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In a shocking incident that could deter several working couples, a full-time caretaker in Ahmedabad city has been arrested for human trafficking her ward. Abhijeet Sen and his wife were a typical working couple. They hired Bindu Sharma as the caretaker for their 11-month-old infant baby girl. The working parents not only hired the help […]
America is now posting about 100,000 new cases of COVID-19 each day. Just a couple of months ago, that number was around 11,000 per day. 93% of the new cases are the delta variant. New pediatric COVID-19 cases jumped up 84% in one week. Dr Anthony Fauci says that unless we get a handle on […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with the beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) in Madhya Pradesh on 7th August 2021, Saturday at 11 AM, via video conferencing. A campaign to create more awareness about the scheme is being conducted by the state government so that no eligible person is left out. […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met former Australian Prime Minister The Hon Tony Abbott on Thursday. He is on a visit to India from 2-6 August 2021 in his capacity of Australian Prime Minister’s Special Trade Envoy for India. The two leaders discussed ways to further strengthen bilateral trade, investment and economic cooperation for the India-Australia […]
The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has released the latest details of election funds given to political parties from corporate houses and others by buying election bonds from ADR during 2019-20, in which the BJP received Rs. 44.835 crore and Congress received Rs. 3.398 crore together for a total of Rs 48.23 crore. A donation […]
A single mother Sneh Gupta from Vadodara was joyous at getting her twin six-year-olds admission to a private school until she was asked to fill a column that required her to fill their father’s name. Gupta had walked out of her marriage after which she got into a relationship with a friend of hers and […]
The Finance Ministry has given the approval to sanction funds for the upcoming sports complex in Naranpura, the project cost of which is estimated around Rs 584 crores. The complex will be developed on a land of 79,500 sqm behind Vardhan Tower in Shastrinagar. The complex will have an aquatic complex, a community sports centre […]
Alcohol Consumption remains high, and permits have tripled in past 3 years Enjoy a smooth peg of whisky? Without a permit in Gujarat, one 750 ml of Signature Whisky will cost you Rs 2000 – nearly double its MRP. Still, Gujaratis are buying it in abundance. Recently, the Gujarat High Court heard a bunch of petitions challenging the […]
A group of over 100 people comprising historians, filmmakers, former bureaucrats, human rights activists, academicians have come together and joined hands opposing the Central government’s proposed reclamation plans of the historic Gandhi Ashram also known as the Sabarmati Ashram. The letter is considered to be an open letter opposing the Rs 1200 crore reclamation plan. […]
To mark the 75th anniversary of Independence, the Indian Air Force is going to organize Amrut Mahotsav band’s Concert in four major cities of the country. Under this initiative, a band concert was organized at Sabarmati River Front in Ahmedabad by the Indian Air Force today. The main purpose behind this concert was to commemorate […]
The Covid-19 pandemic pushed schools across the globe to shut offline practices and get technologically advanced to impart education through the virtual world. As cases started to drop, the state government decided to commence offline classes in a phased manner. However, Gajera International School in Surat decided to break the government guidelines and put at […]
When people across the world were celebrating their friendships on World’s friendship day, the viral ‘Friendship break-up meme’ was sold for $51,530 i.e. around 38.21 lakhs Indian rupees. After a fight with his friend Mudasir, Asif Raza from Gujranwala, Pakistan took to Facebook in order to denounce his friendship with him. He created an iconic […]
Hundreds of thatched huts, rickety houses, tin-sheds jostling for space amid smelling overflowing public toilets. And a narrow squalid lane meandering through them. Welcome to Ramapir Tekra, a typical slum colony in Ahmedabad’s Vadaj locality and home to around 150 tribal migrants. Some 70 per cent of them would be single male migrants, anywhere from […]
Six Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha members have been suspended from the Upper House for a day for their unruly behavior.MC MP Dola Sen, Md. Nadimul Haquw, Abir Ranjan Biswas, Shanta Chehtri, Arpita Ghosh and Shrimati Mausam Noor are being suspended for ‘holding placards’ and ‘disorderly behaviour’These members entered in the well of the house […]
Times have changedEven though theyAre dying.Sky is redNow hearts black,Even though theyAre throbbing.Times have changed. (One of the poems from the book titled ‘Change’) This beautiful poem is penned by the youngest English poet from Kashmir, Abdullah Bin Zubair. The 12-year-old poet from Delhi Public School, Srinagar, wrote his first book – a collection of […]
Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of Gujarat unit busts a secret ‘Clandestine psychotropic drug manufacturing unit’ at Vapi from where Mephedrone was being manufactured and supplied to different parts of the state and various regions of the country. Two people namely Prakash Patel who used to manufacture drugs and Sonu Ramniwas who used to market the […]
August 4 is a red-letter day for music aficionados across the world because it was on this day, 92 years ago in 1929, that on a Sunday evening in Khandwa, Gauri Devi went into labour. Abhas was the youngest son of lawyer Kunjilal Ganguly and his wife Gauri, born after Kumudlal, Sati Devi and Kalyan. Today, the […]
Every specialist in cardiology cannot do without one book. And that is Grossman and Baim’s Cardiac Catheterization, Angiography and Intervention’. This book is a bible for all cardiologists. Since the seventies, at least since last 47 years, this is one book which would have an edition in all important international languages from Chinese to Spanish, […]
In a major investigation , Yarno Ritzen and Al Jazeera Investigative Unit claims to have found a secret base of Indian navy on a remote island called Agalega Satellitery, financial data and on-the-ground evidence obtained by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit point to India building a naval facility on the remote Mauritian island of Agaléga, they claimed. Military […]
Ahmedabad customer buys smartphone but starts heating up in one hour, dealer refuses to repair or replace, the court gives compensation in 5 years. When a consumer filed a complaint with the consumer court in Ahmedabad; the court compensated the consumer but only after delaying the verdict for five long years. Ahmedabad-based Hitesh Khorasia bought […]
