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Delhi, a city in the limelight for years for being unsafe for women, saw an incident where a 20-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped, tonsured and paraded on the street in the Kasturba Nagar area wearing a garland of chappals. Her face was blackened by the perpetrators. Horrifyingly, in a video of the incident, the victim […]
Astronomers have discovered a ‘mysterious object’ unlike anything ever seen before in space, MAGNETAR located just 4,000 light years away from Earth. Experts think it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf – collapsed cores of stars – with an ultra-powerful magnetic field, also known as a magnetar. As it spins through the […]
Gujarat has been witnessing a spike in the number of COVID cases over the past week as the country battles the Third Wave of the pandemic Many politicians seem to be getting affected by COVID. Gujarat agriculture minister Raghavji Patel was infected and was under home isolation following a positive test report. However, due to […]
The couple got married on 8th December 2020 as per Hindu rituals, but differences started arising and so they started living separately, a lot of efforts were done by both the families for reconciliation but all those failed. In the end, they moved for mutual divorce in Ahmedabad’s family court. According to 13B(2) of the […]
The sweep of Hindutva seems to have seeped into the very vitals of the education system in Gujarat. At least one overzealous principal of a grant-in-aid secondary and higher secondary school in a village in North Gujarat’s Banaskantha district demonstrated this through a message of sorts on the school’s notice board under the head “India’s […]
Six policemen have been suspended in Prayagraj after their videos of hitting railway examination students went viral. Panic gripped Prayagraj in railway station and adjoining areas underneath the boundaries of GRP police station for more than an hour after scores of scholars getting ready for competitive exams made an abortive bid to stop a passenger […]
If UP has Yogi Adityanath swerving the saffron, Gujarat has its’ own Yogi Devnath giving a tough competition to all saints in the State. Openly affiliated with the BJP, the Yogi Devnath celebrated his 47th birthday today in Kutch with everyone from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to big shot industrialists wishing him. The till now confined […]
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Wednesday added 12 more Covid-19 micro containment zones in the city, while removing 29 such zones from the list. With today’s update, there are a total of 171 active micro containment zones in Ahmedabad. As many as 47 houses with a population of 168 were declared as micro containment zones […]
Pic credit: Hanif Sindhi Gujarat recorded 14,781 coronavirus cases – a drop of 4% from yesterday’s tally of 15,508 and the lowest in last seven days, along with 21 deaths, in the last 24 hours. With 21 Covid-19 fatalities on Wednesday, the cumulative number of deaths climbed to 10,323 in Gujarat, the state health department […]
Pandoli Village in Charotar region hit headlines in February 2016 for all the wrong reasons. The case of Amirmiya Malek was just the opening of a can of worms. He accused the hospital, where he was undergoing treatment, of “removing his kidney without consent and then paid Rs 2.3 lakh for it.” The village, however, […]
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday predicted light to moderate rainfall and cold wave conditions over Gujarat during next 3-4 days. Gujarat has been witnessing record low temperatures with cold wave conditions making an appearance over many parts of the state. This weather change has taken place in the wake of the Western Disturbance […]
The pandemic continues to economically dent businesses. The textile market in Surat has been badly hit. The hub has about 50,000 weavers, 25,000 embroidery workers and 75,000 traders. In total, more than 15 lakh people are associated with the textile industry in one way or another. The textile industry has a turnover of over 65,000 […]
While hearing a matter in the state High Court, Tuesday, the bench observed: “It does not matter whether you hate or love China. You cannot ignore it.” The matter pertained to a petition filed by Qrex Flex Pvt Ltd against the revocation of the decision of levying anti-dumping duty on PVC flex films imported from […]
As the nation celebrated its 73rd Republic Day with a spectacular parade at Rajpath in the national capital earlier today, there was an equal measure of ceremonial fanfare at the BSF Frontier Headquarter in Gandhinagar. The Republic Day celebrations started with unfurling of the National Flag by G.S. Malik, IG, BSF Gujarat. Also present were […]
Ahmedabad Police, on Tuesday arrested a tutor, Mayank Dikshit, on the charges of sexual assault and blackmailing his student. The assault started since 2016 but the victim remained tight-lipped for fear of the “videos being made viral.” Finally, the outraged family mustered the courage and lodged a complaint at Vastrapur PS. Accused Mayank Dikshit had […]
Unilever, the largest producer of soaps, plans to hand over the pink slip to 1,500 employees. The move comes after a plunge in the share market and the laying off is seen as a move to “ease shareholders concerns.” Clearly divided into three parts: home care, beauty and personal care, the proposed plans by Unilever […]
Ahmedabad Police have initiated an investigation into a power bank scam of over Rs 360 crore against Junagadh-based Divyam Infracon Pvt Ltd and accused Chinese counterparts. An FIR was filed at Naranpura police station on Monday by Ankita Lohati, deputy ROC (Registrar of Companies). In the complaint Assistant, ROC has alleged that directors of Divyam […]
Trailing the income tax filing irregularities, led both, the tax department and the Enforcement Directorate to Surat-based Savalia International. What was unearthed was a money laundering nexus between the firm and Chinese national, Luo Sang alias Charlie Peng. The Ahmedabad Police on Monday lodged an FIR against both the defaulters in a hawala racketeering case […]
In the persuasion of their American dream, Gujaratis fall prey to dangerous practices of reaching the US, even at the cost of their lives. Mere few days to the family of four from Gujarat froze to death near the US-Canada border, two more families from Gandhinagar village are said to have gone missing on their […]
When politicians squabbled over a tableau depicting Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s role in the independence struggle for the R-Day, Dalits in a nondescript village in feudal Rajasthan were celebrating a freedom of sorts. Young bride Draupadi watched in awe, as did her family, as bridegroom Shriram, 27, triumphantly rode a horse holding a sword as […]
