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Chhattisgarh Chief Bhupesh Baghel on Thursday said the Women’s Reservation Bill should be implemented in 2024 with immediate effect as suggested by former Congress President Sonia Gandhi. CM Baghel said in Raipur, “They (BJP) are a cheat. The Women’s Reservation Bill that has been brought has been supported by Congress but it will be implemented […]
The Gehlot cabinet in Rajasthan has decided that children orphaned due to Covid-19 will be given government jobs once they grow up to the admissible age. In another major decision to woo the state employees just before the assembly polls after two months, the cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot decided that on completion […]
Gujarat has long been a dry state, where processing even a bottle of booze can land one in jail for up to 10 years. Despite this, at least 43 persons have been caught for this violation in Ahmedabad itself in the last three years, according to a government report. While Surat topped the charts with […]
The Gujarat Veterans Footballers Sports Association (GVSA) is organising a football tournament. Comprising eminent sports personalities, including international and senior national-level football players, referees, and coaches, the non-profit organisation registered with the Charity Commissioner in Ahmedabad, Gujarat is dedicated to the promotion of games and sports, with a particular focus on football and the welfare […]
An Ahmedabad man, living in Minnesota (US) has sought repatriation of his daughter from her mother’s custody in the city. The Gujarat high court issued notice to the state government and the woman, after her husband filed a petition for repatriation of their three-year-old daughter to the US. The HC sought replies in this case […]
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) approved a request to reimburse the medical expenses incurred outside of Gujarat for a cancer patient owing to a lack of facilties in the state. An official in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s account department had brain tumour cancer. Since there was no provision for protein therapy in Gujarat, the official […]
Ahmedabad saw 1,772 accidents and 496 fatalities on its roads in 2022-23, data tabled in the assembly shows. This translates into at least 10 deaths due to accidents every week this year, rising from six a week in 2020-21. In the whole of Gujarat, a total 44,396 accidents were reported, in which 21,384 lives were […]
Kerala has always been at the forefront of combating health crises efficiently by minimising loss of lives and resources. Be it during the Covid outbreak or the spread of the Nipah virus last time, the state has earned a reputation of impeccable social engineering at the time of exigent triggers. Its latest brush with Nipah […]
What may come as a shocker for the Gen Z population sold on social media, the Karnataka high court said it would be “better for the nation” if access to social media is restricted for youngsters, especially schoolchildren, and suggested that the threshold age for access should be 21 or 18 years when they get […]
Akasa Air has informed the Delhi High Court that it is currently facing a crisis that could lead to a potential shutdown. The airline has been severely affected by the abrupt resignation of 43 pilots, who left to join rival airlines without serving the mandatory notice period of six months for first officers or one […]
Prime Minister Nrendra Modi announced the new name of the old parliament building as “Samvidhan Sadan” (Constitution House). The old building, which was designed by British architects Sir Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, was completed in 1927 and witnessed some of the great moments in Indian history like the passing of the Constitution. “I appeal […]
Distancing itself from going for a solution to the issue of missing Indians from Gujarat on way to the US illegally, the Gujarat high court suggested exploring the diplomatic channels to bring back the nine missing persons, who, their families suspect, are currently lodged in a Guadeloupe prison. On the counsel’s insistence to direct authorities […]
Fugitive Tarun Jinaraj, who eluded the police for 15 long years after murdering his wife Sajni in 2003, was finally caught in Bengaluru in 2018. However, Jinaraj once again gave the police a slip after getting bail from the court on August 4. Though the parole was only for 15 days, the 47-yr-old never came […]
Indian-American Republican presidential aspirant Vivek Ramaswamy has called the H-1B visa programme a form of “indentured servitude” and vowed to replace the system with meritocratic admission if he wins the race to the White House in 2024. The H-1B visa programme is designed to allow skilled foreign workers to come to the United States and […]
It was quite the coming together of cultures as Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist launched the new University of Wollongong (UOW) logo for its India Campus at the GIFT City Club on Monday. The ceremony began with the lighting of lamps and the recitation of a Sanskrit invocation to Lord Ganesha, led by Ram Gorlamandala, founder […]
It’s been a heady two weeks for Indian cricket in Sri Lanka where the Asia Cup was staged. First, the thumping win over Pakistan before Rohit Sharma’s troops made a farce of the final by not even getting Sri Lanka a chance to compete. From a marketing perspective, while such one-sided encounters leave fans craving […]
Santiniketan, the hallowed institution for learning in West Bengal where Noble Laureate Rabindranath Tagore built Visva-Bharati over a century ago has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The world body made the announcement in on ‘X’. Tagore established this residential school in 1901 and it also became a centre for art based on […]
Ganesh Chaturthi, also known as Ganeshotsav, is a ten-day festival marked by the installation of clay idols of Lord Ganesha in homes and elaborate pandals for communal festivities. On the tenth day, Anant Chaturdashi, the Visarjan ceremony takes place, during which the idol is publicly paraded with music and chants of “Ganpati Bappa Morya Pudhchya […]
Ramesh Patel, who runs a polymers manufacturing business in Rakanpur, Santej, lodged an FIR with the Gandhinagar range cyber police alleging he was robbed of Rs 9.72 lakh in a sim swapping fraud. Patel, a resident of Kalhar Exotica on Science City Road in Sola, abruptly lost network coverage on his phone on August 6. […]
It is a well known fact that most young doctors passing out of medical colleges in the country are reluctant to work as government doctors and look out for more lucrative options in the private sector, where often the pay package is more and the work culture more corporate like. The situation turns grim when […]
