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The US Embassy recently issued a statement regarding the pending US Visa approvals in the non-immigrant categories. As the country continues to build themselves from the Covid 19 cases and dominant delta variant, the embassy informed that the visa for the non-immigrant categories will have to wait longer. From November 8, around 3 million visa […]
National Unity Day or Rashtriya Ekta Divas is celebrated on October 31 since 2014. The day falls on the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel – the man because of whom we have a unified India instead of a patchy India. Why is National Unity Day celebrated? The day is celebrated to mark Sardar Patel […]
The Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam (GUVNL) on Saturday decided to increase fuel surcharge by 10 paise on every unit of power consumed with an effect from October 1, 2021. The decision will result in an increase in the electricity bills for all categories of consumers, excluding agriculture in the state. GUVNL has been buying expensive […]
Co-operation is when a husband reads a book when his wife’s favorite television serial is on or when the wife goes shopping when there’s a major sports event her husband wants to watch. There is a trade-off here, a compromise where both are okay with a sacrifice. If the family decides to avoid this sacrifice, […]
An application filed by the prosecution to examine two more witnesses in the defamation case against former Congress president Rahul Gandhi was rejected on Saturday by the Surat Chief Judicial Magistrate, AN Dave. The prosecution filed an application requesting the court to examine two prime witnesses named Chadrapa – an authority who made the CD […]
On the morning of October 31, 1984, Indira Gandhi had kissed her grandchildren Priyanka and Rahul goodbye before they left for school. Priyanka, who was 12 then, would later recall that her grandmother held her longer than usual. Indira had then moved to Rahul, then barely 14 but considered mature enough to have been taken […]
Six members of a Dalit family were allegedly attacked by a group of 20 people (most of them reportedly Hindus belonging to upper-caste or OBC) on October 26 when they entered a Ram temple in the Bhachau taluka of Kutch, Gujarat. The Gujarat police have arrested five people in the case. Following the incident, the […]
The Ahmedabad city Cyber Crime Branch unit on Saturday arrested a heart specialist who created a fake Facebook page with a post that the UN Mehta Heart Hospital is about to close. The Hospital is located in the Civil Hospital Campus in Asarwa. The doctor, Rounak Shah, was arrested from his clinic in Himmatnagar. The […]
With Vapi becoming a hub for chemical industries, the Gujarat Finance Minister, Kanu Desai informed that the government is planning to elevate Vapi to a municipal corporation. He said that Vapi is an industrial city and houses 2200 industrial unit. “Could be the biggest industrial cluster in Asia,” said Desai. Desai participated in an event […]
It is informed that constable Mohammed Sajjad of Gandhidham Gujarat BSF, who was arrested for espionage activities by ATS (Anti-Terrorist Squad), Ahmedabad on October 25, 2021, has been dismissed from the service by BSF” – read a statement of an official release by the paramilitary force. Border Security Force (BSF) jawan Mohammed Sajjad who was […]
The case of Sameer Wankhede, Zonal Director at the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) seems to be far from over. In another update, an NCB official said that Wankhede’s team during the initial investigations didn’t reveal if drugs were seized from Aryan Khan. However, a senior official informed the media that the initial impression that the […]
A family from Vadodara filed a complaint against the SSG Hospital claiming that they had swapped their child with someone else’s after the woman gave birth on Saturday afternoon. After delivering the baby, the doctors informed her that it was a boy. However, when the nurse brought the baby, it was a girl and informed […]
Diwali is literally and figuratively a festival of lights. It is a time when people get to gather to light crackers, create colourful rangolis and engage in Pujas and Aartis at their homes. However, it is not just limited to that. These festivities somehow bring people closer, leaving them with a sense of belongingness and […]
A division bench of the Gujarat High Court headed by Justice JB Pardiwala on Friday sought details of coal consumption in Gujarat and the number of industries that use only coal as a medium of fuelin order to assess as to what extent “the possibility of providing infrastructure or a network to all these industries […]
Indian railways recently received a complaint regarding the on-going construction at the Anand Railway station in Gujarat. The person who goes by the name Tejas Bamania took to Twitter to inform the Indian railways about his experience. In his tweet, he said that the lift at the station is not working. and the stairs are […]
As it became apparent that no drugs were seized from Aryan Khan during the raid on the cruise liner, NCB Senior officers, were supportive of zonal director Sameer Wankhede so far, started distancing from the probe. Sameer Wankhede’s shenanigans resulting into serious procedural lapse has caused much embarrassment to this elite agency Wankhede’s team gave […]
Appearing before the Supreme Court, Zakia Jafri’s lawyer Kapil Sibal has been arguing that the special investigation team’s closure report into whether certain prominent persons can be held responsible for the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat was not justified. Zakia’s husband and Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was one of 68 people killed during the Gulberg […]
Image for Representation With schools reopening all over the country, after operating online for over a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the ugly issue of corporal punishment has again raised its head. In one incident, the principal of Sadbhavna Shikshan Sansthan Junior High School in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, grabbed a child by one leg […]
The Gujarat Government on Friday issued a notification restricting the timing for bursting crackers during upcoming festivals. The state home department in the notification allowed the burning of crackers in a two-hour window during Diwali. The release has also allotted the timings for Christmas and New Year festivals. The release stated, “In Diwali, the firecrackers […]
A Rambhakt Dalit family was assaulted because they entered a Ram Mandir at Ner village in Kutch district of Gujarat. “Dalits do not deserve to enter our Ramji’s mandir. Ram does not need Dalits”, the family was clearly told when they were assaulted by Upper caste and Hindus belonging to OBC category. The family was […]
