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In August, Congress saw opposition from two of its top party figures. The first was Ghulam Nabi Azad, a prominent figure and a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, who quit his position as the head of the J&K Congress campaign committee on August 16 just hours after being appointed to it. He also […]
A petition calling for limitations on ‘freebies’ given out by political parties was sent to a three-judge bench by the Supreme Court on Friday. Ashwini Upadhyay, head of Bharatiya Janata Party, filed a public interest lawsuit. He asked the court to instruct the Election Commission to forbid political parties from promising specific social welfare benefits […]
Gujarat’s Congress Party is ready to enter fray with its new strategy and past learnings. Known to declare candidates at the end moment, Gujarat Congress plans to declare 100 candidates even before the notification arrives. Gujarat Congress in-charge Raghu Sharma mentioned, on Friday, that the first Screening Committee meeting will take place on September 5 […]
After four eventful years as the Director of Alliance Francaise (AF) Ahmedabad, Gael De Kerguenec is set to move back to Paris on 31 August. VOI! Caught up with the 48-year-old Frenchman at his glass walled office at the AF Centre in Manek Bagh for one final interview, where he talks about the challenges of […]
Adani Group on Friday refuted New Delhi Television’s (NDTV) assertions that regulatory restrictions prevented the news network’s founders from selling their business shares. Sought after by the Adani Group, owned by Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani, NDTV claims to be one of the remaining independent voices in India’s polarising media scene. Given that the billionaire […]
Texas: Close on heels of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi vandalised and curse words scribbled across a Manhattan neighbourhood last week, the video of a woman hurling racial slurs towards a group of Indian-American women in Plano, Texas is now viral on social media. The video shot in a parking lot outside “Sixty Vines” restaurant, […]
Finally, Ghulam Nabi Azad did it. After months of speculation and an open dissent with the Congress high command, the veteran leader on Friday morning, sent his resignation to party chief Sonia Gandhi. In effect, he has quit Congress and resigned from all its posts. This comes days after Azad resigned as Campaign Committee chairman. […]
Union Road Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari has announced that the government is formulating a new model where small investors would be allowed to invest in infrastructure projects. Giving an outline of ‘ InvITs’, he said the government will be listing InvITs on stock exchanges to enable retail investors to trade in units. The […]
Protesting against the precarious condition of the roads in Ahmedabad city, the Congress councillors used a novel way to highlight the issue. Some of the badly damaged roads were mocking “renamed” ‘Mayor Kirit Parmar Road’ and ‘Commissioner Lochan Sehra Road’. Shehzad Pathan, the leader of opposition in AMC and the Congress councillor from Danilimda and […]
With assembly elections around the corner, the ruling BJP has started a three-pronged survey. Senior leaders of the party, a professional private agency and Intelligence Bureau (IB) sleuths have been roped in for the surveys, to be completed in four weeks’ time. The survey will be conducted in all the five zones of Gujarat namely, […]
It appears that in India, no TrueBlue law enforcer, howsoever insignificant, will let a potential bribing opportunity go by without encashing the same. The animal catchers hired by the Gnadhinagar Municipal Corporation through an outsourcing agency proved just that. Manoj alias Bablu Shanaji Thakor and Bunty Jayantibhai Waghela, animal catcher and driver in the Stray […]
Medical tourism and Gujarat are often considered two sides of the same coin. While it may be true for urban areas, in rural belts, the reality is far from it. Leave alone specialized treatment, even basics are in dire straits. The situation is particularly grim when it comes to obstetrics, gynaecologists and paediatricians. Medics from […]
Fighting against all odds, Yash Jain from the Ahmedabad chapter of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has secured an all-India rank (AIR) 12 in CS executive programme exam. With his father diagnosed with cancer while he was preparing for the exams, Yash had to take up a part-time job to run the […]
Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, both incidentally run by the BJP are claiming that the other state is owing them money with respect to the Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam. Narmada Control Authority (NCA) is a kind of battlefield with both the states countering each other on a variety of issues. The Narmada Control Authority (NCA), in […]
While addressing the National Conference of Labour Ministers of all states and Union territories via video conferencing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that in the past eight years, the government has taken the initiative to abolish the laws from the period of slavery that reflect the slavery mentality. “The country is now changing, […]
Dr Marshall Goldsmith—America’s #1 Executive Coach (according to Inc. magazine) and one of the finest minds in business leadership—will visit Gandhinagar on August 26. He will be hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), where he will share valuable insights on some of the remarkable aspects of leadership. He will be engaging with the audience […]
It’s not just Indian politicians who worship the cow and consider it auspicious. It’s a global phenomenon now. Britain’s prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak on August 23 performed ‘gau pooja’ in London. Akshata Murty, daughter of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy, and wife of the 42-year-old Conservative leader accompanied him. Earlier on the occasion of Janmashthami, […]
On September 4, S Jaishankar, the Minister of External Affairs, will travel to Gujarat to launch the publication of the Gujarati translation of his book, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World. S Jaishankar, India’s Minister of External Affairs, will launch “Nava Bharat Ni Rann-Niti” at the Ahmedabad Management Associations’ (AMA) JB Auditorium on […]
On Wednesday, passengers attempting to board SpiceJet aircraft SG-354 for Varanasi had a traumatic experience as they were left stuck for more than eight hours at Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International (SVPI) airport. Before the plane reached Ahmedabad airport, the trip was delayed because of what is believed to have been a bird hit. The […]
Commemorating 40 years of its presence in India, Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), a subsidiary of Japanese auto major Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC), will be holding celebrations at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar later this week. During the event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for two major projects: a passenger vehicle manufacturing […]
