Gandhinagar, June 1 (IANS) Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi on Monday urged newly selected UPSC Civil Services candidates from the state to remain grounded and connected to their roots even after entering the country’s top administrative services, saying “public respect should grow alongside their professional success”. Addressing a felicitation ceremony organised for 35 candidates from Gujarat who cleared the UPSC Civil Services Examination 2025, Sanghavi congratulated the successfu…
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Gandhinagar, June 1 (IANS) A loan received under the PM SVANidhi scheme helped a young street food vendor in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar revive his business, adopt digital payments, and improve his family’s financial condition, as the central government marked six years of the programme aimed at supporting street vendors. Yograj Mali, a 30-year-old B.Com student who runs a small Cholaphali business in Gandhinagar, is among the beneficiaries of the Prime Minister Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM S…
Gandhinagar, June 1 (IANS) The Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Monday registered a disproportionate assets case against Ashwin Chaudhari, a Class-I Chief Electrical Inspector posted at Udyog Bhavan in Gandhinagar, after recovering cash, gold, silver, and other valuables worth Rs 2.64 crore from his government vehicle and residences in Gandhinagar and Surat. According to the ACB, Police Inspector P.N. Khokhra of the agency’s Field-3 Intelligence Wing received information that Chaudhari wa…
Gandhinagar, May 31 (IANS) The 4th National Armwrestling & Para Armwrestling Championship commenced at the Rashtriya Raksha University, Gandhinagar, bringing together over 1,800 athletes from across the country in one of the largest Armwrestling competitions in India.Organised by the Armwrestling Sports Association Gujarat with the leadership of President Rajendrasinh Parmar and Treasurer Mayank Patel, under the aegis of the People’s Armwrestling Federation India (PAFI), the four-day champ…
Surat, May 28 (IANS) A modern library established in a tribal-dominated village in Gujarat’s Surat district under the state government’s ‘Vatan Prem Yojana’ has emerged as a major educational support centre for students from nearly 20 surrounding villages preparing for competitive examinations. The library, located in Nani Bhatlav village of Bardoli taluka, was initially started in 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic by the village’s young sarpanch, Ankit Chaudhary, in a dilapidated comm…
Gandhinagar, May 28 (IANS) Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, on Thursday said the newly-formed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal had handed over 600 hectares of land to the Border Security Force (BSF) within seven days to strengthen fencing work along the Bangladesh border.Addressing a public gathering in Sonipur village of Gandhinagar district during the inauguration and foundation stone laying ceremony for development works worth Rs 340 crore, HM Shah said the BJP had fulfil…
Gandhinagar, May 27 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Teacher Education (IITE) in Gandhinagar on Wednesday announced a major academic expansion under the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 by establishing seven new university schools and introducing a multidisciplinary academic structure that will allow students to study subjects beyond their traditional streams, including artificial intelligence and philosophy. The institution, established in 2010, said the restructuring marked a significant ste…
Jaipur, May 27 (IANS) The Rajasthan High Court’s Jodhpur Bench on Wednesday upheld the life imprisonment sentence awarded to Asaram in the case involving the sexual assault of a minor student. While affirming the conviction, the court acquitted co-accused Shilpi and Sharatchand. Asaram, who is presently out on interim medical bail, will now have to surrender.The verdict was delivered by a Division Bench comprising Justice Arun Monga and Justice Yogendra Kumar Purohit.Asaram was arrested in Aug…
Gandhinagar, May 26 (IANS) Gujarat Director General of Police (DGP) K. L. N. Rao on Tuesday appeared before a Kutch court through video conferencing from Gandhinagar to give testimony in a 2021 Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) case, marking what officials described as a practical example of the expanding use of digital systems in judicial proceedings across the state. Rao attended the proceedings from the Formal Witness Deposition Centre at the Gandhinagar District Court, while the case hearing was …
Gandhinagar, May 25 (IANS) The Gujarat government has activated dedicated isolation wards in Ahmedabad and Surat and intensified airport screening measures following reported Ebola cases in Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan, while maintaining that no case of the virus has been detected in the state or elsewhere in India. As part of its preparedness measures, the state health department has operationalised 32-bed facilities at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and 10-bed facilities at Surat Civil Hospital fo…