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India lost yet another Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot, Wing Commander Harshit Sinha in the flying incident of the fighter Jet MiG-21 that crashed near Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer on December 24. This comes merely weeks after a similar IAF Chopper crashed in Tamil Nadu that led to the demise of Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat […]
A fisherman from Gujarat was bit by a snake while he was fishing mid-sea and was evacuated by the Indian Coast Guard on December 23. As per the officials, this is the second such incident within 15 days where the Court guard rescued and provided the man with medical assistance. Reportedly, the fisherman was retrieving […]
Much drummed up Public Private Partnership Model (PPP) is calling for serious introspection need when Siddhi Group of companies in Ahmedabad has not honoured the big promises they made while already availing huge benefits for them in return. In a lesson of sort to the administrators and the political party pushing for it – in […]
The Ahmedabad Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association (AHNA) representatives on Friday announced via a press conference that they are determined to stop cashless facilities in all their hospitals and nursing homes after January 15 of the coming year if their grievances with public sector insurance companies are not resolved until the date given. The president […]
As the BJP braces for several crucial elections next year, the Sangh Pariwar’s hardline arm Vishwa Hindu Parishad is set to launch a “massive campaign” to bring back Hindu converts to Islam and Christianity, while it has demanded that Adivasi converts should not get reservation benefits. “Christians have persecuted, conducted genocides and mass executions […]
Irony is dancing to a morbid tune in Gujarat. On a day the state government announced the extension of night curfew from 11 pm to 5 am from Saturday in view of increasing Covid-19 cases, the ruling BJP has announced a special camp to provide free blood sugar tests to about 1.20 lakh people. Social […]
Gujarat Goods And Services Tax Officials on Friday raided six furniture retailers for non-compliance with GST. Based on systematic data analysis and assessment reviews, the sleuths narrowed down on six major players in the furniture segment in Surat. The defaulters include Adinath Furniture, Alta Vista Traders, Dakshesh Furniture, Lifestyle Furniture, Furniture M/s Is. All electronics […]
The movie ‘83’, based on India’s first victory in the World Cup that was released today has been going viral on social media for all the wrong reasons. Many people have called for boycotting the film on Twitter. #Boycott83 along with #BoycottBollywood are trending on Twitter. However, the demand for boycotting the film is based […]
The new COVID variant has entered Gujarat but the government is not inclined to shutting down schools. The number of cases of COVID is constantly rising and more than 35 students across the State have contracted the virus in the last couple of days. Two cases were reported on Wednesday from a school in Ahmedabad. […]
A team comprising representatives of the Department of Telecommunications and two private mobile service providers visited Ajol village in Mansa taluka of Gandhinagar district to measure the speed during First 5G Rural Broadband Trial. Officials have recorded 105.47 Mbps download speed and 58.77 Mbps upload speed. The technology being tested includes 360-degree virtual reality content […]
Friday prayers have been stopped at the Grand Mosque in Srinagar for the 20th consecutive week now. The place of worship was first shut on August 5, 2019, following the abrogation of J&K’s special status and then subsequently due to the pandemic. But now, with other religious institutions opening around the country (including mosques in other […]
Venture capital funds saw worth $30 billion investments in 2021. This exceeds more than total of all investments made in the last few years. So, what is Cryptocurrency? Crypto is a form of payment that can circulate without the need for a central monetary authority such as a government or bank. Instead, cryptocurrencies are created […]
After the Gujarat connection in Rs 75,000 offshore income tax fraud; here is yet another tax fraud where Ahmedabad Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) officials are playing a central role. Officers Of DGGI, Ahmedabad with the support of officers of local Central GST initiated search operations in Kanpur. The search began on Dec 22, […]
The state recorded 13 new cases of Omicron variant in the last 24 hours, taking the state’s total tally to 43. Vadodara city recorded the maximum cases (7), followed by Kheda (3), Ahmedabad city (2) and Anand (1). The total active tally of the Omicron variant stands at 35. Besides the one male (28) from […]
There is no need to vaccinate kids against Covid 19 – Dr Jayprakash Muliyil, member of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation in India recently made this statement. In an interview, Muliyil stated that India has not witnessed deaths due to Covid-19 till now. All registered deaths among children are due to cancer, leukaemia […]
The Centre’s insecure attitude on surveillance is now on full display, as the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) amended the Unified License Agreement on December 21, asking telecom and Internet service providers to maintain call detail records for at least two years, instead of the current one-year practice. The additional time was apparently based on requests […]
A clip from a 2018 Tamil film recently went viral, with its ludicrous suggestion about candidates clearing the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination and the following recruitment. The film clip suggests that a rank in the ‘first category’ would immediately offer the candidate a service his/her preference. On Wednesday, Supriya Sahu, Indian Administrative Service […]
In the wake of emerging Covid-19 cases in Gujarat, the Gujarat government has decided to impose night curfew from December 25 to December 31 in eight metros from 11 pm to 5 am. The state is witnessing an exponential surge in the Omicron variant cases of Covid-19 in cities like Ahmedabad. The city recorded a […]
Citizens aware of their rights approaching the Consumer Courts to complain about malpractices and injustice in the during transactions with sellers across the country. A large number of cases are pending in the main court of Gujarat i.e. Gujarat State Commission and 38 consumer courts of the districts of the state due to piling of […]
The Anti-conversion Bill in Karnataka that was cleared on Thursday emerged as far more stringent. The draft of the Karnataka Dharma Swatantrya Act, 2012 was sent to the Law Department for scrutiny in September, 2013. The draft was supposed to come up for discussion before Cabinet in 2016. However, the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government never took […]
