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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 […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been waxing eloquent about his government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative but his political party has been accused of not practising what he has been preaching. The BJP, it is alleged, distributed around 750 Chinese-made tablets in the party-state executive held under the shadow Sardar Patel’s towering Statue of Unity in […]
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) takes a stern action against hospitals without Building Use (BU) and Fire NOC permissions. On Monday, the AMC revoked Form C of 42 hospitals across Ahmedabad for failing to provide or have the right documentation for BU permission and fire NOC. The strict action has been taken under an ongoing […]
An unemployed engineer from Chhota Udepur has published a video ranting in frustration and seeking the administration’s nod for allowing him to run bootlegging business. The video rant of a collegian from Tejgadh in Chhotaudepur district has raised uncomfortable questions to the society as a whole at several levels. Frustrated by lack of job opportunities […]
Amul parlours do not have BU permission, reveals the information received from RTI. After this, the question arises whether the rules (law) of GDCR and BU do not apply to illegal Amul parlours? Illegal Amul parlours are running in the gardens run by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. Amul parlours operate in public parks developed for […]
The Special CBI Judge, Ahmedabad (Gujarat) has sentenced Devender P. Sangwan, then Inspector of Customs & Central Excise, Surat (Gujarat) to undergo three years of Rigorous Imprisonment with a fine of Rs 25,000. The Court has also ordered the confiscation of Rs 17,64,950 +interest lying in FD with SBI and to be paid to the […]
In an important scientific data analysed by ICMR-NIE , it is revealed that city of Ahmedabad is prone to repeated bouts of dengue decease. Aedes aegypti mosquitoes which is causing Dengue decease, is found to be having 0.75 to 1.75 density in Ahmedabad city with Gota leading and Shahpur, Shahibaug and Sabarmati immediately following. Paldi, […]
We hear that Kerala has the highest literacy rate in the country. Malayali people are just as ardent book lovers as Bengali people. In a heart-warming incident, the world-famous author Paolo Coelho has waved a twitter “hello” to the 55-year-old Malayali rickshaw puller and brought international attention to him and Kerala. KA Pradeep, 55, resident […]
The governing body of Vatan Prem Yojna’s society held a meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Vijay Rupani in Gandhinagar. The first meeting of the governing body, held on Saturday, proposed the works worth Rs 1,000 crore to be completed by December 2022. The details of the scheme were presented before CM Vijay Rupani. Following this, […]
A Maryland man Nolan Steele, 78, of Sykesville said that he was about to leave a store when a voice inside his head told him to buy the scratch-off lottery ticket that earned him a 100,000 dollars prize. He told Maryland Lottery officials that he was preparing to leave the High’s store in Carroll County […]
The dispensation that rules India claims Gujarat is a promised land of plenty and a model to emulate but the state’s abysmal record in child health stands in stark contrast to those big boasts. Ask Feriyal Suran, an auxiliary nurse midwife from Ahmedabad — and not some remote corner of Gujarat — if she often […]
An unfortunate incident should not be the deciding factor of a child’s future. Adoption is as fortunate a connection between parents and children as is birth or any other form of parenthood. The last Monday of the auspicious fasting month of Shravan turned joyous for Nathan and four-year-old Arpita. Found abandoned in a dump yard […]
According to a public notice issued by the Cyber Crime Cell in the CID (Crime) Department of Gujarat, thugs can use a mobile phone or any electronic device with camera in their hands to spy on the holder. Senior police officials have said that there are many cases in which a person’s personal information is […]
Bhalodia Vikshita, a Gujarat board student from Rajkot district has topped the merit list of degree engineering with 99.976 marks. The Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC) on Sunday declared the provisional merit list consisting of 34,585 of the total 36,216 students who participated in the online registration to get admission in degree engineering courses. […]
As pandemic restrictions are easing out and colleges and universities reopen globally, students are resuming their plans to travel abroad leading to an increased demand for education loans. As per HDFC Credila, MD and CEO Arijit Sanyal said that there is a 2009 percent growth in exterior student loan applications in the first quarter of […]
In a recent study of 34 cases in Gujarat, the Asian-West African variant of Congo hemorrhagic fever was recorded for the first time in the country in 2019. As per the study, human genomic sequences reported from Indian samples belonged to Asian lineages. Out of the 34 cases recorded in 2019 in Gujarat, most of […]
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) organised a farmers’ mahapanchayat in Muzzafarnagar on Sunday, September 5, in protest against the farm laws passed by the Union Government in a previous parliamentary session. Thousands of farmers from Uttar Pradesh and neighbouring states attended the event organised by SKM at the Government Inter College ground in Muzaffarnagar. The […]
Teachers’ Day is celebrated every year on September 5 to mark the birthday of the country’s second President, Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. It is a day to honour, recognise and celebrate educators. Let’s get nostalgic with memories from a few known faces who had a huge crush on their teachers growing up. Having a crush on […]
“I am urging all the villagers of India to not let the Brahmins enter your villages. I will talk to every other community so that we can boycott them. They need to send back to the bank of the Volga River,” said Nand Kumar Baghel, recently in Lucknow. The video immediately went viral on social […]
