With a strong demand growth in the healthcare space and people focusing more on preventative care after the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, pharma companies are adding more drugs and products to their existing portfolios.
A 23-year-old woman from the Anandnagar area of the city on Friday filed a complaint with police alleging that her former boyfriend, against whom she had filed a rape case, threatened her to withdraw the FIR.
It was the year that brought the world to a standstill due to Covid-19 pandemic, but interpersonal issues, unresolved grief and financial crunch kept people on their toes.
In this battle of intellectual property rights over the branding of tea, the tiger has the cuppa of victory after prevailing over the cow.
Following an overhaul in the chief minister’s office as soon as Bhupendra Patel took over as CM more than a month ago,the state government effected a second round of transfers of IAS officers on Friday.
In November last year, Gandhinagar became, on paper at least, the second city in the state after Surat to use a robot for cleaning manholes. However, a year on, neither the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (GMC) nor the urban development department has any record of robot use for cleaning manholes.
Gujarat University (GU) has decided to revisit the exam schedule for its colleges after the state education department extended Diwali vacation period from 13 days to 21 days, said sources close to the development.
Two persons were booked after a 22-year-old man allegedly ended his life in Jetpur taluka on Tuesday. Chirag Viradiya consumed poison at his farm in Umradi village after his mother-in-law and her brother abused him and asked him to divorce his wife Krupali.
The state cabinet took a decision on Wednesday to provide water for irrigation to farmers for their rabi crops. Water will be released from various reservoirs for irrigation from Saturday, October 30,state government spokesperson Jitu Vaghani told the media on Wednesday.
The Gujarat state education department is aiming to set up 100 English-medium schools based on proposals it has received from various districts in the past few months, said sources close to the development.
A childless 25-year-old married woman was raped by an ayurvedic doctor in Kodinar of Gir Somnath district who she had gone for consultation on Tuesday.
The Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued a slew of directions to authorities to ensure reduction in pollution levels of the Sabarmati through proper treatment of waste water. It directed the Ahmedabad municipal commissioner to implement these measures.
Planning a Diwali vacation? Then, this is not to dampen your holiday spirit, but a heads up on health: You will have to show an RT-PCR report on return.
Six members of a Dalit family, who were offering prayers at a temple’s installation ceremony in their village in Kutch, were allegedly attacked by a mob from upper caste communities.
Mahatma Gandhi’s great grandson, Tushar Gandhi, has approached the Gujarat high court taking exception to the proposed redevelopment of Gandhi Ashram by the government authorities. In the PIL filed recently, Gandhi has demanded that the redevelopment should be planned and implemented by the trusts that have been managing the precinct for decades.
The daily Covid-19 cases on Tuesday touched 30 after 12 days in Gujarat. On October 14, Gujarat had recorded 34 cases, the highest in nearly three months. Out of 30, 16 or over 50% were from three major cities.
Amdavad na rickshawallahs may still be all enthusiastic about ferrying you from one place to another or showing you around the city.
With people discontinuing mobile connections and service issues due to the Covid-19 pandemic, rural Gujarat saw a reduction of some 3.3 lakh telecom subscribers in the April to June quarter this year.
Gujarat government is planning to set up eight new medical colleges in the state in the next two years. They will add 1,200 MBBS seats, representing about 21% of the total number of prevailing seats in Gujarat, said sources in the state’s health department
When a hospital fails to disclose all pertinent information regarding treatment and the insurance firm refuses to pay the medical bill in full, most of us would think that is the norm. Faced with a similar situation, a retired faculty member of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, however, dragged the hospital and the insurance company to consumer court and got them to pay up for their deficient service after the insurer deducted Rs 9,603 from a bill of Rs 35,388.
The state forest department is looking at the option to set up elevated railway lines passing through Gir Wildlife Sanctuary that is home to the last surviving population of Asiatic Lions.
It was second consecutive day for the city to record zero new Covid-19 positive cases on Tuesday as the state clocked 16 new cases in 24 hours. With one more death in Valsad district – fourth for the district in the past month out of six recorded across the state – the death toll increased to 10,088.
Historical records reveal that the gentlemen’s game was first played in India on the western coast of the country, in the port town of Cambay, in the beginning of the 18th century. Cambay, now Khambhat, was the port nearest to Gujarat’s capital city of Ahmedabad.
The cattle nuisance and control department (CNCD) of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has proposed raising the one-time lifetime maintenance payment for unclaimed stray cattle caught by CNCD team.
A ‘festival-like atmosphere’ will engulf the city in April and May with the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Monday adding Ahmedabad as one of the two new franchises for the 2022 season. The other new franchise is Lucknow.
The Gujarat Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Monday said accepting gifts during Diwali is also a form of bribery and government employees will be booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act if they are caught indulging in such corrupt practices.
A resident of Chandkheda called Abhayam 181, state government's helpline for women, earlier this month. The distress call was to report the phone addiction of their 14-year-old daughter who was reportedly spending at least 10 hours online.
