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Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala was sentenced to four years in prison in a disproportionate assets (DA) case by a Delhi court on Friday. In the matter of obtaining disproportionate assets from 1993 to 2006, Special Judge Vikas Dhull additionally imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakh on the defendant. Four of his […]
Battery issues have been a major barrier to widespread adoption of electric vehicles, owing to limited mileage range and the mining of rare earth minerals. A Tesla research team, on the other hand, is working on a battery design that could last a whopping 100 years. Jeff Dahn, a world-renowned battery technology expert, works at […]
Shrut-Tirth influencer, Rashtrasant, Pujayapad Acharya Pravar Shri Padmasagar Surishwarji Maharaj, said that the sangh has begun construction of new Jinalaya, which will be a centre for all sects of Jain community. Preliminary ceremonies like Bhumi Pujan and laying of the foundation stone have already been completed. This is a project taken up by the Jain […]
Amruta Fadnavis was at Cannes as a part of an initiative to create awareness about sustainability and health. The social worker, who is married to BJP leader (and former Maharashtra CM, Devendra Fadnavis), was in limelight on May 25. The slew of Bolly divas walking the red carpet at Cannes has left a glitzy trail. […]
Strained eyebrows, anxious faces, frenetic activity. No, this isn’t the Congress office in Gujarat, it is about the BJP Government in the State. One after the other, the ostensibly invincible party that rules Gujarat for three decades has been either rolling back its decisions or scrapping them. The panic is palpable. The latest in the […]
Organ donation in three districts in a single day in Gujarat SUB Organ donation service is changing the lives of many needy patients – Health Minister Hrishikesh Patel Ahmedabad, Junagadh and Vadodara reported organ donation in a span of 24 hours. Public health experts say that the State Organ Tissue and Transplant Organization (SOTTO) is […]
Instagram unveiled a new platform for Reels on Thursday called 1 Minute Music, which is currently only available in India. The new platform, according to the company, comprises music from 200 musicians around the country and includes a set of music tracks and films for usage on Reels and Stories. “Today’s Instagram trends are fueled […]
Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) opposition leader Ami Ravat and Congress city president Rutvij Joshi today reached Sursagar lake in Vadodara to check the diluted oxygen level. The VMC team also took samples for checking earlier in the day. After many dead fish were spotted in the water inside the historic lake and complaints were made, […]
Author Geetanjali Shree’s Hindi novel “Tomb of Sand” has become the first book in any Indian language to win the prestigious International Booker Prize. At a ceremony in London on Thursday, the New Delhi-based writer said she was “completely overwhelmed” with the “bolt from the blue” as she accepted her prize, worth £50,000 and shared […]
Income Tax Department officials on Thursday swooped down on as many as 40 premises of a Gujarat-headquartered leading luxury bathware company and residential premises of its owners, financiers and business consultants. The raids yielded unaccounted cash of Rs 10 crore and 12 bank lockers. Huge pile of incriminating documents were recovered during the raids, which […]
Thousands of farmers gathered in Palanpur, Banaskantha district, north Gujarat, on Thursday to demand that the state investigate the possibility of filling the water reservoirs – Karmavat Lake and Mukteshwar Dam – with Narmada water to alleviate the area’s water shortage. The protest rally drew over 20,000 farmers from 125 villages in Vadgam and neighbouring […]
Border Security Force (BSF) Gujarat apprehended two Pakistani fishermen and seized Pakistani boats from the Harami Nala area in Kutch, today. Nothing suspicious was however found in the boats. An intensive search of the area is underway. While patrolling near the horizontal channel of Harami Nala in the early morning hours, BSF Bhuj observed Pakistani fishing […]
Captain Abhilasha Barak became the Indian Army Aviation Corps’ first female combat aviator. On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, the 26-year-old officer received her diploma at a ceremony held at the Combat Army Aviation Training School in Nashik. A K Suri, the Director-General of Army Aviation was the chief guest of the ceremony. Captain Abhilasha Barak […]
Four Kashmiri students will be able to pursue a postgraduate degree sans any fees in Gujarat University and its new Indian Institute of Sustainability (IIS). This has become possible following an agreement made on Wednesday between the vice-chancellors of Gujarat University and the University of Kashmir. The MoU was facilitated through virtual mode by Gujarat University Vice-Chancellor […]
As the Gujarat Police tightens its screws on drug peddlers, Ahmedabad Police’s DCP Zone-1 squad on Thursday nabbed a young woman with MD drugs from near the upmarket GMDC grounds. The Vastrapur police arrested Jyotika Deepakbhai Upadhyay, a resident of Shiv Kedar Flat in Ahmedabad’s western area of Gota, with 4 gm of MD (mephedrone) drug popularly known as meow-meow. During preliminary investigations, the girl revealed […]
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia — a freedom fighter, Gandhian socialist, activist, and politician — was concerned about more than just the injustices suffered by Indians at the hands of both British and local politicians after independence. He was a global citizen, and just like Mahatma Gandhi, the discrimination experienced by communities around the world affected […]
A unique initiative, Reloved Fashion Wardrobe, seeks to promote the purchase and sale of used clothes Aruna Raghuram Fashionable, Affordable, Sustainable. That’s the tag line of a first-of-its-kind venture in Gujarat. The venture has been founded by marketing professional Gayatri Hurra and image consultant Sandhya Anantani. They held a successful exhibition in March 2022 and […]
Ahmedabad: The Cyber cell unit of Gujarat Police on Thursday arrested the RMO of UN Mehta Hospital Dr. Kaushik Barot for allegedly creating a fake account of Dr. RK Patel on Social Media. Dr. RK Patel had lodged an FIR in the case as a fake social media profile of him had surfaced. A preliminary […]
It is not uncommon for people to spend millions of dollars to look like celebrities or even Barbie dolls. A Japanese man, on the other hand, has spent ₹12 lakh (2 million Yen) to look like a dog. When Twitter user @toco eevee posted his photos in the new avatar, the netizen went insane. According […]
Former Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi on Wednesday took to the micro-blogging site, Twitter and criticized India after the judgment of Yasin Malik’s 2017 terror funding case. To his criticism, Indian spinner Amit Mishra went on to the Twitter field and clean bowled Shahid Afridi. After the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin […]
