Some good news for wannabe doctors in the state. State government has proposed an increase of 255 seats for postgraduate medical courses in three medical colleges in the state.
To replenish an exhausted corpus, to meet payment of sixth pay commission arrears and to make its the flagship programme self-sustaining, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has increased the fee for its Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management consecutively for the third year. From Rs 5 lakh for the two-year residential course of [...]
Soon after blogging in support of superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who is being hounded by the Congress, chief minister Narendra Modi moved quickly to firm up plans of projecting Big B as Gujarat’s brand ambassador. Modi met top advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather’s (O&M’s) India chief Piyush Pandey on Monday in Gandhinagar to expedite the project. [...]
The proposed international airport at Federa could well be the biggest in India. The state government has earmarked a massive 7,500 hectares of land, mostly wasteland, for the new airport at Navagam village near Dholera special investment region (SIR). The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has already cleared the site last month.
There are hardly any ‘Ranchos’ — the popular character played by Aamir Khan in the Bollywood blockbuster ‘3 Idiots’ — in engineering colleges who would innovate with technology and take it beyond the course structure. This lack of innovation and product development in the industry has prompted the apex design school in the country to [...]
Outsourcing seems to be the new mantra for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). Call it an effort to get better results, or neglecting its own parks and garden department by giving work of landscaping to a private contractor.
Here’s interesting news for those who are hunting for high-end apartment schemes in Satellite or Shivranjani area. Venus Infrastructure Ltd, a city-based real estate company, is coming up with a high-end scheme with a commercial complex and retail stores, at Aristovilla bungalow society located near Jodhpur crossroads.
Interestingly, the developers bought this society by paying over [...]
The city of diamonds and textiles is set to add yet another feather in its cap by 2011. ABG Shipyard Limited, country’s largest private shipbuilder with its facility at Magdalla, is setting up Gujarat’s first state-of-the-art maritime institute on a sprawling 12 hectare land at Ichhapore.
Residential markets across major cities of India have seen significant appreciation in values towards the close of 2009. This trend is most in NCR and Mumbai, the two key residential markets in India , where values in Oct-Dec 2009 appreciated , compared to the same period the year before, says Cushman and Wakefield in a [...]
The urban development ministry will seek a review of the proposed service tax levy on sale of housing projects under construction. The levy has been proposed in Budget 2010-11.
“The urban development ministry feels the proposal of service tax needs review. I am recommending the review of the proposal,” Urban development minister Jaipal Reddy told [...]