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A long-running dispute over forest land between tribal communities from Sagbara in Narmada district and Umarpada in Surat district has intensified, with villagers from 12 Sagbara villages staging a protest for the right to cultivate land they say they have farmed for nearly two decades. For the past 10 days, 52-year-old Leela Vasava, along with […]
A 25-year-old man from Assam has been arrested by Gujarat’s Cyber Centre of Excellence (CCOE) for allegedly acting as a key financial handler for an international cybercrime network involved in “digital arrest” scams. Investigators say the financial trail linked to him extends across 1,090 cases involving transactions worth around ₹1,071.55 crore. The accused, identified as […]
A court-directed medical review into the death of 33-year-old Twisha Sharma has concluded that she died by suicide and found no medico-legal evidence suggesting physical assault or a struggle before her death. The finding comes after a second postmortem conducted by an AIIMS medical board and a detailed review of the available forensic evidence. However, […]
A data privacy concern has emerged at Gujarat University after photographs, signatures and examination-related details of external students were allegedly collected from publicly accessible hall tickets and circulated online. The incident has raised questions about how student information is protected when important examination documents are made available through university websites. University officials said the material […]
Ahmedabad’s police records point to a worrying and often less-discussed form of vulnerability among middle-aged and older residents. Between January 2025 and August 2026, at least 98 suicide cases involving people aged 46 and above were recorded in the city, with health problems, loneliness, financial pressures and changing family circumstances emerging repeatedly in case records. […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party has given Gujarat a significant presence in its newly announced national team under party president Nitin Nabin, with four leaders from the state receiving key organisational responsibilities. Varsha Doshi has been appointed a national vice-president, while Jagdish Patel and Rohan Gupta have been named national secretaries. Hemang Joshi, meanwhile, has been […]
Gujarat’s women-owned manufacturing micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are showing a mixed picture. New registrations surged to an unusual high in 2023-24, but have fallen sharply in the two years since. At the same time, the number of women-owned manufacturing MSMEs reported as closed on the Udyam Registration Portal has steadily increased. The latest […]
What began as a friendly game of Ludo over a small cash bet turned violent in Gujarat’s Jetpur after a dispute over ₹500 ended with one man attacking his friend with a sharp weapon. The incident took place outside a government hospital in Jetpur, where the two men had been sitting together and playing Ludo […]
A diamond theft worth ₹43.11 lakh turned into an eight-hour police chase across Gujarat after three people allegedly posing as beggars stole a packet of diamonds from a merchant’s office in Botad and escaped by autorickshaw and train. The investigation took an unexpected turn when police finally caught the suspects at Bavla railway station in […]
Gujarat is seeing a smaller pool of NEET-UG qualifiers this year, but that may not make admission to medical and dental colleges any easier. Despite the fall in the number of qualifying candidates, the competition for top medical seats is expected to remain intense because many of this year’s candidates have scored exceptionally well. The […]
A 40-year-old doctor from Gujarat who was facing multiple charges related to the alleged possession and transmission of child sexual abuse material in the United States has been found dead in a Florida jail, according to the information provided. The doctor, Chintan Vimalkumar Shah, was being held in Alachua County after investigators brought a series […]
India’s ambitious plan to build a home-grown fifth-generation fighter jet has received a major boost, with Reliance Industries and British aerospace company Rolls-Royce announcing a partnership to explore the development of an engine for the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA). The proposed partnership could mark an important step in India’s long-term effort to develop its […]
A murder case in Gujarat that began with a woman suddenly disappearing has ended with a life sentence for a police inspector, despite investigators never recovering an intact body. Police Inspector A.A. Desai, who was accused of killing his live-in partner Sweety Patel in 2021, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the 8th Additional […]
Gujarat’s kidney transplant system has expanded significantly over the past five years, with the number of procedures rising by more than half between 2021 and 2025. But behind this progress is a worrying reality: patients are still dying while waiting for a suitable donor organ. According to data presented in the Lok Sabha on August […]
A new White House trade report has placed three major Indian manufacturing centres — Pune, Gujarat and Chennai — alongside Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus in the United States. The unusual comparison is not about geography, culture or formal ties between the cities. It is about something much more industrial: pumps and compressors. The White House […]
Adani University has launched two advanced laboratories with Qualcomm Technologies and IIT Bombay to strengthen hands-on learning, research and industry collaboration in artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced engineering. The new facilities comprise the Arduino Edge AI Lab powered by Qualcomm Technologies and the Engineering Exploration Program (EEP) Lab, established with e-Yantra, IIT Bombay. The facilities […]
For more than four decades, Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen lived separate lives in the Netherlands, growing up in loving Dutch families and never knowing that they had a biological sister living just a short distance away. Both women were born in India and were left as infants at orphanages before being adopted by families […]
By Dr Mahendra Kalyankar Few public infrastructure projects in independent India match the scale and complexity of the Dharavi Redevelopment Project. Designed to improve the lives of more than 10 lakh people, it is as much a social transformation programme as it is an urban redevelopment initiative. While the scale of construction is unprecedented, the […]
Gujarat is facing another serious Chandipura virus outbreak, with 27 people dying in the past 45 days and health authorities stepping up surveillance and containment measures across affected districts. According to the state health department, 242 suspected cases have been reported so far. Of these, 41 cases have been confirmed, with 27 resulting in deaths. […]
Gujarat is widely known for its industries, business growth, infrastructure and investment-driven economy. But recent parliamentary data on food security brings another side of the state’s economic story into focus. According to the figures provided, 3,38,42,935 people in Gujarat are covered under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) and the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna […]
