Tag: Gujarat

New Delhi: Gujarat has topped the Niti Aayog’s Export Preparedness Index 2020 while eastern coastal state Odisha gets a place in top ten rankings, according to the government think tank’s report released on Wednesday. According to the report, six out of eight coastal states — Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Karnataka and Kerala feature in […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated three major projects in his home state Gujarat on Saturday. He virtually inaugurated the Paediatric Heart Hospital, which is attached with the U.N. Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre in Gujarat. Apart from that, he also inaugurated the 2,320 metres long ropeway at Girnar in Gujarat. It […]

Kevadiya: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a seaplane service between the Statue of Unity near Kevadiya in Gujarat’s Narmada district and Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad. Modi inaugurated the service by boarding the twin- engine plane from pond-3 close to Sardar Sarovar Dam near here. Before boarding the plane, Modi spent some time at […]

Gandhinagar: At least 11 people died and over a dozen others injured were injured when a mini-truck in which they were travelling rammed into another truck on the outskirts of Gujarat’s Vadodara city early Wednesday morning, police said. The accident took place at Waghodia circle near the city around 2.45 am when the victims were […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday flagged off eight trains connecting major destinations in various states of the country with the Statue of Unity in Gurjarat’s Kevadiya, via video-conferencing. The eight trains will connect Kevadiya to Varanasi, Dadar, Ahmedabad, Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin, Rewa, Chennai and Pratapnagar. PM Shri @narendramodi flags off eight trains […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asserted that Kevadiya in Gujarat is no longer just a small block in some remote area, it has come up as a one of the biggest tourist destinations of the world and Statue of Unity situated in the region is attracting more tourist than even Statue of […]

Surat: Fifteen migrant labourers from Rajasthan sleeping by the roadside in Gujarat’s Surat district died on Tuesday after a truck ran over them, police said. The tragedy took place near Kosamba village, around 60 km from Surat, police said. The truck driver, who apparently lost control over the vehicle after hitting a sugarcane laden tractor, […]

Ahmedabad: Almost 19 years after a mob torched a coach of Sabarmati Express at Godhra station in Panchmahal district of Gujarat which caused the death of 59 ‘karsevaks’, police has nabbed key accused, Rafiq Hussain Bhatuk, from Godhra town, an officer said on Monday. Bhatuk (51) was part of the “core group” of the accused […]

New Delhi: Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu continue to report a high number of daily COVID-19 cases, accounting for 71.10 per cent of the 28,903 new infections, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. It said 83.91 per cent of the new cases are from Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu and […]

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Assembly on Thursday passed a Bill to amend the ‘Dharma Swatantrya’ (Freedom of Religion) Act, 2003 which aims to combat forceful religious conversions, better known as ‘Love Jihad’, on the concluding day of the Budget session. However, the opposition Congress questioned its intentions and dubbed the bill as a tool to attain […]

Gandhinagar: Suspected to be a fungal infection triggered by Covid, the incidence of mucormycosis in Gujarat in the past two months has been above average. The Ahmedabad Civil hospital has seen 25 such cases, while the Rajkot Civil hospital has seen 10 cases since the monsoons. Although there is no official confirmation about this infection […]

Ahmedabad: One of the biggest zoos in the world in terms of number and species of animals at one place is coming up in Jamnagar in Gujarat, a state government official said. MK Das, additional chief secretary in the chief minister’s office, on Friday said the zoo was being developed by Reliance Industries which operates […]