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Dalit Shakti Kendra, an organization working for the rights of Dalits in Gujarat has organised a Bhim Yatra with the stated purpose marked as bringing social awareness to the unresolved issue of social evil “untouchability” which is prevalent in Gujarat and India since centuries. The high point of the Yatra would be an 1111 kg […]
Additional Principal Judge Dilipkumar Dhirajlal Thakker refused to grant bail to activist Teesta Setalvad and former Gujarat DGP RB Sreekumar. The order was significant for the remarks it made. It read: “It apparently appears that Zakia Jafri had been used as a tool by both the applicants-accused and others with a view to accusations levelled […]
Swami Paramatmananda Saraswati, today, said that India might be celebrating the 75th year of independence, but the country gained real cultural independence only after Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in 2014. He insisted that by the time the Britishers left India, they had already managed to inculcate the Leftist principles among the people. This […]
After being rejected 12 times by publishers, Harry Potter has emerged as a sensational children and young adult book series. Beloved by all, it has a huge fan base of people from all ages and backgrounds. On Harry Potter’s birthday, we bring to you 20 quotes of Harry Potter we all loved. “It is our […]
To felicitate the 43rd Vikram Sarabhai Memorial, Dr Krishna Ella delivered a lecture on Innovation and Entrepreneurship on July 30, 2022, at Ahmedabad Management Association. The tradition of Vikram Sarabhai Memorial lectures began in 1977 under Vikram A Sarabhai- AMA Memorial Trust. Many renowned figures and Nobel laureates from India and abroad have also delivered […]
Arvind Kejriwal is visiting Saurashtra for the second time in seven days. He will be attending Pran Prathishta Mahotsav on the campus of Sanjaybhai Rajyaguru College in Rajkot on Monday. He is set to perform the evening aarti of the 25 foot Rudrash Shivalinga with former Congress MLA Indranil Rajyaguru. Later in the evening, they […]
Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and National Investigation Agency (NIA) teams this morning managed to capture a suspect, Jalil Mullah, from Bhagatalao of the Sayedpura area in Surat. The man, who is likely to be younger than 25 years old, allegedly has a connection with the Jammu & Kashmir’s Al-Badr terror group. The police seized several documents […]
An event organised in Agra to felicitate Geetanjali Shree on her winning the International Booker Prize was cancelled at the last minute.. A complaint was booked against the writer for alleged inappropriate comments about Hindi deities in her novel “Ret Samadhi”. The celebration event was to be held at a five-star Hotel in Agra. The […]
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has refuted all claims by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), saying that he was not connected to the Patra Chawl land scam case. He also said that the raids conducted by the ED on his properties this morning were part of vendetta politics and had no concrete basis. Tweeting this morning […]
Gujarat BJP minister Arjunsinh Chauhan has been accused of rape and illegal confinement of a woman. He is Gujarat’s rural development minister and an MLA from Mahemdavad town of Gujarat. On July 27, Hitesh Patel, a former Sarpanch of Haldarvas village of Mahemdavad town filed an application to the village authorities alleging that Chauhan confined his […]
Following the shocking incident that involved Punjab health minister Chetan Singh Jauramajra, vice-chancellor at Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) and one of the top spinal surgeons in India, Dr Raj Bahadur, resigned from his post. Bahadur has said that he had never been more humiliated in his life with a career spanning over […]
Nishant Vyas, the suspended principal from a city municipal school, who was accused of sexually harassing a student, was caught by the police on Saturday in Surat. Police had got information that Vyas had gone to meet someone near his house. Another victim of Vyas’s sexual harassment has come forward, and a new offense is […]
Recycling of gold has increased with a raise in import duty on gold and the gradual increase in its price. Figures from gold refineries and jewellers indicate that 70 kg of gold is being recycled in Ahmedabad every day. That is a huge increase from 40 kg a day in 2019-20. Recycling of gold is […]
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has taken up an initiative to increase the safety and security of the people in the state. The state government plans to increase the number of areas in the state that will have surveillance through CCTV cameras. In the first phase, the state government has decided to identify public places having […]
The Raska water supply plant had to be shut for the fifth continuous day on Saturday when a dark brown liquid appeared in the water. It is a mark of shame that the authorities have still not been able to find the root cause of the problem.Officials have revealed that since Tuesday, there had been […]
Over 30,000 kgs of drugs seized from Delhi, Chennai, Guwahati and Kolkata were burned in the four locations across India on Saturday. Union Home Minister Amit Shah was also virtually present while the incineration took place. Amit Shah was present at a conference in Chandigarh, and he watched the incineration of the seized drugs virtually […]
Two brothers and two sisters who come from the lower segment of income strata in Uttar Pradesh’s Lalganj, have successfully cleared UPSC Civil Services Examination. All four of them are now IAS and IPS officers. Their father, who was a manager at Gramin bank, said that he never let his job at the bank be […]
In one of the largest detections in crime, the local crime branch of Panchmahal police has caught a gang from Madhya Pradesh, which was involved in a series of robberies, house break ins, vehicle thefts and other offences. The caught gang has been a part of crimes in 10 districts of the state. The finding […]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team yesterday confiscated an AgustaWestland helicopter from builder Avinash Bhosale’s Pune residence in connection with the Rs34,615 crore DHFL scam. The team has been conducting searches at various locations to seize assets that were bought from the proceeds of the scam. In June this year, the CBI booked Dewan […]
Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the US have made an important breakthrough in inventing a device to detect the Zika virus in the blood with the help of a clip to be attached to a smartphone As seen during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, rapid, simple, and accurate identification of the […]
