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An Air India Express flight carrying 168 passengers experienced a tense moment while landing at Surat airport late on Saturday night after a powerful laser beam briefly flashed into the aircraft’s cockpit, distracting the pilots during the final stage of landing. The incident took place at around 11 pm when the flight from Delhi was […]
Five major prohibition cases registered in Ahmedabad city and Gandhinagar over the past two months have revealed a striking pattern. While police recovered liquor worth more than Rs 13.8 lakh from vehicles and other locations, none of the alleged bootleggers were arrested. The FIRs filed between May and July show that every case ended in […]
Two cousins. One village. And a promise that seemed too good to walk away from — 20% guaranteed returns on stock market investments. That promise is now at the centre of what victims allege is one of Saurashtra’s biggest Ponzi scams in recent memory, with losses estimated between ₹300 crore and ₹400 crore, and nearly […]
A government primary school teacher in Gujarat’s Gir Somnath district has been suspended and arrested after he allegedly sent a Class 7 student to buy liquor during school hours. The incident took place at Khapat Primary School in Una taluka, raising serious concerns over student safety and the conduct of teachers. According to police, the […]
Exactly 10 years after the Una flogging case shook the country, the lives of the survivors have once again been thrown into uncertainty. In 2016, five Dalit men from Una were brutally assaulted for handling the carcass of a cow that had been killed by a lion. After the attack, the survivors left behind the […]
What was meant to be a spiritual journey to the Ambaji Temple on Girnar Hill in Gujarat’s Junagadh district ended in a heartbreaking tragedy on Saturday. A 12-year-old boy was attacked and dragged away by a lion just around 50 steps into the climb, leaving pilgrims in shock and forcing authorities to close the main […]
Gujarat has reached a telecom milestone that few states can claim. For the first time in nearly five years, the state has more mobile phone connections than people, with tele-density crossing the 100% mark. The latest TRAI data shows strong subscriber growth, led by Reliance Jio, as better connectivity and rising demand for multiple SIM […]
Two years after Gujarat witnessed India’s biggest Chandipura virus outbreak in more than two decades, the deadly infection has returned, raising fresh concerns among health authorities. The latest outbreak has already claimed the lives of three children within a few days. The most recent victim was a six-year-old child from Rajasthan who died while undergoing […]
Gujarat has received investment proposals worth an estimated Rs 8.5 lakh crore for data centre projects, with 20 companies expressing interest in setting up facilities across the state. The proposals have come immediately after the Gujarat government announced its Viksit Gujarat Data Centre Policy 2026–29, highlighting strong industry interest in the state’s digital infrastructure plans. […]
A 21-year-old man was killed in a lion attack in Gujarat’s Amreli district after he entered a forest area with a group involved in illegal lion watching. The incident, which took place on the evening of July 8 near the boundary of the Antalya Revenue area and the Luwaria Reserve Forest in Liliya taluka, has […]
For generations, the relationship between people and Asiatic lions in Gujarat has been built on trust. Villagers living around the Gir landscape accepted the presence of lions, tolerated livestock losses, and even discouraged outsiders from disturbing the animals. That understanding played a crucial role in one of the world’s most successful wildlife conservation stories. Today, […]
For the first time since the Manjalpur Assembly constituency was created during the 2008 delimitation exercise, veteran BJP leader Yogesh Patel will not be on the ballot. Patel, who represented the constituency for three consecutive terms and served a total of eight terms in the Gujarat Assembly during his political career, passed away on June […]
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday upheld the sentences awarded by a special trial court in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case. The court confirmed the death penalty for 38 of the 49 convicted accused and upheld life imprisonment for the remaining 11. The judgment was delivered by a Division Bench comprising Justices A. Y. […]
Several police inspectors in Gujarat have fallen victim to a suspected malware attack after their Telegram accounts were compromised, resulting in explicit pornographic links being automatically sent to colleagues and senior police officials. According to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Crime Cyber Cell, investigators suspect that the officers’ accounts were hacked after they clicked on […]
A terrifying encounter between a lioness and a villager in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district has been caught on camera showing the big cat pinning the man to the ground for several tense minutes before unexpectedly walking away. The dramatic incident took place in Garajiya village under the Palitana forest range on the morning of July 6. […]
Imagine walking through a city where almost every road, neighbourhood and open space is covered in concrete, while trees, lakes and natural green areas become increasingly rare. According to a new satellite-based scientific study, this could become the reality for Ahmedabad by 2045 if the current pace of urbanisation continues without stronger environmental safeguards. The […]
A Gujarati-origin convenience store owner living in the United States has been detained by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the state of Maine, with his lawyers challenging the arrest in federal court while immigration authorities maintain that he has been under a final deportation order since 2011. The man, identified as Dhaval […]
Gujarat has once again reinforced its reputation as one of India’s most entrepreneurial states. A recent report by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Labour Market Dynamics in million-plus cities shows that people in Gujarat’s major cities are more likely to start their own businesses than depend on salaried jobs. Rajkot, Surat […]
The Gujarat High Court has dismissed a petition filed by an income tax informant seeking a substantially higher reward after his information helped the Income Tax Department detect tax evasion worth over ₹8 crore. The court ruled that rewards paid to informants under the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) policy are ex gratia (voluntary) […]
A 22-year-old man was murdered by his own parents in Gujarat’s Rajkot district after repeated disputes over his drinking habits and frequent quarrels at home. Police arrested the couple after a forensic postmortem contradicted the family’s initial claim that the victim had died by consuming acid. The deceased, identified as Ram Bambhava, was a resident […]
