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With improved quality of education and a truckload of facilities being now available, government schools are giving tough competition to private schools, as many students are seen shifting from private-run schools to government ones.The number of students shifting from private to government schools across the state is increasing. According to the Primary Education Department, the […]
Late Saturday evening, Naresh Mhaske resigned as Thane district president of Shiv Sena but said that he will always remain a Shivsainik. He is known to be close to Eknath Shinde. His letter, addressed the CM Uddhav Thackeray, stated that he protests the “attitude” of MVA constituent NCP but stressed he will always remain a […]
Pic: Shinde’s supporters outside his residence in Thane on Saturday In an attempt to lay his cards bare, Eknath Shinde on Saturday tweeted: “Shiv Sena workers must understand that I want to free the party and its workers from the clutches of the MVA government and I have been working for the same. This battle […]
Close on heels of the Gujarat Goods and Services Tax (GST) department raids on hotels, resorts and booking agents operating in and around Sasan-Gir National Park on June 11, the regulatory body, on Saturday, cracked down on petrol pumps in the state. It maybe recalled that the earlier raids on the hospitality sector found tax […]
Stung by the biggest rebellion since its inception, Shiv Sena, in its national executive meeting chaired by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray adopted six resolutions regarding the internal workings of the party. The party convened a three-hour long national executive committee meet chaired by CM Uddhav Thackeray at Matoshree, Saturday. The resolutions come even as the […]
Activist Teesta Seetalvad was arrested by the Gujarat Anti-Terror Squad in Mumbai, Saturday. She has been in recent news for assisting petitioner Zakia Jafri. Who Is Zakia Jafri? Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, challenged the clean chit given to the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi for his role in the 2002 […]
The Gujarat anti-terrorist squad (ATS) detained activist Teesta Setalvad in Mumbai on Saturday. In the afternoon, the team arrived at Setalvad’s Mumbai home and took her to the Santacruz police station. Setalvad’s lawyer, Vijay Hiremath, claimed that the Gujarat ATS assaulted her and said, “We were not informed.” They stormed into (her house), assaulted her, […]
The Maharashtra political crisis is still unfolding, with rebel Shiv Sena MLAs being moved from Maharashtra to Gujarat and then to Assam in chartered planes, where they are currently camped at a Guwahati hotel. The 37 MLAs have passed a resolution declaring Shinde their leader and expressing their displeasure with the ally NCP. However, it […]
The Mumbai police on Saturday enforced Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code banning unlawful assembly in the city and increased security at the homes and offices of all ministers, elected officials, and party leaders as the state was thrown into a political crisis following a rebellion in the Shiv Sena. The prohibitory order was […]
The Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday apprehended two Pakistani fishermen near the India-Pakistan border in Gujarat’s Kutch district. Both Pakistani fishermen were apprehended after a chase in which they were shot in the ankle while attempting to flee to Pakistan, according to a BSF statement issued late Friday night. “BSF Bhuj apprehended two Pakistani […]
Monkeypox : Current Scenario and Symptoms WHO is in a conundrum over whether MonkeyPox should be declared as a global emergency or not, with over 3,200 confirmed Monkeypox cases and one official death. Few experts were of the opinion that declaring Monkeypox as a global emergency would give it the same significance as the ongoing […]
The Vatican’s Academy for Life and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) applauded the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed the right to abortion. The Vatican department said in a statement that because life has “broad social significance” it cannot be protected just through […]
Google Doodle is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the world’s most famous 15 year old author, and her account of horrors of holocaust, written by Jewish German – Dutch diarist Anne Frank. To honor her memory, the search engine has featured a slideshow of real excerpts from her diary, that narrate first hand experience of […]
Greece’s state-owned public radio and television broadcaster, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) raised eyebrows with its recent antic in which it showcased a step-by-step procedure on how to steal petrol from a car. With €2.50 per liter of fuel in Rhodes, and €2.37 per liter on average in Athens, fuel prices are spiraling like crazy […]
UAE-headquartered Lulu Group already has 5 malls in the country, located in Kochi, Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, and Lucknow; and now it wants to expand more by opening outlets in Chennai, Hyderaba,d and Ahmedabad as well. In a conversation with Shibu Philips, Director- Shopping Malls, Lulu Group India, it was known that Rs 5,000 crore have been already invested for the […]
A team of Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad and Gandhinagar Special Operations Group, had confiscated cannabis-infused cookies on June 18 from Chicken Chulha restaurant in Bhat Village of Gandhinagar. The cops had also taken hold of 16 units of THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol ), the primary ingredient of cannabis and CBD (cannabidiol), a compound found in the cannabis plant.The cookies have […]
Dada Bhuse, the biggest Shiv Sena name from north Maharashtra and Malegaon Outer constituency MLA has been associated with the Shiv Sena for nearly 18 years. Though the agriculture minister has joined the rebel group in Guwahati, the wind is not yet blowing against him in his hometown. According to some Sena workers in his […]
The US Supreme Court on Friday ended the right to abortion in a landmark ruling that does away with half-a-century of Constitutional protections on one of the most divisive and bitterly fought issues in American political life. The conservative-dominated court overturned the landmark 1973 “Roe v Wade” decision that enshrined a woman’s right to an […]
Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Friday poked fun at the group of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray amid the uprising of Shinde Sena. MNS has put up posters asking, “How does it feel?” The sarcastic posters have been up in Mumbai’s Sakinaka neighbourhood. “That time our Nagar Sewaks were abducted,” the Marathi-language placard […]
Gujaratis are known to be entrepreneurs who can think out of the box, but many often land up in a situation where a good idea dies prematurely for want of an effective revenue model. This explains why scores of businesses shut shop within a short span of launching. Now Registrar of Companies, Gujarat, has received applications from as […]
