Light
Dark
The National Games — in its 36th edition — returned after a seven-year gap when Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared the Games open at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium on Thursday. Around 7,000 athletes from all corners of India are competing in 36 disciplines. The biennial event was earlier scheduled in Goa in 2016 but the delay caused by various reasons, followed […]
Ahmedabad-based developer Dipak Patel is the perfect icon for the theme for World Heart Day 2022 – ‘Use Heart for Every Heart’ – he could well be the longest surviving person in the state with a transplanted heart. Now in his 50s, this year Patel marked 18 years of his new life. He underwent heart […]
Gandhinagar is set to host its annual LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) Pride March on Sunday, 25 March. The three-kilometer march will start from Satyagraha Chavni in Sector 6 at 9 am and conclude at Suryajot Lake in Sector 1. “We expect at least 1,000 people to be there for the march,” says Kunthu Banthia, a member of […]
Cosmetic surgery is a life-enhancing event. It can set you apart from others and give you the looks that you always desired. To bring this service to Ahmedabad, Plastic surgeon Ashit Shah and female rejuvenation surgeon Hema Shah launched their cosmetic surgery clinic ‘The Aesthetica’ on Thursday. These doctors have included surgical and non-surgical treatments […]
In January, the world was horrified by the news that a family of four from Gujarat froze to death on the Canadian-American border while illegally trying to cross to America. The family, Jagdish Patel, his wife Vaishali, 11-year-old daughter Vihangi and three-year-old son Dharmik were a part of an 11-member group that was trying to […]
Owned by India’s multinational conglomerate company, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), headquartered at the financial capital of Mumbai, Mumbai Indians franchise announced the coaching staff for its SA20 team MI Cape Town on Thursday, September 15, 2022 ahead of the auctions scheduled on September 19. The former Proteas player from South Africa, Hashim Amla has been […]
The Mumbai Indians'(MI) ownership assigned worldwide positions to the Head Coach, Mahela Jayawardene and Director of Cricket Operations, Zaheer Khan saying that the organisation sought to build a core team on a global scale. The Mumbai Indians have expanded their ownership to include two other teams, MI Emirates and MI Cape Town. Khan will be […]
The coastal city Bhavnagar of Gujarat’s Saurashtra region is again in the spotlight. The city is hosting the 72nd West Senior National Basketball Championship 2022. The event commenced on Tuesday, September 13th and will conclude on 16th of this month. The Basketball sport is believed to be immensely popular in the city of Bhavnagar. At the city’s […]
Matrimonial relationships appear to have been influenced by the consumer culture of “use and throw”, which is evident from the rise in live-in relationships, said the Kerala High Court, while rejecting a divorce plea by a 51-year-old man. The court further moralised that newer generations see marriage as “evil”. “Live-in relationships are on the rise. […]
Attending to one task at a time improves performance as well as satisfaction These days, there’s quite a buzz about how multitasking increases productivity in the workplace and even at home. However, research points out that it is not good for mental health. Moreover, it is debatable whether it does increase productivity. In fact, many […]
India defeated Pakistan by five wickets in a gripping Asia Cup match on Sunday. After holding Pakistan to 147 in 19.5 overs with final stats of 3/25, Hardik Pandya hit 33 off 17 balls, including the decisive six in the finale over bowled by left-arm spinner Mohammed Nawaz. Contributing with 35 off 29 balls was […]
Indian judoka Linthoi Chanambam, 16, created history after winning India’s first-ever medal in Judo World Championships on Friday, August 26, 2022. Her two families were united in celebrating this victory — one in Manipur, and the other in Georgia. When the Covid-19 pandemic attacked the world in the year 2020 and as the first lockdown […]
(By Radhika Rai) Here’s how “3 Wins” works: First, you start by sharing two recent wins:1. A win from the past 24 hours. 2. A win from the last 90 days.3. (Read further) Why is this a big deal? Because if you’re like most of us, I bet you spend too much time focusing on what’s […]
The much-awaited Asia cup 2022 match between the two great arch-rivals India and Pakistan is already soaring the heat up and ready to accelerate the excitement of its audience worldwide. Scheduled to be played around 7.30 on Sunday evening, August 28, 2022 at the famous Dubai International Cricket Stadium based in UAE, the Asian Cricket […]
Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra made India proud by securing the top notch to claim his first ever Diamond League title in Lausanne, Switzerland, after giving his best score of 89.08m during the qualification event. Neeraj has qualified for the Diamond League final, which will be held on September 7-8 in Zurich, Switzerland, which also qualified him […]
Thirty-five crore menstruating women in India. Twenty pads in a month per woman. You do the math. One sanitary pad could take 500 to 800 years to decompose as the plastic used is non-biodegradable and can lead to health and environmental hazards. About 12.3 billion or 1,13,000 tonnes of used sanitary pads are dumped in […]
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. – Dale Carnegie Have you worked for a boss who was frequently in the midst of a panic attack? Though they had a prestigious degree and were technically brilliant, they were dramatic about the smallest of things and […]
Indian Women’s fast bowling legend Jhulan Goswami, who is set to retire after a ODI at Lord’s on September 24, has said more scientific research is needed to understand the effects of women’s menstrual cycles on an athlete, particularly in cricket where a player has to be on field for six hours. “When I was […]
The 50- year-old former Indian cricketer Vinod Kambli sought support from the Mumbai Cricket Association to come out of his financial constraints. It was the year 2019, when the player last coached a team for T20 Mumbai League. Hit by the post-COVID world, Kambli and his family are now facing critical financial trouble. Their dependency […]
The 11 rape convicts in Bilkis Bano case are out of jail. They are grateful to Gujarat government for releasing them under a special remission scheme formulated to celebrate 75 years of Independence. Without naming Congress, the rape victims say they were targeted by the Central government then in power for the 2002 incident just […]
