PEOPLE’S VICTORY The residents’ struggle to save United Bengal Home has registered its first major victory. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has issued a notice to owners of the home for illegally bringing down the heritage structure and has asked them to stop work immediately. In an attempt to appease the pol residents who started a […]
Continue readingNew venue to welcome burgeoning audience
The 32nd edition of world’s longest classical music festival Saptak 2012 is to take place at Amrut Mody School of Management, near IIM-A from today. This is a maiden shift of venue for the 13-day long festival, which has always been organized at Kashiram Agarwal Hall. The venue change is prompted by the attempt to […]
Continue readingIn NRG’s memoirs, pols are protagonists
Nostalgia of having spent childhood days in walled city of Ahmedabad is her new muse. Meenal Pandya, an NRG investment consultant-turned-writer, having penned down more than six books on issues that the Indian diaspora face abroad, is currently documenting ‘History of My Pols’ – which she describes is a book where history is interspersed with […]
Continue readingGMC faces suit for inaction on Ketan Desai’s suspension
People for Better Treatment (PBT), an organization for promotion of better healthcare, has filed an appeal before the division bench in Gujarat high court against the Gujarat Medical Council (GMC) for their deliberate inaction towards terminating the medical licence of former president of the Medical Council of India, Dr Ketan Desai. The appeal was filed […]
Continue readingParty scene turns kid-centric
As cops crack down on bootleggers ahead of the New Year festivities, Ahmedabad’s party animals are jittery about throwing their booze-filled bashes. But there are no jitters for those planning parties for children on the outskirts of the city. The logic is, if grown-ups can’t have fun, there is no reason to make it boring […]
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