Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel visits a primary schoo as he launches ‘Shala Praveshotsav’ at Vadnagar, in Mehsana on Tuesday. Gandhinagar: Chief minister Bhupendra Patel on Tuesday launched Praveshotsav, the statewide school enrolment drive, from a school in Vadnagar district of north Gujarat. Deputy CM Harsh Sanghavi was present at a school in Adalaj, while…
Ahmedabad: A driver who is suspected of having suffered a seizure at the wheel lost control of his SUV in Rakhial on Monday night, ramming into several vehicles and a shop, killing one woman and injuring 11 people. Mayank Patel, 32, a freelance finance consultant from Viratnagar in Odhav, has been booked by H-Division Traffic…
Ahmedabad: The State Monitoring Cell (SMC) on Monday seized Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) worth Rs 19.3 lakh during a raid at a stud farm near Gandhinagar, and arrested four persons and detained a juvenile.Acting on specific inputs, an SMC team led by sub-inspector V K Rathod conducted a raid at Chehar stud farm near…
Ahmedabad: The northern limit of monsoon stretched through Dahanu and Wardha in Maharashtra, close to the Gujarat border, on Tuesday. The forecast indicates that conditions are favourable for the further advance of the southwest monsoon into the coastal areas of Gujarat and parts of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh over the next two to three days. The…
Ahmedabad: The state goods and services tax (SGST) department has unearthed a fake invoicing racket involving transactions worth Rs 128 crore and arrested a father-son duo from Jamnagar for allegedly fraudulently availing of Rs 23 crore as input tax credit (ITC).Officials said coordinated search and seizure operations were conducted on June 16 across 22 firms…
Ahmedabad: To position India as a global commodities trading hub, the board of the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) has approved the establishment of a Global Commodity Trading Platform (GCTP) at GIFT City, according to top sources privy to the development.The proposed platform is expected to provide an integrated ecosystem for global commodity trading,…
Ahmedabad: The fourth round of admissions under the 25% Right to Education (RTE) quota in private schools saw only 978 students securing seats, out of the 6,075 available seats.According to official data, 1,00,332 applications were found eligible for admissions under RTE this year.Following the allotment process in the fourth round, 5,097 seats remained vacant, underlining…
Ahmedabad: A social media promotional stunt filmed in the middle of one of Ahmedabad’s busiest intersections has landed a 19-year-old in legal trouble after the video went viral online, prompting traffic police to register a case for endangering public safety.The video showed a young man sitting on a chair in front of vehicles halted at…
Gandhinagar: Gujarat govt has uncorked major tax relief for liquor consumers in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), one of the country’s premier financial hubs in Gandhinagar. In two separate notifications, state govt has slashed value added tax (VAT) on foreign liquor served in GIFT City from 65% to 25% and scrapped the special fee…
Ahmedabad: A regulatory red flag raised in United States has helped expose a suspected fake plasma racket operating across Gujarat and Maharashtra, bringing into focus a supply chain that feeds some of the world’s most critical medicines. Four people were arrested on Monday for allegedly using saline water and chemical colouring agents to manufacture counterfeit…
