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As many as 141 students from 12 halls of Boys Hostel voluntarily got tested for Covid-19 and 21 students out of them have been tested positive at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of BarodaPublic university in Vadodara. Boys’ hostels have been sanitized. On Thursday, 36 students of the girls’ hostel tested positive. The 12 halls of […]
Gujarat recorded 21,225 coronavirus cases – a decline of 13% from yesterday’s tally of 24,485 – and 16 deaths in the last 24 hours. With 16 Covid-19 fatalities, one of the highest tolls in a single day in recent months, the number of deaths climbed to 10,215 in Gujarat, the state health department said in […]
While a large number of pilgrims and devotees from all over the country and the world come to pay homage to the country’s first Jyotirlinga Somnath Mahadev, a government circuit house has been set up near Somnath to accommodate the pilgrims which was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi through video conferencing. Officials of the government […]
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation on Friday added 42 more Covid-19 micro containment zones in the city, while removing 8 such zones from the list. With today’s update, the tally has been brought up to 165. As many as 192 houses with a population of 772 were declared as micro containment zone on Friday, the AMC informed […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on January 21 that a statue of him will be installed at the India Gate to mark Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s 125th birth anniversary. “At a time when the entire nation is marking the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, I am glad to share that his grand […]
The Centre’s proposed changes in rules that give it over-reaching powers to decide on the posting of IAS officers has met with stiff resistance. Leading the united chorus to withdraw the changes, is Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who on Thursday, sent a second letter in eight days to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the […]
Amid the rising coronavirus cases in the state, the chief minister Bhupendra Patel in a review meeting with the core members of the Covid task force decided to extend the night curfew from 10 pm to 5 am till January 29 in eight metros and 19 towns. While the dining option will be open till […]
As many as 10,000 doctors from Gujarat have decided to call off their strike after assurances from the state health officials, the Gujarat Government Doctors Forum (GGDF) members said. The strike was to begin from Thursday. The doctors have been planning to go on strike as their demands of salary cut, among others, have been […]
Speculations of a bio-chemical weapon targeting US diplomats were rife much before the COVID pandemic actually hit the globe. However, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has concluded that US diplomats suffering from ‘Havana Syndrome’ were not targets of any foreign power. The mysterious condition first came up in 2016, after dozens of diplomats at the […]
Bharatiya Janata Party’s decision to field chief minister Adityanath from his home turf, the assembly constituency of Gorakhpur in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh polls has spurred every opposition party into action as they scramble to field their most influential candidates from the area. Gorakhpur has been a BJP stronghold since 1989 with the party winning the seat […]
Gujarat Technological University (GTU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with LearnVern. LearnVern.com will offer more than 75 courses to all the students completely free of charge. Students completing LearnVern’s Spoken English course will be offered a certificate from GTU to enable students to improve overall proficiency in the English language and get access […]
In a historic step, the 50-year-old Amar Jawan Jyoti underneath India Gate in central Delhi was “put out” and a symbolic torch from it merged with the flame instituted at a few hundred metres away at National War Memorial. The Amar Jyoti has been an iconic symbol of the nation’s tributes to the soldiers who […]
For 27 hours, he rode the tsunami waves in the choppy sea, till a log came his way and he managed to keep afloat. This 57-year-old Tongan man has not only defied Saturday’s devastating tsunami thatstruck the island. He has scripted his own story of will and grit in the face of earth-shattering and ocean-belly […]
A 17-year-old student in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur district committed suicide over alleged harassment to convert to Christianity. The incident came to light on January 10, when the boarding school authorities called the minor’s father Muruganandam stating that their daughter was admitted to a hospital after she vomited and complained of severe stomach pain. The girl […]
A newly-constructed circuit house near Somnath Temple in Gujarat’sGir Somnath district was virtually inaugurated by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Friday. The rest-house will address the shortageof accommodation facilities for pilgrims visiting Somnath Temple atPrabhas Patan town. “The need of a circuit house was felt as there was only one guesthouse which is also far from […]
The world is slowly moving towards green and conventional energy sources. In this light, the Union Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy R.K Singh reviewed the progress of the Roof Top Scheme on 19th January 2022. Post the review, the Minister gave directions for simplifying the Roof Top Scheme, so that the people […]
Surat city has witnessed a surge in the sales of electric vehicles as per the statistics of the vehicles registered in the RTO books of the state. About 2,627 electric vehicles have been sold in Surat while only 1100 have been sold in Ahmedabad, 460 in Rajkot and only 350 in Vadodara. According to sources, […]
Gujarat: Election season has taken over the country, after announcing candidates list for Punjab and UP now the Ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced its new formation of the state Election Committee of BJP for Gujarat The core team included state party chief CR Patil, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, union cabinet minister Parshottam […]
Sky-rocketing maintenance costs for the Surat mayor Hemali Boghawala’s bungalow are eating into the already city’s strained municipal budget, even as the municipal corporation remains allegedly rigid on implementing new projects in the city. While the small city is already under a financial burden, the inauguration ceremony of the mayor’s bungalow at Udhna-Magdalla Road cost […]
The Delhi high court on January 11 decided to hear petitions challenging Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which exempts forceful sexual intercourse by a man with his wife from the offence of rape, or provides a sort of “marital rape immunity” to men. It said that irrespective of marital status, every woman has the […]
