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Friday, September 9, was the hottest day in the last four years in Gujarat when the mercury touched 37.6 degrees Celsius. Gujarat is generally a very hot region climatically. Yet, in the last few years, it is getting hotter every year. The maximum temperatures for the hottest month of 2021, 2020 and 2019 were 35.7 […]
Romel Sutariya, a convener of Gujarat-based NGO ‘Ek Awaaz Ek Morcha’ has claimed that a massive chit-fund scam of INR 10,000 crore bigger than the Saradha Group Financial scandal has silently crumbled the state after he mustered all the essential testimonials and documents from the local investors based in different parts of Gujarat. Saradha Group […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi may be visiting Gujarat, his native state twice in 15 days’ time in the later half of September, if he visits his mother on 17th September, his birthday. While it is not yet official about his visit on September 17 to meet his mother in the state capital Gandhinagar, on September […]
The Gujarat High Court has ordered premature retirement of two lower court judicial officers. The decision, the Gujarat High Court said, was taken in public interest. The decision has been taken based on the opinion of the Screening Committee, the High Court said. The High Court ordered premature Retirement of Shailesh Pravinkumar Bhatt, Additional District […]
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi’s white Burberry T-shirt became a topic for the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party who mocked the Rs 41,257 price tag. Surprisingly, the BJP received flak for its criticism with masses counter attacking the Party for ignoring the super luxury brands worn by their leaders“. Even in Gujarat, the BJP’s official comments on […]
According to a report released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on September 8, India ranks 132 out of 191 countries in the Human Development Index (HDI) 2021, after registering a decline in its score over two consecutive years for the first time in three decades. The HDI is a summary measure of average […]
A batch of 9 IAS officers from the Gujarat Administrative Service (GAS) cadre have been waiting for their posting orders for the last five-months. According to sources, these officers are sitting at home, as their transfer orders are due to be released. They have not been paid for months and are avoiding all the key facilities […]
Supreme Court has granted bail to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, who has been in jail since October 2020. Kappan and three others were arrested while on their way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to report on the gangrape and murder of a Dalit woman by dominant caste men. It was alleged that Kappan was found […]
Kerala-based and Gujarat-educated designer Rijisha TV, bagged a spot in the Guinness World Records and Asian Book of Records for her ring, The Touch of Ami. Rijisha, who passed out from Ahmedabad’s National Institute of Design in 2018 with MDes in lifestyle accessories design (LAD), crafted the ring for a Kerala-based jewellery chain. The ring’s […]
The Bombay high court (HC) on Thursday quashed the First Information Report (FIR) against nine persons for the death by suicide of Member of Parliament from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Mohan Delkar in February 2021. Dadra Nagar Haveli Union Territory Administrator Praful Khoda Patel was one of the nine accused. A division bench of justices […]
Rajpath, the King’s Path which was a symbol of India’s slavery has become history from today. This inglorious slavery symbol has been erased forever. A new history has been created in the form of Kartavya Path,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday evening while inaugurating the Kartavya Path (the revamped Central Vista Avenue) at […]
In a bid to get their demands approved, a team of workers from house-keeping department allegedly made an attempt to commit suicide by pouring phenyl over their heads. After a set of instructions were notified by the Union Minister for Home Affairs, Amit Shah on house-keeping and cleaning issues in Ahmedabad’s Bopal-Ghuma areas, a committee […]
New Delhi: A Right to Information request has revealed that Silly Souls, the controversial Goa restaurant and bar located at a private home in Assagao, Goa – now the subject of a libel suit by BJP leader Smriti Irani against Congress leaders – has a food license issued by the state Directorate of Food and Drugs […]
Britain is in grief after Queen Elizabeth II‘s death. She was 96 and died peacefully at Balmoral, her Scottish estate. Her entire family was at her side. Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving monarch who reigned in the United Kingdom for over 70 years. The Queen had been sworn to the Throne in 1952. She […]
A long queue of candidates is waiting for their appointments even after the government of Gujarat started the recruitment process for the post of notary, one-and-half years back. Over 20,000 candidates are waiting for the results till date. Earlier, the state legal department had issued an advertisement for appointment of 1,600 notaries across different districts of Gujarat […]
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday disposed of a petition filed by Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi against the Rs 1,200-crore Sabarmati Ashram redevelopment project. A Division Bench of the Gujarat High Court, headed by Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice AJ Shastri green-lighted the Gandhi Ashram Memorial and Precinct Development project in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. […]
Even as Congress in Gujarat struggles to keep its meagre existence afloat, there are fresh allegations against its State Party President. Vo! has been sounded off by party members about how State Party President Jagdish Thakor made an irresponsible statement that is proving to be expensive to the party which is already nearly comatose in […]
Gujarat’s governor Acharya Devvrat termed Hindu practitioners hypocrites stating, “Hindus worship cows as ‘Gau mata’, but abandon them unattended.” This reaction appeared when the governor was addressing an event on ‘Natural Farming: In the Shelter of Nature’ at Nilkanth Dham Swaminarayan Temple, located in Poicha village of Narmada district’s Nandod taluka. Acharya Devvrat said, “Indians worship […]
One of India’s most notorious automobile thieves, Anil Chauhan, ran out of luck and was arrested by the Delhi police after a pursuit spanning over three months. The accused is the kingpin of an inter-state vehicle theft gang and is said to be involved in over 5,000 car theft cases. The 52-year-old who hails from […]
Geneva-based International Road Federation (IRF), a global road safety body working for better and safer roads worldwide, is set to conduct a road safety audit on the accident-prone section of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway. The aim is to identify and remove deficiencies in the section and suggest measures to eliminate or mitigate them. It involves evaluating […]
