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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 […]
Women of the war-torn nation Afghanistan have been protesting against the all-male interim government of the nation. Taliban fighters reportedly used whips against them to restrict any resistance to its rule. There were videos and images received from a protest site in Kabul on Wednesday which showed the Taliban militants whipping women to break the […]
Cabinet Committee on September 8 approved the procurement of fifty-six C-295MW transport aircraft from Spain’s Airbus Defence and Space for the Indian Air Force. 40 aircraft are to be manufactured in India while 16 will be delivered in flyaway condition from Spain. The press release issued by the Ministry of Defence stated that 16 aircraft […]
Lost in the celebration of UNESCO including Dholavira in Gujarat as a World Heritage Site is the fact that Ahmedabad is in imminent danger of losing its World Heritage City tag from the UN. Even when the 600-year-old Walled City was given the World Heritage tag on July 8, 2017, UNESCO experts were skeptical since […]
1) Smartphone Photography – Unleash the Pro ModeDate & Time: September 08, 2021 – September 30, 2021 This course is to learn how to operate the native camera application in smartphones. As a smartphone’s native camera doesn’t provide you with the flexibility on video making. We need to switch to external camera applications, which are […]
The coronavirus pandemic has unravelled many heart-breaking incidents in the country. In Hyderabad, an eight-year-old boy from Hyderabad is driving an e-rickshaw to get food on the table for his family. Many are shocked after spotting a rickshaw driver who wears a school uniform. Gopal Krishna is a third grader and drives an e-rickshaw to […]
Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama decided to revert the working hours for primary schools teachers of government schools. The government, in a circular issued 24 hours ago, had instructed teachers to work an eight-hour shift. But on Wednesday, they revoked the circular and teachers can now go back to their six-hour shift. Earlier, the teachers opposed […]
The government is claiming to crack down on rampant land grabbing mafias in Gujarat, but the reality on the ground is very different. Several villages in Gujarat’s Kheda district are entwined in a complex land scam where not only bogus documents were used, but the power of attorney too was faked. The villagers had submitted […]
RTI activists from across Gujarat gathered outside district collector’s offices with a slew of demands regarding the process of filing requests and the procedure followed. They submitted a 16-point charter of demands under the Right to Information Act highlighting various issues that they alleged bordered on ‘inhumane and unconstitutional’. In this connection, an application was […]
The Centre informed Supreme Court that it had decided to allow women into the National Defence Academy (NDA) while hearing a petition filed by Kush Kalra against women being denied opportunities to be part of the NDA. “There is good news. The Forces at the highest level and the government has taken a decision last […]
Congress MLA Punjabbhai Vansh has written a letter to CM Vijaybhai Rupani regarding the current education policy of the state. It has been introduced in a letter to the School of Excellence to stop privatization in the name of PPP model. Presently more than 40 non-academic tasks have been assigned to the primary school teachers […]
Celebrities today promote various digital assets – especially cryptocurrencies on their social media channels as people want a famous personality from the online community to ensure trust of the brand amongst new investors. One of India’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges CoinDCX launched a digital campaign in order to bring new users on board with the hashtag […]
Since Covid-19 is back-seated for quite a time, mosquito-prone diseases are on a rampant rise in Gujarat, especially in cities including Vadodara and Ahmedabad. Dengue and chickenpox viral infections are constantly increasing leading to the unavailability of beds in hospitals. One such instance was recently noted in Vadodara’s Sayaji hospital. On the sixth floor of […]
Sajjan Kumar, 19 was stabbed to death by a group of men in Chandigarh for acting as Radha in several religious functions. The victim’s 21-year-old brother named Vishal was also injured during the attack at Ram Darbar on Sept 6. Vishal is being treated at GMCH 32 hospital. Both the brothers used to play Radha […]
Just days before the 20th anniversary of the attacks, New York officials announced on Tuesday that the remains of two more victims of 9/11 have been identified. The office said that these new identifications 20 years after the tragedy were being made possible by advances in DNA science. The office of the city’s chief medical […]
Sachin Waze, a dismissed police officer and the man behind the planting of explosives in a vehicle near Mukesh Ambani’s residence on February 25, had planned to extort money from the industrialist, as per the charge sheet submitted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The charge sheet that invokes the anti-terror law UAPA, as well […]
Covid-19 vaccination program started with vaccinating the healthcare providers, has now managed to vaccinate more than 28 percent of Indians barring children. Mansukh Mandaviya, the Union Health Minister notified on Tuesday that the Centre is to begin vaccination of children against the Covid-19 in August. He also said that the parliamentary meeting on the subject […]
Nalanda and Taxila are synonymous with ancient universities in the Indian subcontinent but Gujarat, too, had its seat of learning of that era, the Valabhi Vidyapith located near Bhavnagar. The fame of the Valabhi Vidyapith, believed to have been functional from AD 600 to AD 1200, was not limited to the shores of Gujarat but […]
As many as 96 per cent of the workers employed in large-sized processing factories situated in Narol — a garment and textile industry hub in the south-eastern periphery of Ahmedabad – were employed without any written agreements. The workers paid either in cash daily or on a per piece rate, a survey by NGO Aajeevika […]
