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Four people died while 15 were severely injured in the boiler blast which took place at a chemical factory named Canton Laboratories in the Vadodara district of Gujarat on Friday. A fire brigade and a police convoy rushed to the spot right after the blast. The blast was so massive that the walls of surrounding […]
Seven IAS officers have been transferred in Gujarat in which Lochan Shehra has been given the responsibility as the new municipal commissioner in place of Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Mukesh Kumar. While Mukesh Kumar has been transferred as Managing Director in GSFC and Rakesh Shankar has been made Urban Development Secretary. Navnath Kondiba has been made […]
Synthetic drugs like methamphetamine and mephedrone as well as drugs like marijuana, opium, charas and heroin worth a whopping Rs.1617 crores have been seized in Gujarat this year. It is quite alarming that the amount is increased by 729% as compared to the previous year. What is even more problematic is that the biggest haul […]
Sabar kantha Police has arrested four more accused including two women in the course of investigation in the Head Clerk recruitment paper leak case. The four accused were produced in the provincial court yesterday. Police seized Rs 20,000 in cash from four people arrested yesterday. This is the first time that two women have been […]
The work on Gandhi Ashram Precinct Development Project on Thursday got a nod from the standing committee of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), to be carried out by NCC and Ahmedabad-based P Das Infra Ltd. in a joint venture. The joint venture project to the tune of Rs 235.17 will now await the approval from municipal […]
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has started the demolition work in a part of the buildings around Gandhi Ashram as part Rs,1200 crore redevelopment project of Gandhi Ashram. An ambitious project of redevelopping the world-famous Gandhi Ashram is underway. With a total budget of around Rs. 1200 Crores, the project under the supervision of super bureaucrat […]
Quick on the heels of the paper leak in the head clerk examination on December 10, another paper leak has come to light in Saurashtra University. The case was exposed at a news conference by the opposition Aam Aadmi Party which claimed that the paper for the third semester of B.Com was leaked in the […]
Gujarat has always been a land of accepting innovation and change with open arms. The air of Gujarat has that something special which blends the traditions with the futuristic mindset so seamlessly. In the times of Corona, various guidelines of government did not allow the marriage celebrations the way the affluent Gujaratis want – Big, […]
A resident doctor working at the Gandhinagar Civil Hospital died of suicide a few days back by overdosing on vials of intravenous injection in his staff quarters. Vinay Jani, a resident doctor working in the anaesthesia department of Gandhinagar Civil Hospital, was found unconscious in his room. Following this. The police were informed and a […]
Vedic Maths, known to be a faster approach to solving arithmetic problems will be introduced in the school curriculum in Gujarat from the next academic year. On the birth anniversary of the renowned Indian mathematician Srinavasa Ramanujan, Gujarat Education Minister, Jitu Vaghani announced the commencement of the subject on Wednesday through Twitter. The tweet read, […]
Controversy erupted in Bahauddin College, Junagadh, as the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) claimed that the college management was favouring one student body over another.The protests centred around the student body ABVP allegedly conducting a private programme within the college premises, while approval sought for a similar programme to be conducted by the NSUI […]
Gujarat on Thursday reported seven cases of the new Covid variant Omicron in the last 24 hours, taking the state tally to 30, the office of state health minister Rushikesh Patel confirmed. All of the new cases were reported in Vadodara, of which three are under the age of 16. The vaccination status of four […]
The wind of change is blowing, to take the famous quote of British Prime Minister Harold Mcmillan. It is indeed blowing if the number of youth winning the elections and coming forward for the community service by way of taking responsibilities is any indication. In the recently completed Gram Panchayat elections held in Gujarat several […]
In an affidavit dated December 22, the Gujarat government has submitted that within municipal areas in the state, its survey has found 1,863 high-rise buildings without building use (BU) permission as of December 20, of which only 28 buildings have been sealed “due to shortage of manpower”. That means only about 1.5 per cent of […]
Intensive checking has been carried out by the Bomb Squad at the Ahmedabad Metropolitan Court following the death of two people in a blast at the Ludhiana court. A team from the Bomb Squad carried out checking on all floors, from the parking lot of the metro court to the ground floor. Reportedly, two people […]
Cyber police from West Bengal have nabbed two accused in a gang involved in a large-scale fraud with Junagadh-based Mars Bearings Company. Reportedly, Hiteshbhai Mansukhlal Solanki filed a written application alleging that a large amount of cyber cheating had taken place with him after which an offense was registered and the case was handed over […]
The Local Crime Branch of Gujarat’s Dahod district took over probe into seizure of opium worth Rs 26 lakh. The LCB has nabbed a truck driver from Rajasthan who was carrying a quantity of opium worth more than Rs 26 lakh. Many cases of smuggling of liquor from the border area are coming up in […]
It was ultimately left to the Gujarat High Court for bringing in a sense of sanity in the bizarre case of social anomaly where a Doctor couple, who had decided to part ways within seven days of their forced marriage had to undergo the agony of remaining married for 10 long years. The Gynecologist man […]
The state board exams for Class 10 and Class 12 are now rescheduled to begin from March 28 and end at April 12, which were earlier scheduled to be held from March 14 to April 12. The Gujarat Government on Wednesday declared that the state board exams for Class 10 and 12 are postponed by […]
Ahmedabad-based company Ranjit Buildcon which is building an overbridge at Mumatpura at South Bopal in Ahmedabad where a part collapsed late Tuesday night is also the company which has work orders for building 16 bridges on the ambitious Bullet train route and Phase II of Ahmedabad Metro, it is revealed. Part of The overbridge in […]
