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Even as US President Joe Biden opened the Summit of Democracy by raising the alarm about backsliding in democratic institutions worldwide, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an intervention, said that countries should follow their constitutional principle and added that tech companies should help to preserve open societies. On Thursday, Biden inaugurated the first White House […]
New Zealand has announced that it will outlaw smoking for the next generation so that those who are below the age of 14 will never be legally able to buy tobacco. The associate health minister Dr Ayesha Verrall said on Thursday that in order to create a smoke-free generation of New Zealanders, the legal smoking […]
The District Land Valuation Committee (DLVC) of Rajkot finally approved a proposal to allot 100 acres to the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation in Dhandhani village on the eastern outskirts of the city for a proposed dairy plant. The proposal will now be forwarded to the Gujarat government for final approval. This decision comes months […]
“How can you decide what people should eat? Suddenly because someone in power thinks that this is what they want to do? Tomorrow you will decide what I should eat outside my house?” These were the strong words of Justice Biren Vaishnav of the Gujarat High Court, hearing a petition by street vendors selling eggs […]
Even as Zakia Jafri, widow of Gujarat Congress leader Ehsan Jafri killed in the 2002 riots, fights an endless battle, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) told the Supreme Court on Thursday that nobody had raised a finger against it except the old woman. Zakia Jafri’s petition alleges a larger conspiracy during the violence in the […]
Chief Election Commissioner, Sushil Chandra today addressed the 74th batch of Indian Revenue Service Officer Trainees (IRS) at India International Institute of Democracy & Election Management, New Delhi. He urged the OTs to be more friendly to honest tax payers and come down heavily with iron fist on tax evaders. CEC also highlighted that effective […]
Tejashwi Yadav, son of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, on Thursday tied the knot with school-time flame, Rachel Iris. Rachel hails from Haryana but has been living in New Delhi. Tejashwi, 32, and Rachel are said to have first at Delhi Public School (DPS) in New Delhi and have been close friends since then. […]
Incidents of people firing in the air at wedding ceremonies are now becoming common in Gujarat. In Devbhoomi Dwarka district, a video of firing once again went viral today in which a youth is seen firing in the air with his pistol. In the rural areas of Saurashtra, there are still incidents of firing in […]
As many as 25 airports in the country are identified for asset monetisation. From Gujarat, Vadodara and Surat airports are in the Centre’s list. As per National Monetization Pipeline (NMP), 25 AAI airports have been earmarked for asset monetization over the years 2022 to 2025 namely Bhubaneshwar, Varanasi, Amritsar, Trichy, Indore, Raipur, Calicut, Coimbatore, Nagpur, […]
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Thursday that India will keep its ban on scheduled international passenger flights that were supposed to start from December 15, till January 31, keeping in account the emerging threat from the new Covid-19 variant. The extension in suspending the scheduled international flights was decided in partial modification to […]
Many therapeutic disasters were played out during the second wave of Covid-19 simply because the Indian medical system and healthcare did not have the time for a standard trial to test a placebo. The most unsuccessful among all the disasters was plasma theory. Plasma is a component of the blood which is believed to have […]
The beti bachao beti padhao campaign seems to have taken a nightmarish turn in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh. The students, all from class 10, were called to school for an overnight stay purportedly for a practical exam. Instead, they were offered food laced with sedatives and molested by the school principal and his aide. The horror […]
India under Narendra Modi ranked 13th in 2021’s annual census of the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) on slain and jailed journalists, a year that saw a record 293 journalists remaining jailed for their work across the globe as of December 1. This also marks the sixth consecutive year where over 250 journalists were behind […]
India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Laxman Singh Rawat, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu on December 8, was a controversial military officer who was forthright and blunt to a fault. Over nearly two years as CDS, the former Indian Army Chief ruffled many feathers within the upper military, official […]
The Gujarat (Right of Citizens to Public Services) Act, 2013 was enacted with high hopes, to bring about accountability in the delivery of civic services. But five years later, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation is still struggling to live up to the demands of the charter, which among other things, required every public authority to publish […]
Teams from the Vadodara municipal corporation had to carry out a drive to impound stray cattle in the Nagarwada area of the city after a man was knocked down by a cow on Monday, December 6. The man, who suffers from disabilities, was out on a walk in the morning when he was knocked down […]
Following the death of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat in a military helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu, an investigation is now underway to probe the matter. The Indian Air Force is now in the process of collecting all relevant data and material, including the copter’s black box, or flight […]
For running an alleged racket of producing liquor in the pretence of producing an ayurvedic syrup, two were taken into custody on Wednesday in Vadodara. The detention took place after the forensic analysis confirmed that the primary ingredient used for the production process of syrup was an alcoholic substance. The samples for the forensic test […]
After an accused in the case of allegedly assaulting a Dalit family for entering a temple in a village in Kutch managed to escape, three police constables were suspended on Tuesday. As many as 20 men were booked for allegedly assaulting a Dalit family on October 26 for entering a temple in Gandhidham’s Ner village. […]
The patient with the confirmed case of Omicron variant in Jamnagar district of Gujarat was staying as an NRI with a family where seven children used to visit for the tuition. Now amid the fear of the spread of the Omicron variant in the state, giving a sigh of relief on Wednesday, officers of Jamnagar […]
