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Three children studying at Terf Higher Secondary School, Naranpura and Navkar Public School, Gulbai Tekra Road, have tested positive for Covid 19, the school authorities were immediate enough to inform the District Education Officer (DEO) on Tuesday says the Hitendrasinh Padheriya, DEO, Ahmedabad. According to Padheriya these schools were advised to switch to online studies […]
Mask Distribution Drive Planned By Gujarat Police, Will Enforce Strict Compliance As the covid cases are on a rise once again, all the arms of the government and administration machinery are geared up for strict implementation of the covid guidelines so that the disaster of last covid wave can be avoided. After the first wave, […]
As the Covid cases are on the rise once again with omicron scare looming large, the governments and authorities of world over are taking steps to detect the infected by various means. While doing so, the authorities are faced with the challenges of different kind. Authorities at Ahmedabad Airport also are finding it difficult to […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) winning the most number of seats in the Chandigarh civic polls – a city administered by the Centre and ruled either by the Congress or BJP through the years — came as a huge surprise. While AAP scooped up 14 seats in Monday’s Chandigarh poll results, the BJP came second […]
The Covid-19 ghost has come to haunt Gujarat again on the back of a new heavily mutated variant – Omicron — with infections inching towards the 100-mark within weeks of its presence in the state. This time, however, the state government appears to be rather alert and responsive. The most plausible explanation seems the severe […]
Ahmedabad city faces a spike in dengue and chikungunya cases as well. As per reports by AMC cases registered were at 432 but this year it has taken a sudden spike with a number of 3,089 cases. These are the cases reported through the 125 private and government general hospitals, which provides AMC with reports […]
The New Year is around the corner, that time of the year when almost everyone embarks on a short family getaway. However, the sudden surge in Covid-19 cases in the country on the back of Omicron is proving to be a curveball. But there is a silver lining that instead of taking longer destinations, travel enthusiasts can look at drive-down destinations for a shorter period of say, a day […]
At a time when India-China relations are going through a ‘rough patch’, it is important to look back at events that led to the biggest man-made disaster of the century. The Chinese government’s autocratic ways to control their people clearly demonstrate that China cannot be coherent to India. Until the 19th century, agriculture was a […]
The Income Tax department on Tuesday sealed the offices of former vice-president of Surat city BJP, PVS Sarma at Bamroli Road and Udhana in connection with the search operation carried out in October last year. PVS Sarma had tweeted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging a massive money laundering scam perpetrated by the jewellers, builders, […]
Gujarat recorded 394 new Covid cases, one death and five Omicron infections in the last 24 hours, as against 204 positive cases, one death and 24 Omicron infections yesterday. Taking into account today’s figures, the state has seen a 93% rise in the Covid infection in a day, even though the fatalities remain stable and […]
In the dystopian world that we are living, it is hard to believe when something great happens. The child that ran away from his home was found by the childline team in Morbi. The Morbi Child Help Line team was informed that a child was found wandering near Halwad. The child help line team took […]
Gujarat Congress President Jagdish Thakor said that youth in Gujarat are angry as eligible candidates are not able to procure government jobs as they are allotted to the people who are affiliated with the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). After the party office-bearers and Congress MLAs held a mock Assembly session in Hemu Gadhvi Hall, Rajkot, […]
Setting at rest an unsavoury controversy that the Gujarat Waqf Board had staked a claim for two pieces of land at Bet Dwarka, known as the abode of Lord Krishna, BJP MP from Jamnagar Poonam Maadam has stated that this is not true. The Lok Sabha member issued a video with a clarification that no […]
Milk cooperative unions in Gujarat have raised complaints about banks being reluctant to sanction Kisan Credit Cards (KCC), exclusively meant for animal husbandry, dairy and fisheries sectors, according to a latest report by the State Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC), Gujarat. The report further states, “SLBC is also in the receipt of numerous representations from lead […]
Vetern scribe Prem Shankar Jha, now 83, and deceased photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who died on duty while reporting in Afghanistan in July 2021, will be honoured RedInk Awards by the Mumbai Press Club on Wednesday. Jha will receive the lifetime achievement award, while Siddiqui has been named ‘Journalist of the Year’ in a posthumous honour. […]
Tech trials for India’s first 5G rural broadband was recently launched at the Ajol village, in Mansa taluka of Gandhinagar, with a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) set up 17 km away in Unawa city. The Central Telecommunication Corporation had recently announced that nine major cities, including Gandhinagar, will get 5G network speeds for mobile holders […]
The Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad city traffic police will hire 16 cranes to tow vehicles that do not follow parking rules during the heavy traffic flow that is expected for the Vibrant Gujarat Summit in January 2022. At present, the Gandhinagar traffic police has three operational towing vans. The road from Ahmedabad to Mahatma Mandir, especially, […]
Swiss International Air Lines will be welcoming passengers from India from January 10, 2022. Direct flights to and from Switzerland will be operational as part of the air bubble agreement between the two countries. This means that the airlines will be restoring their services to Delhi and Mumbai, which were earlier suspended due to the […]
In the constituency of state level education minister Kirtisinh Vaghela in Banaskantha district of Gujarat, parents have locked the school due to lack of basic facilities. The villagers have decided to not send their children to the school until the basic facilities are provided. Reportedly, Wadia Primary School in Wadia of Banaskantha district, comprising of […]
A sense of pride and patriotism filled the air of Sri Ganganagar as the Indian Army celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Nagi. To commemorate this day, an enchanting cultural and musical evening was organized by Sadhuwali – situated in Sudarshan Chakra Division on December 27, 2021. The curtain was brought down on […]
