterprise, Port Pipavav is managed and operated by APM Terminals, also the largest shareholder in Port Pipavav (43.01%). With a total land area of 631 hectares, there is plenty of lands available for the expansion of port-related services and businesses. The port […]
It wasn’t just a four-member family from North Gujarat’s Dingucha village in Gandhinagar district that froze to death from a troupe of 11 illegally trying to sneak into the US through the Canada border in January. A woman from the same group, who suffered frostbite along with another man, was moved through three different hospitals in the […]
Noted author and Congress member of Parliament, Shashi Tharoor, is known for his inimitable wit and command over the English language. It is therefore not surprising how he acknowledged birthday greetings from Union Home Minister, Amit Shah. After receiving a phone call from Shah, the Congress leader who is currently a third term Lok Sabha […]
The Oscars announced its first six presenters for the 94th Academy Awards on Thursday. The list includes Chris Rock ‘Everybody Hates Chris,’ Kevin Costner, director winner for 1990’s ‘Dances With Wolves’, Lady Gaga original song winner for 2018’s ‘A Star is Born’, Youn Yuh-Jung supporting actress winner for 2020’s ‘Minari’, Rosie Perez for supporting actress […]
Gujarat recorded 884 Covid cases and 13 deaths in the last 24 hours. The death rate is on the decline after months of recording anything between 20-30 deaths. The spike in cases began in Gujarat in mid-November last year as the Omicron variant made an entry into the country after being first detected in South […]
The dhak dhak girl of yesteryears, Madhuri Dixit, will soon appear in “The Kapil Sharma Show” to promote her forthcoming Netflix series “The Fame Game.” The promo, with host Kapil joking about husband Dr Shriram Nene (a cardiothoracic surgeon), has gone viral. The teaser shows Kapil entering hand-in-hand with Madhuri as he croons to Pehla Pehla […]
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to vacate a stay by the Gujarat High Court on the implementation of certain provisions related to interfaith couples in the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act. The Gujarat Government had challenged the HC’s stay order of August 19 and its refusal to issue a rectification order in the […]
Gujarat recorded 1,646 fresh Covid cases and 20 virus-related fatalities on Saturday. With today’s update, the state’s active Covid tally stands at 15,972, while the cumulative death figures since the start of the pandemic has reached 10,794, the state health ministry daily bulletin stated. While the cases continue to be on decline in the state, […]
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Tuesday, unveiled new “IT/ITES Policy 2022-27” which offers both capital and operational support to Information Technology (IT) firms making investments in Gujarat, and promises to generate one lakh direct jobs. Mr Patel briefed that the new policy would take the state to “newer heights in IT sector” and will place Gujarat […]
Christian Gunther-Hanssen, founder, Sweden Tidy Foundation, plans to cut 75% of Sweden’s annual budget of Rs.16.28 crore on street cleaning with his pilot project, named ‘Corvid Cleaning’. His modus operandi? Training crows to pick up cigarette butts. Birds are being trained, step-by-step, to pick up garbage from the streets of the Swedish town of Sodertalje. […]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) – a Paris-based organisation – condemned the increased harassment of journalists in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime and it newly founded intelligence agency. The RSF put out a statement in context of the recent arrests of two Afghanistan-based journalists, Aslam Hijab, a business reporter for the privately-owned Ariana News TV […]
Gujarat continued to add more Covid-19 fatalities with 34 people succumbing to infection on Thursday even as the daily Covid-19 infections are on decline. The state on Thursday recorded 7,606 cases, of which 266 patients are on ventilator support. The state had 8,934 cases and 34 deaths yesterday. Of the total Covid cases recorded in […]
Gujarat Industries will have a mix of Union Budget because of the speculations of incentives, especially for the healthcare sector during the pandemic. Hemant Shah, the president of the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) states that the health care sector has suffered the most due to the pandemic and some specific relief measures […]
