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In celebration of Amazon’s Alexa reaching a 5-year milestone in India, Amazon has added new male voice options for Alexa’s responses. Users in India can now choose between the old voice and a new male voice. Moreover, Alexa can now converse in both English and Hindi. Dilip R S, Amazon’s country manager for Alexa, revealed […]
As part of its significant expansion strategy, Air India today disclosed that it will hire around 900 pilots and 4,200 trainees for the cabin crew in 2023. The Tata-owned airlines revealed earlier this month that they had signed multi-billion dollar contracts with American and French aircraft manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing, to purchase 470 passenger planes […]
A farmer from Maharashtra’s Solapur was stunned when he got to know that he bagged a profit of merely Rs 2.49 against the sale of his 512 kg onions to a trader in the district. Rajendra Chavan who lives in Barshi tehsil of Solapur, said his onion yield fetched a price of Rs 1 per […]
An official from the Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) reported on Friday that two minor earthquakes of magnitudes, 3.4 and 3.1, were recorded in Gujarat’s Amreli district in the space of 24 hours, bringing the state’s total number of such quakes to three over the previous two days. According to district officials, no fatalities or […]
The senior-most judge on the Gujarat High Court, Justice Ashish Jitendra Desai, has been appointed as acting Chief Justice, the union law minister Kiren Rijiju said in tweet, as recently appointed Chief Justice Sonia Gokani will retire on Saturday. Justice Gokani was appointed as chief justice of Gujarat HC upon the elevation of Justice Aravind […]
As early as next month, once the performance bonuses are paid out, Meta (previously Facebook) is expected to announce another significant round of layoffs, similar to the one it announced in November of last year. The leadership of Meta, according to the weekly newsletter, “has been quiet both internally and externally about what is coming.” […]
In the upcoming film Thunderbolts, Steven Yeun, a well-known Hollywood actor, will reportedly make his MCU debut. According to media reports, the movie is centred on a group of Marvel supervillains and appears to be Marvel’s effort at creating its own “Suicide Squad”. It was formally unveiled during Disney’s D23 Expo in 2022. Yeun, who […]
The Rajasthan government has sanctioned Rs 1,745.73 crore for the development, improvement, and reinforcement of rural roads and bridges, said the official statement. It stated that a proposal to this effect has been approved by the Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. The project will cover 35 bridges and 266 roadways, in total. Up to 301 projects […]
The Gujarat High Court, Thursday, disposed of a petition moved by 55 slum dwellers residing opposite the Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad opposing their eviction owing to the Gandhi Ashram Precinct Development Project. The plea was disposed of after the state government’s assurance that any action would be taken in accordance with law by following […]
A proposal to enhance the number of workdays under the ‘Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme’ from 100 to 125, has been approved by Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. According to a statement from the state government, the scheme, which was developed in the same manner as the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA programme of the central […]
Aimed at supporting its force during times of need, the Gujarat Police will now set up physiotherapy units across Police Training Centers and Academies in the state. The aim is to provide proper in-house treatment to policemen, usually injured while on call of duty. Briefing further, DGP (Gujarat and Training) Vikas Sahay shared that state-of-the-art […]
The Gujarat government on Friday presented a Rs 3.01 lakh crore Budget for the 2023-24 fiscal, a 23 per cent rise in budgetary provisions as compared to last year. Announcing the Budget, Finance Minister Kanu Desai said that the state would spend Rs 5 lakh crore over the next five years for development of infrastructural […]
The Gujarat Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a bill that calls for up to 10 years in prison for violations pertaining to paper leaks in government recruitment examinations. The accused will also be subject to a fine under the bill’s terms, which must not be less than 10 lakh and might reach 1 crore. The Gujarat […]
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, […]
Former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga is nominated by US President Joe Biden on Thursday (local time) for the position of World Bank president. “Ajay is uniquely equipped to lead the World Bank at this critical moment in history. He has spent more than three decades building and managing successful, global companies that create jobs and […]
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 jury in Los Angeles found Harvey Weinstein guilty on all three counts of rape and sexual assault, and he was given a 16-year term on Thursday morning. His trial had lasted over two months. In the heart of Los Angeles, Weinstein was sentenced. According to media reports, Weinstein was found guilty of rape and […]
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 […]
