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Thousands of State-board schools in Gujarat on Thursday started physical classes for standard 6 to 8 with attendance even lower than the 50% capacity prescribed by the State Government according to the Covid-19 protocol, while several private CBSE schools are yet to decide on resuming offline classes. Officials said a good number from the 30,000 […]
Landing Image Credits: Mayur Bhatt The book “Jail: Itihas and Vartaman” was launched by Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani at CM House on Tuesday. The book has been published by the Gujarat Prison Department after going through an exhaustive study of all jails across the state. The study depicts various reformation/rehabilitation of the prisoners and […]
A PIL had been filed in the Gujarat High Court over the sensitive issue of authenticity of food categorised as vegetarian and non-vegetarian. The PIL questions the government on the procedure through which it ascertains whether the food packaging with the green label is vegetarian or not. In a shocking revelation, Gujarat Government has admitted […]
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday rebuked Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the state government over rising pollution levels in the Sabarmati river. The division bench comprising Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice VD Nanavati said, “It is painful to see that those in power and/or sitting at the top hierarchical positions are protecting industrialists who […]
Nagar Geet Samarat Competition is organised this year to celebrate three different occasions, India’s Independence, completion of good governance of Gujarat and in the memory of Tana-Riri. This competition brings together the art of singing on a stage in a unique way. The organiser of this competition, Mr Neerajbhai Bhatt said, “The entire competition is […]
Despite Jwalit Mehta and Nipun Bhatt leading the rowdy mob that burnt a copy of Kamasutra at the well-known Latitude (earlier Crossword) book shop on the Rajpath road in Ahmedabad; they do not figure in the FIR filed by a local police station. A mob had barged into the shop and burnt a Kamasutra copy […]
The Gujarat government has now allowed admissions to 15 undergraduate engineering courses for students who cleared Class 12 with Biology as the main subject. The change in the admission criteria has been adopted in order to implement the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Among first of the states to implement All India Council for Technical […]
Elections in Gujarat have always been interesting for two and half decades. Like Lutyens in Delhi is often accused of not knowing what actually is happening in Uttar Pradesh, outsiders do not fathom what really works in Gujarat. Some may vouch that it is the development, others say it is the Acche Din and corruption-free […]
The third wave of corona is expected in the first week or fortnight of September. Individuals who have taken both doses of the vaccine will be less affected by this wave. These are the words of the head of the forensic department of Rajkot Civil Hospital, Doctor Hetal Kyada who performed the autopsy of the […]
In the third of Vibes of India’s 3-part series, Ashvita Singh write about how prepared is Ahmedabad for Covid third wave: There’s widespread speculation in the medical community regarding the arrival of Covid-19’s third wave. Many experts feel we may be able to ward off the worst, given that the cases that were anticipated to rise […]
Research shows Gujarat saw an estimated 480 per cent rise in deaths in April – the highest such spike recorded in a single month in the world. Gujarat always strives for the top spot. Since 2001, it has been eyeing the number one position – be it on the export preparedness index, in cotton production, […]
Shri Parimal Nathwani, president of Gujarat State Football Association (GSFA) reiterated his commitment to strengthening football in the State on the occasion of National Sports Day on 29th August 2021. GSFA is all geared up to kickstart field football in Gujarat, which was subdued due to pandemic, he said. The GSFA is poised to organise […]
Months after the Gujarat Government froze the bank account of an NGO raising funds for an oxygen plant initiated by him, Independent Dalit legislator Jignesh Mevani is finally setting up on Saturday the State’s biggest oxygen plant in his constituency Vadgam in Banaskantha district with the help of his MLA funds. The plant has […]
As anticipated, 1986 batch IAS officer Pankaj Kumar has been appointed as the new chief secretary of Gujarat. He takes over from Anil Mukim, who served as Gujarat Chief Secretary from 2019. Mukim retired in August 2020 and was given two extensions, each of six months. Pankaj Kumar started his career from Mahuva in Bhavnagar […]
World’s Longest Dance Festival Limps To Halt. In the second of Vibes of India’s 3-part series, Natasha Baxi and Parita Pandya write about continuing Covid scare among Garba organisers across Gujarat: The dreaded corona virus brought the world’s longest dance festival, Garba, to a grinding halt in its first avatar in 2020. People literally haggled with the […]
[Updated] Gujarat Govt asserts it has no political agenda, will move Supreme Court Gujarat High Court on Thursday refused the state’s plea to rectify its earlier order of putting a stay on the operation of key sections of the “anti-love jihad” law relating to interfaith marriages, and the BJP government asserted that there was no […]
A tribal farmer, steeped in debt and hit by Covid-19, consumed pesticides to kill himself in Gujarat’s Navsari on Wednesday night.Nilesh Patel waited for the fervently promised ‘Achhe din’, but they never came. At least not in his lifetime. He had been hoping that they would arrive – if not within the promised 100 days, […]
After the April-May nightmare, is a third wave of Covid-19 coming? There is perhaps not a single family who may not have lost a dear one – be it a relative or a friend – to the second wave. Everyone wants to know if the virus would rear its head again, more so if it […]
In a startling allegation, a Delhi-based Gujarati woman has accused an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator, Mukesh Ahlawat, and his bodyguard of repeatedly raping her. After the police allegedly refused to take her complaint about this, the woman told mediapersons on Wednesday that the AAP MLA from Sultanpuri, whom she knows for 10 years, and […]
Education Minister, Bhupendrasinh Chudasama has announced that offline classes will also begin from September 2 for grades 6 to 8 in the schools of the state. A meeting of the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister, Vijaybhai Rupani and Deputy Chief Minister, Nitinbhai Patel today decided to start 6 to 8 offline classrooms, the education […]
