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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on a day-long visit to Gujarat, Sunday, harped on rural development as the key factor to becoming self-reliant. He stressed on the need to uplift the rural sector to achieve the target of making India a $5 trillion economy. His day was portioned into three important events. In the morning, […]
A 15-member team from the United Kingdom (UK) paid a visit to the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), led by British Deputy High Commissioner to Gujarat and Rajasthan, Peter Cook. While welcoming the delegation , Proffessor S P Mehrotra, Professor In-charge, External Relations, IITGN, said, “We are delighted that the delegation chose to visit IIT […]
Fenil Goyani, who was sentenced to death by a district court for the killing of 21-year-old Grishma Vekaria, has filed an appeal with the Gujarat High Court to reverse the judgment. According to sources, the court may hear Goyani’s appeal next week. The district special court, on May 5, sentenced Fenil Goyani of Surat district […]
The Chamber of Commerce has organised a three-day exhibition in Atlanta to promote Surat’s textile sector. At the expo, there are stalls displaying yarn from Surat to finished cloth. According to the Chamber, overseas purchasers have fallen in love with Surat fabrics. The Chamber’s Global Textile Trade Fair entered its second day on Saturday. Many […]
Leaders of the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti and the newly formed Sardar Sanman Sankalp Samiti (SSSS) were detained in Surat district’s Bardoli on Sunday before they could hold their rally demanding the renaming of Narendra Modi stadium in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad. The Motera cricket stadium, which was rechristened as Narendra Modi stadium, was earlier named after Sardar Patel. The Sardar Sanman Sankalp Samiti was recently constituted to rustle […]
Five grant-in-aid institutions and a self-financed college associated with Gujarat University in Ahmedabad have written to the university requesting permission to close their operations this year. The institutions claimed numerous reasons, but according to sources, the real reason is the private universities, where these colleges expect larger profits. According to sources, the institution receives requests […]
Communal clashes erupted last night in Borsad town of Anand district, following a dispute over a plot of land that has been a matter of conflict between groups from two communities. The small dispute soon turned into full-blown mob clashes as people from both communities joined the fight. According to the police, people from one […]
In a country where the Opposition is refusing to cluster itself under a joint umbrella, regional players while denting BJP’s prospects, inadvertently end up splitting opposition votes. As is being predicted in the case of Gujarat Assembly elections. Elections to the 182-member assembly in Gujarat, which has been ruled by the BJP for over two […]
In wake of the Nupur Sharma Hate Speech, several states registered protests after the Friday prayers. The situation in minority-dominated pockets in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal has been simmering since with the state administration clamping down, either by way of Sec. 144 or bulldozers razing property belonging to “alleged” rioters and “suspected” conspirators. Javed […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah today stated that rural development is essential to making the country independent, ‘which began when PM Modi came to power in 2014’. He further cited Mahatma Gandhi saying that the ‘soul of the country lies in the villages’. “Gandhi ji had said country’s soul resides in villages. Thus, if you’ve to […]
Avengers Endgame, from Marvel Comics, has long been one of the cult films that has remained at the top of Rotten Tomatoes’ rating charts in the list of best films of 2022. However, this has changed as the film RRR has surpassed Avengers Endgame in Rotten Tomatoes rankings. SS Rajamouli’s blockbuster starring Ram Charan, NTR […]
Straddling a curious mix of urban and tribal areas, the Congress party’s campaign in the central Gujarat region hinges a lot on its ward-to-ward urban outreach programme for the cities and alleged anti-Adivasi policies of the BJP Government. And it is an uphill task for the Congress, which could manage to win only 24 out […]
After the Friday protests that rocked multiples states across India in a mass protest against former BJP leaders Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal, a hate video has now been tweeted by UP’s BJP MLA Shalabh Mani Tripathi. The short video captures the police unleashing its violence on 10 men, charged with being “alleged” rioters. The […]
Gujarat Congress on Sunday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the Enforcement Directorates’s (ED) summons to the Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in connection with the National Herald case. On July 13 the state leadership will hold a protest near the ED office in Ahmedabad. The case pertains to the investigation into the alleged […]
The media rights auction of the Indian Premier League (IPL), one of the biggest sporting events in the world, went underway Sunday 11 am IST in Mumbai. The bidding is for the next cycle 2023-2027 from top broadcasters and over-the-top (OTT) players and is expected to spillover to Monday. With Amazon pulling out of race […]
The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday announced its new organisation structure. AAP’s Gujarat Incharge Sandeep Pathak and AAP member Gulab Singh Yadav were in Ahmedabad to declare the list of over 850 office bearers. In the new structure Isudan Gadhvi has been appointed as the National Joint General Secretary and Indranil Rajguru has been appointed […]
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today announced the new organizational structure of the party in Gujarat. Party in-charge, Dr. Sandeep Pathak said that the new structure will help the party gain momentum and fight the Assembly elections in the state later this year more effectively. He said that the party has received great response from the […]
Prantij Police in Sabarkantha district yesterday arrested the alleged mastermind behind the leak of Head Clerk recruitment exam paper, Tushar Mer. The examination was conducted by Gujarat Subordinate Service Selection Board (GSSSB)in December 2021. Apparently, these papers were sold to specific candidates for Rs10-15 lakhs. Prior to Mer, more than 35 people had been accused […]
India recorded 8,582 new Covid cases, Saturday, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,32,22,017. The active case count now stands at 44,513, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Sunday. The death count climbed to 5,24,761 with four fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The four new fatalities include three […]
Use of smartphone in the night hours is disturbing sleep patterns, with many youngsters even suffering from symptoms of insomnia. Latest study in Ahmedabad compares sleep problems due to use of smartphones to those seen in people who are jet-lagged. The research says that for people who use smartphones excessively have at least 2 hours […]
