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A report has revealed that only around 12 per cent of the eligible 77 crore population in the age group of 18-59 years have taken the precautionary dose of the COVID-19 vaccine so far. A total of 15.66 crore precaution doses have been given till now. According to health ministry data, 98 per cent of […]
The Talking Point: Today, Thursday Sept 1, is Samvatsari, the last day of Paryushan for the Shwetambar sect of Jains. It aligns itself with Shukla Panchami each year in the Jain calendar month of Bhadrapada, somewhere between mid-August and mid-September in the Gregorian calendar. What is the day’s significance: It is the last day of […]
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission ( NCDRC), New Delhi, on Friday, awarded an exemplary compensation of Rs. 1 Crore to the parents of a 6-year-old child. The child died due to gross medical negligence and deficiency in service at Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai. The child was admitted for a small squint eye correction surgery. Based […]
Not very long ago, an auspicious token of a coconut and a rupee coin were the norm as the farewell gift for a transferred police inspector. However, when and where is not sure but yes, the definite change has taken over. As in the case of a recent transfer of an Ahmedabad-based officer. Not only […]
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Wednesday apprehended two people from Lakki village of Kutch district. According to the ATS team, they provided the narcotics to the Punjab-based duo, detained days earlier by Punjab police after they confiscated 38 kg of heroin from a vehicle coming from Kutch and made two arrests. On August 27, […]
In a dramatic Bollywood style, two husband-wife Gujarati couples, reported as pickpockets in real life, were arrested after surviving in the business of robbing for over 12 years. After raising a confession over their involvement in around 339 offences of pickpocketing in many cities and towns in the last 12 years across Gujarat, Somnath police […]
Institute of Management, established in 1996 under Nirma University, welcomed the 2022 batch of Integrated BBA-MBA students. The students and teachers attended the inaugural ceremony on the Cisco WebX platform. Moreover, the director of Nirma University, Subir K Verma, welcomed the new class in his opening remarks and informed the students about the history of […]
Aam Aadmi Party National Convenor and Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, will visit Gujarat from 2-3rd September 2022. On 2nd September, Arvind Kejriwal will address a gathering in the Dwarka district of Gujarat. It will be followed by a town hall meeting in Surendranagar on 3rd September. “If voted to power, the AAP government […]
Amid rising numbers of cases of COVID-19 all over India, Gujarat’s Ahmedabad city reported new cases of swine flu at an alarming rate, raising concern for health authorities across the state. On August 30, the city reported 80 new Covid cases. The number of active cases stands at 521. A total of 114 patients have […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will open the two-day Science Conclave of the Ministers of Science and Technology (S&T) from every State and Union Territory (UT) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on September 10, 2022. Recently, the Prime Minister Gujarat on August 27-28 to inaugurate several projects across Gujarat. He inaugurated the Atal Bridge on Ahmedabad Riverfront and […]
Paola Maino, the mother of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, passed away on August 27. Her funeral was held on Tuesday.On Wednesday, Jairam Ramesh, general secretary of communications for the Congress, tweeted the information. Smt. Sonia Gandhi’s mother, Mrs Paola Maino passed away at her home in Italy on Saturday the 27th of August, 2022. The […]
Suspended BJP leader, Seema Patra, in her mid-60s, accused of torturing her domestic help, Sunita was arrested in the wee hours of Wednesday on August 31, 2022 from her residence in Jharkhand. According to the sources, Sunita, the help, had been working for her for the past 10 years. In a video that went viral, […]
Come September 5 and the countdown starts to the 90-day action plan formulated by Congress to win Battle Gujarat. The Assembly elections in this state will be a decider of sorts for the 2024 General elections. Gujarat remains the BJP bastion and defeating the party on home turf will send out the message loud and […]
Students across India showcased their brand-new innovations at a grand finale event of Vishwakarma Awards for Engineering Innovation 2022 held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IIT-GN). They built engineering solutions for water and sanitation challenges, including an innovation that decreases water consumption in flushing a conventional toilet by almost 66% for solar thermal […]
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodara has scored A+ grade from National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). Gujarat’s only English medium university – the MS University – has improved its scoreboard. The publicly-funded university has bagged ‘A+’ grade with 3.43 CGPA from ‘A’ grade that it had received after its last assessment in 2016 and ‘B’ […]
Over the past five years, cybercrime cases in Gujarat have risen by 235 percent, reveals data released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). This is at a time when the ‘Digital India’ push has led to a massive surge in online transactions. Against one case of cybercrime every day in 2017, four cases were registered […]
“You can restrain yourself for one or two days from eating…” remarked Justice Sandeep Bhatt, when a group petitioned before the Gujarat high court against the decision of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to shut its slaughterhouse. The group contended that the closure infringes on the fundamental right to food. The slaughterhouse would be shut […]
The Ghatlodia police on August 29 booked six persons for cheating and incurring financial losses to the Union government through unscrupulous transactions. The income tax department had slapped notices on the accused over suspicious banking deposits of Rs 631.50 crore over a year ago. However, this is not an isolated case. Gujarat has seen multiple […]
In an effort to ensure international students don’t miss their first days on campus, the United Kingdom has begun priority and super-priority processing for student visas. The British High Commission on India on August 30 issued an advisory for Indian students on the lines. The British Ambassador to India Alex Ellis said that the UK […]
With its recent addition as one of the chapters in UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list, ‘Gujarat ka Garba’ (Garba of Gujarat) is unfurling its traditional charm and aesthetic spirit across the world. To preserve its art and cultural legacy, India has nominated the typical Gujarati folk-dance-form ‘Garba’ for its inclusion in UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage […]
