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Speculations of a bio-chemical weapon targeting US diplomats were rife much before the COVID pandemic actually hit the globe. However, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has concluded that US diplomats suffering from ‘Havana Syndrome’ were not targets of any foreign power. The mysterious condition first came up in 2016, after dozens of diplomats at the […]
Those twenty minutes on a Ferozepur flyover have revealed the underbelly of arguably the greatest street-fighter whoever made it to the office of the prime minister of India. As Amit Shah famously suggested to Satya Pal Malik, the man appears to have clearly misplaced his marbles. And that cannot augur well for our already over-heated polity. […]
Former American businesswoman, Elizabeth Holmes, in 2014, set up Theranos, a health technology company that soared in valuation after the company claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing testing methods that could use surprisingly small volumes of blood, such as from a finger prick. By 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest […]
With the ruling BJP pulling out all stops to win the 2022 elections and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) matching it breath by breath, an FSL report on journalist-turned-AAP leader Isudan Gadhvi being drunk while leading an assault on the BJP headquarter, Shri Kamalam, has returned positive after a week. On Saturday, 13 days later, […]
Ever since the coronavirus pandemic struck, it has thrown up challenge after challenge. With the advent of 2021 and cases seemingly under control, life was expected to go back to normal but then the virus began mutating, and here we are looking at a fresh set of Covid-inspired curbs as we enter the third year […]
Tech trials for India’s first 5G rural broadband was recently launched at the Ajol village, in Mansa taluka of Gandhinagar, with a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) set up 17 km away in Unawa city. The Central Telecommunication Corporation had recently announced that nine major cities, including Gandhinagar, will get 5G network speeds for mobile holders […]
PK es un official consumado y una gran secretariaaka Pankaj Kumar is an accomplished officer and a great Chief Secretary. Lets talk about PK today. Our Chief Secretary. Before Pankaj Kumar was appointed as the CS, there were lots of wild theories and speculations running amok. We were really amused to see and hear even […]
The Gujarat government incites Vibrant Gujarat’s promotions with different teams of the State Government visiting participating countries to promote. The teams are visiting the US, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, France and the United Kingdom. One team, consisting of a two members delegation led by Commissioner of Rural Development Department, Sonal Mishra is visiting the UK […]
A family from Vadodara filed a complaint against the SSG Hospital claiming that they had swapped their child with someone else’s after the woman gave birth on Saturday afternoon. After delivering the baby, the doctors informed her that it was a boy. However, when the nurse brought the baby, it was a girl and informed […]
For the last decade or so, I have felt as if I am living through a dystopia. I have titled this column ‘The Dystopian Moments’ and not called it ‘Our Dystopias’. So, I want to make it very clear that my focus is not on our current political or social situation in the country. My […]
I’m a young Hindu girl from Gujarat who grew up as a BJP devotee. I love my family, but I was brainwashed by them to believe that BJP is our party and that Congress is corrupt. I was just nine when I was made to support the BJP by my maternal family who was associated […]
This week, the news about the Air India sale to the Tatas was all over the town. Also, in our pandemic days, Adar Poonawalla’s Serum Institute of India has received good as well as bad press. There have also been some Marxist voices about the Air India sale being a “corporate sell-out”. In that context, […]
The case of Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh is gaining momentum. Family of Gurvinder Singh – one of the farmers who died in the incident had raised doubts over post mortem reports and requested for another post mortem. In the purview of this, the District Magistrate of Bahraich, Dinesh Chandra said that “An expert panel […]
Coronavirus or Covid-19 has been playing havoc with our lives for over a year and a half and has claimed the lives of more than 4.5 million people worldwide. Though it spread rapidly, affecting one country after another, it was not taken seriously, and not just the common man but heads of states also dismissed […]
A tribal farmer, steeped in debt and hit by Covid-19, consumed pesticides to kill himself in Gujarat’s Navsari on Wednesday night.Nilesh Patel waited for the fervently promised ‘Achhe din’, but they never came. At least not in his lifetime. He had been hoping that they would arrive – if not within the promised 100 days, […]
Working mothers in Gujarat are a scared lot after two very sad incidents. A working couple in Ahmedabad had hired the babysitter, Bindu Sharma for the last three months for Rs 18, 500 per month. Bindu was arrested by Gujarat Police when she was caught striking a deal with a West Bengal-based family to sell […]
Four funds that have a large investment in India’s second richest Gautam Adani-promoted firms have a history of investing in the companies that have defaulted on repayment to bank. The opposition has demanded an investigation for alleged round-tripping. These funds are also among the largest foreign shareholders in Winsome Diamonds and Jewellery Ltd., Sterling Biotech […]
In aftermatch of a media report that resulted in series of profit booking on shares of six listed entities of Adani group companies, the founder and chairman of the group has spoken out. In his address to shareholders, India’s second richest also elaborated on the growth model of his business empire. “I must draw attention […]
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 […]
It was a 20-second video, but it was long enough to inject doubts about the Covid-19 vaccine. It was a forward that Sharda Parmar, a resident of Juhapura in the South-West zone of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, received on her phone. “The video talked about how anyone who takes the Covid-19 vaccine will suffer a paralytic or epileptic attack, […]
