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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 […]
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 […]
Zomato, an online platform for food delivery, announced on Wednesday that it would provide fresh, inexpensive meals made by actual home chefs. Only a few sections of Gurugram presently offer Zomato Daily, which offers fresh meals for as cheap as Rs 89. Zomato had stated in its Q3 FY23 results that it was striving to […]
Supreme Court refuses to stay Election Commission’s order recognising the Eknath Shinde faction as the real Shiv Sena. The top court says, “We cannot stay an order at this stage”. The top court clarifies that the Uddhav Thackeray camp can pursue other remedies of law if any action is taken which is not based on […]
A group of girl students from Karnataka approached the top court for an urgent hearing on their petitions, seeking permission to sit for exams while wearing hijab. On March 9 Pre-university exams in Karnataka are expected to begin. The Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud assured the student petitioners that he would look into […]
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) officials declared on Wednesday that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s candidate, Shelly Oberoi, defeated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s candidate Rekha Gupta by a margin of 34 votes to win the office of mayor of Delhi. Of the 266 votes cast, Oberoi received 150 votes, while Gupta received 116. The Civic […]
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 […]
After the Income-Tax (IT) department’s three-day last week survey operations on the United Kingdom-based media corporation’s New Delhi and Mumbai offices, the British government has vehemently defended the BBC and its editorial freedom in Parliament. In response to an urgent question from the House of Commons on Tuesday, a junior minister from the Foreign, Commonwealth […]
