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Ahmedabad Crime Branch has cracked a sensational 2021 cold case murder from Raipur in Chhattisgarh, arresting a fugitive involved in a brutal contract-killing-turned-robbery case that had remained undetected for years. The crime was originally registered under the jurisdiction of Tikrapara Police Station in Raipur. The case relates to the murder of Shakuntala Yadav, widow of […]
Despite repeated complaints over several days regarding unhygienic conditions and glaring mismanagement at Sola Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, authorities allegedly failed to initiate any corrective action—allowing a preventable crisis to escalate into a shocking incident. In a deeply disturbing development, a rat reportedly bit a junior doctor on the eye inside the hospital’s eye ward, […]
A woman inheriting property, a couple filing for divorce, or love birds registering a live-in relationship. Each belongs to a different religion. They must walk a different legal path in Gujarat. One bill wants to give them all the same road. The Gujarat government has introduced the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill in the state legislative […]
The furnaces have gone cold in Morbi. Gujarat’s ceramic capital, the world’s second-largest hub for tile production, is staring at a weeks-long shutdown, its factories silenced not by a local crisis but by a war thousands of kilometres away. The West Asia conflict has choked the supply of gas that powers Morbi’s furnaces. With US […]
A bomb threat email sent to the Gujarat Legislative Assembly during its ongoing budget session on Wednesday morning triggered an evacuation and a high-alert security sweep, which later confirmed the threat to be a hoax. The email, written in Punjabi was received on the Assembly’s official ID around 8:45 am, just minutes before proceedings were […]
Una Flogging Case: A Nine-Year Journey For Hollow Justice For decades, Gujarat has projected itself as a model of economic growth and governance, often referred to as the “Gujarat Model.” The Una flogging in 2016 had sharply disrupted that narrative. It exposed a dissonance between economic progress and social justice, drew sustained national and international […]
The signs came before the statistics. Nine new municipal corporations in under 15 years. City limits being redrawn. Satellite townships on planning boards. The administrative churn told the story first. Gujarat was outgrowing its rural identity. Now the numbers are showing. The state is on track to become predominantly urban by next year. For the […]
A seminar meant to celebrate Ahmedabad’s UNESCO World Heritage City status turned into something else entirely. Homeowners arrived with questions. Officials arrived with assurances. The two sides spent much of the afternoon talking past each other. The seminar on heritage management, held on Thursday, was the first consultation of its kind organised by the Ahmedabad […]
Slowly and surely Ahmedabad is becoming one of India’s most compelling real estate stories. Steady infrastructure growth, rising investor confidence, and a strengthening economic identity have pushed the city’s housing sales to around Rs 67,000 crore in 2025. That, according to a Credai report, is enough to account for 8% of India’s entire primary residential real […]
The deaths of two B.Com students in Surat have raised troubling questions after investigators found that the two friends had searched an Artificial Intelligence platform for information on suicide before they were found dead inside a temple complex bathroom. The case drew a swift reaction from Elon Musk, businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership […]
“Gujarat is supposed to be a dry state, yet liquor is available at the click of a phone,” alleged Arvind Kejriwal as he launched a sharp attack on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition Indian National Congress during a rally in Gandhinagar on Sunday. Addressing the ‘Parivartan Lao, Kisan Bachao Yatra’, the Aam […]
A burial in 1984 set off a legal battle that would stretch across two decades, two courts, and ultimately end at the Gujarat High Court where it has now been firmly shut. The dispute, according to reports, centres on a simple but contested claim: that a Vadodara man had the religious and customary right to […]
Thirty-four candidates from Gujarat have cleared the prestigious Civil Services Examination 2025, the results of which have been declared by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Dishant Amrutlal Nisar, 27, from Bhachau in Kutch district, secured an impressive All India Rank (AIR) 19, emerging as the only candidate from Gujarat in the top 100. All […]
Three workers died and another is battling for life after entering an underground tank of an effluent treatment plant (ETP) for cleaning at a textile dyeing mill in Surat, police said. The incident took place at Paras Print Private Limited in the Pandesara industrial area on Thursday night but came to light only after it […]
Delivering a sharp rebuke to global steel giant ArcelorMittal, the Gujarat High Court on Friday called the company’s ₹3-crore compensation offer “peanuts” while questioning how it took more than a decade to comply with forest clearance conditions imposed in 2013. The Court warned that if the company wants to retain the forest land, it will […]
There is a particular kind of evening that only a birth can produce where old grudges are forgotten. People who have said unkind things about each other in public find themselves laughing at the same table. We are not talking about Holi here. Several Congress leaders attended the function. Hardik Patel had one of those evenings recently. […]
The Adani Group, India’s largest transport, utility and infrastructure developer, has been named an official partner for World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development (WED) 2026—an International Day by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and delivered by the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO). This is a testament of the Adani Group’s leadership […]
The conflict raging over West Asia feels very far away, until it isn’t. For over 200 people from Gujarat’s Mehsana-Patan region, the US-Israel-Iran standoff has reportedly returned an ordinary trip into an open-ended wait with no clear end in sight. Businesses have shut too. Flights are grounded. And for many Gujaratis, the sudden spike in travel costs […]
He ferries passengers on a bike but barely earns enough to sustain himself. On an average a Rapido driver in Ahmedabad makes less than Rs 25,000 a month. But one Gujarati driver has been arrested following his involvement in a 550 crore scam. This 28-year-old Rapido driver has ended up at the centre of one […]
A modestly earning Rapido bike taxi rider from Gujarat has found himself at the heart of a sprawling Rs. 450 crore alleged money laundering operation, after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) claimed his bank accounts were exploited to move funds generated from illegal online betting and to influence stock market trades. The 28-year-old, who reportedly earns […]
