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Major changes are on the cards concerning the plastic product manufacturing industry. Under the Single-Use Plastic Policy, products below 75 microns are to be banned. This decision will affect around 3500 industrial units and approximately 70000 persons engaged in the trade. At the stroke of implementation of the policy, disposable dishes, spoons, teacups, ice-cream cups, […]
The Gujarat government told the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday that marriage per se was not prohibited but it could not be used as a tool or instrument for effecting forceful conversion. The Gujarat High Court was hearing two petitions challenging the recent amendments to the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2021. A bench led […]
In Kailash Mukti Dham, one of the two crematoriums in Amreli town in Gujarat, four furnaces lie in different states of wreckage. The iron grille that holds bodies melted away in the fire from pyres that burned without a pause. “Pyres were burning for 24 hours every day for a month,” said Maganbhai, a farmer […]
Indians residing in Afghanistan breathed a sigh of relief on returning to their homeland as the Air Force C-17 aircraft carrying 130 Indian officials from Afganistan landed in Jamnagar, Gujarat at 11:00 am on Tuesday. The flight will depart for Delhi at 1:00 pm after all the passengers undergo medical checkups. Lunch is also to […]
Last year, on October 8, the 84-year-old tribal rights activist Stan Swamy was arrested for his alleged involvement in the Elgar Parishad case. At the time of his arrest, the octogenarian had advanced-stage Parkinson’s disease. He tested positive for COVID-19 seven months after his arrest. Today, he passed away during the court hearing while the court was […]
The Parsi New Year – Navroz – is not just about praying at the agyaari and wishing everyone. It is also about bellyful of good food – Dhansak, farcha and lagan nu custard. So, jamva chalo (let’s go for lunch or dinner) with Parsis in Ahmedabad. Navroz signifies the day when Parsis step foot in India to […]
Another tangible example of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s extraordinary electoral machine, which is not known to err or be casual in their approach is the fact that prior to 13 months of upcoming elections, five Gujarati ministers from the Central Government have been roped in for public relations yatras. The yatra which would cover around 2277 km starting […]
A woman Sarpanch and her all-women team have shattered stereotypes and broke the glass ceiling in Khambha village near Lodhika, Rajkot. The Panchayat is the primary level of self-governance in India and, Sarpanch Annapurna Jadeja and her team of eight women, are becoming the trailblazers in bringing about long-awaited changes in their village. A small […]
Taking a cue from Gujarat’s five-year celebrations of governance, the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli (DNH) and Daman and Diu will celebrate five years of governance by Administrator Praful Patel. A four-day celebration will be conducted from August 24-27 to mark the five years of governance of Praful Patel. A special programme will […]
Pandemic pushed the entire world online, including the courts. In such a scenario, there were many junior lawyers who changed their profession owing to a deteriorating financial situation. However, in the year 2020, 4742 people from across the state obtained registration certificates from the State Bar Council for the practice of advocacy. This figure is […]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday, August 14, attached assets worth Rs 134.38 crores of an Ahmedabad-based firm Aatash Norcontrol Limited (ANL). This was done under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) scam. The attached assets are in the form of the plant, machinery, […]
Image courtesy: Mihir Dhamecha Four more Indian sites – two each from Gujarat and Haryana – were added to the Ramsar Convention list on August 14. Thol Lake Wildlife Sanctuary and Wadhwana Wetland from Gujarat and Sultanpur National Park in Gurgaon and Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary in Jhajjar are wetlands from Haryana, that were added to […]
CBI’s Joint Director Shri Manoj Sashidhar is a Gujarat cadre officer who was awarded President’s Police Medal for distinguished services. He has served as Commissioner Surat, Head of Ahmedabad Crime Branch Service, Head of Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad, IG Rajkot, etc. As JD, CBI he is in charge of Anti Corruption Headquarters-II, SIT, and System […]
Jayesh Brahmbhatt Bhulka Vihar and Bhulka Bhavan School of Surat, in the year 2016 took a giant leap of faith by initiating dual language as a medium of instruction for subjects like Maths and Science right from the third grade for students studying in Gujarati medium. Taking this experiment stepwise to the next level, as […]
The new facility will be compliant with the latest scrappage policy of the MoRTH, and vehicle dismantling guidelines of ARAI and Central Pollution Control Board The facility will be deployed for both passenger and commercial vehicles Scrappage centre will have the capacity of recycling up to 36,000 vehicles a year Tata Motors, India’s largest commercial […]
The Supreme Court Thursday stayed a Gujarat High Court order granting two-week furlough to rape convict Narayan Sai, son of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu who is also undergoing life term for another rape case in Rajasthan. The apex court said however that it needs to examine whether the rules allow the annual furlough as per […]
The Gandhi Memorial Museum at the Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram doesn’t stun one into art-struck awe as most museums usually do to seasoned art and culture connoisseurs. The structure is, by no means, grandiose or out-of-the-box. In fact, what one feels while roaming the dimly lit corridors is a sense of uncompounded belonging. For the layman, […]
The fourth pillar of democracy is in danger. In yet another incident a female journalist was misbehaved by guards while she was on duty, doing her job–showing the plea of helpless patients at Civil Hospital, Asarwa in Gujarat. Mansi Patel, a young journalist of Mantavya News was denied permission to enter the Civil Hospital on […]
The “Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation” for the year 2021 has been awarded to 152 Police personnel out of which six officers belong to Gujarat. The medal was constituted in 2018 with the aim to promote high professional standards of investigation of crime and to recognize such Excellence in Investigation. Among the […]
With the increasing usage of technology over the last few years, the use of grounded surveillance on the Indian borders has also increased. The Indian border, which stretches for thousands of kilometers, is in constant dispute with Pakistan and China. Hence to keep a watch on this, the borders are constantly monitored by the Indian […]
