New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) India’s semiconductor ambitions received a major boost as Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday highlighted a new partnership between Tata Electronics and ASML aimed at strengthening the country’s chip manufacturing ecosystem. The agreement was witnessed by Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten and PM Modi during high-level engagements focused on futuristic technologies and innovation-led cooperation.Under the memorandum of understanding, ASML will support the establish…
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Sabarkantha, May 16 (IANS) More than 3,500 visitors have visited the newly developed Tropic of Cancer Science Park at Salal village in Prantij taluka of Sabarkantha district within two months of its inauguration, with authorities expecting footfall to increase further during the ongoing summer vacation. The park, developed by the Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST) under the state government’s Department of Science and Technology, was inaugurated on March 11 by Chief Minister B…
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday hailed the Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) breakthrough against transnational synthetic drug trafficking networks, under Operation RAGEPILL, seizing 227.7 kg of Captagon or ‘Jihadi Drug’ worth Rs 182 crore from a Syrian national. In a post on X, HM Shah said, “Glad to share that through ‘Operation RAGEPILL’, our agencies have achieved the first-ever seizure of Captagon, the so-called ‘Jihadi Drug’, worth Rs182 cr…
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Emcure Pharmaceuticals on Saturday said the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) completed a current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) inspection at its formulations manufacturing facility in Sanand, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and issued a Form 483 with seven observations.The inspection was conducted between May 6 and May 15, 2026, at the company’s facility located in the G.I.D.C. industrial area in Taluka-Sanand, Ahmedabad. According to the company, the obse…
Srinagar, May 16 (IANS) A tourist couple from Gujarat was killed, and two others were injured on Saturday in a road accident in J&K’s Pahalgam tourist destination. Officials said the road accident took place today when a taxi carrying tourists skidded off the road and dropped into a deep gorge while travelling to Pahalgam.Two tourists were killed, and two others were injured. The two tourists killed in this road accident have been identified as Bawin Bhavsar, son of Mahesh Bhavsar, who was…
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Sanjay Kumar, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL), Ministry of Education, on Saturday discussed strategies to reintegrate dropouts into formal schooling, highlighting that over two crore children in the 14-18 age group are currently out of school. At a meeting to review strategies and proposed initiatives to check school dropout rate, Sanjay Kumar said that, as per available data, out of every 100 children entering Class I, only 62 reach Class …
Ahmedabad, May 16 (IANS) Gujarat stepped up its dengue prevention and surveillance measures ahead of the monsoon season as the state observed ‘National Dengue Day’ on Saturday with a renewed focus on community participation and public awareness to control the mosquito-borne disease. Observed across the country every year on May 16 since 2016, National Dengue Day aims to spread awareness about prevention and encourage active participation from the public in controlling the disease.This year marks…
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) India accounts for more than 70 per cent of global jaggery production and has seen jaggery exports rise 106.5 per cent in value between 2015–16 and 2024–25, the government said on Saturday. Exports during April–January 2025–26 reached 450.1 metric tonnes, valued at $384.4 million, up about 16.5 per cent in volume and 15.9 per cent in value on a year-on-year basis, an official statement said.Complementing this growth, government initiatives such as Pradhan Mantri …
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister, Amit Shah, will be on a two-day visit to Gujarat, starting Saturday, where he will participate in a series of official programmes in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. During the visit, the senior BJP leader is expected to review major development initiatives, interact with newly elected civic representatives, and inaugurate a new milk processing plant aimed at strengthening the dairy sector in the region.As part of his engagements, Amit Shah…
Gandhinagar, May 15 (IANS) A day after three migrant workers died and one was critically injured following a suffocation incident inside an underground effluent treatment plant (ETP) tank at an industrial unit in the Saij Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) area of Kalol in Gandhinagar district, police said on Friday. The incident occurred at the Mafatlal Gujarat Industries Limited, Unit C/15 to C/18, where tarpaulin fabric processing work is carried out and wastewater generated fr…