Gandhinagar: Chief minister Bhupendra Patel, deputy chief minister Harsh Sanghavi and state BJP president Jagdish Vishwakarma congratulated Narendra Modi on completing 12 years as Prime Minister.Speaking at the event held at the state BJP headquarters, the CM said that there has been unprecedented growth in all sectors in the past 12 years and Gujarat has…
Ahmedabad: She had prepared for the future, not for fate. Jaya Gajjar, 81, had signed her will just a day before the crash and had told her three children that she finally felt “at peace” after settling her affairs. The next day, she boarded the doomed AI Flight 171.On June 11, Jaya had met her…
Ahmedabad: The state education department has cleared the extension of contracts of khel sahayaks (sports assistants) employed in govt primary schools in the state. The move comes after the govt renewed the contracts of gyan sahayaks (teaching assistants) in secondary schools, following reports of a severe shortage of teachers in govt schools.As stated in an…
Ahmedabad: For Dr Dharmesh Patel, additional dean at BJ Medical College and head of the forensic medicine department, the first 48 hours after the crash are a big blur. “Bodies kept coming in. We were trying to salvage everything we could, carry out postmortems and hand over remains for DNA analysis,” he recalls.No one from…
The revised classifications reflect the sharp rise in the cost of land, machinery and infrastructure over the years Gandhinagar: Seeking to make Gujarat more attractive to investors and bring industrial classifications in line with present-day costs, the state govt has redrawn the investment thresholds that determine whether a unit is classified as micro, small, medium,…
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Hitachi is seen at an office building in Zurich, Switzerland Ahmedabad: Hitachi Energy India Ltd on Friday announced it will invest around Rs 2,000 crore to set up a new large power transformer manufacturing facility in Vadodara district, in one of the biggest recent investments in India’s power equipment manufacturing…
Radhika Mishra, daughter of the late Vijay Rupani, former CM of Gujarat Radhika Mishra, daughter of former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani, joined family members at the prayer meet held at BJ Medical College on Friday morning. Rupani was among the 260 people killed when the London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner came down moments after take-off on…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat DGP G S Malik on Friday directed police officers across the state to speed up the integration of privately installed CCTV cameras with the police surveillance network to strengthen monitoring and crime detection.The directions were issued during a video conference held from Police Bhavan in Gandhinagar. The meeting was attended by police commissioners,…
Gandhinagar: On the first anniversary of the AI 171 crash on Friday, Gujarat govt announced educational and healthcare projects worth Rs 547 crore at the new mental hospital compound — the crash site of the ill-fated plane.The govt said that apart from eight new hostel blocks whose construction was announced earlier, a paraplegia and spine…
Ahmedabad: Admissions for paramedical programmes in Gujarat, including BSc Nursing, have so far drawn a weaker-than-anticipated response, with registrations well below the total seats on offer. As per official information, about 26,900 candidates have registered for admission against over 56,000 seats available across govt and self-financed institutions in the state. So far, 24,442 applications have…
