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Pointing out that gas explorations in KG basin did not yield the desired results and 25 Gigawatt (GW) of gas-based power plants are lying idle in the country, VK Saraswat, member of Niti Aayog during his visit to Gujarat on Saturday said India switching over to a “gas-based economy” was a wrong approach. Pointing out […]
The Wrestling Federation of India’s (WFI) emergency general council meeting, scheduled in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh for Sunday, was called off after the Sports Ministry directed it to suspend all ongoing activities owing to the various allegations against the sports body and its president. The federation president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has been accused of sexually harassing […]
Around 80 residents of societies in and around Gulbai Tekra in Ambawadi have been forced to use dirty water for their daily needs for close to a month now. The residents of Vasant Baug bungalow, Sharad and Girdhar apartments are dependent on water provided by the civic body as they lack a private borewell. The […]
Twitter CEO Elon Musk revealed in a series of tweets on Saturday that customers of the company’s subscription service would see less advertising, including a tier that is ad-free. Since Musk acquired control of the social network in October, 2022 there has been considerable economic uncertainty. Musk posted to his Twitter account, “Ads are too […]
The State government has started the process of reevaluating jantri rates for different parts of the city after more than 12 years. There is a proposal to hike rates by at least 25 per cent. In order for the district evaluation committee to determine a preliminary rate that would have an impact on the proposal […]
The deliberate revisitation of the Gujarat 2002 riots by UK State broadcaster BBC in a documentary aimed to politically target Prime Minister Narendra Modi cites a secret inquiry conducted by a junior diplomat of the UK High Commission in the western state at that time. The then Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal warned the foreign missions […]
Agents involved in smuggling illegal immigrants to US from Canada allegedly set up a ‘passport bank’ in Nikol area in which they kept passports of immigrants who failed to pay them. These details have emerged from the interrogation of three accused – Yogesh Patel of Ahmedabad, Bhavesh Patel of Palsana in Gandhinagar, and Dashrath Chaudhary […]
A court proceeding related to the streaming of Shah Rukh Khan’s upcoming film Pathaan has revealed the OTT premiere date of the film. Pathaan will release on Amazon Prime Video on April 25, exactly three months after its theatrical release on January 25. Although the film has been approved by the Central Board of Film […]
Gujarat witnessed one of its biggest tragedies on October 30 and two months later the victims have some hope of getting justice. The Managing Director of the Ajanta-Oreva Group, Jaysukh Patel, has been named as an accused in a soon-to-be-filed chargesheet by Gujarat police for his role in the collapse of the Morbi suspension bridge. […]
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Saturday that Scoot rescheduled its Amritsar-Singapore route on January 18, which resulted in a large number of passengers missing it. According to the regulator, the timing of the flight was altered due to the ongoing fog at the Amritsar airport. The DGCA stated in a statement […]
Authorities accuse a Georgia couple of sexually abusing their adopted children and exploiting them to create “homemade” child pornography. After authorities conducted a raid on their home in Oxford, Georgia, and discovered video footage of Zachary and William Zulock “engaged in sexually abusive actions” with the adopted children, they were both detained. According to court […]
The government cracked down on the booming market of social influencers on Friday with new rules, including publishing clear disclosures about brand associations, to bring transparency and protect consumers. Influencers who fail to comply risk facing hefty fines of as much as ₹50 lakh or being barred from endorsing products for up to six years. […]
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, an economist and a former deputy chairman of the former Planning Commission, spoke at the 17th convocation of the Centre for Environment Planning and Technology (CEPT) University in Ahmedabad on Saturday, he said there is a need to hugely expand non-metro cities in India, and state governments will have to strive to […]
The National Conclave of Pastoral youth drawn from 16 states converged at Bhuj, Gujarat to discuss their aspirations, challenges and the need for policy discourse with the government. Pertinent to note that Sahjeevan – Centre for Pastoralism holds the lead in piloting several interventions in the sector for the extensive livestock production system. Notable being […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Hyderabad to lay the cornerstone for a number of projects and deliver a speech to the general public on February 13. He was supposed to visit the city on January 19, nonetheless, the visit was cancelled. The Prime Minister was scheduled to lay the cornerstone for multiple projects totalling more […]
The number of Indian artists and watchers on YouTube is enormous and growing daily. Playback singers from Bollywood predominate on this platform, as expected. Alka Yagnik, an Indian singer, has made a new accomplishment on this platform in the last year. She is currently the artist on YouTube with the highest worldwide streams (2022). Alka […]
A sessions court here on Saturday adjourned till February 1 the hearing in the anticipatory bail application filed by Ajanta Manufacturing Limited’s managing director in connection with the collapse of the suspension bridge here on October 30 that killed 135 persons. The court of principal district and sessions judge P C Joshi deferred the hearing […]
American cinema veteran James Cameron is mighty impressed by SS Rajamouli’s work on RRR and has offered to support the Telugu director if he ever plans to make a film in Hollywood. Rajamouli and RRR composer M M Keeravani met Cameron recently at the Critics’ Choice Awards (CCA), where the film won Best Foreign Language […]
Elon Musk stated in a tweet on Saturday that there are roughly 2,300 active employees at Twitter. Twitter now has less than 550 full-time engineers by title and approximately 1,300 active, working personnel overall. According to internal data cited by a media house, roughly 75 percent of the company’s 1,300 employees, including about 40 engineers, […]
Users will be able to send audio notes via status updates thanks to a new feature called “voice status updates” that is purportedly being rolled out on iOS beta by the Meta-owned messaging service WhatsApp. Certain beta testers can now access the new functionality from the text status area and exchange voice notes as status […]
