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After a stupendous performance in the Punjab Assembly elections, Aam Aadmi Party on Monday announced IIT Delhi professor, Dr. Sandeep Pathak, as the in-charge of the Gujarat unit of the party. AAP chose Pathak after his strategy worked wonders for the party in Punjab. Arvind Kejriwal-led party has announced changes in their organization structure in […]
The Gujarat high court has ordered a probe into the alleged custodial torture of two couples belonging to a Denotified Tribe, stating that they “appear to be victims on account of their birth in a particular community”. According to the Deccan Herald, the police allegedly tortured the four individuals until they confessed to an alleged crime, […]
An Income Tax raid on Maharashtra-based unicorn start-up ‘infra.market’ recently found an undisclosed income of more than Rs 224 crores, officials said on Sunday. The 23 premises of the firm in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh are raided since March 9. As per CBDT data, the group, founded by Souvik Sengupta […]
According to an FIR registered with Naranpura police on Sunday, a travel agent from the Naranpura area of the city defrauded two Maninagar residents of Rs 6 lakh under the guise of providing them with Canadian work permit visas. Nisarg Patel, 30, of Maninagar and a native of Vadnagar in Mehsana, stated in his FIR […]
Out on parole after being arrested by the police for allegedly being a part of an illegal lion show case in Gujarat, a 36-year-old hanged himself to death a few hours before his surrender at the end of the parole. The family of the deceased has alleged that he chose to die as he was […]
In a bid to secure their family and team’s privacy as much as to allow for space to lounge about, Mumbai Indians (MI) have set up an outdoor bio-secure recreational facility “MI Arena” at Jio World Garden. “The facility will encourage team bonding, allow the players to relax and have a balanced life. MI have […]
Over 97,000 combined cases of typhoid, viral hepatitis, and diarrhea have been recorded in a disease mapping project for Ahmedabad, with a higher rate in the slums, a first in the history of one of Gujarat’s biggest cities. The map reveals that slums are the most vulnerable areas, apart from areas with a large number […]
COVID cases are on the rise again following the relaxation in regulations. China recently placed limitations to stem the spread of infections, while South Korea reported over 6 lakh cases. The World Health Organization (WHO) has described the current increase in instances as the “tip of the iceberg.” Many people are concerned about the spread […]
In Gujarat’s Kutch district, a 17-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped after being forced to consume local liquor, police said on Sunday. According to Kutch West Superintendent of Police Saurabh Singh, four people have been arrested in connection with the crime, which took place on a farm at the foot of a hill in […]
Born a girl, named Aanchal, she joined the transgender community at 13. Ridiculed by society and often left alone to unravel the dilemma of her biological truth did not, however, deter Aanchal from pursuing her inner calling. Powerlifting. And now, Surat’s Aanchal is the city’s pride with the three medals she bagged at the recently […]
Japanese auto giant Suzuki Motor Corporation will invest around ¥150 Billion (about Rs 10,445 crore) by 2026, for local manufacturing of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) and BEV batteries in Gujarat. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed with the Gujarat government on Saturday. “The MoU was signed at the India-Japan Economic Forum […]
On March 14, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a chargesheet against 16 narco-traffickers which included six Afghan nationals and four Indians, including a woman, in a case relating to the seizure of narcotics drugs at the Mundra Port in Gujarat. Sources report that nine more accused have been arrested from Hoshiarpur Jail in Punjab […]
India and Japan held a series of bilateral talks in Delhi on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida discussed the ways that could help in deepening the economic and cultural linkages between both countries. Later, both the leaders attended the 14th Indo-Japan Annual Summit in Hyderabad. Followed by the meeting, […]
A new Science City will be established in Vadodara on lines of the hugely popular Science City in Ahmedabad. The announcement was made by state revenue minister Rajendra Trivedi, during the “Sujlam Suflam Jal Abhiyan” project launch at Ajwa in Vadodara. The first infotainment park of its kind in Ahmedabad has been a crowd-puller. […]
India on Friday was ranked 136th in the World Happiness Index. Taking a dig at the Modi government for this, Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi mentioned India’s performances in different indexes and said that the country might soon rank highest in the hate and anger charts. “Hunger Rank: 101, Freedom Rank: 119, Happiness […]
It is often that the Congress is being written off in Gujarat — and sometimes not wrongly so — but the party has always returned not less than 50 legislators to the State Assembly in the face of the best of saffron wave like 2002. One reason for this are its die-hard loyalist legislators like […]
On Friday, a World Health Organization (WHO) said that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, citing a rise in cases. In India, cases are declining whereas in other parts of the world cases are rising. Previously, WHO has said that the critical phase of the pandemic could end this year. Still, it would depend […]
The Gujarat police probe into the larger illegal immigration ring has faced a hurdle at the Regional Passport Office (RPO). In a raid, the police confiscated 78 passports from agents engaging in illicit immigration, which were then turned over to the RPO. The detectives sought to determine if the confiscated passports were genuine, fakes, or […]
Gujarat State Electricity Corporation has issued a request for proposals for the design, engineering, supply, procurement, construction, erection, testing, and commissioning of 27 MW of grid-connected solar projects near GETCO stations (Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation). These 15 MW grid-connected solar projects are located in Sitagadh and Kuntalpur. Another 12 MW project is being developed in […]
