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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 […]
Gujarat on Saturday recorded 44 new cases, out of which one was confirmed to be infected by the Omicron variant. Meanwhile, in Rajkot city 112 people have come from abroad. 12 people are from high-risk countries including 10 people from the UK and two people from Germany. Amit Arora, Municipal Commissioner Rajkot said, “Medical teams […]
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Saturday called an urgent meeting of the health department to review Gujarat’s preparedness after the State reported its first case of Omicron infection. At the meeting attended by State Health Minister Hrishikesh Patel and Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghvi, the chief minister stressed on stepping up 3 Ts […]
The first case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was recorded in Gujarat on December 4, with a state resident testing positive for the virus in Jamnagar, Saurashtra. It seems like a déjà vu moment for the COVID-19 situation in Gujarat. The very first COVID case in the state was registered in Rajkot, Saurashtra on March […]
A leopard was found dead on the Kadi-Chhatral Highway, Ahmedabad on Sunday morning. It could have been hit by a vehicle, locals suggested. The animal died due to injuries. The stretch from where the leopard’s carcass was recovered is a busy highway. Frequent accidents of animals such as roadside cows, dogs and cats were registered […]
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel addressed the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit (VGGS) 2022 Promotions in New Delhi today. The three-days event which will begin from January 10 seeks to attract investments in the state from different sectors. Addressing the audience of the event, CM Patel informed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be inaugurating the […]
Gandhinagar district police arrested a labourer for allegedly raping three minor girls, aged between three and seven years, and killing one of them within ten days, officials said on Monday. The girl’s medical check-up confirmed that she was raped. Inspector General of Police, Gandhinagar range, Abhay Chudasama said “The accused is married with a daughter. […]
The Aryan Khan case has found itself a new name of an ethical hacker. On October 27, an ethical hacker reportedly approached the police and claimed that he was offered an amount of Rs 5 lakh to get the cell records of Shah Rukh Khan’s manager and others. As per the reports, Manish Bhangale, an […]
