🔴 Emphasising the need to modernise farm laws, Ahluwalia called for the abolition of the Essential Commodities Act.

🔴 The foreign diplomat also expressed interest in cooperating with the state government in sectors like cold storage, solar energy, water management and waste management.

🔴 Bhatt’s recent global report on adapting humanitarian action to the effects of climate change has attracted international attention from foundations and UN bodies engaged in humanitarian crisis worldwide.

🔴 Any citizen violating Covid rules will have to pay a fine of a Rs 500, while the owner of the premises where the violation takes place will also have to pay Rs 10,000 as a penalty, as the owner must ensure that Covid rules are followed.

🔴 Police said the couple went to the jewellery shop as customers. They engaged a salesman, Rahul Gaikwad, in a conversation and decamped with a gold chain worth Rs 1.12 lakh.

🔴 They added that among the reasons Khan made the move is the re-appointment of Kannur University Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Gopinath Ravindran. Another issue was the amendment in the University Act regarding the appointment of University Appellate Authority.

🔴 Addressing a women’s convention in Margao, Priyanka attacked the BJP and said, “You saw the last election. You backed the Congress but every rule of democracy was broken and your government was stolen from you.”

Gautam Menon, Professor at Ashoka University, said, “Booster shots may be necessary, at least initially, for frontline and healthcare workers, those above 60 years of age and those who are immunocompromised, but others can wait for them.”

🔴 Four of the seven patients with Omicron are fully vaccinated, said state Health Department officials.

🔴 Soon after he joined Congress last week, the ruling party had hinted at fielding Moosewala from Mansa in the upcoming polls. This has created a flutter among the other ticket aspirants from the seat, including Chahal.

🔴 Ashaben was one of the prominent faces of the 2015 Patidar reservation agitation

🔴 The five MPs include Mitesh Patel (Anand), Hasmukh Patel (Ahmedabad East), Sharda Patel (Mehsana), Ramesh Dhaduk (Porbandar) and Mohan Kundariya (Rajkot).

🔴 The court held that the victim's deposition that she was in a relationship with the accused and the defence's argument that she was only four months shy of being an adult when the case was registered.

🔴 The case dates back to December 7, 2020, when the 10-year-old girl, who was playing outside her uncle's house in Surat, went missing.  After the girl's family failed to find her out, a missing persons' complaint was lodged at the police station concerned.

🔴 The event, organised by the Ministry of Minority Affairs to celebrate 75th Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, will be inaugurated by Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat in the presence of Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Sunday.

🔴 Congress has been in power in Diu municipal council for the past 15 years and Solanki had been serving as president of the urban local body since 2012

🔴 CM Adityanath says Rs 9,802-cr irrigation system will push up farmers’ income

🔴 Chidambaram's statement comes 10 days after GFP president Sardesai said the “alliance” between the parties now had the blessings of the Congress high command.

🔴 'Along with some 100 people, the government employee had shut down the hospital for no reason, and a call was received by Akbarpur police. Patients were struggling, and in order to restart medical services, police had to resort to mild lathicharge.'

🔴 In a video of the incident that surfaced on social media, local residents caught one of the policemen while the other one fled.

🔴 After political backlash, with Leader of Opposition Harpal Singh Cheema uploading a copy of the order on Twitter, the office of Inspector General SPU withdrew the order, citing 'clerical mistake'.

🔴 A total of five persons-- four women and a driver -- were in the Scorpio when the accident occurred. The victims had gone to Swaminarayan temple in Sukhpar village for a religious ceremony and were returning home when their vehicle met with an accident.

🔴 The Umiya Mata temple in Unjha is considered as a place of pilgrimage and centre of faith of Patidar community, especially the Kadva Patidars.

🔴 The investigation later revealed a major drug-trafficking racket in which the accused had allegedly managed to smuggle over 100 kg of narcotics, including cocaine, MDMA and other high potency drugs in Ahmedabad and other cities of Gujarat since 2019.