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In an unpredicted offshoot of the 3000-kilo drug haul captured at Mundra port, the political slugfest in far-off Andhra Pradesh has reached another level with DGP Gautam Sawang serving legal notices to opposition TDP leaders and media houses for defamatory comments against the police. In September, the DRI (Directorate of Revenue Intelligence) had seized heroin […]
Smarting after being evicted from the new 80-member national executive committee of his party, BJP MP Varun Gandhi has turned the tables on the central government as he tweeted a 1980 clip of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in support of farmers. The video shows Vajpayee at his aggressive best at a farmers rally as he warns […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished former PM Manmohan Singh a ‘speedy recovery’. PM Modi tweeted: ‘I pray for the good health and speedy recovery of Dr. Manmohan Singh Ji’. Dr Manmohan Singh was hospitalised yesterday at Delhi’s AIIMS for fever and weakness. Later on Wednesday, doctors at AIIMS said that the former PM’s condition was […]
Mahatma Gandhi didn’t mind if Indians die but Britishers shouldn’t die; that’s what Mahatma and Nehru believed. Mahatma was sad about the Chauri Chaura massacre in Gorakhpur as Britishers had died. Dono ki mili bhagat, a Social Studies teacher has been recorded making a series of comments on Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru–which clearly were […]
The team of Regional Sports Board (RSB), Ahmedabad has given a victorious performance in the All-India Civil Services Competition 2020-21. It was organized by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India at New Delhi. Over 50 sportspersons including women athletes were given the trophies and medals. They participated in varied sports such […]
In an announcement which will delight hundreds of fliers from Ahmedabad, Municipal commissioner Mukesh Kuma has said that shuttle bus service from SG Highway to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International (SVPI) airport is set to resume operations within a week. The decision was taken after a meeting held between officials of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and […]
The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday granted interim relief to a Muslim man (21) – accused under the state’s first anti-love jihad case – following a petition jointly moved by him and the Hindu woman (25) he had married in 2019. The complainant woman had filed an FIR against her husband Sameer Qureshi and in-laws […]
The State Government has informed the Gujarat High Court that it is first “focusing on hospitals and schools” to ensure every building has an NOC from the Fire Department. The submissions were made before a division bench of Justice NV Anjaria and Justice AP Thaker, which was hearing a public interest litigation by advocate Amit Panchal about fire safety on Wednesday. The petitioner-advocate also produced the report of Justice DA Mehta Inquiry Commission into the […]
Two were killed and three others were left injured after an overhead container filled with raw material, fell on them at Saurashtra Chemicals, a unit of Nirma Group, on Wednesday. The probe has been ordered into the incident by the Porbandar District Collector, A M Sharma. The incident being the second industrial accident in […]
Gujarat Government is compelled to buy power at Rs 4.5 per unit which is higher than Rs.2.26 variable cost mentioned in the power purchase agreement, from Tata’s Mundra plant after Adani’s plant at Mundra and Essar Power’s plant at Salaya stopped supplying power to the state. Amidst widespread whispers which says there is impending crisis […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Gujarat has arrested four people including Zarin Ansari, the Taluka Development Officer (TDO) of Shahera taluka of Panchmahal district of Gujarat, for demanding and accepting a bribe worth around Rs 2 lakhs. A contractor had received a MNREGA tender for which he had to supply raw materials for road, well and […]
Mehndi Pethani, killed by her live-in partner Sachin Dixit, had called Jeevan Aastha helpline number on November 1, 2019, to discuss the issues going on between her and Dixit. In a 54 minutes long call, Pethani had sought advice from the helpline. Also, around the same period, she had filed a complaint against Dixit, saying […]
“Every Indian feels the pain of Afghan people” – said PM Modi to current chair Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, addressing in the virtual G-20 summit. He urged the international community to forge a unified response to bring about desired changes to the situation in Afghanistan. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) informed that Narendra Modi […]
Although ragging has now become less rampant over the last few years, it is still a norm, especially in a few medical colleges and hostels. In one such curious case of Gujarat University – an alleged ragging complaint was made by an MBBS student in March 2021. The incident of a 3rd-year resident doctor of […]
Rising prices of imported coal and natural gas have adversely affected the power plants – that operate without thermal and gas-fired power plants with a capacity of 6,400 MW in Gujarat. A senior state government official stated that they have been buying 4,000-5,000 MW of power every day from the exchange. The official further said […]
The tussle between family members who run Mumbai’s famous Lilavati Hospital for the last 43 years has turned murky with a section of the trustees accusing the others of burglary of rare jewellery and artefacts worth Rs 45 crore in the hospital’s Palanpur unit. The son of two lifetime trustees, Kishore Mehta and Charu Mehta, […]
Even as it is still a year to go for the 2022 assembly polls in Gujarat — assuming that the elections are not advanced to hold it along with Uttar Pradesh in March-April as is being speculated — the BJP and the Congress, along with an apparently serious contender AAP, have already launched the preparations. […]
A major revelation has come out in the Heena murder case which has revealed that Heena’s baby was born at Sangeeta Hospital in Bopal. A team of police is currently investigating the matter at Sangeeta Hospital. Moreover, the Gandhinagar police have also kept the accused husband Sachin Dixit in custody. Also read: Even In Death […]
From N.K Patel, Chief Engineer and Additional Secretary to Government, Y.M. Chavda, Chief Engineer, Project Implementation Unit – as many as 14 Government Engineers have been transferred by Gujarat Government. Here’s a list of Engineers who have been transferred: N.K. Patel S.K. Patel J.A. Gandhi B.C. Patel Ashok Patel P.R. Patelia K.M. Patel P.M. Chaudhary […]
A Muslim woman offered special puja at a temple built by her late husband in Sagar town of Shivamogga in Karnataka which was then handed over to the Hindu community. Bhagavati Amma temple was constructed nearly 50 years ago by a railway employee Ibrahim Sharif. “My husband, a railway employee, had built this Bhagawati Amma […]
