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Hostilities between India and China in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang region seem to have fuelled the fire between the ruling BJP and the Congress-led Opposition. With the government not yielding to the Opposition’s demand for a discussion on the India-China border issue following the December 9 Yangtse clash, Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Monday posed five […]
In a bid to bring the juvenile criminals to law, BJP Rajya Sabha MP, Vivek Thakur, raised the need to review the amendment brought to the Juvenile Justice Act 2021. According to the revision, maximum imprisonment was made “more than seven years” and the minimum sentence was not prescribed or “made less than seven years.” […]
At least 40 children in India have died this year due to measles and around 10,000 kids were affected by the disease, junior health minister Bharati Pravin Pawar informed the Parliament recently in reply to a question. Maharashtra, Pawar said, has witnessed maximum number (3,075) of measles cases and 13 deaths due to the disease, […]
Located in the densely populated Eastern part of the city, Ahmedabad’s closed mill lands have been lying fallow for decades. Unlike Mumbai, which has turned its old mill properties into centres of booming economic activity, Ahmedabad has failed to unlock the value of these large swaths of land. That may be changing, with large corporates […]
A 10-year-old boy died after a teacher in a government school allegedly beat him up with a shovel before throwing him from the first floor of the school building in Hadli village in Gadag, on Monday. The teacher is on the run. The incident comes on the heels of a teacher in a Delhi school […]
A Twitter poll created by Elon Musk asking whether he should “step down as head of Twitter” ended early Monday morning with most respondents voting in the affirmative, with 57 percent voting yes, 43 percent voting no. Musk had said he would abide by the results of the poll. More than 17 million votes were […]
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said that from April 1, 2023, people under BPL and Ujjwala categories will be given gas cylinders for Rs 500 each. This comes as a huge relief for people who have been paying over Rs 1050 for the LPG cylinders. “Our government is studying the details. I will present the […]
A team of the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) investigating the Sindhrot mephedrone seizure worth about Rs 500 crore has found that the main accused had produced the drugs solely for exports. Senior ATS officers said that this is probably the first drug-haul case in which no narcotic substance was meant for local consumption. Nearly 140kg […]
Same sex live-in relationships are okay but marriage is not. That was Sushil Modi’s vociferous stand on the issue. The BJP Rajya Sabha MP strongly objected during zero hour in Parliament on Monday and said “two judges can’t sit and decide” on such a socially significant subject. His statement comes days before the Centre spells […]
The inaugural function of celebrations for the 100th birth anniversary of Pramukh Swami Maharaj in Ahmedabad hosted by BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha is a month-long celebration starting from December 15 onward. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Manipal Brahmaswarup Mahant Swami Maharaj inaugurated the Pramukh Swami Maharaj Janm Shatabdi Mohotsav on December 15, 2022. A massive 600-acre land development […]
A Bill to regularise unauthorised construction in the state will be presented by the Urban Development Department (UDD) in the first Assembly session on Tuesday. Urban Development Minister Rushikesh Patel will present the Bill. The state government had brought Bills back in 2001 and 2011 to regularise unauthorised constructions by making the builders/citizens pay an […]
It was an interesting and amusing spectacle as 182 Gujarat MLAs gathered for the swearing-in on Monday. Eleven MLAs chose Sanskrit as their language to take oath, while two chose the national language Hindi. Another two MLAs took oath in the name of the Constitution instead of God. As is the practice, the MLAs took […]
Considering the numbers in the Gujarat Assembly, Shankar Chaudhary and Jetha Bharwad, who filed nominations on Monday for the post of speaker and deputy speaker, are set to win the respective posts in case an election takes place. Speakers are generally elected unopposed. BJP leader Chaudhary, who represents the Tharad seat in Banaskantha district, had […]
Now, a cellular data connection is required for Google Voice to automatically convert to Wi-Fi access. Better call quality will result from using this specific network type, the tech giant revealed on Friday. The internet giant Google has added a new “clever network switching” function to its phone service Google Voice with the purpose of […]
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which former Congress President Rahul Gandhi is currently conducting is on its 15th day in Rajasthan. The Yatra left the Dausa district this morning at 10 am; it has been there for 5 days. The yatra began this morning at 6 am in Dausa at the Kolona Court Complex. Rahul Gandhi […]
After launching an exhibition at the Jawahar Kala Kendra on Saturday to commemorate the conclusion of the government’s four-year term, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot gave a press conference address at CMR. Gehlot remarked, “OPS was introduced for the employees, yet there is resistance. NK Singh, the chairman of the Finance Commission, and NITI Aayog […]
Speaking at the annual RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism, instituted by the Mumbai Press Club, former Supreme Court Justice Srikrishna said that democracy suffers if independence of judges and journalists falters. The legal luminary remarked that the press as the fourth estate in democracy and journalism, a profession where honesty is really the best […]
Even as the overall voting percentage for the two-phased Gujarat Assembly polls remained low at 64.33 percent, the third gender especially recorded a rather dismal turnout at 31.99 percent. The transgenders, who were recognised by the Election Commission of India (ECI) as a separate gender category in 2014, have increased in count on the voter […]
December 18, 2022 will be scripted in soccer history as Lionel Messi’s night. As fireworks exploded and some 80,000 people roared, Messi hoisted high the World Cup, a lifetime’s dream realised. “It’s anyone’s childhood dream,” Messi said. “I was lucky to have achieved everything in this career… and this one that was missing is here. […]
In another first for organ donation and transplantation programme in Gujarat, the lungs of a 25-year-old brain dead youth from Surendranagar were transplanted into a 35-year-old female patient from Seychelles on Sunday. After Rakesh Vaghela suffered grievous trauma in an accident, he was declared brain dead by a panel of doctors at the Ahmedabad Civil […]
