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Asking for follow-up in the next hearing, a division bench of the Gujarat High Court on Friday instructed the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to carry forward the actions needed on the notices issued to seven Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP) on December 4. The division bench was hearing a suo motu Public Interest Litigation […]
Gujarat is witnessing a gradual rise in the number of residents joining the armed forces. According to figures given in the Rajya Sabha on March 15 by the Ministry of Defence, Gujarat ranks 16th in the number of citizens signing up for the military. As per the records, there are 22,417 Gujaratis in the army, 1,258 […]
Minister of State Health Bharati Pravin Pawar informed the Lok Sabha on Friday that so far 18 cases of Covid-19 Delta sub-variant AY.4.2 have been detected in India. Pawar also stated in a written reply that these types of mutated variants of coronavirus are likely to evolve as, like all viruses, SARS- CoV-2 also evolves […]
The ruling BJP in Gujarat may have swept under the carpet its government’s ham-fisted Covid-19 management by replacing the chief minister and his entire team, but the ghosts of fudged death numbers have come to haunt it yet again. And it was a rap from the Supreme Court on its knuckles on November 22 about […]
A Surat sessions court on Friday convicted a man for the rape and killing of a 10-year-old girl in Pandesara area of Gujarat’s Surat city. This is the same industrial suburb in Surat where another minor girl was raped and the court delivered one of the quickest verdicts and that too of capital punishment. Additional […]
Roshan Bhumihar, accused of raping a four-and-a-half-year-old girl in Dindoli in 2018, was sentenced by a court to life imprisonment. The sentence came swiftly. But for the victim, the horrific incident was just the beginning of a hellish life. Following that traumatic incident, eight operations have been performed on the girl, now just seven years […]
An Indian mathematician at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata named Neena Gupta has been awarded the 2021 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from developing countries for her outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. The Ramanujan Prize was first awarded in 2005 and is administered by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical […]
Dhanpur police seized about 150 kg of meat from Katara Falia of Panam village in Dhanpur taluka of Dahod district in Gujarat. Police was working on a tip-off. Suspecting the meet to be beef, the police have sent samples for testing. PSI BM Patel of Dhanpur police station had received information about some persons killing […]
Prithvi Akash Ambani, the grandson of Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani, is to celebrate his first birthday in Jamnagar in the presence of famous celebrities. Celebrities including Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma and Zaheer Khan were spotted at the airport with family to attend the grand celebration. Grand Celebration to commemorate Prithvi’s first birthday The Ambani family […]
A resident from Surat was arrested on December 9 by the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) for an Input Tax Credit (ITC) fraud of Rs 26 crore. Abdul Samad Kapadia obtained Aadhar Cards, Pan Cards, and bank account details of different people to create dummy firms and operated from them. Out of a total […]
Amid the wake of emerging cases of Omicron, two more people who came in contact with the NRI who was tested positive for Omicron, have been tested positive in Jamnagar district of Gujarat on December 10. This has brought the total tally of cases in the state to three. Gujarat reported its first case of […]
The Central government has cleaned up 4.28 Crore bogus and ineligible ration cards from the public distribution system to ensure that the subsidised food grains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) is distributed among genuine beneficiaries. Due to use of information technology for TPDS reforms, digitization of ration cards data, deduplication process, permanent migration, […]
The Income Tax Department initiated a search and seizure operation on Dec 3 on a Sangini group, and Arihant jewellers in Surat. The search action has led to the seizure of unexplained cash of Rs. 4 crore and jewellery valued at Rs. 3 crore while more than a dozen bank lockers have been placed under […]
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) will honour Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi with the 2022 RIBA royal gold medal. The 94-year-old, who lives in Ahmedabad, has been honoured for his “delightfully purposeful” architecture. This accolade comes nearly four years after Doshi became the first Indian architect to have bagged the prestigious Pritzker Prize in […]
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid tributes to C. Rajagopalachari on his 143rd birth anniversary, saying he is remembered for his contributions to the freedom struggle, administrative and intellectual prowess. Popularly known as Mootharignar Rajaji, he was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and independence activist. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India, as India […]
Monkey Darwin hit headlines in Dec 2012 when he was captured roaming in an Ikea parking lot in a shearling coat in Oshawa, Ontarion, Canada. His “mother owner” accused the rescuers and local animal organizations of playing up a simple primate’s curiosity which took him away from his home. Thereon, continued a fierce legal battle […]
The output of food products and beverages manufacturing units in Gujarat has grown by a whopping Rs 4424.02 Crore from 2016-17 to 2018-19. In the year 2017-18 the food industry in the State stood at 128483.24. The total agri-food exports has grown from US$ 36.18 billion in 2014-15 to US$ 38.32 billion in 2020-21 at […]
It has been two years since 65-year-old Babu Nisar Shaikh, a migrant worker from Telangana died in custody at the Fatehgunj police station in Vadodara. Sleuths trailing the case, however, remain, clueless about the “missing body.” Only a year after the gruesome mystery, the State Crime Investigation Department (CID), filed a 900-page primary chargesheet in […]
The Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) officials arrested a Surat resident on Thursday for an Input Tax Credit (ITC) fraud to the tune of Rs 26 crore. Abdul Samad Kapadia obtained Aadhar Cards, Pan Cards, and bank account details of different people to create dummy firms and operate from them. Of a total of […]
We already know of the brand Kiremko. Think McCain Smileys and French Fries! The Netherland-based based company is the name behind food processing equipment in the frozen food sector. And now, Kiremko is eyeing an investment worth 25 million euros (approx Rs 213.7 crore) in Gujarat. The firm currently supplies food processing equipment to manufacturers […]
