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Two African nationals were arrested for allegedly defrauding an elderly woman from Gujarat’s Ahmedabad of Rs 34 Lakh by befriending her online using fake identities and asking her to pay money to get gifts and foreign currency released from customs, police said on Monday. An official from Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch said, Nigerian national Gift […]
Since Sunday, two travellers, one of whom was a foreign national, have tested positive for Covid-19 at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, according to authorities. “One of them was a British national. She had come from Australia via Kuala Lumpur and was going to Bodh Gaya in Bihar. The woman was shifted to […]
The former President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, departed for the United States on Monday with his family, as per local media reports. Due to the nation’s economic catastrophe and protests, Gotabaya Rajapaksa was pushed from power earlier this year. While it waits for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to formally approve a USD 2.9 […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah praised state chief C R Patil for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) massive victory in Gujarat elections, While speaking at the Surat BJP’s ‘Abhinandan Samaroh’ yesterday Addressing the event through video conferencing, Shah said, “Through meetings of panna committees and panna presidents, our state chief CR Patil trained and activated […]
A sizable portion of employees want more flexibility in their working lives and are willing to make concessions to acquire it. Over 7 in 10 workers worldwide want more flexibility in how they organise their working hours, according to ADP Research Institute’s People at Work 2022: A Global Workforce View, which polled approximately 33,000 workers […]
The National Archives of India (NAI) does not have records of the 1962, 1965, and 1971 Wars. Neither does it have any documented data related to the Green Revolution. This lack of recorded details was made public by NAI director-general Chandan Sinha on Friday. He was speaking at a workshop on good governance organised by […]
In what is perplexing the police as much as anyone who hears of the same, a doubting husband injected his wife with an HIV+ shot after a heated altercation on Sunday. The incident, reported from Surat’s Rander vicinity, left the wife in critical care while the husband has been arrested. On trail of the case, […]
The desire of Ahmedabad city to host the Olympics soon may be taking on a more tangible form. Two affluent clubs in the city, Karnavati and Rajpath, plan to construct Olympic-caliber sporting facilities at their brand-new locations that will soon be built outside the city. The creation of new facilities has received approval from the […]
Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature which will provide users the ability to report status updates on desktop Beta. The new feature will allow users to report a status update right within a new menu in the status section. If users see any suspicious status update that might violate the […]
The countdown has begun. Year 2022, best defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “permacrisis” (ongoing state of crisis), is about to end its act. With revelry in the air and the temperatures likely to dip further, Amdavadis are gearing to their New Year plans. Meanwhile, the Ahmedabad Police, has also cautioned against reckless revelry, speed […]
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi on Monday, according to media reports. The 63-year-old has been admitted to a private ward of the hospital. As per the media reports, she has been admitted to the hospital for ‘routine check-up’. She was taken […]
The Veer Baal Diwas is being held at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium in Delhi, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is present. This year, PM Modi proclaimed December 26 to be observed as “Veer Baal Diwas” in remembrance of the “Sahibzades,” the four sons of the final Sikh guru Guru Gobind Singh, on the occasion […]
In order to address problems in the Indian water sector, the Indian Institutes of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) and Bombay (IIT Bombay) have worked along with European partners. According to a statement from IIT Guwahati, both institutions are actively working to address the alarming problems in the Indian water sector as part of the Indo-European […]
A similar effort has been started in the Barpeta district of Assam a week after a large eviction drive in Assam’s Nagaon district to clear approximately 400 acres of encroached land. During the drive, a legislator who had come to support the people was also detained. Around 40 households were evicted from 400 bighas of […]
One of the premiere institutes of Gujarat, the CEPT University is planning a host of changes, starting from demarcating the campus to narrowing down its branches. Located in Ahmedabad, it’s always been an open, welcoming but close-knit institute. The learning ambience is tinged with art galleries and several research institutes nearby. While it’s a highly […]
Large tracts of lush green fields, farmers tending to crops, villagers sitting in the open on cots, cattle roaming around — the rural setting as one enters Dholera village, about 100 kilometres southwest of Ahmedabad, is quite a contrast to the glowing, high-tech new industrial city that is being built nearby as part of the […]
The new coronavirus variant, which is rapidly spreading in certain nations, including China, appears to enter Pakistan, according to media reports on Monday. The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) claims that the situation is being actively watched, but the media house claims that no procedures, such as quick testing and screening of incoming travellers, […]
The Central Bureau Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested Videocon Group founder Venugopal Dhoot in the ICICI loan fraud case, from Mumbai in connection with alleged cheating and irregularities in loans sanctioned by ICICI Bank to Videocon Group companies, officials said. On Friday, the CBI arrested former ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar and her […]
This year, the desert state of Rajasthan is seeing a record-low temperature drop, with snowfall at Mount Abu’s hilltop resort and zero degrees Celsius in Churu, the entryway to the Thar. People on Mount Abu’s steep, rocky Aravalli plateau, which is close to the Gujarat border, awoke to find the ground covered in snow and […]
The Digital Survey for National Curriculum Framework has received a call for participation from the Ministry of Education (DiSaNC). The creation of the curriculum framework has been suggested by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in four areas comprising school education, early childhood care and education (ECCE), teacher education, and adult education. The Education Ministry […]
