Ahmedabad

The local body elections are scheduled to be held in two phases on February 21 and 28. Elections to six municipal corporations will be held on February 21 and that for municipalities, district panchayats and taluka panchayats on February 28.

The post of the Somnath Trust's chairman fell vacant after the death of the incumbent, former Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel, in October last year. Patel had served as the trust chairman for several years.

PM Modi said on Saturday that the Kevadiya railway station is India's first with green building certification.

In his address, the CM asked public to strictly follow COVID-19 protocols like wearing masks and maintaining social distance when going out during day, and to stay indoors between 9 pm and 6 am in Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot and Vadodara.

The medium-intensity earthquake hit south Gujarat at 3.39 pm with its epicentre 36 km east southeast from Bharuch and was also felt in Surat district.

The central government privatised six major airports — Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati — in February 2019.

Around 9 pm on Saturday, the Coast Guard received information that there was flooding onboard the vessel 'MSV Krishna Sudama' around 10 nautical miles off the Okha coast.

As part of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) drive 67,845 tests were conducted in 7,810 offices, in which 966 persons have tested positive so far, said Rajiv Gupta, additional chief secretary and in-charge for COVID-19 management in the city.

Early this week, a senior administration official from the NSC said that the Trump Administration has elevated the US relationship with India and solidified its growing partnership in ways not seen in any other US administration.

As the hospital was sealed for investigation, some of them were still clueless about how their ailing relatives were doing after being shifted out.

Police lobbed teargas shells to disperse the rioters and detained several suspects, an official from the city police control room said.

The pair thwarted India's bowlers with a 141-run stand to take the Ahmedabad Test into the final day.

India go into what is expected to be a lop-sided contest with their tails up following clean sweep against former world-toppers Australia.