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One was crowned Miss Universe. The other chose to carve out the woman embodied in her manly self. How are they connected? Well, 21-year-old Harnaaz Sandhu won the Miss Universe title in a gown designed by transgender woman Saisha Shinde. No newcomer to fame, her sketches have been sashayed down the ramp by celebrities like […]
The killing of farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpuri Kheri was not a case of death by negligence, but, was in fact a “planned conspiracy” – said the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the case wherein Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra is the primary accused. Read more: Lakhimpur Violence: Minister’s Son, Ashish Mishra Arrested […]
The Kerala high court, on Monday, dismissed RTI activist Peter Myaliparampi’s petition to do away with the Prime Minister’s photograph on vaccine certificates. The petitioner charged the ruling party with converting the national campaign against COVID-19 into a media campaign for the Prime Minister. In response, the judge hauled Mr Myaliparampi for wasting the court’s […]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at six premises including one in Gujarat, in relation to a scam unearthed in Navjeevan Credit Society, Jaipur, Rajasthan. The searches yielded incriminating documents and digital devices. Cash worth Rs 62.60 lakh and silver weighing 20 kg was also seized. The special CBI court in Jaipur remanded both accused […]
Gandhinagar Sector 7 police has registered a case against husband and mother-in-law of a professor in a private medical college for domestic violence after the later made a complaint of domestic violence. The woman has complained that she was using her phone for checking how to do puja to which her mother-in-law objected. She started […]
Ever since the industrial revolution the 18th century, conflict between the machine and nature have only been increasing day by day. In a similar tussle between the need to protect ecology and present day need for the advancement of civilisation, The Government of India has pleaded to the Supreme Court to list for hearing a […]
Students from government-run schools in Gujarat’s Naswadi taluka are being forced to satiate their hunger with water as the food served to them in schools under the state scheme is not only inedible but is also allegedly prepared in unhygienic conditions. About 1,400 students staying in five state-run schools in Linda village of Naswadi taluka […]
The Missionaries of Charity, an organization founded by Mother Teresa, was charged under the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act 2003 with allegedly “violating the religious sentiments of Hindus” and “luring young women to Christianity” at an animal shelter they operate in the city of Vadodara. The organization has dismissed the charges. ”. Major news at […]
To give a push to tourism in the state Gujarat Government has decided to slash the Value Added Tax on Aviation Turbine Fuel used in Aeroplanes by 5%. The Chief Minister Office in a press release said Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has decided to reduce the Aviation Turbine Fuel by reducing the VAT by 5%. […]
The Gujarat Revenue Department has filed FIRs against 49 people for allegedly grabbing government land worth an estimated Rs 70 crore in Ahmedabad’s Vejalpur-Makarba area near SG Highway. The value is according to the government-fixed (Jantri) rates of 2011, which means the actual cost of land could nearlybe more than double at the current market […]
Priyank Panchal is a Senior Tax Assistant with the Income Tax Department, Gujarat. He got into the I-T department through the sports quota in 2014. Recently, the I-T officer-cum-battler replaced Rohit Sharma in the upcoming three-match Test series against South Africa. “Even before he joined the Income Tax department, Panchal was passionate about it. He […]
Chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Har Har Mahadev’ at the same time, Bajrang Dal activists in Gujarat on Monday tore apart banners of a ‘Pakistani Food Festival’ put up by a restaurant and set them on fire in the middle of the busy Ring Road in Surat. While ‘Jai Shri Ram’ is a usual slogan […]
CEPT University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) for a mentorship program in architecture. Announcing this at the inauguration of the CEPT Winter Exhibition 2021 on Monday, University Provost Tridip Suhrud said that CEPT was keen on sharing the pedagogy it has developed over the years. “This MoU makes for a […]
State-wide Lok Adalat was successfully held across Gujarat including High Court, District and Taluka Courts today under the National Legal Services Authority and the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority The Lok Adalat disposed of 48991 pending cases and 24470 pre-litigation cases. In the Lok Adalat at the High Court of Gujarat, 191 cases were disposed […]
The 90th birthday celebration of Osho was celebrated in Osho centers all over India on December eleventh, 2021. His sannyasins and lovers are on the rise since around 1990 when he left his body. More than 400 sannyasins accumulated at Osho Dham, a meditation place 15 km from Dwarka southwest of Delhi to meditate and […]
The Sanskrit Department of L D Arts College is all set to organize an international webinar on Shrimad Bhagavat Geeta from December 14, 2021, to December 31, 2021. The webinar is titled गीताबोधः Understanding Geeta The commencement of the event is set on December 14 2021, that is Geeta Jayanti according to the Indian Calendar (मागर्शीषर् शुक्ल एकादशी). […]
Indian Coast Guard Station in Veraval coordinated a swift operation on 12 December 2021 through the Coast Guard ship (C-143) for evacuation of the master of IFB Badrika who had suffered a snake bite while retrieving the fishing nets somewhere at the south-west sea area off Veraval. C-413 (Coast Guard ship) was especially diverted from […]
The maximum number of IAS officers selected from the UPSC in India is from one of the most populous state of the country – Uttar Pradesh, followed by Bihar and Jharkhand. A total of 5255 IAS officers have been posted in India from 1951 to 2020. If we take a look at the percentage of […]
In the emerging wake of the new covid variant – Omicron – the Prime Minister of the UK has also warned the citizens to not take it lightly and take necessary precautionary measures. On December 12, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson said that at least one person has died of the […]
The iconic Black-Necked Stork (BNS; Lat. Phippiorhynchus asiaticus), categorised as a near-threatened species and on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has successfully bred in the Wadhwana wetlands, part of the Jambughoda Wildlife Sanctuary, in Dabhoi, Vadodara. This was recorded after eight years of failed attempts by the storks […]
