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The investigation wing of the state Goods and Services Tax (GST) department has unearthed a major bogus input tax credit (ITC) scam in three separate incidents after search and raids at 71 locations across the state. The tax authorities have arrested two individuals for running a racket of generating bogus bills and selling them on […]
On Monday, July 12th, during Lord Jagannath’s 144th Rathyatra to be held in the city with Covid-19 curbs, curfew has been imposed in areas that fall under the jurisdiction of the Gaekwad Haveli police station – Kalupur, Shaherkotda, Madhavpura, Karanj, Dariapur and Shahpur police station areas. According to the notification issued by City Police Chief […]
Applicable during a period of four years commencing from July 01, 2021, the new EV policy targets 110,000 e2Ws, 70,000 e3Ws and 20,000 e4Ws within that timeframe. In its bid to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) penetration in its state, the Government of Gujarat (GoG) on 22nd June announced a new Electric Vehicle Policy 2021, which brings about […]
Gujarat Government has announced Electric Vehicle Policy, 2021 for the state. Under the policy, every subsidy will be given to the buyers, who have registered their electric vehicles from July 1, 2021. Transport Commissioner said that to avail the benefits of the new policy, the applicant will have to register themselves online on the Gujarat […]
12,300 cops in a force of 1 lakh infected by Covid-19 in harness Even as the police force performs an unenviable task of penalising people for not wearing masks and maintaining social distance, a mind-boggling number of cops themselves were caught by the coronavirus in Gujarat. In a force of over a lakh, some 12,300-odd police personnel, and officers got infected with Covid-19 virus since the outbreak of the pandemic in […]
In Gujarat, a superintendent engineer working with the government declared himself as the 10th incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Rameshchandra Fefar, 56, is an engineer from MS University, Vadodara. He was the superintendent engineer with the Sardar Sarovar Punarvasvat Agency of the state’s Water Resources Department, which looks after the resettlement and rehabilitation of families affected […]
After earning three gold medals at the 72nd Senior National Aquatic Championships in 2018 and six medals at the tenth Asian Age-Group Championships in 2019 held at Bangalore, 21-year-old Maana Patel from Gujarat has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics this year. This fastest and youngest female back-stroker smashed her own record of 1:04:21 at the […]
The first “Love Jihad” complaint of Gujarat was a curious one. Now, it has taken a curoiser turn. The girl who launched a police complaint under the amended Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2021 has vanished after she gave a statement that all the complaints she filed against her Muslim husband of two years was […]
Ever wondered what happened to the companies that once highlighted the entrepreneurial spirit of Gujarat? Well, these companies have now passed into the realm of history. Twenty-five years ago, when I was a journalist with The Economic Times, we had produced a listing of Gujarat’s Top 50 Corporate Giants. Such listings are common enough on […]
Gujarat Government plans to allocate Rs 4,000 Crore for Rural employment, considering the rural disappointment towards government and upcoming assembly elections in 2022. The plans are intended to extend development programs to rural areas in order to boost employment in rural sector. Government plans to allot 4,000 Crore to provide employment under schemes like Prime […]
Ahmedabad-based danseuse and activist Mallika Sarabhai filed a complaint to the commissioner of Industries and Mines, Gandhinagar on July 1 i.e. Thursday to draw attention to the illegal mining in the Sabarmati river. She has a farm on the river at Fetahpura village in Pethapur –Gandhinagar, and over the last many months sand is being taken […]
On July 1, PM Narendra Modi addressed the efforts put forth by doctors in safeguarding and protecting people in society. Vibes of India (VoI) team spoke to families of doctors, who lost their loved ones during the pandemic. These ‘Gods’ in while cloaks placed themselves in the front line while battling the virus, to protect […]
For all the applause that rang out in mid-June when Gujarat crossed the 2 crore mark in its vaccination reach, it completed the month ranking 15th among the states in the country, in terms of number of people vaccinated per lakh of population. Vaccinating 37,400 people per lakh of population in the state, Gujarat lags behind […]
In dry State Gujarat, where alcohol consumption is a crime liable for prison, the Aam Aadmi Party and BJP is entangled in a dirty politics over booze. BJP Municipal councilor of Surat Vrajesh Unadkat posted a photograph on social media, that soon went viral in Gujarat. It shows an AAP worker sleeping weirdly in AAP’s […]
No political party has taken the Gujarat 2022 elections as seriously as AAP. Their young team is traveling across the State and enorlling new members. Today on thier way to Leriya village in Visavadar taluka of Junagadh district in Gujarat, the AAP car convoy which included the cars where Gujarat AAP president Gopal Italia and […]
Circa 2017. Hardik Patel, an upper caste Patidar, Alpesh Thakor, an OBC and Jignesh Mevani, a Dalit, are the three young Turks who fuelled the Congress party’s rejuvenated campaign during the December 2017 Gujarat Assembly elections, which left the ruling BJP with an apologetic seven seats more than a sure, spectacular defeat. It won 99 […]
To reach out to more retail investors, India’s leading broker 5paisa.com on Tuesday announced an improved mobile application that allows users to choose from eight languages to trade and track their stock exchange transactions. The 5paisa.com application already has seven million downloads, will now be available in English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Bengali. The new app […]
State government dues to private coal-based private power generation companies (or independent power players – IPP) are expected to be at four-year low, leading industry analysis and credit rating firm the Crisil said in its study. “Liquidation of receivables from state power distribution companies (discoms) following the central government’s Aatmanirbhar stimulus and better payment cycles […]
A local member of the legislative assembly (MLA) from Becharaji, the home of the manufacturing facility of Suzuki, has shot a letter to company management demanding 85 percent reservation for locals. The local leader has threatened that ifdemands are not meet, agitation will be launched against the car major. Bharat Thakor, the Congress MLA from […]
