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What would the Union Budget contain for farmers in the year following the historic farmer protests? This was a question on many minds as the Union Budget speech unfolded on February 1. After all, the farmer agitation, which held the nation’s attention for more than a year, did not end but was merely suspended in […]
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has raised concerns about environmental norms being violated by a shipbuilding yard at Sachana that lies close to Khijadiya Wildlife Sanctuary, a freshwater wetland, declared Ramsar Site on February 4. The shipbuilding yard at Sachana was established in 1977. Operations were shut down in 2011-12. In 2020, the state government […]
‘Swara Kokila’ Lata Mangeshkar passed away on February 6, at the age of 92, following a prolonged illness where she suffered pneumonia along with COVID. Mangeshkar was admitted to the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai on January 8. She breathed her last at 8 AM on Sunday. Mangeshkar was noted for her distinctive voice and […]
The most iconic singer of the country, Lata Mangeshkar breathed her last on Sunday, February 06, 2022.Through her decades-long career, Lata Mangeshkar lend her voice to more than 25,000 songs, her patriotic song ‘Aye Mere Watan Ke Logon’ is what made India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru’s eyes brim with tears. Lata sang the song […]
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray declared a two-day national mourning in memory Lata Mangeshkar, widely considered one of the greatest and most influential singers from India. Mangeshkar passed away early on Sunday in Mumbai. The national flag will fly at half-mast as a sign of National mourning, from February 6 to 7 as a mark […]
While the crime rate in Surat has been on the rise, this incident points at social tempers hitting a fatal point. Post an argument in a cooperative society’s elevator, an elderly man was punched such that he succumbed to the blows. The deceased has been identified as Harsh Sanghavi’s uncle. The city police registered a […]
Gujarat government has announced the reopening of schools for classes 1 to 9 from February 7 after the central government gave the green light to reopen the schools to states. An education department circular read, “Considering the COVID-19 situation, government, private and grant-in-aid schools can resume offline education for classes 1 to 9 from Monday.” […]
Lata Mangeshkar, The nightingale of India passed away early on Sunday and her fans are deeply affected and are saddened, this loss has taken over the country with great sorrows, two days of mourning period has been declared and a half-mast tri-color flag hosted to pay homage. Lata ji is the most recorded artist in […]
Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar, breathed her last at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital on Sunday morning after a relentless battle with the dreaded Covid-19. She was 92. A recipient of India’s highest civilian honor Bharat Ratna, she was also honored with Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, and multiple National Film Awards. Nitin Gadkari […]
Covid cases in Gujarat showed a sharp decline of 29% on Saturday as the state reported 4,710 infections as against yesterday’s tally of 6,097 cases. The Covid-related fatalities, however, continued over 30 for two consecutive weeks with 34 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. Gujarat had 35 Covid-related deaths yesterday. The state at present […]
Provocative posts on social media can be dreadfull. In less than a fortnight, two incidents in Gujarat have come to light where objectionable social media posts led to killing of a youth in Dhanduka and violence in Surat. A 30 year old man identified as Kishan Bharwad was shot dead on January 25 by two […]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) – a Paris-based organisation – condemned the increased harassment of journalists in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime and it newly founded intelligence agency. The RSF put out a statement in context of the recent arrests of two Afghanistan-based journalists, Aslam Hijab, a business reporter for the privately-owned Ariana News TV […]
An eight-month-old baby — who was hospitalized in a private hospital in Surat on Thursday after being thrashed by his babysitter — is in a critical condition, inspector PL Chaudhari said. The woman, Komal Tandelkar (27), has been detained for allegedly trying to kill the baby following the act was caught on a CCTV camera […]
The location of the Mahashivaratri fair, to be held in Junagadh, is yet not decided and the corporation has presented its decision without the permission of the collector. This tender can be filled from 6 pm on 5 February 2022 to 6 pm on 12 February 2022. The filled tenders will open on February 14, […]
Two terrorists belonging to terror outfits, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and The Resistance Front (TRF), were neutralised in an encounter by Srinagar Police in the Zakura area in Srinagar city early Saturday morning. Acting on specific intelligence about the presence of militants in Zakura, security forces cordoned off the area and combed the vicinity at night. Even […]
On Friday, Ahmedabad city nearly choked its citizens by recording the worst Air Quality Index (AQI) among the four cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, and Pune, where SAFAR (System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research) is installed. Ahmedabad’s Air Quality Index was 311 ug/m3 in the morning and increased to 329 ug/m3 around 7 […]
Traders of the Bhavnagar fruit market shut shop and protested against the city’s traffic police for alleged harassment with a rally on Friday, marching and shouting slogans to file a complaint to the SP office. Traders complained that traffic cops in the Gangajalia Lake have been handing out ‘unnecessary’ regularly, resulting in harassment. The merchants […]
In comparison to the previous year, an increase of 25 per cent in the domestic violence cases were reported in Ahmedabad in 2021. As many as 541 cases were registered in the year 2021, which is the highest number of cases in the city since 2015. However, the year 2020 had reported 433 cases. Apart […]
The General Administration Department of the Gujarat government on Friday ordered the shuffling of three 14 IAS officers in the state. According to the notification issued, IAS BG Prajapati from 2010 Gujarat batch has been tranferred and appointed as Joint Managing Director of Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) from his former post of District Development […]
Call it the Aam Aadmi Party’s nuisance value or the ruling BJP pushing the panic button with the fledgling opposition dispensation’s gradual inroads into Gujarat’s bodypolitic, at least five AAP municipal corporators in Surat on Friday defected to the BJP amid allegations of an undercover operation. There is widespread speculation that five more corporators would […]
