Gandhinagar, Jan 25 (IANS) On the eve of India’s 77th Republic Day, the Central Government announced the Padma Awards for 2026, honouring citizens whose sustained contributions have strengthened the country’s cultural and social foundations. This year, Gujarat figures prominently on the national honours list, with five individuals from the state receiving the Padma Shri for their work in folk arts and social service.Vadodara’s 94-year-old Manbhatt folk storyteller, Dharamiklal Pandya, has …
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Gandhinagar, Jan 23 (IANS) The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Gujarat is currently underway, with election officials receiving a large number of applications for inclusion, deletion and correction of voter details across the state, poll officials said on Friday. The voter revision exercise, launched on October 27, 2025, completed its enumeration phase before the draft electoral roll was published on December 19, 2025.According to official data, a total of 6,54,594 app…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) In January 2026, the shores of Prabhas Patan witnessed more than a commemorative festival — they marked a defining national moment where history, faith, technology, and collective consciousness converged under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Observed through the ‘Somnath Swabhiman Parv’, the occasion commemorated 1,000 years since the first attack on the Somnath Temple in 1026 CE, while powerfully reaffirming the enduring spirit of India’s civilisation a…
Junagadh, Jan 4 (IANS) As part of preparations for the upcoming Vibrant Gujarat Regional Conference (VGRC) in Rajkot, a district-level Vibrant Gujarat programme in Junagadh resulted in the signing of 218 memoranda of understanding (MoUs) involving investments worth Rs 1,209 crore, aimed at accelerating industrial development and generating employment in the district. The programme, chaired by the Gujarat Social Justice and Empowerment Minister and Junagadh district in-charge Pradyuman Vaja, brou…
Gandhinagar, Dec 24 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, on Wednesday, called upon all state government departments to work in coordination to ensure prompt and effective resolution of grievances raised by citizens under the state-level ‘SWAGAT’ (State Wide Attention on Grievances by Application of Technology) online public grievance redressal programme, government officials said. Chairing the December 2025 edition of the state ‘SWAGAT’ programme, the Chief Minister personally heard re…