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America’s NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has gone on record to say that a sense of humour is a must-have attribute for a good astronaut. Now more and more companies have come around to the view that it is a quality to be valued in managers as well. Some have gone so far as […]
Pics credit: Hanif Sindhi A small, dingy room in Nawab Nagar — barely a kilometre away from a filth-choked ravine that runs parallel to the slums surrounding an almost dried-up Chandola Lake in Danilimda ward — is all Mumtaj Begum Pathan (70) has to her name. “I just have one light bulb and a fan […]
The Heavy Engineering arm of Larsen & Toubro in Hazira (Surat), dispatched six of the World’s largest Coke Drums weighing about 658 Tons each. These Coke drums are dispatched for a refinery project in Mexico ordered by PTI Infraestructura de Desarrollo, (PTH-D), a subsidiary of Mexico’s state-owned oil company PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos). These Drums form […]
Candid pictures and videos of animals in their natural habitat are an absolute treat to the eye. A bunch of super candid shots of two owlets perched upon a branch together have gone viral online and these pictures absolutely prove the fact that animals in their natural habitat look the best . These snaps are […]
Banaskantha district of Gujarat is now becoming a gateway for narcotics. Earlier, mephedrone drugs were seized from the Amirgarh check post and now the Special Operation Group (SOG) has arrested a Himachal man, found with drugs to the tune of Rs 1.46 Crore. A young man from Himachal Pradesh was travelling via Gujarat with drugs. […]
As many as six students from Surat have paved their way to the country’s prestigious medical institute – AIIMS by clearing the national level Nursing Officers Recruitment Common Eligibility Test. All the successful candidates were felicitated at the new Civil Nursing College by Sangeetaben Patil, MLA of Limbayat constituency of Surat. The students, expressing their […]
Three police constables from Kutch district of Gujarat have been suspended for dancing in their cars, breaking traffic rules and COVID norms. The constables identified as Jagdish Solanki, Haresh Chaudhari and Raja Hiragar had to face suspension after their video showing them swaying to music sans mandatory face masks, went viral. Curiously, the fourth constable […]
Gujarat High Court issued a notice to the Central Government on a PIL petition for establishing a bench of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) in Ahmedabad. A division bench of Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Ashutosh Shastri issued a notice in the case for further hearing on February 1, 2022. The plea filed […]
Two leopards aged between four and five years, were found dead on the NH-48 on the outskirts of Surat city on Thursday morning. Forest officers suspect that the big cats were run over by a speeding vehicle while they were crossing the main road. The carcasses were noticed by a passer-by who informed the forest […]
Gujarat recorded 24,485 coronavirus cases – a rise of 17% from yesterday’s tally of 20,966 – and 13 deaths in the last 24 hours. With 13 Covid-19 fatalities, one of the highest tolls in a single day in recent months, the number of deaths climbed to 10,199 in Gujarat, the state health department said in […]
Senior Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil has demanded an all-party delegation visit led by PM Narendra Modi to all Indian areas trespassed upon by China in a press conference held today. Congress on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must break the silence over the boundary issue with China and tell the reality to the […]
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation on Thursday added 41 more Covid-19 micro containment zones in the city, while removing 14 such zones from the list. With today’s update, the tally has been brought up to 131. As many as 265 houses with a population of 1,092 were declared as micro containment zone on Thursday, the AMC informed […]
Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu required only 33 minutes to improve her American opponent 21-16, 21-13 in her second-round match. Sindhu will take on 6th seeded Thai shuttler Supanida Katethong in the last-eight phase. PV Sindhu, the two-time Olympic champion, raged into the ladies’ singles quarterfinals of the Syed Modi International badminton competition after registering […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes (OBC) in the National Eligibility Cumulative Entrance Test (NEET) All India Quota (AIQ) seats in state government medical institutions has a ‘distributive impact’ and is not in conflict with merit. The judgment came in response to a petition challenging […]
Surat Police issued a lookout notice against the Managing Director of Mumbai-based Hikal company Samir Hiremath for an illegal chemical waste disposal case at Sachin GIDC at Surat. The toxic gas leakage from the tanker of Hikal company led to the deaths of six people and injured many others. The crime branch of Surat Police […]
Nobel Laureate Gabriel García-Márquez and Mexican writer Susana Cato had a torrid affair in the 1990s and had a daughter who was named after former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, a report claimed on Wednesday. Márquez, known for his bestselling novels like One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, admired […]
National President of All India People’s National Party Mudasir Tantary said that Kashmir is incomplete without Kashmir Pandits during a media interaction. Tantary said they would like to see an end to the divide-and-rule politics played by the regional parties. The displaced Kashmiri Pandits observe January 19 as “holocaust day” as they were removed out […]
TMC leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stated that the proposed amendments are against the “spirit of cooperative federalism” and has written 2 letters so far to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last eight days on proposed changes in IAS cadre rules. Mamata Banerjee wrote Prime minister Narendra Modi urging him to […]
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, say they learned some of their most important lessons from books. The trio has recommended countless books over the years that they credit with strengthening their business acumen and teaching them about leadership. Here are 25 such books, recommended by […]
Centre for Creative Learning (CCL) at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) and the American India Foundation (AIF) have joined hands to start the ‘Sparkle Series’ to get young higher secondary girl students from remotest parts of India interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The online interactive education programme for Vigyan Jyoti […]
