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It is without a doubt true that Gujaratis are good at making money. But, a Surat-based businessman Lavjitbhai Daliya, also known as Badshah, has proved that Gujaratis are equally good at spending money too. He has spent Rs 375 crores on his eldest daughter Goral’s wedding ceremony. Sangeet ceremony of the couple took place at […]
A division bench of the Gujarat High Court granted relief to an interfaith couple and cautioned the woman’s parents to not “misbehave” due to their opposition to the marriage. The court also directed the woman’s parents to share the books and clothes of the woman that are in the parents’ possession as the woman is […]
Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa’s granddaughter Dr Soundarya has allegedly died by suicide in an apartment in Bengaluru on Friday morning, High Grounds police confirmed. She was 33 and possibly suffering from postpartum depression. Soundarya’s body has been shifted to Bowring hospital in the city for postmortem to ascertain the cause of death, police […]
A Mumbai resident has filed a case against Microsoft founder Bill Gates and CEO of Serum Institue of India (SII) Adar Poonawalla for alleged death after taking Covishield Vaccine. Mumbai resident Manisha Yadav has moved court appealing justice for her 23-year-old deceased son Hitesh Kadve, who allegedly died after taking the vaccine. It is worthy […]
Leader of India’s largest Opposition, Rahul Gandhi alleged, in a letter dated Dec 27, that his Twitter following has been tinkered with. The party has been vocal all along on the BJP government’s policing US social media platforms. In a recent letter, Gandhi warned Twitter against “becoming a pawn in the destruction in the idea […]
As many as 59,495 students of different courses received degrees on the 11th convocation ceremony of Gujarat Technological University. Of these, 144 students and a start up were awarded gold medals. The Governor of Gujarat, Mr Acharya Devvrat wished the graduating students, the very best and urged them to work for the welfare of the nation. The […]
Post the tragic episode of the Patel family freezing to death on the Canadian-US border, the Indian police have begun a crackdown on the thriving illegal immigration racket. Thus far, six have been detained by the Gujarat police. Hundreds of Indians, mostly from the western states of Punjab and Gujarat, attempt to cross the US-Canada […]
The Forest Department after having discussions with District Administration, the Indian Coast Guard, Gujarat Maritime Board has finally decided to reopen Pirotan Island for tourists. A group from Jamanagar’s Navanagar nature club visited the island and hoisted the Indian flag on Republic Day. The Island received complaints of illegal activities and intrusions in December 2017. […]
The tragic incident of the four Indians who froze to death on the Canada-US border took the world by shock. Speculations were made that these four Indians were Gujaratis. These speculations have been made clear now. The High Commission of India in Canada confirmed that these four Indians were Gujaratis. The adult male who was […]
Months after the Congress party appeared to be finding its feet with a new Gujarat unit president and an AICC in-charge, at least two spokespersons on Thursday raised critical issues about the party’s ranks being given a short shrift in political action ahead of the December 2022 assembly elections. Coming a day before the Gujarat […]
Starting from February 5, Hong Kong is set to cut the quarantine period for arriving travelers to 14 days from 21, said leader Carrie Lam on Thursday. The move is followed by intense lobbying from finance executives and diplomats who said the measure was hurting competitiveness. The emergence of the highly transmissible Omicron variant saw […]
A shocking case of Triple Talaq (divorce) was reported today from Gujarat’s Anand district where a man divorced his wife on social media. The young woman living in Umreth region reported the matter to the police after her husband sent her three divorce messages on her Instagram ID. She said that her husband had divorced […]
The gruesome death of a family of four from Gujarat as they tried to enter the US through the Canada border in -35 degrees temperatures vying for a distant American dream had sent shock waves in the community back home but the now newly-emerging videos from Turkey are painting a starker image of the desperation […]
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation on Thursday added 15 more Covid-19 micro containment zones in the city and removed 46 such zones from the list. With today’s update, there are a total of 140 active zones in Ahmedabad. As many as 83 houses with a population of 265 were declared as micro containment zones on Thursday, the […]
As the Indian proverb states, one can find god, if searched whole heartedly. The proverb has come true. The young man who went missing seven years ago in December was searched for by his family and finally the young man was found in Bharatpur, Rajasthan with tears of joy in his eyes. When they discovered […]
A video clip where in few Gujaratis are being beaten up reportedly in Turkey has surfaced, raising doubts about the safety of Gujaratis going abroad for the first time for vested interests using agent system. Sources claimed that petrified group in the video also appear to be llegal immigrants from Gujarat in India. Unconfirmed sources […]
Gujarat recorded 12,911 coronavirus cases – a drop of 12% from yesterday’s tally of 14,789 – and 22 deaths in the last 24 hours. With 21 Covid-19 fatalities, the cumulative number of deaths climbed to 10,345 in Gujarat, the state health department said in a release. The 22 people who succumbed to the infection were […]
When I was a child, my father, a devotee of the Hindu god Shiva, would walk to a nearby temple every Monday to worship his favorite god. We lived in a one-room house in a small village in Gujarat. My father was a farm worker, and his visit to the temple on Mondays was one […]
India’s drug regulator on Thursday granted regular market approval for COVID-19 vaccines Covishield and Covaxin for use in the adult population subject to certain conditions, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said. The approval to Covishield and Covaxin was granted under the New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019. Under the conditions, the firms shall submit data […]
Pic credit: Hanif Sindhi The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended two new drugs for Covid-19 — Baricitinib and Sotrovimab, providing yet more options for treating the disease. The extent to which these medicines will save lives depends on how widely available and affordable they will be. The first drug, Baricitinib, is strongly recommended for […]
