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More than 80,000 cases of serious respiratory ailments in four industrial expansions, including at Ahmedabad, Vapi, and Valsad: CAG While there is no escaping air pollution in urban areas, the situation is turning from bad to worse in the industrial belts of Gujarat, including Ahmedabad, Valsad, Vapi and Ankleshwar. This was revealed in the Comptroller […]
The Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organized Crime (GUJCTOC) has been unanimously passed in the assembly. State Minister of Home Harsh Sanghavi told the Gujarat legislature on Wednesday that the state police had detained more than 740 people and seized drugs worth Rs 6,500 crore in the previous year. The minister stated this while acknowledging […]
Two weeks after five labourers died in a fire at Surat’s Anupam Rasayan India Limited, a leading life science company, the state Pollution Control Board has issued closure notice to the company and also imposed Rs 1-crore penalty on the firm towards interim environmental damage compensation (EDC). The action comes in the wake of the […]
Students at MS university are becoming the victims of system negligence and lack of proper administration. As many as 16 thousand students studying in the Faculty of Commerce have not been given the results of F.Y B.com and S.Y B.com even after the passage of more than two months. Because of this, the students in […]
The occasion dates back to 2017, ahead of the Gujarat Assembly Elections. Even as election campaigns were going on at full throttle, a parallel movement by Asha (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers was gaining momentum across the state. Asha workers mobilise communities towards local health planning through utilisation and accountability of existing health services. Interestingly, […]
The main culprit of the huge migrant-smuggling ring, Charanjit Singh is believed to have sneaked into India under the stolen identity of none other than a resident from the infamous Dingucha village in North Gujarat. Dingucha village grabbed the headlines in January this year when a family of four was found frozen to death on […]
The legal battle being waged by the administrators of three prominent social clubs in the city of Ahmedabad has culminated into Supreme Court directing the Service tax department to refund the GST Collected till 2017. The clubs were trying to recover the service tax money since 2005. Their contention to refund the GST collected between […]
Aam Aadmi Party’s Gujarat State Chief Gopal Italia and State General Secretary Manoj Sorathia on Wednesday met America’s Consulate General, Mumbai Mike Hankey. AAP leaders discussed the vision of Aam Aadmi Party to improve the future of Gujarat. They discussed politics, economy and vision of Gujarat in detail and took guidance from Mike Hankey so […]
The two-day session of the Gujarat Assembly commenced today, September 21. The session passed amendments in Gujarat Goods And Services Tax Act (SGST) to maintain uniformity with Central Goods and Services Tax Act (CGST). Various decisions were taken by the GST Council in its 43rd and 45th meetings. Gujarat’s Finance Minister Kanubhai Desai attended the […]
A 100-page chargesheet is filed against activist Teesta Setalvad, retired Director General of Police R B Sreekumar, and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in Gujarat.The three are facing charges of the alleged fabrication of evidence in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots cases. While convicted in a custodial death […]
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia arrived in Ahmedabad on Wednesday to start his six-day visit to Gujarat in the run up to the state Assembly elections. He visited the Gandhi Ashram and tried his hand at spinning the famous charkha. He said, “Such charkha used to be in my house and today I feel lucky that I am able to operate […]
The final session of the 14th state Legislative Assembly got off to a tense and tumultuous start. Regarding the plight of the farmers in Gujarat, who have been at the receiving end of nature, state Agriculture Minister Raghavji Patel said that farmers affected by natural calamities had been allotted a whopping Rs 6,622 crore over […]
The Search cum Selection Committee appointed by the Governing Council (GC) of MICA recommended unanimously Dr. Githa Heggde as the next Dean of MICA. The board has accepted the decision of the committee comprising Prof. Anantha Babbili, Ms. Aparna Mahesh and Dr. Shailendra Raj Mehta. MICA, Ahmedabad is India’s premier institute of Strategic Marketing and […]
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 Maldhari (Pastoralist) community in Gujarat forced the state government to unanimously withdraw the contentious Gujarat Cattle Control (Keeping and Moving) in Urban Areas Bill, 2022 . The state government introduced the bill in March this year to bring a permanent solution to the problem of stray cattle in urban areas, prompting a massive protest by the Maldharis. On Wednesday, September […]
Over 300 Muslims, including some Congress activists, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on September 21. Significantly, the Muslims belong to several villages in Gujarat’s Bharuch district, a constituency of late Ahmed Patel, the all too powerful congressman who had the ears of the Congress high command for several decades. The induction is also significant […]
The last session of the Gujarat Assembly before a new House is elected by this year-end begins today. The state Assembly elections are due in December this year. The House will discuss the state government’s proposal to withdraw a bill which was passed in April for tackling the stray cattle menace in cities. On March […]
Two years ago, the Gujarat government announced that farmers involved in indigenous cow-based complete natural farming would be assisted with Rs 900 per month or Rs 10,800 per year per cow for maintenance. The farmers were asked to make online applications to avail the benefits. The money, the state said, would be transferred every quarter […]
In a controversial decision, a government teacher who teaches at a primary school in last five years is promoted to be a resource person at the Gujarat Council of Educational Research and Training’s teachers training centre (GCERT). The state education department promoted Bhikha Patel who was a teacher at the government primary school in Gadha […]
The national chief of BJP, J P Nadda inaugurated BJP Mayors’ Conclave in Gandhinagar in the presence of State BJP Chief C R Patil and Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. Mayors of all BJP-ruled cities in the nation are called to the capital city of Gujarat by the BJP. Gujarat, ruled by BJP, incidentally is going […]
