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One of the hidden cables that enabled the leading lights like Nelson Mandela in the Anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa, Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, affectionately called Ebie has died at the age of 84 at his Johannesburg home on December 6. Born on July 1 1937 to parents of Indian origin, Ebrahim’s father Mohamed Adam Mod, […]
After a 38-year-old rape accused was sentenced to death by a court in Surat after completing the trial in just 33 days, Gujarat MoS for Home affairs, Harsh Sanghavi said that the state government has decided to put up hoardings all over the state, displaying the photograph of every rape convicts along with the details […]
In a rare synergy between police, forensics and judiciary in Gujarat, justice has been delivered to families of three minor rape victims within a month’s time of the incidents. That three families got justice within a month of the crime having taken place does mean that the system has been responsive. “This is the fastest and quickest […]
In a move that indicates the Centre’s willingness to adopt new technology, the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Friday released a ‘National Strategy On Blockchain.’ Allaying all apprehensions given that blockchain technology is associated with the yet-unregulated cryptocurrency business, the ministry aims at making India a global leader in blockchain technology. The union ministry says its mission is to provide a “consensus-based, […]
The State Government has appointed retired chief secretary Anil Mukim as the Chairperson of the Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC), a statutory body that fixes domestic as well as commercial power tariff. According to an official notification issued by the State Energy and Petrochemicals Department, the Gujarat Government had constituted a selection committee to recommend […]
United States health officials said that while the omicron variant of the coronavirus is rapidly spreading throughout the country, early indications suggest it may be less dangerous than Delta, which continues to drive a surge of hospitalisations. US President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, said on Sunday that scientists need more information […]
Save the much-hyped Katrina-Vicky wedding, the only other name currently trending on social media is Vishal Garg, the CEO of Better.Com. His ominous call left the 900 employees, who dialed in, without a job post the session. The Zoom call, which went viral, laid off nine per cent of its total workforce (10,000). The employees […]
Earth’s past lies safe, buried deep in the core even if our future on ground remains threatened by gross misuse of the planet. And fossils remain the key to understanding the evolution of species. Now palaeontologists in Chile have stumbled across a remarkable finding. Arousing curiosity across the scientific world, this bizarre fossil brings to […]
The vigilant forest official D G Gadhvi and his staff on patrol have nabbed two persons on charges of hunting antelope from the Bhal geographic region in Gujarat. The Bhal region is an area spread across the political boundaries of the districts of Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad, and Anand, on the deltas of the Sabarmati, Bhogawo, Bhadar, […]
Twenty-three per cent of young women in India still use cloth instead of sanitary pads during menstruation, reveals the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS) on menstrual hygiene by the International Institute of Population Science, Mumbai. In its fifth edition this year, the survey provides information on the use of hygiene products during menstruation in […]
For once, justice has not been not delayed. A court in Gujarat’s Surat awarded death sentence to a convict in the rape and murder case of a two-year-old girl. The court convicted the 35-year-old man who was charged for rape, murder, and abduction under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Protection […]
The Income Tax Department seized unaccounted cash of Rs. 1.80 crore and unexplained jewellery valued at Rs. 8.30 crore from Ahmedabad-based company Ratnamani Metals and Tubes. The I-T raid was initiated on Nov 23. The search action has led to the detection of total unaccounted transactions exceeding Rs. 500 crore. The search operation covered more […]
Much like what’s happening between Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee and Opposition matriarch Sonia Gandhi. Now that a United Opposition is the only way to oust the BJP in the impending May 2024 General Elections, notable leaders are up and about garnering the resistance front. To her credit, Ms Banerjee seems to the face uniting the […]
With a confirmed case of Omicron variant of Covid-19 in Gujarat, Ahmedabad airport will today receive around 2,000 people coming from abroad. 14 flights coming from abroad will be monitored and all the passengers will have to mandatorily undergo the Covid-19 test. Earlier on December 4, the health department of Gujarat had confirmed the first […]
A quiet balancing act between the ideals of “dry” Gujarat and compulsions of attracting businesses is underway in the form of efforts for relaxation from prohibition inside the limits of Gift City SEZ. As early as September 27, 2020, the Gift City management had requested the Superintendent of prohibition and excise to allow relaxation in […]
The special POSCO court convicted Guddu Yadav, 35, a migrant worker from Bihar in record 28 days after his arrest for the heinous crime he committed on the 4th of November. Yadav raped and murdered a two-and-a-half-year-old girl whose body was found on November 7 near a factory, located about one km away from her […]
In a tiny village about 52 km from Ahmedabad, two women, though illiterate in conventional terms, are fighting a battle that has the potential to turn some of the most archaic and patriarchal rules on land ownership on their heads. “The land is everything to me and it is my right to own it. I […]
In a tragic incident, a four-year-old toddler, who had come to attend his uncle’s marriage, was mowed down by a car on the housing society’s campus. The boy died while being treated in a private hospital. The marriage revelry turned into a place of mourning for the Swastik-42 housing society in Gandhinagar. Father of the toddler, Dhvanil Raval, in […]
The upcoming Gram Panchayat elections in Gir Somanth has taken an interesting turn as both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are vying for the post of Sarpanch in the Delwada village of Una taluka. Both family members are contesting for the post of Sarpanch in Delwada Gram Panchayat and are adamant about not withdrawing. The family feud […]
Call it political expediency or succumbing to Patidars in view of the crucial 2022 Assembly polls, the Gujarat Government has assured them that it would withdraw all criminal cases against the community’s youngsters pending since the reservation agitation. The assurance was given by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel during a meeting with a delegation of the […]
