Gandhinagar, July 27 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday assured stringent action against those responsible for the alleged leak of a third-year Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) examination paper at Gujarat Ayurved University in Jamnagar, saying the matter concerns students’ careers and should be treated beyond political considerations. Reacting to the controversy, BJP chief spokesperson Anil Patel said preliminary information suggested that the Shalya Tantra-I exa…
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Gandhinagar, July 26 (IANS) The Gujarat government has substantially increased financial assistance for levelling free residential plots allotted to rural homeless families, raising support fivefold on a per-plot basis and fourfold per hectare to make land ready for house construction and accelerate rural housing development. Under the revised assistance, support for levelling each free residential plot has been increased from Rs 1,000 to Rs 5,000.Assistance for levelling uneven and undulating l…
Valsad/Navsari, July 25 (IANS) Gujarat BJP president Jagdish Vishwakarma visited flood-hit areas of Valsad district on Saturday, meeting affected residents and distributing relief materials as rescue and relief operations continued across parts of the state following days of exceptionally heavy rainfall. Vishwakarma first visited rain-affected areas in Umargam taluka to assess the situation before travelling to the villages of Kunta and Salvav in Vapi, where he interacted with residents and revi…
Ahmedabad/New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Union Home Minister and Gandhinagar MP Amit Shah on Friday conducted a fresh review of the heavy rain situation in Gujarat, with a particular focus on the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar region, after speaking with the Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and senior administrative officials. The review came as authorities continued efforts to deal with widespread waterlogging and disruption caused by exceptionally heavy rainfall.According to the party leaders, Union Minister …
Surat, July 18 (IANS) Surat’s textile industry could add between 10,000 and 15,000 new air-jet loom machines over the coming year as the Gujarat government seeks to strengthen the city’s position as a global textile manufacturing hub through technology adoption, value addition, and export-oriented growth. Addressing the Secure Airjet Weavers Association’s Weavers’ Paramarsh Sammelan at Saniya Hemad in Surat on Saturday, Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi said the expansion would build on the a…
Ahmedabad, July 16 (IANS) Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi joined the 149th Jagannath Rath Yatra at the Dariyapur area on Thursday evening as the annual procession continued along its traditional route through Ahmedabad. He was joined by Director General of Police (DGP) G.S. Malik and Ahmedabad Police Commissioner Anupam Singh Gahlaut from Lolhandwala Hospital in the area.The senior officials were present at a key point along the Rath Yatra route, where they reviewed the procession’s…
Gandhinagar/Surat, July 15 (IANS) The Gujarat government has announced a wide-ranging relief package for residents, traders and businesses affected by the record rainfall that inundated Surat earlier this month, with Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi saying the measures are expected to cost the state around Rs 550 crore over the next three years. The package was approved at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Wednesday, a week after torrential rain from July 6 trigg…
Dholera, July 14 (IANS) Union Civil Aviation Minister Rammohan Naidu Kinjarapu on Tuesday said around 80 per cent of the construction of Dholera International Airport has been completed, with the Centre aiming to operationalise the facility by September or October after completing construction and securing regulatory approvals. The Minister reviewed the progress of the airport project along with Civil Aviation Secretary Samir Kumar Sinha, Airports Authority of India (AAI) Chairman Vipin Kumar an…
Gandhinagar, July 13 (IANS) The Gujarat government has stepped up surveillance, treatment and vector-control measures to contain the Chandipura virus after confirming seven positive cases from 19 laboratory-tested samples and reporting three child deaths linked to the infection this year. The state government’s response was reviewed at a high-level meeting chaired by Health Minister Praful Pansheriya at the Secretariat in Gandhinagar on Monday.Senior officials reviewed the current situation and …
Ahmedabad, July 12 (IANS) Western Railway’s Ahmedabad Division on Sunday launched a large-scale tree plantation programme across 10 railway locations in Gujarat, setting a target of planting more than eight lakh saplings as part of the Gujarat government’s statewide ‘Mega Tree Plantation’ campaign.More than two lakh saplings have already been planted in the first phase on railway land at Sanand under the ‘Van Kavach Yojana’.According to Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Ved Prakash, the plantatio…