Gandhinagar: Chief Minister Vijaybhai Rupani laid e-foundation stone of ambitious 24/7 water supply project for Gandhinagar city today on the 70th birthday of Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi in a presence of Union Home Minister Shri Amitbhai Shah through video conference from New Delhi. This ambitious project will take shape at a cost of Rs.229 crore and the citizens of Gandhinagar will be able to get 24 hours pure drinking water through taps. Speaking on the occasion Home Minister Amit...Read More

Gandhinagar: U.S.-headquartered Citibank N.A (Citi) has recently received in- principle approval from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and GIFT SEZ Authority to set up an IFSC Banking Unit (IBU) at GIFT City. The proposed commencement of the IBU by Citi, marks a significant development in India’s IFSC business and proves GIFT City’s mettle as a globally competitive international financial services centre at par with other established global financial centres across the world. This also marks a ma...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat BJP headquarters 'Kamalam' here has been declared closed for visitors at least till next Monday. Only office staff members are being allowed entry inside Kamalam office compound. Police men are deployed at the main gate. The decision has been taken after number of Covid-19 cases emerged linked to Kamalam. The office has also been sanitized. The party has cancelled its two-day "chintan baithak" or brainstorming meet which was to be held on 11 and 12 September.DeshGujaratRead More

Gandhinagar: Municipal Corporation here has given smart watches to cleaning staff so that they can be tracked during their duty hours and their presence and works done by them can be verified. However Gandhinagar-Ahmedabad Shaher Safai Kamdar Union has protested this initiative and sent a letter to Chief Minister demanding that cleaning staff must not be treated differently and smart watches should be given to sanitary inspectors, sub inspectors, zonal officers, sanitary superintendents, office ...Read More

Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendrabhai Modi's 99-year old mother Hiraben Modi (Hiraba) today watched live telecast of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir's groundbreaking ceremony on television from Gandhinagar with folded hands. Hiraba lives with PM Modi's younger brother Pankaj Modi at Sargasan in Gandhinagar. Hiraba in the evening today celebrated the occasion of groundbreaking of Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir with oil lamps and rangoli at Gandhinagar residence, video clip of which is presented a...Read More

Gandhinagar: Police here recovered 20 bottles of Indian made foreign liquor stuffed in LPG cylinders. Based on information received in advance, a police team stopped a car with RTO registration number GJ01HQ5497 and checked inside, but nothing objectionable was found out. However Police team was sure about tip off it had received. When checked further, Police found that two LPG cylinders inside the car could be opened from bottom side in a special arrangement made by bootleggers. Police recovere...Read More

Gandhinagar: 'The contemporary world is more interconnected and interdependent than ever in human history and any deviant behavior of one State affects the other much more profoundly today than in the past', National Security Advisor Ajit Doval writes in a forward section of scholarly project authored by Professor Dr. Bimal Patel on “National Security of India and International Law” that has published last month-end. Dr. Bimal Patel is Director General of Gandhinagar based Raksha Shakti Uni...Read More

Gandhinagar: Seeking to empower and associate the marginalized potters’ community with India’s quest to become “Aatmanirbhar”, the Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah distributed 100 electric potter wheels to 100 trained artisans under the Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC). Shah distributed the electric potter wheels in his Parliamentary constituency (Gandhinagar Lok Sabha) via Video Conference from New Delhi. Lauding the Kumhar Sashaktik...Read More

Gandhinagar: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based deep learning tool for detection of COVID-19 from Chest X-ray images. This online tool indicates the probability if a person is infected with COVID-19, which can be used for quick preliminary diagnosis before the medical test. The tool is developed by Kushpal Singh Yadav (PI), an M.Tech student of Computer Science & Engineering at IITGN, under the guidanc...Read More