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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at six premises including one in Gujarat, in relation to a scam unearthed in Navjeevan Credit Society, Jaipur, Rajasthan. The searches yielded incriminating documents and digital devices. Cash worth Rs 62.60 lakh and silver weighing 20 kg was also seized. The special CBI court in Jaipur remanded both accused […]
Priyank Panchal is a Senior Tax Assistant with the Income Tax Department, Gujarat. He got into the I-T department through the sports quota in 2014. Recently, the I-T officer-cum-battler replaced Rohit Sharma in the upcoming three-match Test series against South Africa. “Even before he joined the Income Tax department, Panchal was passionate about it. He […]
Pink and blue coloured hair, big glasses and evident love for food, that’s how you define Shefali Pandey. Pandey has a natural tendency to observe the most mundane of things and bring out its creative or at least the funny side. A US returned professional and a Gujarati, Shefali loves the Indian rickshaws and her […]
In Gujarat the basic social and economic protection is missing for a large portion of the rural population, this is the reason women fall back on agriculture. Agriculture is also the cheapest and weakest form of labour in households. As per the information collected in Agriculture Census 2015-16, about 11.72% of the total operated area […]
The Income Tax Department initiated a search and seizure operation on Dec 3 on a Sangini group, and Arihant jewellers in Surat. The search action has led to the seizure of unexplained cash of Rs. 4 crore and jewellery valued at Rs. 3 crore while more than a dozen bank lockers have been placed under […]
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid tributes to C. Rajagopalachari on his 143rd birth anniversary, saying he is remembered for his contributions to the freedom struggle, administrative and intellectual prowess. Popularly known as Mootharignar Rajaji, he was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and independence activist. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India, as India […]
The output of food products and beverages manufacturing units in Gujarat has grown by a whopping Rs 4424.02 Crore from 2016-17 to 2018-19. In the year 2017-18 the food industry in the State stood at 128483.24. The total agri-food exports has grown from US$ 36.18 billion in 2014-15 to US$ 38.32 billion in 2020-21 at […]
As many as 25 airports in the country are identified for asset monetisation. From Gujarat, Vadodara and Surat airports are in the Centre’s list. As per National Monetization Pipeline (NMP), 25 AAI airports have been earmarked for asset monetization over the years 2022 to 2025 namely Bhubaneshwar, Varanasi, Amritsar, Trichy, Indore, Raipur, Calicut, Coimbatore, Nagpur, […]
The Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) was created for employment opportunities through micro-entrepreneurial ventures in rural and urban areas. Of the 8,567 projects slated, only 27 percent were realized. Three-quarters into the fiscal year (2021-22) and stock-taking reveals that barely 27 percent of the targets have been met. In fact, on a dismal note, […]
In a major crackdown by the Income Tax department on Wednesday, the Ahmedabad department officials raided 24 locations of SAL Group of Companies. Director Rajendra Shah, his son Karan Shah and other board of directors of the company are under I-T department’s radar. A team of around 100 I-T officials are deployed for the raid […]
The State Government has appointed retired chief secretary Anil Mukim as the Chairperson of the Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC), a statutory body that fixes domestic as well as commercial power tariff. According to an official notification issued by the State Energy and Petrochemicals Department, the Gujarat Government had constituted a selection committee to recommend […]
Earth’s past lies safe, buried deep in the core even if our future on ground remains threatened by gross misuse of the planet. And fossils remain the key to understanding the evolution of species. Now palaeontologists in Chile have stumbled across a remarkable finding. Arousing curiosity across the scientific world, this bizarre fossil brings to […]
Twenty-three per cent of young women in India still use cloth instead of sanitary pads during menstruation, reveals the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS) on menstrual hygiene by the International Institute of Population Science, Mumbai. In its fifth edition this year, the survey provides information on the use of hygiene products during menstruation in […]
Most pizza outlets measure pizza in inches, but according to the Weights and Measures Department, it is mandatory to measure pizza in centimeters or face penalties. It is also against the law to display pizza as small, medium or large in size. In accordance with these rules the department fined a pizza outlet in Prahladnagar […]
The Income Tax Department seized unaccounted cash of Rs. 1.80 crore and unexplained jewellery valued at Rs. 8.30 crore from Ahmedabad-based company Ratnamani Metals and Tubes. The I-T raid was initiated on Nov 23. The search action has led to the detection of total unaccounted transactions exceeding Rs. 500 crore. The search operation covered more […]
It is said that the degree of success in business is proportional to the risk-taking acumen of the businessman. For years, no one thought of starting a business in Juhapara, Ahmedabad – possibly India’s largest Muslim ghetto. Following the bloody riots in Godhra, Juhapura swelled with refugees, pushing its population up to about 5 lakh. […]
Despite two deadly waves of COVID-19, defying the mask rule is quite common in Gujarat, as figures would indicate. The police took in Rs 294 crore in fines from 41.60 lakh offenders failing to wear a mask between June 24, 2020 and December 2, 2021. Mask offenders spent Rs 56 lakh per day in the […]
The Vibrant Gujarat summit, due to be held in Gandhinagar between Jan 10- Jan 12, 2022 will need citizens from 11 countries to quarantine for a minimum of seven days on arrival in the district, in line with the three-sutra principle of ‘test-track-treatment’. These 11 countries include the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, China, […]
Talk about irony. BJP vice-president Jagrutiben Pathak was involved in an accident in Vadodara, involving cattle, on Friday evening. She needed four stitches for her head injury. Pathak, a resident of Harinagar Vinayak Society in Ward 11, was returning from the ward office on Friday evening. At the Clock Circle crossroad, she was knocked over […]
A recent wedding celebration at a Sindhu Bhavan Road hotel in Ahmedabad has turned into a nightmare of sorts. Over 20 members who attended the wedding have tested positive for covid. The guests arrived on Nov 25 and returned to Bhavnagar on Nov 28. Meanwhile Bhavnagar Municipal Corporation stated that a man of 77 and […]
