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The Gujarat Vidyapith is one of the few remaining bastions of Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy. Such is the zealousness towards Gandhian principles on the Vidyapith campus that anyone who heads it needs to be attired in khadi in day-to-day life. The compulsory Khadi attire was the reason why Gandhi’s grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi ruled himself out as […]
The Health and Food Department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has taken stringent action against three hotel and restaurant operators in the state for flouting guidelines. Hotel Dev Palace, Chetak Chivda and Gajanand Pauva House were sealed indefinitely for running food centres without adequate hygienic conditions, registration and for violating Schedule 4 norms. Schedule 4 is food […]
29 % of households in Gujarat having tap water at home, face water shortages, an audit survey by the ministry of water resources reveals. While 99% of such families have a water connection in functioning status and 87 % of families get water regularly, 20% of households receive water supply thrice or four times.. 6% […]
Nearly a week after the new Vande Bharat Express train between Mumbai Central and Gandhinagar was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the train suffered minor damages on Thursday morning after it hit cattle on tracks in Gujarat. The incident occurred at 11.18 am between Gairatpur and Vatva stations. The train sustained damage after it […]
BJP leader Sangeet Som has stoked controversy yet again with his polarising statements. While speaking at a ‘Shastra Puja’ ceremony organised by the Rajput Utthan Sabha on Vijaya Dashami in Kheda village in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district, Som extolled the Rajput community to take up arms as the population of only a particular community was […]
Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel launched ‘Atmanirbhar Gujarat Schemes for Assistance to Industries’ just prior to the state assembly polls. The benefits under the scheme will be extended to 10 sectors including green energy ecosystem, mobility, capital equipment, metals and mineral, textile and apparel, sustainability, agro-processing, chemicals, gems and jewellery and healthcare. The government aims to […]
Political circles are abuzz with rumours of Anar Patel, the daughter of former Gujarat Chief Minister and Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, taking a plunge in electoral politics. The whispers became louder when she visited Khodaldham to meet Naresh Patel, the trust’s chairman. Khodaldham is the epicentre of Gujarat politics. It serves as a unifying […]
Communal tension was witnessed in Kheda’s Matar district following reports of stone-pelting during garba in Undhera village on 3rd October at night. The police said that matters came to a head when members of two communities clashed at the garba venue. Stone-pelting and damage to vehicles was reported, but the situation was under control, the police said. There […]
A three-day “Know Your Air Force” exhibition was inaugurated by Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat at the SWAC Communication Flight in Ahmedabad’s Meghaninagar area on Saturday. The evening event was marked by an hour-long performance by the Air Force band, which played popular patriotic tunes, interspersed with a narration of the exploits of the Air Force […]
The state’s Maldhari (cattle herder) community is up in arms against the government. On September 21, the Maldhari community decided to not provide milk in the dairy or at home. Although the government has withdrawn the Cattle Control Bill, Maldhari Samaj is disappointed with the government’s policy on some remaining issues. A Maldhari convention was […]
The Surat police have arrested three persons from Mumbai after a Surat businessman filed complaints against them for “hate posts” on social media. An FIR was registered by the textile trader in Surat. According to the police, Champaklal Mehta who resides in Paal area of Surat complained that he was a member of a WhatsApp […]
A travel agency owner, Nilesh Dand from Hubli in Karnataka has filed a police complaint that a Gujarati man, Dr Tushar Thakor kidnapped him, illegally confined him and robbed him. The Chiloda police are conducting further investigations. The 50-year-old Nilesh Dand has alleged that his friend Paringat Nair had promised Rs 35 lascs to Dr […]
With the transfer of more than 150 senior income tax officials across the country, Gujarat saw 12 transfers of principal and chief income tax commissioners. According to a CBDT notification, CIT-1 DTS Attri, the Principal Chief Commissioner of Ahmedabad has been transferred to Indore. Ahmedabad has got seven new principal chief commissioners which include Sandeep […]
Across the world, most developed countries, after much research, have come to the conclusion that death by hanging, that is capital punishment is not actually a good idea to end the evil in society and therefore do away with capital punishment.Most developed countries believe that the death penalty inherently violates the constitutional ban on cruel […]
A Gujarati businessman has registered a police complaint against his ex-employee for stealing the software that the businessman had developed and then selling it in the market for a much cheaper rate. The cyber cell in Ahmedabad is conducting further investigation after Rajendra Shah, a resident of Palm Beach bungalows in Thaltej registered a complaint […]
The rich can get away with anything. Including murder and negligence that can lead to death. Fingers are being pointed at Ahmedabad police who has been found guilty of siding with builders responsible for the death of seven labourers in their plush under construction site in Navrangpura. The police is reportedly shielding the builders and […]
The State Monitoring Cell (SMC) issued a ‘red notice’ to the law enforcement worldwide to locate the notorious liquor supplier Vinod Sindhi alias ‘Vijay’ Sindhi after transactions worth crores were noticed from his accounts. It was also reported that Vinod had been running his liquor business unhindered with the help of his business mates-Nagdan Gadhvi, […]
Perturbed by the series of death cases that appeared across various districts of Gujarat, Ahmedabad Police Commissioner, Sanjay Srivastava said that a special team of psychologists and counsellors has been formed in consultation with the expert to combat suicide cases. The spat of suicides that took place among police employees has made the top echelons […]
In a bid to get their demands approved, a team of workers from house-keeping department allegedly made an attempt to commit suicide by pouring phenyl over their heads. After a set of instructions were notified by the Union Minister for Home Affairs, Amit Shah on house-keeping and cleaning issues in Ahmedabad’s Bopal-Ghuma areas, a committee […]
Mumbai police may hold the reputation of being one of the best investigating agencies in the country, but Gujarat has its own reasons to be proud. In the past three years, pendency percentage of police cases in the state has been the lowest in the country. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report, […]
