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Gujarat on Thursday recorded 4,213 fresh Covid cases and one death in the last 24 hours, taking the state’s active caseload to 14,346 and the number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 10,127. No Omicron cases were recorded today. As many as 29 patients are on ventilator support. The one death recorded […]
In the unprecedented times of Corona, a man named Kovid Kapoor is getting popular on social media for obvious reasons. He wrote his detailed experience of funny, sad and ugly part of being named Kovid in the times of Covid. He wrote, “Went outside India for the first time since COVID and got a bunch […]
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has said that will not be returning to the Fast & Furious franchise, as insiders cite co-star Vin Diesel’s ‘manipulative schemes’ as the real reason for Johnson’s decision. Following years of tension, Diesel implored his former co-star to reprise the role of Luke Hobbs in the 10th installment of the hit film series […]
There are two Gujarats: one that sees a rapid rise in Covid cases and the other, more powerful, doesn’t want to see it. When the State reported over 100% increase in Covid-19 cases from 204 on Monday to 548 on Wednesday, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel was in Surat speaking at the Vibrant Gujarat Pre-Event Summit “Weaving Growth […]
Global Real Estate consultancy Knight Frank’s latest report ‘Affordability Index’ puts a stamp of approval to what developers and many experts have been saying about the Real Estate market of Ahmedabad with the city being declared the ‘Most Affordable’ market in the country. Knight Frank on Wednesday released its report ‘Affordability Index-Rediscovering Affordability’, for which their time […]
Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has declared that he has suspended Prime Minister Hussein Roble’s powers, he also accused the prime minister of an “indirect coup” amid a protracted feud that has seen both leaders trade allegations over the holding up of parliamentary elections. This move by Mohamed has intensified a months-long constitutional crisis and […]
Amid rising cases of Covid variant Omicron, Sensex on Monday staged 877 points rebound and ended 295 points up, after factoring in the low mortality rate of the new variant. The market witnessed gains in Pharma, IT, finance, and realty sectors. The BSE closed at 57,420.24 points after gaining 0.52% and NSE closed at 17,086.25 […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday made a much-awaited announcement on booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, stating that those eligible for the booster would include frontline workers, people with co-morbidities and senior citizens. Booster doses are to be rolled out from January 10. Modi said vaccination for children aged between 15-18 years would begin […]
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)’s outlay to fill a pit behind Gandhi Ashram, using sand from its own Pirana dump, is pegged at Rs 48.55 crore. And despite civil engineers on its payroll, the civic body has hired a consultant firm at Rs 50 lakhs to advise on how to “transfer sand from one pit […]
As a part of Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit 2021, a pre-summit with a focus on the Textile sector-‘Weaving Growth For Textiles’ will be held on December 29 in Surat. Chief Minister of Gujarat Bhupendra Patel will inaugurate the seminar. A day-long summit will see deliberations on how to provide further impetus to the textiles […]
It has been a month since the new coronavirus variant, dubbed ‘Omicron’ by World Health Organisation (WHO) on November 26, threw the scientific community in a tizzy. First detected in South Africa and Botswana, the variant is now present in around 95 nations. The countries such as Britain and the United States is looking to […]
Gujarat on Wednesday recorded nine more coronavirus cases of Omicron variant, out of which five patients were detected in Ahmedabad. With this update, the Omicron tally in the state has reached 23. In Ahmedabad, all those detected with the Omicron variant have a travel history. A mother-daughter duo – a native of Makarba – had […]
After two days, which saw the market lose Rs. 9.21 lakh crore, investors on Tuesday were relieved as it recovered around 500 points. Yesterday, on BSE as many as 2699 stocks were in red, record 540 stocks were seen hitting the lower circuit and 90 stocks touched 52 week low. Today, the market witnessed 2281 […]
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel stated on Saturday that Gujarat is at the centre-point of the pharmaceutical industries in the country. With 6% of the country’s total land area, the state has become the leader in India’s pharmaceutical sector by contributing 33% to the country’s production.The CM said the medicines produced by the pharmaceutical sector […]
Gujarat until Saturday afternoon had inoculated 93% of the total population eligible for vaccination (over 18 years of age), the office of state health minister, Rushikesh Patel, told Vibes of India (VoI). The percentage of beneficiaries having received one dose of the vaccine stood at 94.3% until Saturday afternoon. Gujarat has over 4.93 crore people […]
The latest ICICI Securities report on the real estate sector for 2022 predicts a bright outlook for the residential and business verticals, but it has brought out that the Covid-19 spin-off of Work from Home (WFH) is likely to be a permanent feature. The recently released report says though not all employees in the corporate […]
Priyank Panchal is a Senior Tax Assistant with the Income Tax Department, Gujarat. He got into the I-T department through the sports quota in 2014. Recently, the I-T officer-cum-battler replaced Rohit Sharma in the upcoming three-match Test series against South Africa. “Even before he joined the Income Tax department, Panchal was passionate about it. He […]
India carries out successful tests of Pinaka Extended Range (Pinaka-ER), Area Denial Munitions (ADM) and indigenously developed fuzes at various test ranges on Saturday. In an official statement, the Ministry of Defence said, “The DRDO, along with the Army, conducted a series of performance evaluation trials. In these trials, enhanced range Pinaka rockets were test-fired […]
The Central government has cleaned up 4.28 Crore bogus and ineligible ration cards from the public distribution system to ensure that the subsidised food grains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) is distributed among genuine beneficiaries. Due to use of information technology for TPDS reforms, digitization of ration cards data, deduplication process, permanent migration, […]
The Gujarat Government on Wednesday reappointed 16 IAS officers, including the additional director of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan IAS JP Devangan (Guj: 2012) who is appointed to continue to officiate on ex-cadre post of additional director of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan. Director of District Rural Development Agency, Porbandar IAS SD Dhanani (Guj: 2012) is appointed to continue […]
