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Pushpa Munjial, a 78-year-old woman from Dehradun, Uttarakhand, has transferred all of her assets –pegged at Rs 50 lakh – in Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s name, reasoning that him and his beliefs as “essential” to the country. In a will filed at a Dehradun court, Munjial, a widow, transferred the ownership of all of her […]
The Gujarat government has relaxed bond conditions for doctors who joined super speciality courses in the academic year 2021-2022. This decision has been taken after reviewing the situation on shortage of trained medical specialists in the state. Following this move, specialist doctors will now be required to serve the government for a tenure of only […]
Aam Aadmi Party leader Yuvrajsinh Jadeja was arrested in Gandhinagar by the Gandhinagar police on Tuesday for allegedly abusing, assaulting and dragging one of the police personnel on his vehicle’s bonnet, The incident took place when Jadeja had reached out in support of around 55 detained protestors of ‘Vidyasahayak’ recruitment at the Superintendent of Police […]
The opposition Congress party is launching a nationwide 58-day “Azadi Gaurav Yatra” on Wednesday from the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, to coincide with Mahatma Gandhi’s first call public call of protest against the draconian British Rowlatt Act as well as the Salt Act, in a kick-off of sorts to the Gujarat 2022 election campaign. […]
Forty-one-year-old Faisal Patel, son of top Congress strategist Ahmed Patel who succumbed to Covid-19 in November 2020, on Tuesday asserted through a Tweet that he had run out of patience with Congress and was keeping his options open. “Tired of waiting around. No encouragement from the top brass. Keeping my options open,” Faisal wrote in a terse Twitter message on Tuesday. Though he didn’t name […]
The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine and sanctions on Russia by the Western countries may have an unexpected fallout on the fertiliser prices and subsidies by the government. Worldwide fuel costs have raised by up to 40% due to the war between Russia and Ukraine. On the other hand, key suppliers of Potash in […]
In an exemplary ruling, a local court in Ahmedabad today sentenced two teachers of the Arjun Primary School in Makarba to three years in jail for recklessly beating up a five-year-old student who sought their permission to drink water and visit the toilet. Justice T.A. Bhadja cancelled the bail of both Taruna Parbatiya (36) and […]
Bengaluru-based keyboardist-producer Ricky Kej – who scooped up the Grammy for Best New Age Album with iconic drummer Stewart Copeland of The Police — wasn’t the only India connection in this year’s Grammy Awards on Sunday evening. Mumbai-born, New York-based singer Falguni Shah won a Grammy for the Best Children’s Album. Better known by her […]
Despite being just two weeks into April, the mercury has started soaring to unbearable levels in Ahmedabad and Gujarat. The Gujarat State Meteorological Department has issued a yellow alert in the state for two days. Ahmedabad along with Rajkot saw the heat rising to 42.6 degrees Celsius on Monday. The temperature in the capital Gandhinagar […]
IndiGo, currently India’s largest private airline carrier, has suspended a number of its pilots who were planning to organise a strike to protest against pay cuts at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Salaries of IndiGo pilots were cut by almost 30 per cent after domestic flight operations were suspended during the pandemic. On April […]
A new technique will be able to pinpoint temperatures experienced by residents of Dholavira during the Harappan era, as well as climatological factors, such as excessive heat or a lack of rainfall that prompted huge exoduses in the past. The crew also sampled fish in the Gulf of Kutch and tested some of the samples […]
The humble mobile repair shop owner in Punjab who convincingly defeated the sitting Chief Minister in the recently held electoral battle on the Bhadaur seat in Punjab, Labh Singh Ugoke had an occasion to walk down memory lane on a pleasant note. The 35-year-old Giant Killer AAP MLA on reserved SC seat Bhadur was invited […]
In what has turned out to be a communally sensitive case, a 38-year-old man in Gandhinagar stands accused of having killed a cow because “stray cattle has nuisance value.” Viral Amin is charged with chasing three cows on his tractor at the ground near Maruti Flora Society. Eyewitness Jayminsinh Rana, 21, a resident of the […]
The tenure of the 14th Gujarat Legislative Assembly is scheduled to come to end on 18th February 2023. The 182 member house was elected to look after the affairs of the Gujarat state in December 2017. It is expected that the fresh elections to elect the new house for further 5 years will be held […]
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel attended a mass marriage ceremony in Savli, Vadodara on Monday. This is the seventh mass marriage organized by the Mahendrabhai Jashbhai Trust. “Usually two families take part in any wedding. In a mass marriage, the celebration is truly a larger-than-life affair with thousands gathering together,” stated the chief minister while lauding […]
The fourth day of Chaitra Navratri which falls on April 5th this year is dedicated to the veneration of the cosmic mother in it’s representation as goddess Kushmanda Maa. Kushmanda word derives it’s name from Ku meaning a little, Ushma meaning warmth and anda meaning cosmic egg. This form of Durga, is depicted with eight […]
The issue related to the Illegal trade of 60 lakh tonnes of coal to the tune of Rs 6,000 crore scam was raised in the parliament. Replying to the question by Rajya Sabha MP from Delhi Narayan Das Gupta, the Union Coal Minister said that the Gujarat government has been asked to look into the […]
An IndiGo flight from Ahmedabad with 54 people on board had to make an emergency landing in Maharashtra’s Nagpur on Monday. The Ahmedabad to Lucknow flight (6E 7074) took off from Ahmedabad at around 7.45 am on Monday morning. It was around 8.33 am that the pilot sought permission to make an emergency landing, citing […]
The Gujarat BJP IT and Social Media cells on Monday organised a quarterly meeting with a new technology-oriented agenda to fight the December assembly elections. The participants were given a revised technology-oriented roadmap to master the use of social media during the poll campaign. The meeting, which was attended by Gujarat BJP President CR Paatil, was held to guide the workers to become more technologically proactive in view of […]
Tata Power Renewables Energy Ltd (TPREL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Power on Monday announced that the group has commissioned a 300 MW project in Dholera, Gujarat. The plant has India’s largest single-axis solar tracker system. The project is set to generate 774 MUs annually. Important to note here is that the Renewable Energy plant will […]
