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On Friday, Ahmedabad city nearly choked its citizens by recording the worst Air Quality Index (AQI) among the four cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, and Pune, where SAFAR (System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research) is installed. Ahmedabad’s Air Quality Index was 311 ug/m3 in the morning and increased to 329 ug/m3 around 7 […]
Traders of the Bhavnagar fruit market shut shop and protested against the city’s traffic police for alleged harassment with a rally on Friday, marching and shouting slogans to file a complaint to the SP office. Traders complained that traffic cops in the Gangajalia Lake have been handing out ‘unnecessary’ regularly, resulting in harassment. The merchants […]
The General Administration Department of the Gujarat government on Friday ordered the shuffling of three 14 IAS officers in the state. According to the notification issued, IAS BG Prajapati from 2010 Gujarat batch has been tranferred and appointed as Joint Managing Director of Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) from his former post of District Development […]
Call it the Aam Aadmi Party’s nuisance value or the ruling BJP pushing the panic button with the fledgling opposition dispensation’s gradual inroads into Gujarat’s bodypolitic, at least five AAP municipal corporators in Surat on Friday defected to the BJP amid allegations of an undercover operation. There is widespread speculation that five more corporators would […]
Pic credit: Hanif Sindhi Gujarat continued to add more Covid-19 fatalities with 35 people succumbing to infection on Friday even as the daily Covid-19 infections are on decline. The state on Friday recorded 6,097 cases of which 248 patients are on ventilator support. The state had 7,606 cases and 34 deaths yesterday. Of the total […]
The Gujarat government continues to receive newer applications for compensation for Covid-19 deaths. In an affidavit submitted in the Supreme Court of India, the state government has informed that they have received 1,02,230 claims till Thursday for compensation for their relatives’ deaths due to Covid-19. It is to be noted that the government has reported […]
Barely four months after the Gujarat High Court granted interim bail to four accused in the first ever case registered under the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, one of the accused has been booked in another case pertaining to domestic violence and criminal intimidation. On the other hand, the accused’s wife, has also filed […]
Even though it still reserves the majority in the Surat Municipal Corporation, murmurs about AAP’s disintegration are now hitting high decibel. While insiders have hinted at rebellious leaders wanting to jump ship, five of the elected representatives of the party “are not in touch” with the party high command. Leader of Opposition in the civic […]
Gujarat’s literature and environment lovers are angry with Gujarati Sahitya Parishad’s (Gujarati Literary Council) General Secretary who ordered moving down the green cover of the Council premises. The premises at the riverfront had a matchless green cover in the city but the General Secretary’s order to cut down trees on public holiday has raised many questions. […]
Parents and guardians of school students are angry with the government for organizing the Kala Maha kumbh despite surge in Corona cases in Anand district of Gujarat. More than 100 students of private schools and many teachers attended the mela and participated in competitions in Anklav Tehsil. The mela was organized on the instructions of the State […]
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) in collaboration with National Investment and Infrastructure Fund Limited (NIIF) is all set to establish the country’s first research chair in ESG. ‘NIIF Chair in ESG at IIMA’ will work closely with the Arun Duggal ESG Centre for Research and Innovation at IIMA. It will function as the principal […]
Gujarat High Court refused to quash an FIR against an official of the Gujarat State Land Development Corporation (GSLDC) who was charged with offences punishable under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code. An FIR was registered with the ACB police station in Gandhinagar in 2018 against Kanaiyalal Detroja who was then […]
The General Administration Department of the Gujarat government has ordered the shuffling of three IAS officers in the state. Bhavnagar Collector Yogesh Nirgude has been appointed as Bhavnagar Municipal Commissioner. IAS, MA Gandhi, municipal commissioner of Bhavnagar, has been transferred to the Ports and Transport Department as the new vice-chairman and MD of Gujarat State […]
Nearly half a dozen farmers in Juna Deesa village in Gujarat’s Banas Kantha district have become a source of inspiration for other farmers by growing watermelons in winter. The district which was known as ‘Rann ni Kandhi’ (on the edge of becoming a desert) is now making news in agriculture. For the first time in […]
Gujarat continued to add more Covid-19 fatalities with 34 people succumbing to infection on Thursday even as the daily Covid-19 infections are on decline. The state on Thursday recorded 7,606 cases, of which 266 patients are on ventilator support. The state had 8,934 cases and 34 deaths yesterday. Of the total Covid cases recorded in […]
It has nothing to do with offence. Just preference. But bearing the bruntof it all are city-based Gujarati medium schools. With more and more parents preferring an English medium education fortheir ward, long-standing Gujarati medium schools in the city are in direstraits. English being the global currency in business and arguably, also insocial settings where […]
Naushad Solanki Member of Parliament from Dasada Constituency Gujarat has announced state-wide agitation starting from March 1. The agitation will take the form of march and will start from Ahmedabad to the state’s capital Gandhinagar. In the recently held meeting which was led by Naushad Solanki at Mehshana circuit house, it was discussed that the […]
Harish Bhai Shah from Umreth, Gujarat choose to print wedding invites on the theme of Bank Passbook and a cheque for his son Dhaval’s wedding. The wedding invites are designed in such a manner that they look similar to the same as State Bank of India’s cheque and passbook. Weddings in our country are always […]
Health experts already claimed the third Covid wave to be lethal for newborns and kids. A case from Surat has proved those claims to be true. Twin baby girls were born at Santaba Vidiya Hospital in Surat On January 15. The family was celebrating the occasion but soon the celebration turned into worries as infants […]
Fenil Korat – a Rajkot based businessman has eloped after allegedly sexually abusing and financially cheating his female partner for years. After making false marriage promises, Fenil has raped and cheated victims on many occasions. According to the Satellite Police station in Ahmedabad, the Surat resident victim has lodged an FIR against Fenil as he […]
