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Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation on Saturday added 12 more Covid-19 micro containment zones in the city and removed 21 such zones from the list. With today’s update, there are a total of 105 active zones in Ahmedabad. As many as 112 houses with a population of 318 were declared as micro containment zones on Saturday, the […]
Keeping a sustained check on the Covid 19 surge, the Gujarat government has extended the ongoing night curfew in the state’s 27 cities till February 4. The timings of the curfew remain from 10 pm to 6 am. The night curfew was scheduled to end on Friday (January 28). The decision was taken by chief […]
One of the oldest and most prestigious varsities, Gujarat University heldits 70th Annual Convocation on Saturday. The virtual ceremony waspresided over by vice-chancellor Prof Himanshu A. Pandya. Chief ministerBhupendra Patel delivered the keynote address as the chief guest. A total of 49,528 students from nine faculties like arts, science,engineering, law, medical commerce, dental, education, and […]
Philanthropy, meaning altruistic giving for the love of mankind, is one of humanity’s nobler instincts. At the same time, it has ever been a way of legitimising and whitewashing ill-begotten wealth, and of acquiring a status and a place in history through the benefactions. Private philanthropy has never been bigger than at present (one estimate […]
At a time when old-age homes in Rajkot are packed with the elderly and no less than 200 inquiries are made on a daily basis, this heart-warming story is a reason to believe in humane goodness still being around. Vasantbhai Limbasia, an Amdavadi dairy farm owner, recently bought a new farmhouse. His love for his […]
The Indian Coast Guards on Friday night rescued a fisherman near the waters of the Porbandar coast. An Indian Coast Guard Ship C-161 intercepted a distress call whilst on operational deployment and regular petrol during the night hours of 28 Jan 2022. The distress call was from Indian Fishing Boat ‘Diksha’ regarding severe respiratory distress […]
One of the top Universities of Ahmedabad city, CEPT held its 16th Convocation on Saturday, January 29, 2022, through virtual mode. As chief guest, Dr Madhav Khosla, Associate Professor of Law at Columbia University, delivered the convocation address. While delivering his speech at the event, Dr Bimal Patel, President – CEPT University, highlighted the University’s […]
A meeting was recently conducted between textile traders of Surat and officials of Indian Postal services regarding the delivery of textile goods across the country. Surat textile is a giant industry that has a turnover of 65,000 crore rupees every year. It usually delivers goods worth 200 crores daily and nearly 350 crores during festivals […]
Travellers going to Canada from India have a big relief now as the Canadian Government has decided to remove the India specific guidelines regarding Covid-19 testing. Earlier, it was a mandate for people travelling to Canada to carry a negative Covid-19 certificate from a single laboratory at the Delhi airport. This process took 8-9 hours. […]
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport of Ahemdabad, also known as (SVPI) has now opened a new general aviation terminal. It will welcome passengers from private flights as well as non scheduled operaters. The general aviation terminal is spread across a 12,000 sq ft space. Out of the total area, 4500 sq ft consists of the […]
I-Create’s Center of Excellence is to give a new impetus to the ecosystem for the success of Gujarat’s E-Vehicle Policy-2021. It will do so by achieving the target of using electric vehicles by 2030. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel visited the campus of the International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology i-Create. There he got in-depth information […]
An Indian man, who was separated from his family after a partition, was granted a visa by Pakistan’s High Commission. Sika Khan’s brother, Muhammed Siddique, was separated during the partition of Punjab in 1947 – when a portion of Punjab was given to Pakistan. Sika Khan stayed in India’s Punjab, but his brother moved to […]
Security agencies across the country have been on red alert after 10 containers with consignments – including weapons and ammunition – belonging to the Pakistani Army were seized at the Mundra port, located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Kutch near Mundra, in Kutch district, Gujarat. Preliminary investigations have revealed that these consignments […]
The team of Surat SOG on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old BBA student for selling hashish. This accused student was a frequent visitor to Himachal Pradesh. He mostly travelled via train and on his way back home he used to carry hashish from Himachal Pradesh. This son of a textile merchant used to sell hashish to […]
A “potli” (bundle) of grains encased in red cloth in hand, Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Akhilesh Yadav repeated the vows he had first taken in Lucknow on January 17, in the presence of a farmer Tejinder Singh Birk, who was among those wounded in October when an SUV, driven by Ashish Mishra, the son of […]
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation on Friday added 10 more Covid-19 micro containment zones in the city and removed 36 such zones from the list. With today’s update, there are a total of 114 active zones in Ahmedabad. As many as 87 houses with a population of 280 were declared as micro containment zones on Friday, the […]
Gujarat recorded 12,131 coronavirus cases – a drop of 6% from yesterday’s tally of 12,911 – and 30 deaths in the last 24 hours. With 30 Covid-19 fatalities, the cumulative number of deaths climbed to 10,375 in Gujarat, the state health department said in a release. The 30 people who succumbed to the infection were […]
A Muslim man named Yasin Balochnam allegedly broke into a young woman’s house, raped her and tried to beat her to death in the massacre at the Dhandhuka region of Ahmedabad. The accused broke into her house, allegedly tried to rape her and beat her to death. The woman kept screaming as a way to […]
Tamil Nadu ’s Additional Chief Secretary Jagmohan Singh Raju’s voluntary retirement from service was accepted Thursday. Hours later, he was fielded as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate in Punjab. In Punjab, Legislative Assembly elections will be held on February 20 to elect 117 members. Results will be declared on March 10. In his resignation […]
Thailand health authorities approved new guidelines on Friday outlining the parameters for declaring the coronavirus pandemic an endemic disease. In epidemiology, an infection is said to be endemic in a population when that infection is constantly maintained at a baseline level in a geographic area without any external input. For an infection that relies on […]
