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After the BJP landslide victory in the Gujarat Assembly polls, the Aam Aadmi party failed to secure its place in the business advisory committee for the first budget session of Gujarat. The 10-member committee is set up by assembly speaker Shankar Chaudhary, including Amit Chavda, the only member from the opposition. In the assembly elections […]
The Gujarat city of Dharampur has constructed a gigantic (31.5 ft) Shivling built of 31 million “Rudrakshas” to celebrate the auspicious occasion of Maha Shivratri. People travelled from all across the state to Dharampur to witness the unveiling of the enormous Shivling on February 17. Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and Nitin […]
According to the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (Credai), demand for properties in residential and commercial segments has increased after the state government deferred the jantri hike to April 15. Inquiries had increased by 30 percent in the past week, and higher conversions will be seen before Holashtak, an inauspicious period before […]
Two persons – one each from Gandhinagar and Kheda – were apprehended by the Chaklasi police in Kheda district in connection with allegedly defamatory posts on social media about a woman. According to the woman’s complaint, her photograph was circulated on social media with posts about a concocted ‘honeytrap’ case involving multiple IPS officers of […]
The Gujarat high court permitted a 16-year-old rape victim to undergo termination of pregnancy at her own risk and made it clear that the doctors who have put their opinions on record will have immunity in case any litigation arises in the future.The rape victim and her father, residents of Banaskantha district, had approached the […]
Taking cognizance of the news report on the Sabarmati being the second most polluted river in India according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the Gujarat high court on Friday directed the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to place before it the CPCB report. The bench of Chief Justice Sonia Gokani and Justice Vaibhavi […]
The Gujarat High Court has stayed a criminal complaint lodged by a former woman cricketer against her husband and in-laws. The woman had accused them of harassment and dowry demands when she was living in the UK with her husband. The matter is listed for further hearing on July 3. The woman, who was part […]
The Gujarat high court once again insisted that the state government introduce provisions for penal action against schools to make them teach the Gujarati language in primary sections and to think of enacting a law for this similar to what other states have done for compulsory teaching of local languages in schools. During the hearing […]
It took 12 instances of question papers leaked before government service recruitment exams for the Bhupendra Sarkar-led Gujarat cabinet to sit up and take note. In the latest update to dealing with the menace, a stringent law was passed in the new session of the State Assembly, Thursday. The ruling, a copy of which is […]
Justice Sonia Gokani is officially appointed as the Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court on Thursday. Governor Acharya Devvrat administered the oath of office to Justice Gokani at Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar, Justice Gokani became the first woman judge to be appointed to the post at the high court, just a few days before […]
The Institute for Social and Behavior Change Ahmedabad (ISBCA) of Gujarat University and UNICEF hosted an academic roundtable on building a transdisciplinary learning and research ecosystem for behavioural insights and public policy. Vijay Shankar Kanthan, social behaviour expert, at UNICEF India, addressing the roundtable talked about the journey of how Gujarat University got associated with […]
Ruling in favour of the wronged woman, the Gujarat HC, Wednesday, dissolved a five-year marriage between a teacher and his wife, “forced” into the wedlock by the professor, despite the presence of his first wife. The story dates back to 2018, when, according to the woman’s counsel, she was student at the Polytechnic College. The […]
Mushrooms growing in India’s largest district Kutch can potentially provide the key chemical element for an emerging radiation therapy given to cancer patients. Scientists at Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology (GUIDE) and Kutch University have successfully extracted astatine, the rarest naturally occurring element on the earth, from edible mushrooms. Astatine, which is not just rare […]
As the Gujarat government gets ready to implement revised jantri rates from April 15, it is actively considering a proposal to reduce stamp duty and registration fee on purchase of properties. A finance bill listing out revised stamp duty and registration fee rates is expected to be introduced in the budget session of the Gujarat […]
The state goods and services tax (SGST) department unearthed yet another fake billing scam, worth Rs 4,120 crore and involving 74 bogus firms. These firms – all based in Surat and Ahmedabad – were involved in evading taxes to the tune of Rs 137 crore by obtaining input tax credit illicitly. The scam came to […]
Indian students will no longer have to spend additional money due to the conversion of the rupee to the dollar. They can soon avail of foreign currency-denominated education loans from the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) at GIFT City. IFSC Authority has permitted an education loan company – Avanse – to start operations and provide […]
The paper published in the Indian Academy of Sciences peer-reviewed journal Current Science last month stated that the meteorite that struck Gujarat’s Banaskantha area on August 17 of last year was a rare specimen of an aubrite spotted in India for the first time since 1852. The aubrite, according to a group of scientists at […]
Even as Ahmedabad continues being labelled a “safe city,” the city police have identified at least 70 hotspots where criminal activity is said to be higher than average. Briefing on the undesirable trait, joint commissioner Ajay Chaudhary listed the culprits encountered could range from thugs, thieves, pickpockets to even gangsters. “The most notorious areas include […]
In a scam that is waiting to be unearthed, officials from Gujarat Income Tax Department have stumbled upon racketeers who trap illiterate and needy on false assurances of government aid. Once forms are filled and details obtained, the Aadhar card number is used to procure GST registrations for fake companies through which bogus billing and […]
In Gujarat, six people including four women were killed and eight injured after a jeep rammed into a stationary truck from behind in Patan district today afternoon, police said. Deputy Superintendent of Police K K Pandya said that the incident occurred near Radhanpur when the Mahindra Jeep tyre burst, the driver lost control which was […]
