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Gandhinagar, May 17 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the ‘Million Minds Tech Park’ and the ‘Ganesh Real Estate Management Institute’ in Ahmedabad on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, the Union Home Minister said that Gujarat will take lead in the field of technology, just the way it has led the nation since Independence.He added that these two projects would give fresh momentum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of transforming Gujarat from merely a manufact…

Gandhinagar, May 17 (IANS) Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah represented examples of “design thinking” in governance, mentioning that structured planning, innovation and entrepreneurship were central to India’s development model. Speaking during the inauguration of the Innovation and Incubation Centre at the National Institute of Design (NID), Goyal said India’s progress towards “Viksit B…

Gandhinagar, May 17 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Sunday recalled his early political years and praised the intricate and scientific design traditions behind Patan Patola weaving in Gujarat’s Patan district, saying “India’s traditional design heritage needed greater recognition and expansion”. The Home Minister was speaking at the inauguration of the Incubation and Innovation Centre at the National Institute of Design (NID) in Gandhinagar, where he highlighted the imp…

Gandhinagar, May 17 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Sunday said that the state government remains committed to promoting the talent, innovation and creativity of young people, while addressing the inauguration of the new Incubation and Innovation Centre at the National Institute of Design (NID) in Gandhinagar. The centre was inaugurated by Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah in the presence of Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, Deputy Chief Minister Har…

Gandhinagar, May 17 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Sunday inaugurated Madhur Dairy’s newly built fully-automated milk processing and packaging plant at Dashela village in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar district, saying “the facility would strengthen the cooperative dairy sector and benefit livestock rearers across the district”. The plant has been constructed on 15 acres at an estimated cost of Rs 128 crore and has an initial milk processing capacity of 2.5 lakh litres per day, w…

Amsterdam, May 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Netherlands counterpart Rob Jetten visited the Afsluitdijk Dam on Sunday. Following this, PM Modi took to X and said, “An area in which the Netherlands has done pioneering work is water resources. There is a lot the entire global community can learn from them. This morning, I had the opportunity to visit the Afsluitdijk and understand the salient features of this project. I am thankful to PM Rob Jetten for accompanying me here.””We ar…

Gandhinagar, May 17 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Sunday formally launched the self-enumeration process for ‘Census 2027’ by completing his family’s details online and appealed to citizens to actively participate in the first digital self-census exercise introduced in the country.The self-enumeration process has begun across Gujarat from May 17 and will continue till May 31, during which residents can independently submit their details online through the census web portal an…

Ahmedabad, May 17 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said inadequate town planning had prevented Indian cities from developing properly, as he called for more structured and forward-looking urban development policies while inaugurating the Ganesh Real Estate Management Institute (GREMI) in Ahmedabad.Speaking at the launch event alongside the inauguration of Million Minds Tech City in Tragad neighbourhood, HM Shah said most Indian cities had expanded without long-term …

Ahmedabad, May 17 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said Gujarat must now aim to place itself among the top states in India’s service sector, stating that Ahmedabad should establish itself alongside Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and Gurugram as a major technology and innovation hub.Addressing the launch of Million Minds Tech City, Gujarat’s first SEZ IT park, Shah said Gujarat had already established a strong position in industrial development and was now entering a…

Ahmedabad, May 17 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah has said India was positioning itself as a “founder nation” in emerging sectors such as artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing and semiconductors.He said this while addressing the launch of Million Minds Tech City, Gujarat’s first SEZ IT park, in Ahmedabad on Sunday.Speaking at the inauguration of the first phase of the project in Tragad, HM Shah said the country had moved from lagging behind in several se…