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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 […]
After Vibes of India (VoI) broke the chilling story of an Adivasi woman in Gujarat who was physically and sexually assaulted and made to drink urine of the perpetrators, the Chhota Udepur police sprung into action and arrested seven culprits. Kudos to Chhota Udepur police for the swift action but unfortunately this is not the […]
Aarushi Trivedi I wake up from my comfy bed. I look outside and a ray of warm sunlight peeks through the window. Wow! A lovely cup of coffee in this marvellous weather is something I need. So, why wait? I click a button beside my bed and my robot “A.T.” brings me a hot cup of coffee. […]
In the current scenario, Indian equity markets are giving equal opportunity to risk-takers and risk-averse. On one hand, when new investors are queuing up for new account openings for stock trading, some of the investors are liquidating their holdings. Experts believe investors liquidated their portfolio as fear gripped the market when Covid-19 cases started rising. […]
PM Modi would have definitely disapproved of this act of Gujaratis.
Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister Mansukh Mandaviya along with the minister of state for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy visited Bharat Biotech’s vaccine manufacturing and Bio-Safety Level-3 facility today to review the production of vaccines in Hyderabad. Secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals, S Aparna was also present. Speaking on the occasion Mandaviya said that the Government under […]
There was a time when Savarkundla of Amreli district was the first name one recalled when talking about weighing scales. But the situation is different today. The weighing scale industry of Savarkundla is completely shattered due to Covid19 and subsequent lockdowns. An industry that employs 20 to 25 thousand workers, today this industry is on […]
The Aam Aadmi Party’s odds-defying performance in Surat municipal polls, followed by its recent decision to induct several prominent names, including journalist Isudan Gadhvi, into the party, has invigorated debates in an otherwise de-politicised urban Gujarat. Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal has also announced that the party will contest all 182 seats in the 2022 assembly election. The big […]
