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GUJARAT Gujarat government to set up 16 new GIDC townships to encourage SMEs Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani announced the setting up of 16 new Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) townships, in Gujarat. The 16 new GIDC townships would be set up in 2400 hectare area to encourage the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).This township … Read more
GUJARAT 1917 Gujarat Political Conference raised cry for Swaraj Exactly 100 years ago in November 1917 the first, and historic, Gujarat Political Conference took place in Godhra in Panchmahal district with Mahatma Gandhi as its president. It was for the first time that the Mahatma, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Lokmanya Tilak, … Read more
AWACS (Airborne Warning And Control System) a mobile, long-range radar surveillance and control centre for air defense. The system, as developed by the U.S. Air Force, is mounted in a specially modified Boeing 707 aircraft. Its main radar antenna is mounted on a turntable housed in a circular rotodome 9 m (30 feet) in diameter, … Read more
GUJARAT First Jurassic-era ‘fish lizard’ fossil found in Gujarat A near-completely fossilized skeleton of Jurassic-era ichthyosaur a type of marine reptile or ‘fish lizard’ in Greek that lived alongside dinosaur has been discovered for the first time in India from Kutch district of Gujarat. The 5.5-metre-long skeleton was discovered in January 2016 by a team of … Read more