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The Supreme Court has sought Gujarat government’s response to petition filed by sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt challenging his conviction in a 1990 custodial death case. Bhatt, along with Pravinsinh Zala were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Jamnagar sessions court in 2019 after being found of torturing and murdering a 40-year-old man. Both were […]
Vasantrao Chavan, a senior Congress leader and party MP from the Nanded Lok Sabha constituency, passed away on Monday morning following a prolonged illness. He was 70. Chavan was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Hyderabad, where he breathed his last. After heavyweight leader Ashok Chavan defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Chavan […]
In the upcoming GST Council meeting, Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien has requested Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to “urgently review” and abolish the 18% GST on health and life insurance premiums. In a letter on Saturday, O’Brien demanded that during the 54th GST Council meeting, the GST on life and health insurance premiums be lifted. […]
The Ludhiana district administration has signed a memorandum of understanding under the Future Tycoons programme with the Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU), Ludhiana Angel Network and Innovation Mission Punjab. The agreement, formalised on Thursday, secures seed capital amounting to ₹13.10 crore. Of this total, ₹10 crore has been pledged by CICU, ₹3 crore […]
In India, 77 percent of people use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools for educational purposes, while 20 percent use them for personal interests and a smaller fraction i.e., 2 percent for social-emotional support and life skills, as per a recent survey. These findings are based on a report titled ‘Enhancing Children’s Learning and Critical Thinking […]
India is celebrating its first-ever National Space Day today, marking the first anniversary of the successful moon landing of ISRO’s Vikram Lander from Chandrayaan-3 on August 23, 2023. India has made history by becoming the fourth nation to successfully land on the Moon and the first to reach its southern polar region. To commemorate this […]
A bus carrying 40 Indians onboard plunged into the Marsyandi River in Nepal’s Tanahun District on Friday, as per police reports. According to DSP Deepkumar Raya of Tanahun’s district police office, the bus was found on the riverbank. He stated, “The bus bearing number plate UP FT 7623 plunged into the river and is lying […]
A 40-year-old Indian doctor residing in the United States was arrested after being charged with numerous sex crimes, including recording thousands of nude images and videos of children and women over the past six years. Dr. Oumair Aejaz, a specialist in internal medicine, is being held on a $2 million bond. The investigation revealed that […]
In Gujarat, the rainfall has intensified over the past two days after a dry spell last week. Heavy rains were reported in Vapi, Dangs, Navsari, Surat and other parts of the state on Tuesday. Moreover, a cyclonic circulation over the northeast Arabian Sea adjoining Gujarat, at altitudes between 4.5 and 5.8 km above mean sea […]
Jay Shah, secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), is likely to become the next chair of the International Cricket Council (ICC) following Greg Barclay’s decision to step down in November. The ICC confirmed Barclay’s decision in a media release on Tuesday night, stating, “ICC Chair Greg Barclay confirmed to the […]
The government is likely to bring at least five bills, including one on eradicating human sacrifice, black magic and ‘Aghori’ practices, as well as another on auctioning the vehicles caught under the Gujarat Prohibition Act during the three-day Monsoon Session of Gujarat Assembly starting today. A meeting of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) of the […]
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) caught four individuals, including two women passengers, attempting to smuggle gold worth Rs 1.50 crore through Ahmedabad International Airport. The gold was hidden in ingenious ways, with two women carrying capsules in their private parts and purses. The culprits, Murtaza Ali Bhopalwala and Farida Bhopalwala had transformed the gold […]
The Punjab government’s concerted efforts towards crop diversification have yielded promising results, with a 12.58% increase in the basmati cultivation area during the ongoing kharif season, as reported by Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian on Sunday. The cultivation of long-grain rice has expanded to cover 6.71 lakh hectares, a significant surge from […]
A Mozambican student of a private university was discovered dead in Vadodara’s Khatamba Pond on August 19, 2024. The victim was identified as Karlo Fernandez. He was studying at Parul University. A speeding Artiga car, owned by Gautam Zinzala, careened into the pond on Sunday morning. After an arduous 10-hour effort, the National Disaster Response […]
As Gujarat University (GU) gears up to welcome its first batch of international students for the 2024 academic year, the arrival of students from Bangladesh raises questions. About 200 Bangladeshi students have secured admission to GU and its affiliated colleges through the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) scholarship program. However, due to the recent […]
Heavy rains are poised to make a comeback in the state of Gujarat after a week-long break. The Meteorological Department has issued a yellow warning for heavy rains in regions of South Gujarat over the next two days. “Over the next 24 hours, heavy rains are very likely at isolated places in the districts of […]
We all generally consider Homai Vyarawalla as India’s first female photojournalist who earned a name for herself in the male-dominated profession. But even before that, a woman from the erstwhile Baroda state (Gujarat’s Vadodara) was already operating cameras with finesse and clicking sportsmen from across the globe. Laxmibai Mujumdar, fondly called Akkasaheb by her family, […]
On May 25, 2024, Anjana Ahirwar, a 20-year-old Dalit woman, mysteriously “fell” to her death as she was returning with the body of her 26-year-old uncle Rajendra Ahirwar – murdered in a brutal attack orchestrated by the dominant “lambardars” of Baraudiya Naunagir. This was the third death in the same family of Dalit labourers within 10 […]
On Friday (August 16), chief minister Mamata Banerjee led a rally demanding justice for the doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last week. The institution is overseen by Banerjee as health minister, while law and order fall under her purview as well since she is also the state’s […]
On a bright Saturday afternoon in an office in Vastrapur, a group of 20 high society ladies sit around a conference room table learning techniques of Warli tribal art under the tutelage of Payal Rathawa. The 26-year-old transgender artist from Rajkot is in Ahmedabad at the invitation of the Swayam Foundation, an NGO that aims […]
