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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 […]
Congress leader Pawan Khera was reportedly denied permission to fly from Delhi to Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh, this morning. The Congress alleged an attempt to detain Pawan Khera at the Delhi airport and protested on the tarmac. According to IndiGo Airlines, it has been ordered not to fly Pawan Khera to Raipur. Khera’s arrest […]
In a prevalent video uploaded by Pakistani YouTuber Sana Amjad, a fellow Pakistani is heard complaining about the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif government’s handling of the nation’s current situation and asserting that they would have also been able to purchase goods at fair prices if Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been in charge. A former […]
“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 […]
In the interest of generating power in the midst of the ongoing financial crisis, Sri Lanka has approved the construction of two wind power facilities owned by the Adani Group of India, a $400 million investment. The former war-torn regions of Mannar and Pooneryn in the North received approval for two Adani Green Energy Ltd. […]
Kanti Bhatt was a trailblazing Gujarati journalist and author whose legacy will live on through a unique initiative. Veteran journalist and editor Sheela Bhatt, wife of the late Kanti Bhatt, and noted Gujarati writer Madhu Rye, dedicated to the public a unique memorial and reading room that stores all the works of Kanti Bhatt. The […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called for investments in the green energy sector, claiming that the potential for renewable energy in the nation is nothing short of a “goldmine”. India will play a significant role in green energy, and I welcome all stakeholders to invest in India, Modi stated in a webinar on the […]
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 […]
The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday reserved the order on discharge pleas moved by former IAS officer Pradeep Sharma in a Prevention of Money Laundering Act case and related offences. In 2016, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a complaint before a special PMLA court in Ahmedabad. According to the case, Sharma allegedly allotted a piece […]
Former Rajya Sabha member and ex-vice chancellor of Mumbai University Dr Bhalchandra Mungekar on Wednesday demanded that a special investigation team(SIT) be set up to investigate the alleged suicide of a Dalit IIT-Bombay student. He said “Darshan Solanki’s family members have already alleged that he faced caste discrimination during his first semester. “It should be […]
The manner in which the sections of any society behave reflects the mood of the nation. And there are often events that sometimes appear hyper local, even obscure, which determine which way the winds are blowing. One such event was held recently in Gujarat’s capital city Gandhinagar. Organised by the women’s wing of the far […]
The greenfield refinery cum petrochemical complex at Pachpadra in the Barmer district of Rajasthan has reached 60 per cent completion. A joint venture company HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Limited (HRRL) of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and the Government of Rajasthan have a stake of 74 per cent and 26 per cent respectively. The project was […]
The Ministry of Education has ordered all states and Union Territories to fix the minimum age for admission in Class 1 as six years, officials said on Wednesday. According to the new National Education Policy (NEP), the foundational stage consists of five years of learning opportunities for all children (between 3 to 8 years) that […]
Swedish tennis legend Bjorn Borg on Tuesday politely declined a felicitation for himself after the event ran an hour and a half behind schedule due to Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai’s late arrival at the venue. The function, which was originally scheduled to begin at 9:30 am, was postponed to 10:15 am as Chief Minister […]
If not for personal difficulties involving the actor Liam Neeson, he was on the verge of assuming the legendary role of James Bond. The actor said in a recent interview that he was initially interested in taking on the role of the spy, but his wife Natasha Richardson threatened to divorce him if he accepted […]
By the end of June, the Center is anticipated to release an RFP for the recently discovered lithium reserves in Jammu, said an official. The action may grant India access to the strategic mineral, which is used, among other things, in electric vehicles (EVs) and mobile devices. The report stated that the discoveries are divided […]
