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Over the past five years, i.e. from the year 2019 to 2024, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has reportedly planted over seven million saplings in the city area. According to the garden department of the capital’s civic body, it has planted 75.43 lakh trees in the city over the past five years. This significant increase […]
The 14th edition of ‘Udyog 2024’, a four-day industrial exhibition, will kick off on Friday at Surat International Exhibition and Convention Centre. The event is jointly organised by the Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGCCI) and Southern Gujarat Chamber Trade and Industries Development Centre (SGCTIDC). The exhibition will feature more than 100 exhibitors […]
Ahmedabad police have given a clean chit to the chairman and managing director of Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Rajiv Modi, in connection with the rape charges levelled against him by a Bulgarian woman. Sola high court police inspector R H Solanki filed an ‘A summary’ report at a judicial magistrate’s court in Navrangpura stating that no evidence […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for several development projects worth more than ₹60,000 crore in Navsari and Mehsana districts of Gujarat on Thursday. The projects cover various sectors such as infrastructure, connectivity, education, healthcare and tourism, and aim to boost the development of the region. In Navsari, the Prime Minister […]
The Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has decided to set up a plant that will treat wastewater and make it suitable for industrial and other uses. The plant will have a capacity of 90 million litres per day (MLD) and will be built on a public-private partnership (PPP) model. The RMC’s standing committee approved a proposal […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his visit to Mehsana, inaugurated projects worth Rs 13,000 crore, including the expansive Gujarat Fibre Grid Network spanning 35,264 km and encompassing 8,030 gram panchayats. In his address, he underscored the detrimental role of the Congress in fostering discord between ‘vikas’ (development) and ‘virasat’ (heritage) in post-Independence India. Speaking at […]
A father-son pair of Congress leaders switched sides and joined the BJP in Surat on Wednesday. Niket Patel, a Congress leader, and his father Sunil Patel, a former Congress corporator in Surat Municipal Corporation, along with their supporters, were inducted into the BJP by state BJP president C R Paatil at the Surat city BJP […]
A school bus carrying students and teachers of Sarasvati Vidhyalay of Ushker village met with an accident on Mandvi-Kim highway in Surat district on Wednesday morning. The bus collided with a dumper truck near Usker village, injuring 30 students, four teachers and the bus driver. The bus driver, Kisan Vasava, suffered a fracture and was […]
Gandhinagar, Gujarat: The Gujarat Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA) seized and destroyed approximately 10,000 litres of adulterated milk worth Rs 4.17 lakh in Palanpur and Gandhinagar. Acting on a tip-off, an FDCA team intercepted a tanker carrying adulterated milk in Palanpur, Banaskantha district. Testing confirmed the presence of maltodextrin powder in the milk, intended […]
A shocking case of murder has come to light in Gondal town of Rajkot district, where a 45-year-old man was killed by his wife in May last year. The wife, Kanchan Parmar, tried to cover up the crime by claiming that her husband, Mukesh Parmar, died of a heart attack in his sleep. The truth […]
Student leader Yuvraj Singh Jadeja has slammed the Gujarat government for hiring contractual employees instead of permanent ones in various sectors, including the transport department. He shared a photo of a recent recruitment advertisement by the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) that stated the appointment would be on a contractual basis for 11 months. […]
From Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, some really big names from all over the world are expected to be part of pre-rituals of the Ambani-Merchant wedding in Jamnagar. Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani, will tie the knot with Radhika Merchant this […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hailed Anand Milk Union Limited (AMUL) for its contribution to India’s dairy sector. Inaugurating five projects worth Rs 1,200 crore at the Golden Jubilee celebration of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which runs the brand Amul, Modi said, “After India’s independence, several brands came up in the country. […]
In Tarabh village of Visnagar taluka in Mehsana, a golden consecration festival is underway at the newly constructed Shivdham in Valinath Dham. Millions of devotees from across the country and abroad are visiting this festival of the Maldhari community, which will last for seven days. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also attended the festival on Wedensday. […]
The Gujarat government led by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has cleared 108 mazars from the state and will not spare any illegal structures that are part of a “conspiracy”, Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi announced in the Assembly on Wednesday. He was speaking during the debate on the budgetary demands of the Home […]
Amul, the epitome of cooperative success, marks its golden jubilee, continuing to empower 3.6 million farmers in Gujarat’s transformative dairy legacy. In the quaint village of Bedwa, Nilesh Patel, a 35-year-old farmer, pauses amidst his daily routine to check his phone. Having just sold milk to the local cooperative, Patel receives instant payment, a testament […]
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, will inaugurate the indoor-patient department of the Rajkot All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Feb 25. The department has 250 beds and will be part of the AIIMS super-speciality hospital, which will start operating from Feb 26. The PM will also launch five other new AIIMS […]
The Valinath Dham temple in Mehsana district of Gujarat, a 900-year-old heritage site, has been rebuilt with a new structure and design. The temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva, is the second largest in the state after the Somnath temple. The temple has been constructed in Nagara style with the stone of Bansi mountain, and has three main sanctums with the idols of […]
Many officers are in a state of uncertainty due to the absence of a regular president for the IPS association since DGP Ajay Tomar’s retirement on January 31. This situation is particularly concerning as three politically sensitive districts—Ahmedabad, Mehsana, and Anand—along with Surat Range and Surat city, are being managed by in-charge officers. Senior […]
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is gearing up to auction 10 plots in the city, with a total base rate of Rs 901.45 crore, before the model code of conduct for the general election comes into effect. The plots include the largest one ever put up for auction by the AMC, measuring 66,000 square metres, with a […]
