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The Central Government nodded to the list of nine High Court judges suggested by the Supreme Court Collegium, for filling the nine vacant seats of Supreme Court judges, after the retirement of Justice Rohinton Nariman on August 12. The list included four HC chief justices, four HC judges and one senior advocate, with three women […]
Bhupesh Baghel breathes for now. Exigencies of politics dictate which promises will be kept and when. Chhattisgarh health minister TS Singhdeo, by all accounts a gentleman, has learnt this the hard way. Rahul Gandhi has for a second time chosen to not keep his promise about leadership of the state, as incumbent Bhupesh Baghel won […]
The Gujarat government has now allowed admissions to 15 undergraduate engineering courses for students who cleared Class 12 with Biology as the main subject. The change in the admission criteria has been adopted in order to implement the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Among first of the states to implement All India Council for Technical […]
Elections in Gujarat have always been interesting for two and half decades. Like Lutyens in Delhi is often accused of not knowing what actually is happening in Uttar Pradesh, outsiders do not fathom what really works in Gujarat. Some may vouch that it is the development, others say it is the Acche Din and corruption-free […]
The third wave of corona is expected in the first week or fortnight of September. Individuals who have taken both doses of the vaccine will be less affected by this wave. These are the words of the head of the forensic department of Rajkot Civil Hospital, Doctor Hetal Kyada who performed the autopsy of the […]
In the third of Vibes of India’s 3-part series, Ashvita Singh write about how prepared is Ahmedabad for Covid third wave: There’s widespread speculation in the medical community regarding the arrival of Covid-19’s third wave. Many experts feel we may be able to ward off the worst, given that the cases that were anticipated to rise […]
Research shows Gujarat saw an estimated 480 per cent rise in deaths in April – the highest such spike recorded in a single month in the world. Gujarat always strives for the top spot. Since 2001, it has been eyeing the number one position – be it on the export preparedness index, in cotton production, […]
Shri Parimal Nathwani, president of Gujarat State Football Association (GSFA) reiterated his commitment to strengthening football in the State on the occasion of National Sports Day on 29th August 2021. GSFA is all geared up to kickstart field football in Gujarat, which was subdued due to pandemic, he said. The GSFA is poised to organise […]
Months after the Gujarat Government froze the bank account of an NGO raising funds for an oxygen plant initiated by him, Independent Dalit legislator Jignesh Mevani is finally setting up on Saturday the State’s biggest oxygen plant in his constituency Vadgam in Banaskantha district with the help of his MLA funds. The plant has […]
As anticipated, 1986 batch IAS officer Pankaj Kumar has been appointed as the new chief secretary of Gujarat. He takes over from Anil Mukim, who served as Gujarat Chief Secretary from 2019. Mukim retired in August 2020 and was given two extensions, each of six months. Pankaj Kumar started his career from Mahuva in Bhavnagar […]
World’s Longest Dance Festival Limps To Halt. In the second of Vibes of India’s 3-part series, Natasha Baxi and Parita Pandya write about continuing Covid scare among Garba organisers across Gujarat: The dreaded corona virus brought the world’s longest dance festival, Garba, to a grinding halt in its first avatar in 2020. People literally haggled with the […]
[Updated] Gujarat Govt asserts it has no political agenda, will move Supreme Court Gujarat High Court on Thursday refused the state’s plea to rectify its earlier order of putting a stay on the operation of key sections of the “anti-love jihad” law relating to interfaith marriages, and the BJP government asserted that there was no […]
A tribal farmer, steeped in debt and hit by Covid-19, consumed pesticides to kill himself in Gujarat’s Navsari on Wednesday night.Nilesh Patel waited for the fervently promised ‘Achhe din’, but they never came. At least not in his lifetime. He had been hoping that they would arrive – if not within the promised 100 days, […]
The Vadodara police reached Uttar Pradesh today to take custody of two persons currently lodged in Lucknow jail on the charges of diverting money from a charitable trust for alleged illegal religious conversions and to provide legal help to anti-CAA protestors as well as those arrested in Delhi communal riots. The accused — Mohammad Umar […]
The central government has once again increased the FRP paid by sugar mills to sugarcane growers this year. The government has increased the FRP (Fair and Remunerative Price) of sugarcane by Rs 5 per quintal to Rs 290 per quintal for the year 2021-22. Last season, the Modi government had increased the FRP by Rs […]
The BJP Tamil Nadu expelled a YouTuber, Madan Ravichandran and his associate, Venba from the party citing his anti-party activities as the reason. Announcing their expulsion from the BJP, party state general secretary Karu Nagarajan said that both were removed from the primary membership and appealed the party workers to not have any ties with […]
The US web service provider, Yahoo has shut down its news services in India. The decision was taken in purview of changes in the rules of foreign investment limit (FDI). The new rules of the Government of India says that no media outlets in the country are allowed to invest more than 26 per cent. […]
Politics in Bihar is as multi-layered and intricate as the number of players, big and small, that make and mar fortunes in the legislature and Parliament. The recent kerfuffle over conducting a caste census revealed the fault lines that run deep across Bihar’s polity and the contradictions both within the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) […]
After the April-May nightmare, is a third wave of Covid-19 coming? There is perhaps not a single family who may not have lost a dear one – be it a relative or a friend – to the second wave. Everyone wants to know if the virus would rear its head again, more so if it […]
Culinary traditions form a major part of India’s rich heritage as many Indian traditions and beliefs are directly linked with the recipes we prepare. Especially, if you are an Indian residing in a foreign land, you would definitely crave all-natural Indian spices and groceries to make yourself feel homely. To satiate this craving, U.S based […]
