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Following jantri hike in Gujarat, coupled with robust registrations of property documents in recent months, the state’s income from stamp duty and registration fee surged 60% in 2023-24 compared to last year.The government earned a revenue of Rs 13,731.63 crore in the form of stamp duty and registration fees, even as the number of property […]
Ahmedabad’s business hub SG Road is on the radar of several central probe agencies but for a very different reason from what these are usually associated with.Over the past few years, enquiries have stacked at the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) from central agencies looking for AMC plots to set up their hubs. A plot worth […]
The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday dismissed the apologies submitted by Patanjali founders Ramdev and Balkrishna. The court expressed its dissatisfaction over the company’s misleading advertisements, stating, “We are not blind” and questioned why it should not treat the apology with the “same disdain as shown to the court undertaking?” The bench, comprising Justices […]
The Supreme Court set aside a ₹2,800 crore arbitral award in favour of the Anil Ambani firm, Delhi Airport Metro Express Pvt Ltd (DAMEPL) against the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in a dispute over Delhi Airport Express Line. A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud with Justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant […]
The family of a 25-year-old student from Hyderabad, who was found dead in the US city of Cleveland, has urged the Centre to make necessary arrangements to bring his body back home. Mohammad Abdul Arfath, hailing from Nacharam in the southern metropolis, had gone to the US in May last year to pursue a Masters […]
New Delhi: The leadership of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is surprised by the stoic silence of five of its seven Rajya Sabha MPs from Punjab since the arrest of party chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on March 21 in the Delhi liquor “scam”. They have so far not uttered a word condemning the […]
The Kshatriya community’s planned statewide protests against BJP’s Rajkot Lok Sabha candidate, Parshottam Rupala, hit a roadblock today. Gujarat Karni Sena President Raj Shekhawat, who had called for a siege of the Gujarat BJP Headquarters, Kamalam, was detained upon his arrival at Ahmedabad Airport from Jaipur. Shekhawat had urged Kshatriyas to gather at Kamalam at […]
Arvind Kejriwal will have to stay in jail as Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to give him any relief in his March 21 arrest in the alleged liquor policy scam. The Delhi CM’s Aam Aadmi Party responded swiftly, confirming, within the hour, that it will appeal to the Supreme Court.The court noted the Enforcement […]
Congress leader Paresh Dhanani is all set to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024 against BJP leader Parshottam Rupala from the Rajkot seat. The Kshatriya-Rajput community has expressed strong opposition against BJP candidate Parshottam Rupala from the Rajkot seat for the elections. The community has threatened to vote against the BJP if Rupala is […]
Faced with a brewing rebellion over ticket distribution in Karnataka, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has a stern message for the state’s BJP cadre — rally behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi or face consequences. According to party sources, with dissent brewing in seats such as Chitradurga, Davanagere, Tumkur, and Chikkaballapur, Shah, who travelled to Bengaluru […]
The security cover for Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar has been upgraded to the ‘Z’ category, as per sources from the Union Home Ministry. The Ministry of Home Affairs sanctioned this upgrade based on an intelligence report from the Intelligence Bureau (IB), although the specifics of the threat perception report remain undisclosed. The ‘Z’ […]
The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the Madras High Court’s decision to cancel bail granted to a YouTuber, ‘Sattai’ Durai Murugan, who was accused of making derogatory remarks against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin. “If before elections, we start putting behind bars everyone who makes allegations on YouTube, imagine how many will be jailed,” […]
Vistara on Sunday announced reducing 25-30 flights a day or 10 per cent of its operating capacity and most of the cancellations are in the domestic network. According to travel industry insiders, fares have surged by approximately 20-25 per cent across key routes such as Delhi-Goa, Delhi-Kochi, Delhi-Jammu and Delhi-Srinagar. Vistara faced significant disruptions last week with […]
India’s household debt levels are reckoned to have touched an all-time high of 40% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by December 2023, while net financial savings had likely dropped to their lowest level at around 5% of GDP, as per a research report from leading financial services firm Motilal Oswal. In September 2023, the Reserve […]
CEPT University Press today unveiled a new book titled ‘Planning for India’s Urbanisation’ authored by Vidyadhar K. Phatak, one of the country’s leading practitioners and thinkers in Urban Planning. The launch event saw participation from practising planners, students, faculty members, alumni and other members of the CEPT community. The book is a compilation of essays […]
Community welfare concerns is an issue that appears alien to Parul University. Headquartered in Vadodara, Gujarat, the University was recently pulled up by Gujarat High Court for admitting ineligible students. After admitting them at high fees, the University was exposed. The University refused to re-imburse the fees to the students following which they approached Gujarat […]
The government schools in India, though, are generally considered deplorable and the urban elite hardly think of putting their children in these schools, the story is a bit different in Ahmedabad. Call it the skyrocketing fees of private schools or the improvement in the standard of the city’s government schools striving for excellence, or a […]
In October 2023, electoral bonds worth over Rs 11 crore were purchased in the name of six members of a Dalit family from Anjar, a small uneventful city in Gujarat’s Kutch district. As per SBI data released by the Election Commission of India, of these, bonds worth Rs 10 crore were encashed by the Bharatiya […]
The New Zealand government announced on Sunday a series of changes to its employment visa program, citing concerns over “unsustainable” net migration. The modifications, which include the introduction of an English-language requirement and a reduction in the maximum continuous stay for various lower-skilled positions, are part of a broader effort to manage net migration more […]
Adani TotalEnergies E-Mobility Limited (ATEL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Adani Total Gas Limited (ATGL) and MG Motor India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen the EV charging infrastructure in India. The joint collaboration to develop the charging solutions for electric vehicle (EV) and value-added services to MG’s EV customers nationwide will underpin […]