Between September 23 and October 24, Gujarat recorded 595 Covid-19 cases. Out of total, 341 or 57% were from just three districts of south Gujarat – 173 from Surat (including city), 125 from Valsad, and 43 from Navsari. To put the figure in perspective, even Ahmedabad (including city) recorded less cases than Valsad at 121.
This year may be one of the worst for the city with the rising number of dengue and chikungunya cases in Ahmedabad. Municipal officials are already worried whether there will be repeat of the 2019 dengue outbreak along with a large surge in chikungunya cases when compared to the first witnessed in 2006.
City crime branch officers nabbed two men with 250 grams of mephedrone worth Rs 25 lakh in the illegal drugs market, said officers on Sunday.
Festivities turn our skies into a beautiful kaleidoscope of fireworks. Experts and government pollution watchdogs have for long warned against the rising particulate matter PM2.5. But few have deciphered the nature of particles that make up the smoke.
Diwali is just around the corner and the bustle on the streets and markets, crowded stores and malls reflects a positive consumer sentiment. People who observed restraint, skipping festivities and gatherings last year are going all out, albeit with caution, and not just in fear of Covid-19.
After a steady fall in daily Covid cases for the past three days, Gujarat recorded a spike of 92% as cases went up from 13 to 25. The southern districts accounted for 60% of the daily cases.
Labyrinthine lanes, untarred roads and heaps of garbage strewn here and there greet you when one visits Bhilvas, a chawl in Sardarnagar, located in the northern part of Ahmedabad.
With the Covid-19 cases plummeting steeply across the state and remaining in double digit for the past few months, the sales of drugs — favipiravir and remdesivir — used in the treatment of Covid-19 have also plunged drastically. Vitamins, sanitizers and immunity boosters’ sales too have dropped in line with the reduction in Covid cases.
The Gujarat high court on Friday once again pulled up the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation for the poor condition of roads and directed the municipal commissioner to file an affidavit stating what ‘concrete actions’ have been taken since the HC issued a slew of directions for proper maintenance of roads, elimination of the stray cattle menace and maintaining smooth traffic movements.
A resident of Navrangpura, who runs his tea stall near Gujarat University, on Thursday filed a complaint against three men for beating him over a dispute of washing of hands by some customers. The accused and his son own a shop beside the tea stall of the complainant.
Last Thursday, Gujarat had 34 Covid-19 cases – an 82-day-high for the state. In seven days, the number of daily cases has come down to 13, a 62% reduction.
About two months ago, citizens lined up outside Covid vaccination centres across Gujarat. Now, however, the state health department plans to go from door to door in several pockets of the state to ensure 100% vaccination.
Gujarat paints Ferrari red and BMW blue! No wonder, paint-makers across the world are blue in the face. Spiralling raw material costs and working capital constraints have red flagged pigment blue manufacturers to cut down production significantly.
In an important order, the Gujarat high court on Thursday said that the state government must ask the industry to provide double the area of non-forest land in compensation for the forest area allotted to it.
Even as the 2021 edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit had to be postponed because of the global coronavirus pandemic, the Gujarat government has chalked out plans to organise the January 2022 summit on a bigger scale.
A total 1.11 lakh people were given anti-coronavirus vaccine doses in Gujarat on Sunday, which increased the total number of doses administered in the state to 6.68 crore.
Gujarat candidates have put up a stellar performance in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced, the results of which were announced on Friday.
After an 82-day-high in the number of daily cases at 34 on Thursday, Gujarat saw a drop of 59% to 14 on Friday.
In one of the most brutal assaults by a lion on humans in recent times, an eight-year-old girl was dragged away by a feline that devoured most of her body, in a village of Amreli district, in the early hours of Friday.
Even though demand for cars is high this year, dealers failed to cash-in due to supply constraints caused by the global semiconductor shortage. Data from the Federation of Automobile Dealers’ Associations (FADA) show that vehicle sales on Dussehra fell by 7.7% in Gujarat this year, compared to purchases last year, when the Covid pandemic was raging and several restrictions were in place.
Back in 1917, Mahatma Gandhi chose a large swathe outside the walled city to set up his satyagraha ashram. He sought the quiet — away from the roaring mills and humdrum of city life — where he could carry out his experiments with nonviolence in peace. Almost 103 years later, constant honking from vehicles fighting for space on the road outside Bapu’s ashram has shattered its peace. In fact, the stretch between the Sabarmati ashram and Vadaj Circle records the highest noise levels in the city.
Gujarat reported 14 Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the state's tally to 8,26,258, while the death toll remained unchanged at 10,086, an official said on Friday.
With load shedding looming as power projects shut down or work at lower capacity due to coal supply problems, the Gujarat government has decided to buy power from Tata Power’s Mundra project at a higher tariff, Rs 4.5 per unit, for one month.
