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Lost in the celebration of UNESCO including Dholavira in Gujarat as a World Heritage Site is the fact that Ahmedabad is in imminent danger of losing its World Heritage City tag from the UN. Even when the 600-year-old Walled City was given the World Heritage tag on July 8, 2017, UNESCO experts were skeptical since […]
1) Smartphone Photography – Unleash the Pro ModeDate & Time: September 08, 2021 – September 30, 2021 This course is to learn how to operate the native camera application in smartphones. As a smartphone’s native camera doesn’t provide you with the flexibility on video making. We need to switch to external camera applications, which are […]
The government is claiming to crack down on rampant land grabbing mafias in Gujarat, but the reality on the ground is very different. Several villages in Gujarat’s Kheda district are entwined in a complex land scam where not only bogus documents were used, but the power of attorney too was faked. The villagers had submitted […]
RTI activists from across Gujarat gathered outside district collector’s offices with a slew of demands regarding the process of filing requests and the procedure followed. They submitted a 16-point charter of demands under the Right to Information Act highlighting various issues that they alleged bordered on ‘inhumane and unconstitutional’. In this connection, an application was […]
Congress MLA Punjabbhai Vansh has written a letter to CM Vijaybhai Rupani regarding the current education policy of the state. It has been introduced in a letter to the School of Excellence to stop privatization in the name of PPP model. Presently more than 40 non-academic tasks have been assigned to the primary school teachers […]
Since Covid-19 is back-seated for quite a time, mosquito-prone diseases are on a rampant rise in Gujarat, especially in cities including Vadodara and Ahmedabad. Dengue and chickenpox viral infections are constantly increasing leading to the unavailability of beds in hospitals. One such instance was recently noted in Vadodara’s Sayaji hospital. On the sixth floor of […]
Nalanda and Taxila are synonymous with ancient universities in the Indian subcontinent but Gujarat, too, had its seat of learning of that era, the Valabhi Vidyapith located near Bhavnagar. The fame of the Valabhi Vidyapith, believed to have been functional from AD 600 to AD 1200, was not limited to the shores of Gujarat but […]
As many as 96 per cent of the workers employed in large-sized processing factories situated in Narol — a garment and textile industry hub in the south-eastern periphery of Ahmedabad – were employed without any written agreements. The workers paid either in cash daily or on a per piece rate, a survey by NGO Aajeevika […]
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) takes a stern action against hospitals without Building Use (BU) and Fire NOC permissions. On Monday, the AMC revoked Form C of 42 hospitals across Ahmedabad for failing to provide or have the right documentation for BU permission and fire NOC. The strict action has been taken under an ongoing […]
An unemployed engineer from Chhota Udepur has published a video ranting in frustration and seeking the administration’s nod for allowing him to run bootlegging business. The video rant of a collegian from Tejgadh in Chhotaudepur district has raised uncomfortable questions to the society as a whole at several levels. Frustrated by lack of job opportunities […]
Amul parlours do not have BU permission, reveals the information received from RTI. After this, the question arises whether the rules (law) of GDCR and BU do not apply to illegal Amul parlours? Illegal Amul parlours are running in the gardens run by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. Amul parlours operate in public parks developed for […]
The Special CBI Judge, Ahmedabad (Gujarat) has sentenced Devender P. Sangwan, then Inspector of Customs & Central Excise, Surat (Gujarat) to undergo three years of Rigorous Imprisonment with a fine of Rs 25,000. The Court has also ordered the confiscation of Rs 17,64,950 +interest lying in FD with SBI and to be paid to the […]
In an important scientific data analysed by ICMR-NIE , it is revealed that city of Ahmedabad is prone to repeated bouts of dengue decease. Aedes aegypti mosquitoes which is causing Dengue decease, is found to be having 0.75 to 1.75 density in Ahmedabad city with Gota leading and Shahpur, Shahibaug and Sabarmati immediately following. Paldi, […]
The governing body of Vatan Prem Yojna’s society held a meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Vijay Rupani in Gandhinagar. The first meeting of the governing body, held on Saturday, proposed the works worth Rs 1,000 crore to be completed by December 2022. The details of the scheme were presented before CM Vijay Rupani. Following this, […]
The dispensation that rules India claims Gujarat is a promised land of plenty and a model to emulate but the state’s abysmal record in child health stands in stark contrast to those big boasts. Ask Feriyal Suran, an auxiliary nurse midwife from Ahmedabad — and not some remote corner of Gujarat — if she often […]
An unfortunate incident should not be the deciding factor of a child’s future. Adoption is as fortunate a connection between parents and children as is birth or any other form of parenthood. The last Monday of the auspicious fasting month of Shravan turned joyous for Nathan and four-year-old Arpita. Found abandoned in a dump yard […]
Bhalodia Vikshita, a Gujarat board student from Rajkot district has topped the merit list of degree engineering with 99.976 marks. The Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC) on Sunday declared the provisional merit list consisting of 34,585 of the total 36,216 students who participated in the online registration to get admission in degree engineering courses. […]
In a recent study of 34 cases in Gujarat, the Asian-West African variant of Congo hemorrhagic fever was recorded for the first time in the country in 2019. As per the study, human genomic sequences reported from Indian samples belonged to Asian lineages. Out of the 34 cases recorded in 2019 in Gujarat, most of […]
Ahmedabad Airport is planning to undertake repair of the runway during the day hours from November to March. This will cause the runways to remain closed from 9 am to 6 pm, which has been approved by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). For this, the Ahmedabad Airport management has announced a ‘NOTAM’, which […]
The day to tribute and show appreciation towards the mentors for providing guidance and showing path that can lead a bright future is Teachers’ Day. Celebrated on 5th September in India, various schools and colleges celebrate the day by making the students step in the shoes of teachers. GLS University’s Faculty of Commerce, SMPIC (B.Com. […]
