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Gujarat Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) P Bharathi, announced that a total of 4.97 crore voters, which includes 12.20 lakh first-time voters, are set to participate in the Lok Sabha elections and bypolls for five assembly seats in Gujarat on May 7. According to the final electoral roll, there are 4,97,68,677 voters expected to cast their […]
Close to 800 Bengal Monitor Lizard Hemipenes and 19.6 kg of soft corals that were seized on April 13 in Mumbai were allegedly brought from Gujarat for sale in Maharashtra, a probe by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI)’s Mumbai zonal unit revealed. The articles are protected under Schedule–I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, […]
Hearings of students suspected of cheating in this year’s Class 10 and 12 Gujarat Board examinations have been delayed due to the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) coming into effect for the Lok Sabha elections. The exam reforms committee of the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) has not convened its regular meeting […]
A murder mystery dating back to 2017 found a new twist on Tuesday as police dug out hundreds of skeleton pieces to fit the puzzle of a man missing for the last seven years. The incident happened in December 2017 under Porbandar district’s Ranavav police station when Parbat alias Gagu Kodiyatar, then 38 years old, […]
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday said it will order a high-level inquiry into the operations of the Indian Railways and the forest department to find out the cause of deaths of three lions on railway tracks in January. The bench pulled up both the departments for their “sketchy” inquiry reports. A bench of Chief […]
In a strange and shocking case of cyber crime, Bhushan Rajput, executive vice-president of Cadila Pharma based in Dholka, lost Rs 3.95 lakh though he did not share his bank details or click on the web link sent to him by the fraudsters. Rajput, 53, a resident of Parkview Society on Science City Road, said […]
The Gujarat High Court has ordered Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to pay a compensation of Rs 20 lakh to a farmer in Devbhoomi Dwarka district for the damage caused to his farmland because of pollution from a soda ash plant nearby. The GPCB had failed to act on repeated complaints by the farmer, Balubha […]
The Gujarat High Court has fined an advocate Rs 5,000 for repeatedly failing to appear on behalf of his client despite specific orders. The court referred advocate Prashant Chavda’s conduct to the Bar Council of Gujarat and directed him to pay the penalty to the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority within 30 days. In an […]
Gujarat is once again in the grip of extreme heat after a brief dip in temperatures last week. The maximum in most districts of the state soared to 40 degrees or above from Monday. After remaining unchanged for the next three days, the temperature will increase by two to three degrees, says the MeT department. […]
Dhiren Solanki, who belongs to Gujarat, has set up a donkey farm with 42 donkeys at his village in Patan district. He is earning Rs 2-3 lakh a month by supplying donkey milk to clients in southern states. Donkey milk is selling at 70 times the price of milk produced by cows and buffaloes. Availability […]
To mark Earth Day, which was observed on Monday, Gujarat’s first woman civilian licensed skydiver, Shweta Parmar, completed a solo descent from 13,000 feet in Thailand with a message for a plastic-free planet. She unfurled a ‘End Plastic’ flag as this year’s Earth Day theme was ‘Planet vs Plastics’. The theme advocates for reduction of […]
The severe heat wave of 2010 caused 65 deaths – the maximum the city has seen from heat stroke. A year later, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH), Gandhinagar, and other stakeholders put into place a Heat Action Plan (HAP). According to AMC’s figures, no deaths from heat stroke […]
With Canada introducing a new rule to restrict the number of students staying back in the country for work after their studies, thousands of students from Gujarat planning for the same will be affected.From May 15 this year, international graduates of Canadian college programmes delivered through a public-private curriculum licensing arrangement will no longer qualify […]
Principal Opposition party Congress in Gujarat received a major jolt after the nomination of party candidate from Surat Lok Sabha seat Nilesh Kumbhani was rejected by the district returning officer, following alleged signature discrepancies of the proposers.The party was in for a double whammy when the nomination form of Suresh Padsala, the substitute candidate from […]
Several pre-schools across Gujarat are facing the prospect of closure due to the lack of a registered rental agreement. The Education Board has made it mandatory for pre-schools to register themselves for which they have to submit a registered rental agreement. The objective is to ensure that they will be better regulated. Many pre-schools operate […]
The Gujarat High Court has issued a show cause notice to Oreva Group asking why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against it. The division bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Anirudhha Mayee was left fuming on Friday while hearing the suo motu PIL pertaining to the bridge collapse after senior advocate Jal Unwalla, […]
Inspired by their children, three Jain couples will embrace monkhood in Gujarat on Monday. They will take the diksha at the Sabarmati Riverfront under the guidance of Acharya Yogtilaksuri. The event will be one of the biggest diksha ceremonies to be held in recent times. Bhavesh and Jinal Bhandari from Ahmedabad, Jaswant and Dipika […]
The Kshatriya ire against Union Fisheries Minister Parshottam Rupala is unlikely to die down any time soon even as Friday marked the last day of filing nominations. Rupala is the BJP’s candidate from Rajkot. Rupala, a Kadva Patel, invited the wrath of the Kshatriyas following his address at a programme organised by the Valmiki community […]
The special judge for Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cases, Gandhinagar, on Thursday sentenced accused Preeti Vijay Sahjwani, then senior manager, Indian Overseas Bank (IOB), Vastrapur branch, Ahmedabad to seven years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 15,06,50,000. The order was in a case related to offences of criminal breach of trust and forgery causing […]
The Congress has fielded five sitting legislators and seven former legislators in Gujarat, where it’s contesting 24 seats, while two seats have been given to its INDIA bloc partner, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). In the wake of a mass exodus of its leaders to the ruling BJP, the Opposition party is relying heavily on […]
