Karnataka has emerged as India’s No.1 state in terms of installed solar power capacity overtaking early leaders such as Gujarat and Rajasthan, according to the latest numbers from the Minister of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India. According to these numbers, the south Indian state accounted for almost a whopping 19% of India’s total […]
Tata Power said it has won a Rs 488 cr order from Kerala State Electricity Board Ltd to put up a 110 megawatt solar power project in the southern Indian state. The power plant, which has the capacity to produce 110 million watts of electricity, is expected to generate about 274 million units of power […]
GTPL Hathway, a cable and broadband network provider focused on Western and Central India, said it has already crossed its full-year target for new broadband connections within the first six months of the year, and has therefore doubled its target for FY21. At the beginning of this financial year, the company had guided towards adding […]
Even as the rest of the country is seeing an accelerated increase in the number of new Coronavirus cases reported every day, the western Indian state of Gujarat has is reporting a surprising decline in the number of active cases every day. It has also shown a remarkable stability in the number of new COVID-19 […]
Sunday saw a record addition in the number of new COVID-19 patients in India, with the ‘hot four’ states contributing nearly 80% of the total cases during the day. A total of 4,296 new cases were reported in India by various states on Sunday. With this the total number of cases has risen to 67,161. […]
Five states in India have so far ‘flattened’ the Coronavirus curve in India, while the situation in nine states continues to be cause for concern. In all, four states are seeing strong daily increases in COVID-19 numbers. These are Maharashtra and Gujarat — the most worrisome — as well as Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (see […]
With an addition of 127 cases so far today, the western Indian state of Gujarat has dislodged the national capital Delhi as the state with the second highest number of Coronavirus 2019 cases in India. The state, which also crossed the 2,000 patient milestone today, also has the highest death rate — along with Madhya […]
Construction major Nila Infrastructures Limited said it has received a contract to build a public services building for Dholera Industrial City Development Limited (Dholera ICDL) at a cost of Rs 46.21 cr. The building, to be constructed in the Dholera Special Investment Region (Dholera SIR), has to be completed in 545 days, and is the […]
Gujarat-based cable feed provider and broadband operator GTPL Hathway said it will try to retain a higher share of what consumers pay every month, and is not currently looking to bring its broadband business under the Reliance Jio brand. In its cable feed business, GTPL retains only about Rs 30 out of the Rs 130 […]
Every vote counts and every voter matters: this is the motto of the Election Commission of India (ECI). This may sound like a catchy slogan for us, but for the organization that conducts the world’s largest elections, it is a lived reality. It not only walks the proverbial extra mile, but a full 70 kilometres […]
Anil Ambani Group’s construction arm Reliance Infrastructure said it has got the letter of award for a Rs 648 crore contract to build a new greenfield Airport at Hirasar in Rajkot district of Gujarat. The airport is to be completed within 30 months. The new airport is being constructed at a location near National Highway […]
Gujarat, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh are emerging as the top destinations for large, utility scale solar projects in India, according to numbers from the Minister of New and Renewable Energy. According to data for Government of India’s “Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects” scheme, Gujarat ranked as the state with the highest number […]
Hardik Patel, who led the 2015 agitations by Patels seeking reservation in government jobs and higher education, has been found guilty by a trial court in a case filed by a BJP leader. He has been held guilty in the case of vandalizing the office of BJP legislator Rushikesh Patel in Visnagar three years ago. […]
Bangalore-based real estate player Sobha Ltd said it will enter the Gujarat market with a Rs 500-cr residential project in GIFT City in Ahmedabad. The project will have about 1,000 apartments that to support the ‘walk to work’ concept underlying the smart city, the company said. Ajay Pandey, MD and Group CEO of GIFT City […]
Sixteen candidates of the Indian National Congress, who lost the Gujarat state elections by a margin of 3,000 votes or less, are likely to approach the Gujarat High Court to seek counting of paper slips. It is expected that there are about 40 seats where the victory margin was 3000 or less. The candidates will […]
The Indian stock markets are today expected to reflect the results of exit polls from the second phase of Gujarat state elections by the afternoon, even as television channels have to wait till the end of voting to show the results. Several channels, including Times Now, ABP and CNN News18 have tied up with pollsters […]
The Ahmedabad administration has denied permission to the ‘roadshows’ planned by Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad tomorrow. The separate roadshows would have featured Modi and Rahul Gandhi traversing the city in a last minute effort to boost their respective parties’ chances. Parts of the state, including Ahmedabad, are scheduled to go […]
Mani Shankar Aiyar tried to undo the damage he caused to the party’s prospects in Gujarat by calling Narendra Modi — who hails from a group classified under the Other Backward Communities — ‘neech’ (low or low-caste), but Modi sought to take advantage of the controversy by seizing on the remark. “Hindi is not my […]
A non-bailable arrest warrant has been issued against Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti leader Hardik Patel and Lalji Patel in a two-year-old case related to violence at a rally. The warrant was issued in relation to violence seen in the aftermath of a rally in Vishnagar town of Mehsana district in Gujarat on July 24, 2015. […]
The Gujarat High Court has upheld the conviction of a special court that found 31 people to be involved in a conspiracy to commit the arson attack on the train. However, eleven death sentences were commuted to the life terms. The victims or the kins have been ordered to be compensated by up to Rs […]
