Ahmedabad: Passenger traffic at Ahmedabad airport declined for the second consecutive month in July, with passenger movement falling 9.7% year on year to 9.1 lakh. The decline followed a 6.8% fall in June, when the airport handled 10.27 lakh passengers against 11.01 lakh in the same month last year.The July decline was sharper in international…
Gandhinagar: Pharma major Zydus Lifesciences has formally proposed setting up a private university near Ahmedabad with an estimated investment of around Rs 1,000 crore, with a focus on higher education and research in life sciences.According to top govt sources, the proposed Zydus Lifesciences University is envisaged as an international institution aimed at attracting students and…
Ahmedabad: Cybercrooks sent a WhatsApp wedding invitation from a number familiar to a 71-year-old retired businessman, prompting him to download a malicious APK file and leaving him poorer by Rs 6.4 lakh. According to a complaint filed on Tuesday with Cybercrime police, the senior citizen, a resident of Meghaninagar, received the digital wedding card on…
Gandhinagar: About 63.3 lakh farmers in the state have so far enrolled in Farmer Registry, a digital agriculture initiative aimed at creating a unified digital identity for cultivators and linking it with land records and govt agricultural services, state govt said on Wednesday.The registration is being undertaken as part of Union govt’s Digital Agriculture Mission…
Ahmedabad: The controversy over alleged financial irregularities at Gujarat University (GU) involving former vice-chancellor Neerja Gupta intensified on Wednesday, with the university stating that she had resigned as the principal investigator (PI) of the centrally sponsored Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Karyakram (PMJVK) and returned Rs 14.6 crore to the university.According to GU in charge vice-chancellor…
Ahmedabad: A police constable posted at Naroda police station was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol and ramming his Creta into an Activa carrying a 40-year-old man and his 15-year-old niece in Chandkheda.The accident occurred near Sneh Plaza on Monday around 11.45pm. According to the complaint, the Creta, allegedly driven…
Ahmedabad: A high-level meeting was held on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Gujarat’s education minister Pradyuman Vaja to discuss the long-pending demands and issues concerning grant-in-aid schools, teachers and non-teaching staff across the state. Senior education department officials and representatives of various education organisations attended the meeting.During the meeting, education organisations presented several demands related…
Gandhinagar: Gujarat govt is exploring Japanese technical assistance to expand the network of compressed biogas (CBG) plants. The state govt, Suzuki Motor Corporation and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) are expected to sign an MoU soon.A meeting to discuss the proposed collaboration was held in Gandhinagar on Wednesday, an official statement said. The Japanese delegation…
Ahmedabad: In its eagerness to implement ‘Mission Five Million Trees’ this monsoon, AMC’s garden department seems to have prioritised speed over planning and planted trees on both sides of 10 roads that AMC has already slated for widening. So, when the roads are widened in two to three years, these trees will inevitably have to…
Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel launches 7 crop protection products under ‘Sardar’ brand Ahmedabad: Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd (GSFC) on Wednesday launched seven new insecticides and herbicides under its ‘Sardar’ brand, aimed at strengthening crop protection and improving agricultural productivity in the state.Chief minister Bhupendra Patel, who launched the products at an event…
