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Gujarat Technological University (GTU) is all set to start nine courses including those in artificial intelligence, hospital management and machine learning. These courses are scheduled to begin from the June 2022-’23 academic session. The courses were approved on Friday at a meeting of the Academic Council chaired by the Chancellor, Dr Naveen Seth. Directors of […]
The Court of Inquiry being conducted by a tri-services inquiry team will be a fair process, Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari told reporters on Saturday. Air Chief Marshal Chaudhari said the probe will take a few more weeks and he would not like to preempt any of the findings of the court of inquiry […]
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel stated on Saturday that Gujarat is at the centre-point of the pharmaceutical industries in the country. With 6% of the country’s total land area, the state has become the leader in India’s pharmaceutical sector by contributing 33% to the country’s production.The CM said the medicines produced by the pharmaceutical sector […]
Gujarat’s state General Administration Department (GAD) has transferred two IAS officers in the State. Gujarat IAS Nitin Sangwan DDO of Sabarkantha Himmatnagar has been transferred to Gandhinagar as Director of Fisheries. HM Shah is the new Sabarkantha DDO.
Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) Ltd received a much-needed boost for phase-1 of the Surat Metro Project as a loan agreement between the Department of Economic Affairs and Germany’s KfW was signed for the amount of Rs. 3464 crore. Surat Metro Phase 1 is 40.35 km long where the route from Sarthana to Dream city […]
Gujarat until Saturday afternoon had inoculated 93% of the total population eligible for vaccination (over 18 years of age), the office of state health minister, Rushikesh Patel, told Vibes of India (VoI). The percentage of beneficiaries having received one dose of the vaccine stood at 94.3% until Saturday afternoon. Gujarat has over 4.93 crore people […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the 594-km Ganga Expressway in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur district today. The expressway will pass through Meerut, Hapur, Bulandshahr, Amroha, Sambhal, Shahjahanpur, Budaun, Hardoi, Unnao, Rae Bareli, Pratapgarh and Prayagraj districts. On completion, it will be the longest expressway of Uttar Pradesh. The six-lane expressway will be […]
In the latest development of the paper leak scam that took place on December 13 in Gujarat, the Sabarkantha district police have nabbed two more accused in the much talked about case. So far, police have seized Rs 23 lakh in this case. Read more: State Rocked By Another Paper Leak Scam Police have also […]
Electronic Voting Machines and polling staff were dispatched to 10 talukas of Kutch district on Saturday, December 18, in preparation for the forthcoming gram panchayat elections. Around 361 gram panchayats will go to polls on Sunday, December 19 for 344 sarpanch and 2,125 member seats. There are 285 sensitive and 24 highly sensitive polling stations […]
Manisha Vaghela, a Lok Rakshak Dal jawan, posted at Maninagar police station is alleged to have committed suicide at her residence in the Khokra area of Ahmedabad on Friday, December 17. Vaghela is said to have hung herself and did not leave behind any suicide note. The body was discovered when neighbours lodged a complaint […]
The Gujarat High Court on Friday scrapped a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that challenged the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation circular issued on September 17 and has advised the AMC to effectively implement the rule of allowing only fully-vaccinated citizens in public places. Nishant Prajapati, Nilesh Makwana, Jayesh Asari, Piyush Raghvani and Milind Joshi through their lawyer […]
Even as new townships come up on the outskirts of the city, there are large areas within Ahmedabad that are ripe for redevelopment. What is stopping them? The workings of the real estate market are complicated and often opaque, but a glimpse is provided by an academic project at CEPT University, the findings of which […]
AMC spent Rs 5 crores to build a hall-cum-museum in the Bhadra area about seven years ago, however, the property has never been used since. Civic Body Officials have no knowledge of its existence and the place has never even been rented out. The museum was constructed to depict Ahmedabad’s history as a part of […]
The scale of infections spreading in the UK and France could translate into lakhs of cases a day in India – said the government’s Covid task force chief today. Presently, India has 101 Omicron cases across 11 states and Union Territories. VK Paul said, “If we look at the scale of spread in the UK […]
According to Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the minimum temperature in Ahmedabad can fall up to 10 degrees Celsius on Saturday. With a fall of 3.6 degrees Celsius in maximum temperature and a decrease of around two degrees Celsius in minimum temperature, the city recorded a maximum of 26 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 11.7 […]
The Gujarat High Court has pulled up State Education Minister Jitubhai Vaghani for stating that even he had studied under open skies during winters and called this “shameful, shocking and disturbing.” A division bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Niral Mehta took suo motu cognizance of reports about pathetic infrastructure in government primary schools, to […]
Maharashtra has reported the highest number of complaints against e-commerce companies followed by Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. The Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ashwini Kumar Choubey informed Rajya Sabha that a total of 5,12,919 complaints against e-commerce platforms has been registered in the National Consumer Helpline from April 2019 […]
The Government has finalised the postings of six IPS Officers. Vijay Singh Gurjar, Jagdish Bangarwa, Abhishek Gupta, Atul Kumar Bansal, Vishakha Dabral and Shripal Shesma have been allotted Gujarat cadre in Indian Police Service. The officers in this coveted service have completed their Phase II training at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA) in […]
The Gujarat High Court has maintained a notice given by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation which made it compulsory to be completely immunized with two dosages of both of the Covid antibodies, to enter a large group of public spaces and offices under its ward. A two-bench Justice, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Niral R Mehta […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has given a nod of approval to the Serum Institute of India’s (SII), emergency use vaccine Covovax. CEO of the Serum Institute of India Adar Poonawalla shared this news through his Twitter handle saying “This is yet another milestone in our fight against Covid-19, Covovax is now WHO approved for […]
