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The 10th edition of the Vadodara International Marathon will be held on 8th January. The run will flag off by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Sunday. The Minister of Home, Sports, Cultural, and Youth Affairs Harsh Sanghavi will also join in the flag off. For the first time the race route will be passing through […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Wednesday revamped its Gujarat unit and appointed Isudan Gadhvi as its state President replacing Gopal Italia. Italia, on the other hand, was made the National General Secretary and co-in-charge of the Maharashtra unit of the party. In addition, the party appointed six working presidents and divided its state unit into […]
It’s a longstanding debate as to whether Gujarat’s development story is real or an exaggeration. What’s undeniable is the success of Ayushman Yojana, a national public health insurance scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Numbers don’t lie, and the state can proudly claim to have 1.67 crore Ayushman Yojana card holders. The annual income […]
The Union Home Ministry has allotted Rs.50 crore for the construction of permanent bunkers along the border areas of Harami Nala and Sir Creek in Kutch. This initiative calls for the construction of eight 42-foot-high vertical bunkers. Three bunkers will be located in the Sir Creek area, while the remaining five will be located in […]
The Congress formed a three-member fact-finding committee on Wednesday to assess the party’s performance in the recently concluded Gujarat Assembly elections and recommend corrective measures. Former Maharashtra Minister Nitin Raut, who also leads the party’s SC department, will chair the committee. Meanwhile, as per the officials, Shakeel Ahmad Khan and Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka are the […]
The Gujarat government has decided to form a task force to conduct in-depth research and take appropriate action on various issues concerning (Jain pilgrimage site) Palitana. State Home Minister, Harsh Sanghavi said that “Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel today took a decision to form a task force which will take action after thoroughly studying the issues.” […]
Within nine days of the crime, Surat police filed a chargesheet in the triple murder at Kosad on Tuesday. The charge sheet was filed based on the investigation carried out by the Special Investigation Team(SIT). The police filed separate chargesheets in juvenile and regular courts because one of the accused is a 17-year-old minor, while […]
A 29-year-old from Rajkot is the vocalist and artist behind a song that features 100 official worldwide languages from 250 countries. Guinness Book of World Records recognised Viidhii Upadhyay’s composition “We Are One” as the music single that includes the most languages. Viidhii describes “We Are One” as a global anthem for peace that conveys […]
A Gujarat bill facilitating registration of criminal cases against persons who stage protests in violation of Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) has received Presidential assent, officials said Wednesday. The Code of Criminal Procedure (Gujarat Amendment) Bill, 2021, was passed by the State Assembly in March last year. The bill seeks to […]
Eight accused people arrested over the Morbi bridge collapse Monday withdrew their bail applications after the Gujarat High Court indicated it was not inclined to exercise its discretion in favour of the accused before the filing of the chargesheet. In December, eight of the nine arrested moved for bail. Oreva Group managers Dinesh Dave and […]
In Gujarat, police seized 1,334 kg of ganja worth Rs 1.33 crore concealed as medicinal tablets from a bus in Bharuch city and arrested five people in connection, officials said on Wednesday. The Bharuch police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) kept a watch near Zadeshwar crossroad on the city’s outskirts on Tuesday and intercepted a private […]
Close on heels of arrests following rhino horns being sold openly in the market, the Vadodara police and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau have unearthed a thriving illegal ivory smuggling racket. Four persons were arrested on Wednesday and investigation reveals that the nexus spans the entire country. Preliminary findings reveal that ivory artefacts are being sold […]
In 2018, Gujarat University launched a Higher Payment Program (HPP) in 32 courses to boost the intake of students and generate revenue from the initiative. Under the revenue-sharing program, the concerned department was to deposit 30% of the total fee collected under HPP with the university. The rest 70% is retained by the HPP conductor […]
Torrent Power, based in Ahmedabad, has made a non-binding offer (NBO) for ReNew’s 350 MW and 750 MW of solar and wind power assets at an equity value of around USD 450 million, with valuation discussions still ongoing. Torrent Power has previously been involved in green energy transactions, and was in the running to acquire […]
Reliance Consumer Products Ltd (RCPL), the fast-moving consumer goods arm of Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd, announced a 50% equity stake in Gujarat-based Sosyo Hajoori Beverages, which owns and operates a beverage business under the flagship brand ‘Sosyo’. The remaining ownership in the 100-year-old soft drink manufacturer will remain with the current promoters, the Hajoori family. […]
A total of 17 trains heading to Saurashtra will be affected between January 4 and 16 with one pair of trains being cancelled, four being short-terminated, one rescheduled and six expected to be running late by 20 to 150 minutes due to track-laying work between Surendranagar and Rajkot. The work is underway between the Vagadiya-Than-Lakhamanchi-Daladi […]
The new Omicron variant XBB.1.5 has raised fears of a fresh wave of illness, and the Gujarat government is not taking chances. Putting in place preventive measures, it approached the central government for precautionary vaccines. The central government has responded by allocating 6 lakh vaccine doses to the state. These include 5 lakh Covishield doses […]
In tandem with nature. That is how one would describe the tribal ways. Taking the cue further, Pradip Patel alias Pintoo (32), and his friend Bharat Patel (30), have now come up with a wrist-watch that runs anti-clockwise. How does that connect with being in sync with nature? “Because nature works from right to left. […]
After successfully expanding the scope of the annual Ahmedabad BirdRace event beyond the Ahmedabad district last year, the Bird Conservation Society of Gujarat (BCSG) has decided to broaden the scope of the day-long birdwatching event this year to cover almost the entire state. The BCSG has created a list of 38 birding areas from across […]
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the state government on a public interest litigation seeking ban on slaughter of live poultry in meat shops and seeking direction to send the poultry instead to slaughterhouses. During a brief hearing, the petitioner through its advocate Nisarg Shah submitted that the poultry birds are being […]
