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The Income Tax (IT) department in Ahmedabad is on a roll. In just a month, IT officials on Tuesday raided yet another prolific builder from Ahmedabad. This time B-Safal group, Rajesh Brahmbhatt group and Swati Group came under the IT radar. A total of 22 places, including houses and offices, were sieged by IT officials. […]
During Question Hour in the Legislative Assembly today, Minister of State for Home – Harsh Sanghvi slammed the Opposition’s attack on the MD drugs issue. At the time, former Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel were engaged in gossip, so there was a kind of resentment among the newly appointed ministers […]
Can you imagine, Penicillin, a wonder drug of the times, which is estimated to have save over a 100 million lives was invented out of a fortunate mistake on September 28, 1928 ? When Alexander Flemming woke up that day, he might not have any idea to revolutionize all medicine. In reality, it is what […]
Management’s negligence was responsible for the horrendous fire break out at Shreya hospital of Navrangpura area in Ahmedabad – read the investigation report tabled in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly on September 28. A commission was appointed to investigate the incident and it has now come to light that the management’s negligence was the cause of […]
Raju Bhatt, a fugitive accused in a high-profile rape case in Vadodara, has finally been caught by police. Raju Bhatt, who has been giving the police the slip since several days, has been nabbed by the police from Junagadh. He was believed to have gone underground. The Crime Branch and PCB team have brought Raju […]
The assembly commenced the function on the second and final day of the monsoon session with Question Hour. In the figures provided by the government today, the latest figure of public debt of the Gujarat government is revealed. Gujarat’s public debt has crossed Rs 3 lakh crore figure. In the year 2020-21, there is an […]
The Gujarat Government accepted that as many as 56 persons from Ahmedabad, 15 people from Vadodara have been caught under the charge of selling Remdesivir injections illegally. While 54 cases have also been filed in court and 17 cases are yet pending for the same charge. The government replied to the question raised by a […]
While the probability of third wave of Corona is not entirely eliminated and Covid is rearing its head again, the night parties with DJs are on the rise in the Diamond City Sura. Videos of such a party held at Raghuveer Mall on Dumas Road on Monday have surfaced. With such DJs and night parties […]
Uncertainty loomed large over comedian Munawar Faruqui’s upcoming event in Surat given the menacing threats by the Hindutva l organisations. The Surat show of the young comedian who found himself in a legal tangle last year is in limbo for now. Going by the indication of the online ticketing platform “Bookmyshow”’s delisting of Faruqui’s entire […]
The world’s largest drug seizure dominated the Monsoon session of Gujarat Assembly with the ruling BJP and opposition Congress cornering each other on the issue. Brijesh Merja, Minister of State for Labour and Employment posed a question on the “motto of the Gujarat government to not spare any wrongdoer, no matter howsoever influential he/she is.” Gujarat […]
Impressed by the Gujarat model of Income Tax investigation, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), Delhi, has issued guidelines for all director generals of the income tax investigation department asking them to follow a standard operating procedure that includes certain procedures right from the preparation stage of a search and seizure action till its […]
The historical Tirumala Tirupati temple will have a Gujarati as one of its board members for the first time. Former president of Medical Council of India Dr. Ketan Desai becomes the first Gujarati on Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams’ (TTD) board. He was the president of the World Medical Association in 2016 and has also served as […]
Name it strange or weird, but the general knowledge – questions asked at Haryana’s police exam held on Sunday, September 26, definitely left the attendees in bewilderment. The exam was conducted for both men and women to fill up 463 positions of sub-inspector in Haryana. One of the questions asked in the exam paper read […]
The 2-day monsoon session has started in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly which started off with a question and answers session that lasted for 1 hour. The government received a raucous response to continuing price hikes and hurricanes by the opposition leaders in the Legislative Assembly. Opposition leaders also called for a boycott of the new […]
Several parts of Gujarat, especially Saurashtra, South Gujarat and Central Gujarat. In the last 24 hours, 147 talukas in the state have received heavy to very heavy rainfall. Due to the cyclonic depression by the Gulab cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, the monsoon returns full throttle across various districts of Gujarat. Gujarat has received 83 per cent […]
The Union Home Minister of India, Amit Shah, whose office is the nodal ministry for the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) will inaugurate its 17th Formation Day in New Delhi on Tuesday. The theme for this year is ‘Cascading effects of disaster events in the Himalayan region.’ Founded on 27 September 2006, the apex body […]
Ahmedabad is witnessing a surge rise in water and mosquito borne disease along with an increase in mortality in the city. The number of patients dying from diseases like dengue, chikungunya has risen to 25 in the last two months. The patients are flocking to government and private hospitals in Ahmedabad for their treatment. As […]
Some scientific discoveries are sometimes unexpected, mistakenly made, and prove to be beneficial nonetheless. For example, penicillin, an unexpected scientific discovery – the first antibiotic that has saved countless lives. Recently, while researchers at the University of Pennsylvania were researching a cure for diabetes, they suddenly discovered a new drug. Scientists have also discovered a […]
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) this week reported on September 7 that the UK passed the grim total of more than 160,000 deaths because of Covid-19. As per the data published by Public Health England (PHE), the deaths were 1.4 times higher than expected between March 21, 2020, and July 2, 2021. The increase […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had already announced the pilot project of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission from the ramparts of Red Fort on August 15, 2020. Currently, the mission is being implemented in the pilot phase in six Union Territories. The nation-wide rollout of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission coincides with NHA celebrating the third anniversary […]
