The Sterilization Gender Gap: Gujarati Women Continue to Bear the Burden of Family Planning

In Gujarat’s rural areas, reliance on female sterilization for married women aged 15-49 years has increased by 2.3 percentage points, from 33.6 per cent in 2015-16 to 35.9 per cent in 2019-20. The good news: More than half the Gujarati women are increasingly using modern contraception as a method for family planning, according to therecently released Phase 1 of the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS-5). The bad: Nearly 7 out […]

The dead tell no tales, but bone pieces may!

CASE OF COP’S MISSING WIFE: Thirty-nine days after Vadodara inspector’s wife Sweety, 37, went missing, cops recover human bones and suspect it may be her Exactly, 39 days after a Vadodara Police Inspector’s second wife Sweety Desai, 37, went missing from Karjan town under mysterious circumstances, the investigators are startled on recovering small pieces of bones […]

Priyanka vs Rahul? Don’t believe Cong ‘sources’

The Congress has a history of Nehru-Gandhis working in pairs and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi are too close for friction over the party, says Rasheed Kidwai Of late, there have been speculations of how Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi think differently and want to pursue different, and often contradictory strategies in dealing […]

Flash flood in Himachal’s Dharamshala after heavy rainfall

After a cloudburst in Bhagsu village near Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh recorded a record high rainfall of 79.4mm, whereas 21.2 mm is normal in the area according to IMD(Indian Meteorological Department) . Many videos of the havoc in the Kangra district have gone viral, especially Dharamshala. Several horrifying videos are posted on Twitter showing […]

Covid-19 crisis spawns medi-preneurs of sorts

Gujarat Police have arrested as many as 180 quacks in three months and more likely to be booked. An idle mind, they say, is the devil’s workshop. And the Covid-19 crisis since March 2020 has spawned many a criminal entrepreneur out of empty minds during various forms of lockdown. Small wonder some quacks renewed their […]

Bimal Roy’s ‘Sujata’ brews even today

Bimal Roy’s 1959 film Sujata tugs at the heartstrings even today. More than 60 years later, this story of forbidden love between a high-class Brahmin man and a low-caste girl, Sujata, brought up in a Brahmin family, moves one to tears. Sujata gets her name from the broad-minded engineer to whose house she is brought when just […]

Mondays with Manjul, July 12

(Credit : MANJUL)

Minor girl allegedly raped by 19-year-old neighbour

Meghaninagar police of Ahmedabad held a 19-year-old youth for allegedly raping a 14-year-old minor girl. As per the FIR lodged by the minor girl’s father, the accused allegedly raped his daughter on the intervening night of 1st and 2nd July. “But the youth had threatened the minor girl of dire consequences and so, she remained […]

‘Even the security at the airport asks me when am I making another comedy’: Priyadarshan

This year, your war epic, Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea, bagged three National Awards – for Best Visual Effects (bagged by your son Sidharth), Best Costumes and Best Feature Film. Quite a high? (Laughs) All awards are encouraging because they make you feel you are still good. Otherwise, you start wondering if you are finished. Awards […]

Dilip Kumar unites India, Pakistan with final act!

Omair Alavi Be it Cricket, Hockey, Movies or Politics, India and Pakistan never agree on anything, except for Dilip Kumar. He was as big a legend in Pakistan as he was in India, and with his final act on 7thJuly, he united the two neighbors albeit momentarily. Born as Mohammed Yusuf Khan on December 11, 1922 in Peshawar, Dilip […]

How the Dalit Vote will matter in Uttar Pradesh

Gujarat GST investigation unearths bogus billing scam worth Rs1,741 crore, arrests two

The investigation wing of the state Goods and Services Tax (GST) department has unearthed a major bogus input tax credit (ITC) scam in three separate incidents after search and raids at 71 locations across the state. The tax authorities have arrested two individuals for running a racket of generating bogus bills and selling them on […]

Traffic movement restrictions during Rathyatra and alternative routes

On Monday, July 12th, during Lord Jagannath’s 144th Rathyatra to be held in the city with Covid-19 curbs, curfew has been imposed in areas that fall under the jurisdiction of the Gaekwad Haveli police station – Kalupur, Shaherkotda, Madhavpura, Karanj, Dariapur and Shahpur police station areas. According to the notification issued by City Police Chief […]

Ex-lover arrested for uploading intimate pictures

Are you a young college going girl having an affair that has just shattered? Then better be on your guard. Your ex-boyfriend could begrudge. He can fake your social media account and upload your private pictures to malign your repute. An Ahmedabad based 19-year-old college-going girl studying in the second year of college went through […]

Child sexual abuse on rise, during the lockdown

Many children are struggling with sexual abuse or have suffered from it, and gradually its figures are also increasing. During the lockdown, there was an unreasonable increase in child abuse. According to NCRB, 32,608 cases were registered in 2017. In 2018, it increased to 39,827. There was an increase of 4.5% in 2019 and a […]

Gujarat EV policy will accelerate EV adoption: Industry stakeholders

Applicable during a period of four years commencing from July 01, 2021, the new EV policy targets 110,000 e2Ws, 70,000 e3Ws and 20,000 e4Ws within that timeframe. In its bid to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) penetration in its state, the Government of Gujarat (GoG) on 22nd June announced a new Electric Vehicle Policy 2021,  which brings about […]

USA calls out India for respecting Human Rights’ Activists role

The Office of International Religious Freedom, US State Department condemned India on the death of Stan Swamy in custody and called out India to understand the importance of the human rights activists in a democracy. Stan Swamy died due to COVID-19 while waiting to receive bail on July 5, 2021, in a hospital, in Mumbai. […]

NCC made an elective credit course at the University of Ladakh

NCC is now made a General Elective Credit Course under the Choice Based Credit System course for the students of colleges affiliated to the University of Ladakh after getting a nod from VC Shri Chewang Phunchok. This comes after a number of meetings held between VC of the University of Ladakh and officials of NCC […]

Get subsidy under Electric Vehicle Policy 2021

Gujarat Government has announced Electric Vehicle Policy, 2021 for the state. Under the policy, every subsidy will be given to the buyers, who have registered their electric vehicles from July 1, 2021. Transport Commissioner said that to avail the benefits of the new policy, the applicant will have to register themselves online on the Gujarat […]

Emergency declared in Tokyo before Olympics

On the 8th of July 2021, the Japanese government under Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga decided to impose a state of emergency in Tokyo, considering the recently increasing number of COVID-19 cases. This decision is speculated to have been taken in order to host the 2021 Olympic Games without causing a COVID crisis in Tokyo and […]