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Two business contractors from Gujarat landed in trouble for making a jest that they were carrying a nuclear bomb. The duo, hailing from Rajkot, were apprehended on this when they made this remark to a security personnel while boarding a flight at Delhi airport. The incident prompted a complaint from an airline security supervisor. The […]
Laying to rest all speculations regarding his future course of action, former Congress leader from Gujarat Rohan Gupta has joined the BJP less than a month after ending his 12-year-old association with the grand old party. Gupta, along with some other leaders, joined the BJP in the presence of Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and […]
It is almost a month after the mob violence on foreign students on Gujarat University campus and the police are even yet to identify the 15 accused, let alone arresting them. The foreign students were attacked for offering namaz within the Gujarat University hostel compound during Ramzan that had left many of them injured. The […]
Buddhism is a separate religion and Hindus need permission to convert to Buddhism, said a Gujarat government circular citing the provisions of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2003. The home department clarified that any conversions from Hinduism to Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism would require prior approval of the district magistrate concerned. This comes following […]
The Gujarat high court has slammed the forest department and railways for not doing anything on their own, without the court’s intervention, to inquire into the deaths of Asiatic lions on railway tracks.The authorities told the court about the new standard operating procedure (SOP) to be adopted with the lowering of train speed — 30 […]
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 […]
The University Grants Commission (UGC) on March 5 permitted private universities across the country to set up off-campus centres. However, the Gujarat law does not have provisions for this expansion. Unless the Gujarat Private Universities Act of 2009 is amended, this will not be possible in the state, say experts. The state Act lacks provisions […]
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 […]
Denying that slapping a student by the teacher was abetment to suicide, Gujarat High Court quashed criminal charges against the trustee of Surat’s Samarpan School and a teacher of the school accused of slapping and humiliating an 18-year-old student, allegedly driving him to suicide. Justice Divyesh Joshi found that there was no material on record […]
Less than a month after several foreign students were injured in a clash with a local mob of intruders over namaz offering on Gujarat University campus in Ahmedabad, four overseas students have been asked to vacate the hostel this week. Officials said the visa of these students had expired.The number of international students asked to […]
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the maximum temperature may rise to 40 degrees C on Monday in Ahmedabad. IMD has given heatwave warnings in various cities. Heat and humidity will make people in coastal areas experience discomfort. Temperature continued to rise in the city and the state, with the maximum on Sunday in […]
Members of the Kshatriya community stirred controversy by threatening to perform ‘jauhar’ (self-immolation) outside the BJP headquarters in Gandhinagar, demanding the withdrawal of Parshottam Rupala’s candidature over alleged anti-Rajput remarks. Police detained five women along with Shree Rashtriya Karni Sena president Mahipal Singh Makrana before they could carry out their plans.Simultaneously, protests erupted in various […]
Gujarat Police Recruitment Board is in the process of recruiting for Class 3 Cadre posts in the department. Interested and eligible candidates can apply by visiting the official website of the Board. This recruitment drive aims to fill a total of 12,472 posts. The registration process began on April 4 and will conclude on April […]
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat arrived in Vadodara on a three-day visit to Gujarat.Bhagwat is likely to tackle the reported internal frictions between factions of the BJP in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha elections as well as the ongoing Kshatriya agitation against Union Minister Parshottam Rupala. Rupala is BJP’s Lok Sabha […]
Authorities at Gujarat University (GU) have issued official notices to seven students from Afghanistan, instructing them to vacate their hostel rooms on the campus. Five of these students have already complied with the directive, officials confirmed.The move comes in the wake of a controversy that erupted about a month back involving Afghan students who engaged […]
In an interim relief, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed an order of the Gujarat High Court that cancelled the admission of a panipuri seller’s son at a medical college following a dispute over his caste certificate. With the stay, the MBBS student can be readmitted to the course and can continue with his studies for […]
The Gujarat High Court on Friday castigated the state government for lodging an FIR against a contractual sanitation worker for “wilfully” entering a tank despite a prohibition on manual scavenging. The court noted that such a responsibility cannot be put on the worker who is only resorting to such work to feed his family. The […]
A customer has sued a restaurant seeking Rs 30.50 lakh in compensation for serving him non-vegetarian dish. Gaurang Raval, a resident of Shela, went to the Cube Lounge restaurant in Club O7 on March 7 with his sister and brother-in-law. They ordered Veg Makhanwala and other dishes. When the dish was served, it did not […]
The Gujarat High Court on Friday criticised the state government for lodging an FIR against a contractual sanitation worker for “wilfully” entering a tank, despite a prohibition on manual scavenging. The court noted that such responsibility cannot be placed on the worker, who is only resorting to such work to feed his family. The observation […]
The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has revised its Class 12 political science textbook, omitting references to contentious topics such as the Babri Masjid demolition, Ram Janambhoomi, the politics of Hindutva, the 2002 Gujarat riots, and minority concerns, according to a report by Hindustan Times. The revised political science textbook is the […]
