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After a viral video showed four women performing an abortion procedure on an unconscious minor in a decrepit house using household equipment, the Gujarat police have mounted a huge investigation and the role of a private hospital is also being probed. Although the timing of the incident that reportedly took place in Santrampur village of […]
Deputy Superintendent of Police Ashish Pandya, who was accused and later acquitted in the 2006 Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case, has applied for voluntary retirement. He sent his application to the Gujarat Home Department on Thursday. Pandya, who is posted as DSP in the SC/ST cell in Bhuj, West Kutch, was one of the accused in […]
Hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday virtually inaugurates the Gandhinagar railway station he had painstakingly visualised as a model of sorts, a six-month-old girl was crushed to death under a tractor-trolley that was mopping up the site for the event. The girl was a daughter of a worker couple engaged at the site. […]
Though Gujarat and its booming pharma companies made a kill, literally in the Covid times with manufacturing and selling of several medicines and injections including Remdesivir, Fabiflu, Virafin and others, they have lost the top slot. For the first time ever, Gujarat based digital companies have overtaken the pharma sector when it comes to paying […]
After two terms and a retirement period of over two years, former Vice-Chancellor from the Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Dr Dakshesh Thakar is now the new OSD to Madhya Pradesh Governor, Mangubhai Chagganbhai Patel. The appointment has kicked off controversy and has stirred off angry criticism from academicians. An academician who served as a […]
In class 10, students will now have the option of two papers, standard and basic, in the mathematics paper. Students who do not want to take science after class 10th will be able to opt for the basic paper. Students who want to study science after class 10th will have to choose the standard paper. […]
The marriage dispute between Bharatsinh Solanki and his wife has further intensified with his wife now issuing a public notice, denying all the allegations levied against her. In fact, she has said, through her notice that it is because of her care and consistent support that Bharat Solanki had recovered completely after a 102 day […]
Ahmedabad police has initiated an inquiry against police inspector LD Odedra for issuing a circular to about 300 occupants of five buildings in Vejalpur area of Ahmedabad to keep doors and windows of their flats and homes closed when Union Home Minister arrived to inaugurate a community hall in Vejalpur on 11th July 2021. On 13th July […]
The second marriage of Gujarat’s senior-most Congress leader, former Gujarat Congress Chief and Union Minister, Bharatsinh Solanki has crumbled. Not only has the 67-year-old separated from his second wife of 13 years but has issued a public notice asking the people of Gujarat to not indulge in any financial or other transactions with his estranged […]
The investigation wing of the state Goods and Services Tax (GST) department has unearthed a major bogus input tax credit (ITC) scam in three separate incidents after search and raids at 71 locations across the state. The tax authorities have arrested two individuals for running a racket of generating bogus bills and selling them on […]
On Monday, July 12th, during Lord Jagannath’s 144th Rathyatra to be held in the city with Covid-19 curbs, curfew has been imposed in areas that fall under the jurisdiction of the Gaekwad Haveli police station – Kalupur, Shaherkotda, Madhavpura, Karanj, Dariapur and Shahpur police station areas. According to the notification issued by City Police Chief […]
Applicable during a period of four years commencing from July 01, 2021, the new EV policy targets 110,000 e2Ws, 70,000 e3Ws and 20,000 e4Ws within that timeframe. In its bid to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) penetration in its state, the Government of Gujarat (GoG) on 22nd June announced a new Electric Vehicle Policy 2021, which brings about […]
Gujarat Government has announced Electric Vehicle Policy, 2021 for the state. Under the policy, every subsidy will be given to the buyers, who have registered their electric vehicles from July 1, 2021. Transport Commissioner said that to avail the benefits of the new policy, the applicant will have to register themselves online on the Gujarat […]
12,300 cops in a force of 1 lakh infected by Covid-19 in harness Even as the police force performs an unenviable task of penalising people for not wearing masks and maintaining social distance, a mind-boggling number of cops themselves were caught by the coronavirus in Gujarat. In a force of over a lakh, some 12,300-odd police personnel, and officers got infected with Covid-19 virus since the outbreak of the pandemic in […]
In Gujarat, a superintendent engineer working with the government declared himself as the 10th incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Rameshchandra Fefar, 56, is an engineer from MS University, Vadodara. He was the superintendent engineer with the Sardar Sarovar Punarvasvat Agency of the state’s Water Resources Department, which looks after the resettlement and rehabilitation of families affected […]
After earning three gold medals at the 72nd Senior National Aquatic Championships in 2018 and six medals at the tenth Asian Age-Group Championships in 2019 held at Bangalore, 21-year-old Maana Patel from Gujarat has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics this year. This fastest and youngest female back-stroker smashed her own record of 1:04:21 at the […]
The first “Love Jihad” complaint of Gujarat was a curious one. Now, it has taken a curoiser turn. The girl who launched a police complaint under the amended Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2021 has vanished after she gave a statement that all the complaints she filed against her Muslim husband of two years was […]
Ever wondered what happened to the companies that once highlighted the entrepreneurial spirit of Gujarat? Well, these companies have now passed into the realm of history. Twenty-five years ago, when I was a journalist with The Economic Times, we had produced a listing of Gujarat’s Top 50 Corporate Giants. Such listings are common enough on […]
Gujarat Government plans to allocate Rs 4,000 Crore for Rural employment, considering the rural disappointment towards government and upcoming assembly elections in 2022. The plans are intended to extend development programs to rural areas in order to boost employment in rural sector. Government plans to allot 4,000 Crore to provide employment under schemes like Prime […]
