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Sharad Pawar, the Nationalist Congress Party president, hammered home unadorned truths to the Congress, once his abode, in his latest interview to a Marathi news channel. Pawar, who evokes homegrown imagery to make a political point, compared the Congress to Uttar Pradesh’s zamindars of yore, feudal lords who owned boundless expanses of land, most of which they […]
In the last column, I spoke about ‘Stories that Open our Eyes’. I would like to continue from last week but with a difference. It’s like a leitmotif in Western Classical symphonic music, where something on a similar theme ends up lending us newer insights. In times of hunger, in times of ever-reducing cost or […]
Thoughtfulness is when you take food over to the house of a sick neighbour. Politeness is when you hold open a door for someone getting out of a car. Social mindfulness, on which India has one of the lowest scores as per a global study published last week, is a more subtle concept. Like politeness […]
Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to virtually inaugurate the Rs 200 crore ‘Sardardham’ building in Ahmedabad on Saturday, being projected as a one-stop business, social and educational hub for the Patidar community, the social media has erupted in protest. Several Patidar youth organisations and individuals have strongly objected to the BJP presiding over their community’s huge event when its […]
The current import duty on gold and silver is 10% plus 3% GST. A consumer pays a total of 13% tax on the gold they purchase.
With speculation that the third wave of Covid will hit children hard and the upcoming drive for kids’ vaccinations, parents have an array of questions about the efficacy of the vaccine and the protocols to follow to safeguard their kids. Currently, Zydus Cadila’s anti-Covid vaccine, ZyCov-D, became the first vaccine approved for use on people […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held center stage at a military parade, showing off to a national television audience a thinner frame, a trace of a tan and a haircut reminiscent of his grandfather — state founder Kim Il Sung. There were no major new weapons on display at North Korea’s first military parade since U.S. […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded advocate and vice president of the party’s youth wing in West Bengal, Priyanka Tibrewal. She will shoulder the responsibility of taking on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee from Bhabanipur assembly constituency in south Kolkata. Bhabanipur is Mamata’s home turf, the seat from which she clinched the throne of […]
The BK School of Management, once considered to be one of the most prestigious educational institutions in Gujarat, has not been ranked in the NIRF this year. Earlier, private institutions and magazines used to rank higher education institutions, but since last six years, the government has started ranking them. In the early years, participation was […]
Masuma Bharmal Jariwala, Rajkot The loud, overbearing Gujarat Fair Price Shops Association’s President and brother of PM Modi, Prahlad Modi, has yet again, in his clamorous style made another allegation on the Government. Modi, during his visit to Rajkot on Thursday, labelled the government as “Chor” while representing issues faced by the ration shops. He met Rajkot District Collector […]
Vigilant Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation officers on the morning of September 7 stopped a covid-positive child from catching a flight from Ahmedabad airport to London. Corporation officials did not sought police assistance for this and have avoided filing a police complaint. Fortunately, the child and the mother were intercepted before the plane took off, as once […]
Counting Covid bodies, scaring away locusts, gathering crowds for political events of the ruling BJP, counting toilets, distributing foodgrains. There are no different State agencies in Gujarat doing this — it is the teachers. Yes, teachers in Gujarat are roped in to do this. And wait, this is not all. Hold your breath — there […]
A few days back, Deputy CM Nitin Patel had spoken to Sufis about the ban on alcohol in Gujarat and told media that alcohol will be banned in Gujarat and bootleggers would not be spared. This video proves how the police themselves encourage bootleggers to sell alcohol. A video of a bootlegger from Vadodara has […]
Designer Rajdeep Ranawat exhibits his “Pichwai” adorned designs at the Deval’s Multi designer store, in Ahmedabad. His new collection is based on the store’s owner Deval Patel’s collection of Pichwai paintings. The collection was supposed to make its debut last year but was postponed due to the pandemic. The team did an elaborate photo shoot […]
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani signing an MoU with Amazon India on Tuesday to boost MSME exports has sparked off countrywide protests with the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) equating it with embracing the East India Company. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is about hand-holding and onboarding MSMEs in Gujarat on the Amazon […]
The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday asked the State Government to reply to a petition filed by a woman and her husband seeking to quash an FIR under the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2021 [‘Anti Love Jihad’ law] allegedly registered by a wife against her husband. Divyaben came before the Court and admitted […]
Aayush Sanjeev Oak, a young IAS of Gujarat 2011 cadre is the Collector of Surat. Born to an architect father and a mother who once worked in the banking sector in Pune, Oak never thought of pursuing what his parents did. Even his parents were supportive enough to let him choose his own path. He […]
IIM Ahmedabad is placed as the best management institute yet again whereas CEPT University has ranked 5th in Architecture which is one position lower than last year. Gujarat National Law University stands at the 6th position in all the law institutes which has climbed up by one spot. National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research […]
The decision of the Gujarat Authority for Advance Ruling levying the GST of over 18 percent on parathas has made restaurant owners furious. The AAR stated that 18 percent GST will be levied on packaged frozen packs of wheat and Malabar paratha. The restaurants are up in arms with the Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) […]
‘Chhelaji re mare hatu Patan thi patola, mongha lavjo ema ruda re moraliya chitravjo Patan thi patola’ (a woman urges her husband who is off to Patan to bring her the coveted Patola sari from there). The unfading charm of Gujarat’s famous weave Patola is reflected in the Gujarati folk song penned by poet Avinash […]
