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BJP ally, Apna Dal (S) on Sunday, announced Haidar Ali Khan as its candidate from Suar in western Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur. Despite no official announcement on the seat-sharing arrangement for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, the move is significant given that Khan is the first Muslim candidate to be fielded by the alliance since 2014. […]
Even though Ahmedabad touched 6,000 cases on Sunday, the city hospitals were under no stress. The number of beds got decreased by 33 per cent and yet the vacancy was 90 per cent. While at the beginning of May last year, the city was recording daily cases in the range of 5,000-6,000 similar to the […]
As a result of a cyclonic circulation due to western disturbance, Gujarat has been witnessing a fall in minimum temperature for the last two days and according to the latest forecast of Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the minimum temperature on Monday may fall up to 9 degrees Celsius. The weather forecast by IMD has issued […]
Even after consecutive actions, humiliation, deportation and to cost the very lives which they want to give label as American Dream, more and more Gujaratis are falling to dangerous practises of reaching the country for that elusive American dream. One family from this non-descript village has already frozen to death on the US Canada border. […]
The gruesome death of four members of a Gujarati family trying to illegally cross over to the US through Canada’s -35 degree freezing temperatures has come as a rude reminder of a sordid international human smuggling racket that took shape in villages of North and Central Gujarat. A source close to the deceased Gujarati family […]
Adding to the woes, around 50 staffers of the civil hospital in Rajkot,including doctors and nurses, tested positive Sunday. No one wasreported in a serious condition and they are undergoing treatment inhome isolation, stated superintendent of Civil Hospital, R.S. Trivedi. “Healthcare staff members of the hospital, who come in directcontact with the patients, were tested […]
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation on Wednesday added 16 more Covid-19 micro containment zones in the city while removing 11 such zones from the list. With today’s update, there is a total of 186 active micro containment zones. As many as 87 houses with a population of 329 were declared as micro containment zone on Wednesday, the […]
Gujarat recorded 16,617 coronavirus cases – a steep decline of 28 per cent decrease from yesterday’s tally of 23,150 – and 19 deaths in the last 24 hours. With 19 Covid-19 fatalities, the cumulative number of deaths climbed to 10,249 in Gujarat, the state health department said in a release. The 19 people who succumbed […]
The upcoming Republic Day will see the grandest fly past and according to recent inputs, an elaborate laser show will also be part of the festivities along with the Indian Army troops seen marching in different uniforms. The vivid uniforms worn by the Army will date from 1950 to present day during the Republic Day […]
According to the Genomic Sequencing Consortium bulletin publishedJanuary 10 and uploaded Sunday, the heavily mutated Omicron variant isnow in community transmission stage in the country. It states that whilemost Omicron cases have been asymptomatic or mild, hospitalisationsand ICU admissions are increasing in the country. Hence, the threat levelremains unchanged. The statement from Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics […]
The Gujarat State Eligibility Test (GSET) 2022 was conducted offline at 11 centres across the state, Sunday morning. The tentative date for the declaration of GSET result is April 9. There will be no scope for re-checking or re-evaluation of the results. As per the official notification, the number of candidates to qualify stands at […]
The island of Kiribati which had continued to maintain its tag as the Covid-free island throughout the pandemic was unable to maintain the status when two-thirds of passengers of the first flight landed there tested positive. Kiribati has reopened its borders on January 10, after being covid-19-free and now the nation is willing to implement […]
A recent video of a polar bear hunting reindeer has raised interesting questions about the changing nature of life in the polar north. Recently, scientists in Hornsund, Svalbard – a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean – witnessed a polar bear pursuing a reindeer into the sea before killing it, dragging it ashore and eating […]
Former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was honoured with Netaji Award 2022 by Netaji Research Bureau on Subhash Chandra Bose’s 125th birth anniversary, January 23. Consul General of Japan in Kolkata Nakamura Yutaka received the award on behalf of Abe at a function in Elgin Road residence of Netaji. The programme was addressed by the […]
Depending on who is in power, Subhas Chandra Bose, either lies neglected in dusty history books, or is pulled out to lend credence to vested political policies. Somewhere, the real Bose gets lost. On the occasion of his 125th birth anniversary, watching the 2005, Shyam Benegal-directed film, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero, is […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden has cancelled her wedding as the nation imposes new restrictions to slow the community spread of the Covid-19 Omicron variant. “My wedding will not be going ahead,” she told reporters, adding she was sorry for anyone caught up in a similar scenario. Though Ardern had not disclosed her wedding […]
Abide With Me has been played every year since 1950 at the annual Beating Retreat ceremony at Vijay Chowk on the evening of January 29, marking the end of the nearly weeklong Republic Day celebrations. This year, however, the official list of 26 tunes to be played at the ceremony, released Saturday, does not mention […]
A massive dust storm is about to cross Gujarat and southern Rajasthan after affecting life in Karachi, Pakistan and is likely to continue for the next 12 hours – the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Delhi is not likely to be affected in the coming days, he added. A precaution was taken in Karachi on […]
January 23 is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary. Each year, on the day, the central government honours the contribution and service of people and organisations in India in the field of disaster management. In 2021, the government declared Parakram Diwas will be marked to coincide with the birth anniversary of the revolutionary leader. The […]
