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The “revenge travel” seems yet to peak. With the pandemic having taught many lessons in enjoying the “here and now,” Amdavadis are sparing no chance to live up any given opportunity. A case in point being that despite Holi being a mid-week occurrence, March 7-March 8, tour operators report a packed booking schedule. Favourite destinations […]
A reportedly serious altercation over “playing of loud music” between an undergrad student and his seniors took an ugly turn. The set of three seniors now stands threatened with expulsion from the Central University of Gujarat in Gandhinagar. The third-year student, Sunny Kumar, has alleged severe ragging during the February 20 assault. According to the […]
In nothing short of good news for the salaried, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has proposed to increase the retirement age of private and government employees. If reports are to be believed, the EPFO has touted that the increase will “reduce the burden on the pension system significantly.” Both the government and the employees, […]
The 563m long, Rs 51 crore Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj flyover in Hatkeshwar, thrown open for commuters in 2017, just before the assembly elections, had just 20% strength than what was intended. For the last five years, thousands of vehicles, private, heavy and light commercial vehicles took this flyover everyday – oblivious of grave deficiencies of […]
A surprise raid was conducted inside the cell of Sukesh Chandrasekhar based on inputs that the conman was living a “luxurious” life inside the Mandoli Jail in Delhi. Jail officials recovered cash, jeans worth Rs 80,000, and Gucci footwear worth lakhs from Sukesh’s cell. Leaked CCTV footage from the jail shows jail officials conducting a […]
The debate over whether judges should be addressed with the deferential British-era “My Lord” or “Your Honour” was briefly resurrected in the Gujarat high court Thursday and settled by a woman Chief Justice with a verdict in favour of “sir” as a “gender-neutral” alternative. The genesis of the issue was a lawyer repeatedly addressing the […]
Despite the 4% hike in Dearness Allowance sanctioned in August 2022 by the Central government, state employees in Gujarat remain bereft of the privilege. Finally, with the patient wait having borne no result, the Gujarat State Employees Mahamandal recently dispatched a letter to the state finance minister Kanu Desai, seeking implementation of the same with […]
A six-year-old boy raised by his kidnapper is now supposed to love his biological parents whom he has never seen. Keeping with the court’s directions, Nayna Oad brings Aamir (name changed) to his biological mother Sufiya Mansuri’s house so that he gets acquainted with her. On some days, Sufiya visits Nayna to play with Aamir […]
With about a year to go for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, BJP MP from Junagadh, Rajesh Chudasama, seems to be caught at the centre of a storm amid growing demands for lodging an FIR against him in the alleged suicide of a prominent physician in Veraval. In his purported “suicide note”, Dr Atul Chag […]
Two weeks after the Rs 4,120 crore fake billing scam was busted by the state goods and services tax (SGST) department, officials on Monday raided another Aadhaar centre, this time in Bhavnagar. Top officials of the department said mobile numbers linked to at least 1,200 Aadhaar cards were found to have been modified at this […]
A land sold by its rightful owner to a recognised buyer in 2021. A deal convened within the laws of the land. And that should have been the end. But the story did not end there. The land was sold again. The owner was someone else. And so was the buyer. Sensing something was wrong, […]
State-run Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) will invest Rs 300 crore to maximize power generation at its 250MW Akrimota (Kutch) power plant. GMDC is one of the cheapest power suppliers to GUVNL, and with the plant reaching at least 200MW of power generation, GUVNL will get more electricity at cheaper prices. The Akrimota power plant […]
“We are looking at greater accountability of police towards the public. To this end, we will set up joint advisory committees that will include police officers and members of the public in the jurisdiction of each police station that will work on addressing local issues. We had advised SPs and commissioners in January and work […]
Three Pakistani fishermen were detained by the Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday, from a creek area close to the India-Pakistan border off the Kutch district coast in Gujarat, and their boat was confiscated. According to the BSF statement, the fishermen were on Indian territory in Sir Creek. They were identified as Karachi residents; Sayed […]
The Assessment and Tax Collection department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) sealed 971 properties under the recovery mega trigger drive on Wednesday and collected Rs 7.52 crore as property tax. Of the total property sealed, 203 are from the East zone, 179 from the South zone, 175 from the Central zone, 152 from the […]
Residents of South Vasna are faced with a three-pronged menace: air pollution, pounding noise the entire day and danger posed by heavy machinery plying around a residential pocket. This is all courtesy the illegal sand mining from the adjoining Sabarmati riverbed and then, dumping in the adjoining AMC plot. JCB and dumpers frequent the area […]
RSCPL (IFSC) Private Limited, a 100% subsidiary of RBB Ship Chartering Pte Ltd, Singapore, has been granted a provisional licence to operate from Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), India’s first IFSC, in a significant step towards expanding ship leasing services in the country, said an official release on Wednesday. RSCPL obtained its maiden provisional […]
The Gujarat High Court ordered Oreva Group Managing Director Jaysukh Patel to pay a compensation amount of Rs 10 lakh to the families of each of the 135 victims, who died in the Morbi suspension bridge collapse case on October 30. The court had initiated suo motu proceedings in the bridge collapse case in which […]
The most recent and prevalent offence in the state is DJ music being played loudly through enormous speakers. Particularly, during the current wedding season, the rowdy decibel levels have compelled residents to call the police for assistance and flooded the control room with complaints of blaring music. In the 18 months, since January 2021, 10,277 […]
Gambling on engagement day turned out to be more than this prospective match had asked for. Based on a tip-off by irate residents, Ellisbridge police raided apartments 402 and 602 in Lakshminiwas Flats, on Tuesday. In what is being billed as the biggest gambling haul from a residential area, the to-be-betrothed man and 88 guests […]
