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Not only does the act in itself defy all adherence to security protocols but Kiran Patel’s Kashmir jaunt was brazenly bold and confident. The Amdavadi was arrested on March 3 by the Jammu and Kashmir Police. This was while he was on his second stint in Paradise on Earth, posing as an official from the […]
Gujarat High Court Acting Chief Justice A J Desai administered oath to five new judges who were recommended by the Supreme Court Collegium to be elevated to the high court. With the new appointments, Gujarat High Court will now have a functional strength of 29 judges against an approved strength of 52. The new judges […]
The state government informed the Legislative Assembly on Friday that narcotics and liquor worth Rs 6413 crore were seized in various parts of Gujarat over the last two years. During the Assembly’s Question Hour, Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi shared the data while responding to a series of questions from Congress MLAs. According […]
The Indian Planetary Science Association (IPSA) is hosting the 4th Indian Planetary Science Conference (IPSC-2023) at the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad. It is a three-day conference scheduled for March 22-24, 2023. In the context of upcoming planetary missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other planetary bodies that will be launched by the Indian […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday that ‘PM MITRA mega textile parks’ will be set up in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, stating that they will attract massive investments and create lakhs of jobs. ”The PM MITRA mega textile parks will provide state-of-the-art infrastructure for the textiles sector, […]
The state government made a significant decision on Thursday to provide relief to state officers and employees who have more than two children. The personnel department issued an order granting promotions to employees and officers who had more than two children after June 1, 2002. Such officials and employees are now eligible for advancement. Previously, […]
Sterlite Power announced on Friday that it has been awarded a green energy transmission project in Rajasthan. According to a company statement, the project was bid out using the tariff-based competitive bidding (TBCB) process. PFC Consulting Ltd provided Sterlite Power with a Letter of Intent (LoI) to build the project on a BOOT (build, own, […]
Intense Raj and Rashmi stories become chartbusters — the Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak generation should relate to this — but in the real world, too, episodes of eloping couples come with a heavy price tag. Often, they lead to feuding families, disruption of social order, a trail of deception, and misery for the gullible girl. Now, a […]
Nearly 60% of natural paints produced from cow dung in Chhattisgarh have been sold in the market through women self-help groups (SHGs), a senior official engaged with the project has said. The Bhupesh Baghel government procures cow dung from livestock owners at Rs 2 a kg under the Gauthan (livestock shed) Scheme and gives it […]
In a bid to crack down on fraudulent clauses sold by fake travel agents to Gujarat residents who dream of studying in Canada, the Canadian government will henceforth issue visa-related guidelines in Gujarati, in addition to the already available Hindi and Punjabi languages. The two states are known to send maximum number of students to […]
In a story that rocked Maharashtra’s Assembly Thursday, involving wife of Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Amruta Fadnavis, the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena (ES) coalition now claim a conspiracy to topple the state government. Fadnavis, addressed the issue in the Assembly after Opposition Leader Ajit Pawar brought it up and inquired about the specifics of […]
Refusing to sacrifice their love at the altar of a forced marriage, a couple in Gujarat’s Banaskantha knocked on the judiciary’s door. Only to be fined Rs 5,000 for a petition “on basis of their live-in relationship,” involving a now-married woman and her previous love interest. The man approached HC and submitted that the woman […]
Gujarat, on Thursday, reported 119 Covid-19 case, the highest since the third week of September last year. Of these, 62 cases were reported from Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. Surat and Rajkot, both recorded 13 cases — 10 each within its municipal corporation jurisdiction and three each in the district jurisdiction. Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation and district reported […]
TCS chief Rajesh Gopinathan has put in his papers, nearly four years ahead of the completion of his tenure, and will be replaced by company veteran K. Krithivasan. The country’s largest software exporter on Thursday said Krithivasan has been nominated as the CEO designate with immediate effect while Gopinathan, who has been at the helm […]
Privatisation and commercialisation have been stifling India’s educational sector for years now. School education costs are skyrocketing in the country, with recent data pointing to a 10-12% increase between 2012 and 2020. Now, a school in Ahmedabad — the city is ranked No.8 in the cost-of-living index — seems to be making education a privilege […]
British writer and historian Patrick French died in London after a four-year battle with cancer, Thursday. In July 2017, French was also appointed as the inaugural dean of Ahmedabad University’s School of Arts and Sciences. He announced his resignation from the position in July 2022. In his announcement, French said he “will be taking a […]
Have you ever received a call approving higher credit limits? Or add-on accounts for not extra cost at all? Basic details are always asked and at that moment, it seems harmless. Name, age and address are nothing that could unlock your bank’s password. But what happens during such calls, is accessing your phone’s data through […]
Bar Council Of India’s decision to allow foreign lawyers and legal firms to practise foreign law and diverse international law & arbitration matters in India has met with a huge welcome by legal eagles and greenhorns alike. While recruitment firms expect a boom soon in the domestic legal talent market, young law graduates are hopeful […]
Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) Ajmer office, on Wednesday, issued a show-cause notice to Shanti Asiatic School, Bopal, following reports about an alleged lapse by the invigilator in the class 12 mathematics exam on March 11. According to the students, they were not given additional time to complete the Maths paper after the supplementary […]
“Indian banks having branches in GIFT City can open accounts of the holding company based out of the US or anywhere else, and the money can be transferred. Over the last 4-5 days, we have had a phenomenal response from the start-ups as well as some of the private equity/ venture capital firms where they […]
