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Ahmedabad: Night temperatures in Gujarat spiked sharply while daytime readings soared, signaling the loosening grip of winter across the state.Ahmedabad felt the change most distinctly, with the minimum temperature on Friday night climbing to 18.6°C, a full 5.2°C above normal, bringing warmer nights after a brief spell of chill earlier this week. Similar trends were seen across central and south Gujarat, with Vadodara recording a low of 18.4°C (4.2°C above normal) and Surat touching 20°C at night.Cloudy skies and humidity levels reaching 80% greeted many early risers, adding to the unusual warmth.Daytime temperatures also surged, with 14 cities and towns…
Hazaribag: Seven drug peddlers have been arrested from near Nagwa aerodrome under the Korra police station limits on Friday. A total of 166.5 gm of brown sugar, Rs 3.51 lakh in cash, two motorcycles and six phones were seized from their possession, police said on Saturday.The arrested accused were identified as kingpin Santosh Kumar Saw (38), a resident of Piticha village in Chatra district, besides Yogesh Prasad (33) of Pitij, and Dharmendra Kumar Singh (27) of Dulha, Rajpur, in Chatra district, Sawan Kumar (19) of Premnagar Sindoor in Korra, Santosh Kumar (33) of Jamuwari under Ichak block, Prashant Kumar (28)…
Surat: Chief minister Bhupendra Patel on Friday inaugurated projects worth Rs 173.78 crore undertaken by the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) and laid foundation stones for projects worth Rs 169 crore, taking the total outlay to Rs 342 crore.Addressing the gathering, Patel said Gujarat has adopted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s culture of time-bound governance, where projects launched by a government are also completed and inaugurated within the same tenure.Under the state govt’s Public Housing Redevelopment Scheme, 1,304 houses in the Gotalawadi tenement area of Katargam were redeveloped on a public-private partnership (PPP) model. The chief minister inaugurated the housing project in…
(Global Gujarati logo)Vadodara: A Yezdi took Vijay Patel across Africa for 11 months in 1981 while he was a commerce student at Maharaja Sayajirao University on a Rotary Club scholarship. More than four decades later, the same spirit of risk and reinvention defines Patel — now a US-based hospitality entrepreneur known for reviving distressed and historic hotel properties across the Pacific Northwest.Born and raised in Uganda until the age of 15, Patel’s early life was shaped by the political upheaval of the 1970s, which forced his Gujarati family to flee. A British citizen by birth, he moved to India, completed…
Thiruvananthapuram: Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan is expected to inaugurate Kumbichalkadavu bridge across Neyyar reservoir, connecting 11 villages in Thodumala ward of Amboori panchayat, this week. The bridge will bring road connectivity to residents who have been depending on ferries for decades.Built at a cost of Rs19 crore under KIIFB funding, the 253.4-m-long and 11-m-wide bridge links several interior villages to the mainland road network. Even before its formal opening, two-wheeler traffic has been permitted for nearby residents and forest dwellers, easing daily travel for students and locals. Signal markings have been completed on the bridge and approach road, along with…
Kolkata: A nearly two-decade-long push to make schools safer and more comfortable for girls during menstruation is gaining renewed attention in Bengal, as the state education department prepares to review menstrual hygiene facilities in government-run schools following the Supreme Court order on Friday.Officials said menstrual hygiene was being treated as an integral part of overall cleanliness and health practices in state schools, with a focus on access to sanitary products, safe disposal systems, and awareness programmes for students and parents. “Several schools already have vending machines and dispensers in girls’ toilets. Since it is a part of health and hygiene,…
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Martin Pistorius was diagnosed with locked-in syndrome/ Image: X A South African man who spent more than a decade fully conscious but unable to move or speak has reflected on life after emerging from a condition often described as being “locked inside” his own body. Martin Pistorius, who fell ill as a child and was later diagnosed with locked-in syndrome, is now a father, disability advocate and working professional, more than 10 years after regaining a means of communication. A childhood illness that never went away Pistorius was 12 when he came home from school in Johannesburg in 1988 complaining…
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