Lakshmi Ajay

Designed by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1954, Sanskar Kendra has been likened to “a museum of man, popular tradition and scientific research”. Today, it has more than Rs 2 crore worth of donations in the form of artefacts and objects.

The illustrations of Ahmedabad will be published by NID, which is hosting Vyner at its bi-annual Chitrakatha International Students’ Animation Festival to be held between October 22 and 28.

As the kavi sammelan wrapped up, traders geared up for another protest event — a ‘musical night’ to sing songs against GST— before they hold a protest march on Saturday.

Dirty toilets, poor logistics, improper lighting, incessant rainfall leave both exhibitors and buyers exasperated.

Rakesh Mohan Joshi, faculty at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, said that GST implementation remained a concern for the industry at large.

The PM Narendra Modi made the statement while inaugurating a three-day global textile and handicrafts event, Textiles India 2017, at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar.

Over three lakh traders from the state, including 50,000 Ahmedabad-based traders, have decided to join in the nationwide strike of textile industry on June 27, 28 and 29 to oppose the GST.

Two such alumni — Kartikeya Misra, Collector of East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, and Rohan Chand Thakur, Deputy Commissioner of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh — were honoured at the third IIM-A Young Alumni Achiever’s Award on the campus on Thursday along with five others.

Besides places related to Mahatma Gandhi’s freedom struggle, the train will connect cities such as Varanasi, Gaya and Allahabad — popular pilgrimage destinations.

GST rollout: This week, online marketplace Paytm Mall announced a three-day Pre-GST Clearance Sale from June 13-15, in which over 6,000 retailers sold more than 500 brands.

Aimed at spreading awareness around the LGBTQ community, it will be done in collaboration with similar groups from BITS Pilani, IIT-Bombay, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Gandhinagar and IISc Bangalore.

Spanning 60 years of his career, architect BV Doshi’s retrospective in Shanghai will share stories behind his landmark projects.

In Gujarat, the exam is being held at Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Bhuj, Rajkot, Surat and Vadodara.

NID is offering PhD in both full-time format of three years and part-time format of five years.

Over eight years have passed since Tata Motors shifted its Nano plant from Singur in West Bengal to Sanand, Gujarat. Between 2010-16, the car manufacturing unit has produced a little more than 2.56 lakh cars. Survival for the ‘people’s car’ seems an uphill task, with only 167 Nanos rolling out of the facility this April. […]

In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Nanda also teaches the executive education, PGP, and PGPX programmes at the institute.

Amit Shah said the BJP has come a long way from being seen as representing only the urban middle class.

Pradeepsinh Jadeja also lauded the Gujarat government under Vijay Rupani for recent decisions of bringing tighter prohibition norms and cow slaughter laws in the state.

This year, Gujaratis have trained sights on Europe and South Africa, and not the USA.

This comes a year after Tata Motors’ Sanand plant workers went on one-month strike and garnered support from 21 trade unions.

Last year saw around 65% of the batch from petroleum engineering batch at PDPU being placed while the number is slated to touch 70 per cent this year.

The workers have revived demands for wage revision and other rights for which they in February last year had gone on a month-long strike.

Taarak Mehta, one of Indian literature’s finest humorists, passed away in Ahmedabad yesterday. He was 87.

From restoration to a sustainable homestay today, Jagdip Mehta’s 200-year-old haveli in Moto Sutharwado pol at Khadia was the first applicant under the state’s ‘homestay policy”.