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As Gujarat continues to vaccinate people against Covid-19, vaccination for transgender as well as gay communities along with others has started from today. Three cities including Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara will start to administer vaccines to shemales and homosexuals. In the first phase, Gujarat targets to administer 2000 vaccine doses. The vaccination awareness program was held […]
Statewide raids on petrol pumps were carried out by the state GST department on Monday, in which it was found that sales of Rs 400 crore were made without VAT registration. The petroleum company sells petrol-diesel to the petrol pump after which VAT is levied on it. For this, petrol pumps have to register. The […]
The adoption scam in Gujarat exposed by the police has taken an interesting twist with the babysitter arrested for selling her ward, confessing that she sold her own child too because of poverty, The broker, Prashant Kamble from Maharashtra ha also confessed that he sold his biological child for Rs two lacs to a couple in […]
Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services has furnished notice of buildings that are due for their NOC renewal this year. All the building owners who got NOC registration in Aug 2020, have to compulsorily renew their NOC certificate. Ahmedabad Municipal commission has also published the list of buildings that require the renewal on their official website: www.ahmedabadcity.gov.in. […]
Out of a total of 253 accused booked in 23 cases under the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime Act (GujCTOC) across the state, dreaded Gangster Vishal Goswami and eleven members of his gang were among the first to be brought to books. Despite being imprisoned, Goswami and his associates used to run an […]
As part of its fifth anniversary celebrations, the State government intends to issue 50,000 employment letters to youth by organising job fairs. On the other hand, the government is yet to announce the final results of recruitments that were announced over two-and-a-half years ago. The examinees are staring at an uncertain future due to delays […]
After Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat Police is the second Force in India to have an Old-Age Home for its Canines. The dog home located at Anand was inaugurated by DGP Ashish Bhatia last month. It currently shelters 11 German Shepherds and Labradors who are K-9 unit veterans. The police dogs perform crucial tasks like […]
Former Gujarat Chief Minister Shankersinh Vaghela ‘Bapu’s presence with senior Congress leader Bharatsinh Solanki has once again fuelled the rumours of Bapu’s re-entry into Congress. Sources claim that except for Bharatsinh, no one in the Party appears inclined to have Bapu back in the party fold. The Congress High Command staunchly believes that Vaghela breathed […]
Law of nature demands that the old vanishes with the emergence of the new, and this centuries-old art is not spared either. There are many art forms whose practitioners are constantly declining and such art will be gone forever by the time next generation comes. The two most famous and wonderful handicrafts of Gujarat are […]
Do not kill Gandhi again. Please save Gandhi from his second assassination. An impressive protest is on in Ahmedabad, Gujarat to save the Gandhi Ashram established by Mahatma Gandhi in 1915 when Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi came to India from Africa and made the Sabarmati riverfront his Ashram to fight for India’s independence. Now, the Central […]
There seems to be no amicable end to the ongoing couple war between senior Congress leader Bharat Solanki and his estranged wife Reshma. The feud between the couple, Bharatsinh and Reshma Patel seems to have gone out of hands. The private matter went public when the Congress leader took the initiative and sent a legal […]
The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has released the latest details of election funds given to political parties from corporate houses and others by buying election bonds from ADR during 2019-20, in which the BJP received Rs. 44.835 crore and Congress received Rs. 3.398 crore together for a total of Rs 48.23 crore. A donation […]
A single mother Sneh Gupta from Vadodara was joyous at getting her twin six-year-olds admission to a private school until she was asked to fill a column that required her to fill their father’s name. Gupta had walked out of her marriage after which she got into a relationship with a friend of hers and […]
The Finance Ministry has given the approval to sanction funds for the upcoming sports complex in Naranpura, the project cost of which is estimated around Rs 584 crores. The complex will be developed on a land of 79,500 sqm behind Vardhan Tower in Shastrinagar. The complex will have an aquatic complex, a community sports centre […]
Alcohol Consumption remains high, and permits have tripled in past 3 years Enjoy a smooth peg of whisky? Without a permit in Gujarat, one 750 ml of Signature Whisky will cost you Rs 2000 – nearly double its MRP. Still, Gujaratis are buying it in abundance. Recently, the Gujarat High Court heard a bunch of petitions challenging the […]
A group of over 100 people comprising historians, filmmakers, former bureaucrats, human rights activists, academicians have come together and joined hands opposing the Central government’s proposed reclamation plans of the historic Gandhi Ashram also known as the Sabarmati Ashram. The letter is considered to be an open letter opposing the Rs 1200 crore reclamation plan. […]
To mark the 75th anniversary of Independence, the Indian Air Force is going to organize Amrut Mahotsav band’s Concert in four major cities of the country. Under this initiative, a band concert was organized at Sabarmati River Front in Ahmedabad by the Indian Air Force today. The main purpose behind this concert was to commemorate […]
The Covid-19 pandemic pushed schools across the globe to shut offline practices and get technologically advanced to impart education through the virtual world. As cases started to drop, the state government decided to commence offline classes in a phased manner. However, Gajera International School in Surat decided to break the government guidelines and put at […]
Hundreds of thatched huts, rickety houses, tin-sheds jostling for space amid smelling overflowing public toilets. And a narrow squalid lane meandering through them. Welcome to Ramapir Tekra, a typical slum colony in Ahmedabad’s Vadaj locality and home to around 150 tribal migrants. Some 70 per cent of them would be single male migrants, anywhere from […]
Ahmedabad customer buys smartphone but starts heating up in one hour, dealer refuses to repair or replace, the court gives compensation in 5 years. When a consumer filed a complaint with the consumer court in Ahmedabad; the court compensated the consumer but only after delaying the verdict for five long years. Ahmedabad-based Hitesh Khorasia bought […]
