According to university estimates, out of around 35,000 students currently studying in the final year (Semester 6), nearly 5,500 showed interest in enrolling in the Honours programmes Ahmedabad: Gujarat University has cleared 54 affiliated colleges and institutes to offer fourth-year Honours programmes under the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The decision, finalised during an executive…
Ahmedabad: The construction of Rs 70.7 crore Makarba Railway Overbridge (ROB) began on Sept 30, 2022, and it was originally slated for completion by Nov 30, 2024. However, the deadline has now been exceeded by nearly one-and-a-half years, and the project remains incomplete, causing inconvenience to local residents.An official from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC),…
Ahmedabad: A sessions court in Ahmedabad has sentenced a karate trainer employed by a private school in Vastral, Chakra alias Arya Dube, to three years in prison under the provisions of the Pocso Act for showing pornographic videos to Class 5 girl students.While sentencing Dube to jail, special Pocso judge A B Bhatt imposed a…
Voting will take place at the assembly complex in Gandhinagar from 9am to 4pm on June 18 and counting of votes will be taken up at 5pm Gandhinagar: For the first time, the Congress party will not have a single Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat, as the term of lone Congress MP from the state,…
People up to the block-level can now file RTI applications online Gandhinagar: Filing Right to Information (RTI) applications in Gujarat has become significantly easier as the state’s online RTI portal has finally been extended to local civic bodies, collectorates, and police commissionerates. Moving beyond the offices of various departments located in the Gandhinagar secretariat, citizens…
Details of ration cards from the ration card management system (RCMS) portal of the food, civil supplies, and consumer affairs department can be directly accessed by citizens in their DigiLocker account Gandhinagar: The state govt said on Friday that 65% of its services are connected with DigiLocker, making digital governance simpler.An official statement said that…
n its representation, GCCI said the earlier concessional rate under Section 194LD of the Income-Tax Act, 1961 expired in July 2023, after which the withholding tax on such interest income reverted to 20% Ahmedabad: Warning that a high 20% withholding tax is weakening India’s edge in global debt markets, the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce &…
Ahmedabad: A local court on Thursday remanded Mayur Mali, a co-accused in the Rs 1.66 crore jewellery theft case, to police custody till May 25 after his arrest by Nikol police.Mali is accused of conspiring to steal from a city jewellery showroom with the help of his associate Harshida Shetty, who worked there as a…
Gandhinagar: A five-day training programme for personnel from the revenue department and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is being conducted in Gandhinagar on the theme “Avoiding Costly Mistakes in Land Acquisition,” govt said on Thursday. A total of 34 officials from the state revenue department and NHAI are taking part in the workshop,…
Ahmedabad: A 25-year-old electrician from Vejalpur was allegedly assaulted by two unidentified men when he attempted to intervene in a fight between two motorists after an accident near Vasna on Tuesday night. A complaint in the matter was registered with Vasna police on Thursday.According to the FIR, Masud Mansuri was returning home from Lal Darwaza…
