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As per a decision made by the managing committee of Surat Diamond Bourse – the names of the members shifting their business from Mumbai to Surat at the reception of the bourse for a lifetime under the list ‘Leading member of SDB that started diamond trading’ will be put up by SDB. The circular of […]
Gujarat DGP Ashish Bhatia on Saturday held a Press Conference to inform about the action plan of the Gujarat Police in enforcing night curfew, and rules relating to mask and social distancing as the state has been registering cases over 20,000 for the past few days. Gujarat DGP informed the press that in the past […]
The matter of a hospitality resort being developed on the border of the Gir sanctuary in Amreli has become the bone of contention between the Gujarat High Court and the State Board for Wildlife. Last year, on November 26, the HC had directed SBWL to take an appropriate decision and guide the state government “after […]
In a swoop down operation Thursday, Bhuj police arrested five people and seized 1,700 counterfeit currency notes of various denominations and 115 fake gold biscuits. The accused have been booked under IPC 489A and 489C for possession of counterfeit currency, 406 for criminal breach of trust and 420 for fraud. The five accused were identified […]
As we enter the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, there are those who were so severely hit by it that they are still struggling to pick up the pieces. These men and women once dedicated their lives to sports and ensured that they passed on their expertise and know-how to coming generations, but are […]
As many as 141 students from 12 halls of Boys Hostel voluntarily got tested for Covid-19 and 21 students out of them have been tested positive at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of BarodaPublic university in Vadodara. Boys’ hostels have been sanitized. On Thursday, 36 students of the girls’ hostel tested positive. The 12 halls of […]
Gujarat recorded 21,225 coronavirus cases – a decline of 13% from yesterday’s tally of 24,485 – and 16 deaths in the last 24 hours. With 16 Covid-19 fatalities, one of the highest tolls in a single day in recent months, the number of deaths climbed to 10,215 in Gujarat, the state health department said in […]
While a large number of pilgrims and devotees from all over the country and the world come to pay homage to the country’s first Jyotirlinga Somnath Mahadev, a government circuit house has been set up near Somnath to accommodate the pilgrims which was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi through video conferencing. Officials of the government […]
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation on Friday added 42 more Covid-19 micro containment zones in the city, while removing 8 such zones from the list. With today’s update, the tally has been brought up to 165. As many as 192 houses with a population of 772 were declared as micro containment zone on Friday, the AMC informed […]
Amid the rising coronavirus cases in the state, the chief minister Bhupendra Patel in a review meeting with the core members of the Covid task force decided to extend the night curfew from 10 pm to 5 am till January 29 in eight metros and 19 towns. While the dining option will be open till […]
As many as 10,000 doctors from Gujarat have decided to call off their strike after assurances from the state health officials, the Gujarat Government Doctors Forum (GGDF) members said. The strike was to begin from Thursday. The doctors have been planning to go on strike as their demands of salary cut, among others, have been […]
Gujarat Technological University (GTU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with LearnVern. LearnVern.com will offer more than 75 courses to all the students completely free of charge. Students completing LearnVern’s Spoken English course will be offered a certificate from GTU to enable students to improve overall proficiency in the English language and get access […]
A newly-constructed circuit house near Somnath Temple in Gujarat’sGir Somnath district was virtually inaugurated by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Friday. The rest-house will address the shortageof accommodation facilities for pilgrims visiting Somnath Temple atPrabhas Patan town. “The need of a circuit house was felt as there was only one guesthouse which is also far from […]
Surat city has witnessed a surge in the sales of electric vehicles as per the statistics of the vehicles registered in the RTO books of the state. About 2,627 electric vehicles have been sold in Surat while only 1100 have been sold in Ahmedabad, 460 in Rajkot and only 350 in Vadodara. According to sources, […]
Gujarat: Election season has taken over the country, after announcing candidates list for Punjab and UP now the Ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced its new formation of the state Election Committee of BJP for Gujarat The core team included state party chief CR Patil, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, union cabinet minister Parshottam […]
Sky-rocketing maintenance costs for the Surat mayor Hemali Boghawala’s bungalow are eating into the already city’s strained municipal budget, even as the municipal corporation remains allegedly rigid on implementing new projects in the city. While the small city is already under a financial burden, the inauguration ceremony of the mayor’s bungalow at Udhna-Magdalla Road cost […]
With a constant rise in the number of Covid cases, the Center has decided to provide vaccines to the lions of Sakkarbaug Zoo of Gujarat, developed by ICAR-National Research Center on Equines (NRCE) in Hisar, Haryana. The decision comes after the animals got infected after coming in contact with the asymptomatic zookeeper and the female […]
Pics credit: Hanif Sindhi A small, dingy room in Nawab Nagar — barely a kilometre away from a filth-choked ravine that runs parallel to the slums surrounding an almost dried-up Chandola Lake in Danilimda ward — is all Mumtaj Begum Pathan (70) has to her name. “I just have one light bulb and a fan […]
The Heavy Engineering arm of Larsen & Toubro in Hazira (Surat), dispatched six of the World’s largest Coke Drums weighing about 658 Tons each. These Coke drums are dispatched for a refinery project in Mexico ordered by PTI Infraestructura de Desarrollo, (PTH-D), a subsidiary of Mexico’s state-owned oil company PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos). These Drums form […]
Banaskantha district of Gujarat is now becoming a gateway for narcotics. Earlier, mephedrone drugs were seized from the Amirgarh check post and now the Special Operation Group (SOG) has arrested a Himachal man, found with drugs to the tune of Rs 1.46 Crore. A young man from Himachal Pradesh was travelling via Gujarat with drugs. […]
