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Ahmedabad: Tarun Kumar Vashisth, a 42-year-old scholar from Uttarakhand, has become the first visually impaired person to receive a PhD from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A). Vashisth’s doctoral thesis focused on the experiences of blind employees in Indian corporations. Vashisth is set to join IIM Bodh Gaya as an assistant professor later […]
Ahmedabad: After facing several hurdles and delays, the new railway under bridge at Paldi is finally ready to be inaugurated by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on March 4. The under bridge, which connects Paldi char rasta to Gujarat College – Law Garden, is a crucial link for the commuters in the area. It also serves […]
Ahmedabad: The Western railway is carrying out doubling works between Anand and Ode stations in Anand-Godhra section, which will affect the train services on Ahmedabad – Vadodara route from 1st to 4th March. Several trains will be cancelled or partially cancelled during this period. The passengers are advised to check the status of their trains […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat on March 12 and launch two major projects in the state. He will lay the foundation stone of the Sabarmati Ashram redevelopment project, which aims to preserve and promote the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi. He will also visit the Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR), where he will inaugurate […]
Organ donation is a noble act that can save lives and improve the quality of life for many people. In Gujarat, Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad has emerged as a leader in this field, with 359 organs donated in the last two years. This data was revealed by the state health minister in the legislative assembly […]
A video of a couple getting cozy on a bike while violating traffic rules has gone viral on social media, leading to their arrest by the Ahmedabad Police. The video shows the man driving the bike with the woman sitting in front of him and embracing him. The incident took place on Nikol Ring Road […]
Cabinet Ministers of Gujarat, led by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, are scheduled to visit the holy town of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh on March 2, 2024, Saturday. The visit is aimed at the darshan (viewing) of Ram Lalla at the Ram Mandir, which was built under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The speaker […]
Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in Gujarat have witnessed a significant rise in enrollments in 2023, especially among women. According to the Directorate of Employment and Training (DET), the number of women enrolling in ITIs increased by 24%, from 4,048 in 2022 to 5,049 in 2023. The women-only ITIs also grew from 19 to 23 in […]
Gujarat boasts of a higher leopard population than Maharashtra, which has been ranked number two in the union government’s Status of Leopards in India report. The report lists Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu as the top four states in leopard population. Gujarat’s independent census conducted in 2023 shows that Gujarat has the second […]
Tripping, a common reason cited by the electricity distribution companies for power outages, could soon be a thing of the past in Saurashtra. The Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Ltd (PGVCL), the state-run power distribution company that supplies electricity in 12 districts of Saurashtra and Kutch, has adopted a new technology called a medium voltage covered conductor […]
A man assaulted a woman and her friend, both from from Mizoram, allegedly in a dispute over consuming an octopus dish in Ahmedabad. Laalrempuii Laldingliana (29), a resident of LK Apartment near Sterling Hospital, filed a complaint with Vastrapur police and named her friend, Prince Chauhan, a resident of Thaltej, as the accused. The Aizawl […]
Swimmer Aryan Nehra from Gujarat won one gold and three silver medals at the 11th Asian Age Group Aquatic Championships held at New Clark City, Philippines. Nehra (20) was part of the quartet that won the gold in the 4×200 freestyle relay in the 18 & over age category. Besides Aryan, the India relay team included Srihari Natraj, Sajan Prakash and […]
The Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed two amendment bills – The Gujarat Rents, Hotel, and Lodging House Rates Control (Revival of Operation and Amendment) Bill, 2024, and The Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences (Amendment) Bill, 2024 – a day before the 23-day Budget Session concludes. The Gujarat Rents, Hotel, and Lodging House Rates Control (Revival […]
A video of a groom’s family in Surat, Gujarat, cleaning the road after bursting firecrackers has gone viral on social media, earning praise for their sense of responsibility and civic duty. The video shows the wedding procession stopping in the Katargam area, with the relatives not dancing, but instead, picking up brooms and clearing the […]
The Tata Group, led by chairman N Chandrasekaran, is set to make huge investments in the semiconductor sector, following the Cabinet’s approval of its plans for semiconductor chip fabrication and assembly units in Gujarat and Assam. The Cabinet, headed by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, gave the green signal to Tata’s proposals, which are part of […]
The Gujarat High Court has dismissed two petitions that challenged the tender process of the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) for building seven flyovers at seven crucial junctions of SP Ring Road (SPRR). The petitions were filed by Patel Infrastructure, one of the bidders for the project. The project, which is funded by the Asian […]
Two convicts of the Bilkis Bano case withdrew their parole pleas after the Gujarat High Court expressed its disinclination to grant them parole leaves. The convicts – Mitesh Bhatt and Shailesh Bhatt – who are brothers, were seeking parole leaves on the ground of attending “navchandi puja and vastu puja”, as submitted by their lawyer […]
Ahmedabad: The state govt told the assembly on Wednesday that about one-third of the teachers who made mistakes while checking board exam papers in the last two years have not paid their fines yet. The average fine for a Class 10 teacher was Rs 1,433 and for a Class 12 teacher, it was Rs 1,813. […]
Soon all farmers, traders, exporters and government will have information about crops at the time of harvesting as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) will give nearly accurate predictions of crop production. Junagadh Agriculture University (JAU) is developing a model using remote sensing which was selected at national level by Indian Council of Agricultural […]
The Gujarat prohibition department is taking steps to eradicate the use of agents who act as intermediaries between the applicants and the authorities. This will streamline the process of issuing liquor permits and eliminate fraudulent practices. The new system will involve calling permit seekers directly two to three times to confirm their identity and schedule […]
