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Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Friday arrested Lalla Pathan alias Bihari, the mastermind behind illegal Bangladeshi settlements near Chandola lake. He was arrested from Rajasthan. After the demolition drive by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation in which more than 2,000 homes were razed to the ground, the police had detained his son Fateh Mohammad on April 29. […]
Akshaya Tritiya, usually a golden ticket day for jewellers, lost its shine in Ahmedabad this year. With gold prices shooting up like rockets and temperatures matching their ambition, buyers chose to stay cool — and away. Sales dropped to almost 60% compared to last year, Jewellers’ Association of Ahmedabad (JAA) told a national newspaper. Jewellers reported […]
The Police have invoked Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) against a 23-year-old female teacher from Surat. The teacher was allegedly engaged in a physical relationship with her 13-year-old student. They were missing since April 25 and were caught near the Gujarat-Rajasthan border in the wee hours on Wednesday. The missing complaint was […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Government of India to respond to the unethical and illegal clinical trials that took place in Ahmedabad. It was hearing a Public Interest litigation petition filed by the Swasthya Adhikar Manch. The petition highlights how the multinational drug companies were conducting clinical trials in the country by treating […]
The Supreme Court has rejected a bail plea of former Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt for bail and suspension of the sentence in connection with a custodial death case of 1990. Bhatt is serving life imprisonment. On Tuesday while hearing the plea, a division bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta directed that the […]
Dr. Hemang Joshi, BJP MP from Vadodara, has demanded Chandola Lake like demolition drive in the cultural capital of the state. Even as the drive was on at the Chandola Lake on Tuesday to bring down over 2,000 structures of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, Dr. Joshi took to X and said, “Justice Served. Vadodara too has […]
A critical public interest petition highlighting illegal clinical trials conducted in Gujarat is scheduled to be heard in the Supreme Court today. The case has gained renewed urgency following revelations of unethical drug testing on patients at a government-run hospital in Ahmedabad. The focus is on Sheth Vadilal Sarabhai (VS) Hospital, where 58 domestic and […]
In a major operation that began in the wee hours of Wednesday, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, under police protection, bulldozed illegal huts and constructions by illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, who were staying at Chandola Lake area of Ahmedabad for the last several years. In what is seen as an aftermath of Pahalgam attack, the Gujarat Police had […]
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has decided to lift a temporary ban on Dr Prashant Vazirani, a cardiologist who was being investigated for his role in the deaths of two patients at Khyati Hospital. NMC communicated the decision in a letter to the Gujarat Medical Council (GMC), according to reports. Dr Raghav Langer, secretary of […]
Silence hangs over Chandola Lake’s slums after city police swooped in over the weekend, detaining hundreds in a sweeping operation targeting alleged illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. When Police Commissioner GS Malik visited the area on Monday, he found a near-abandoned settlement—over 600 homes stood eerily locked, their occupants vanished overnight. A background here is necessary. […]
The recent revelation of irregularities in clinical trials at Ahmedabad’s VS Hospital has sent shockwaves through Gujarat’s healthcare system, raising serious questions about research ethics, regulatory oversight, and patient safety. As public trust wavers, the state’s Health Department has launched a sweeping inquiry into all clinical trials conducted under government medical institutions—including those affiliated with […]
In a major operation on Saturday, the Gujarat Police detained over 1,000 Bangladesh nationals allegedly living illegally in the state. The operation began in the wee hours in Ahmedabad and Surat It is seen as the aftermath of the Pahalgam terrorist attack. According to police, 890 people were detained in Ahmedabad and more than 130 […]
What seemingly appeared as routine clinical research at Ahmedabad’s VS Hospital has now turned out to be one of the most serious allegations of medical misconduct in recent years. Behind closed doors, dozens of clinical drug trials were allegedly conducted on unsuspecting, poor patients—not just under a cloud of secrecy, but through calculated exploitation of […]
The Gujarat Medical Council (GMC) has formally demanded that the National Medical Commission (NMC) immediately lift the stay imposed on GMC’s disciplinary action against disgraced cardiologist D. Prashant Vazirani. Dr Vazirani stands at the center of a scandal involving the deaths of two patients at Khyati Hospital, and a broader fraudulent scheme to exploit the […]
Instead of confronting the ethical violations at VS Hospital—where poor and unsuspecting patients were reportedly exploited for illegal clinical trials—the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has chosen to zero in solely on the financial aspect of the scandal. A five-member committee has been formed not to investigate how a civic-run hospital was reduced to a testing […]
High alert has been issued across the country, including Gujarat, following a terrorist attack in Pahalgam on Tuesday. Twenty-eight people, including three from the state, died and several others were injured. State police and security agencies have stepped up vigilance in Gujarat. Railway stations and airports are being closely monitored and temple towns of Somnath, […]
In October last year, Gujarat confronted alarming statistics. According to data in the academic year of 2022-23, 23% of students in classes 9 and 10 dropped out of schools in Gujarat. What was more, over 1.15 lakh students in the state were not even going to school. As a state leading India’s economic march, Gujarat ought to be proud […]
A five-member investigation committee from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)’s vigilance department has begun probing allegations of illegal clinical trials at VS Hospital. According to senior AMC officials who didn’t want to be named, while SVP Hospital conducted 21 authorised clinical trials over the past four years, a staggering 58 unauthorised trials were allegedly carried […]
Congress corporator Rajshree Kesari claimed that three patients died during the alleged clinical trials at Vadilal Sarabhai (VS) Hospital by 58 companies, which resulted in the suspension of an associate professor and the issuance of termination letters to eight doctors. The controversy reached a boiling point on Monday. She aired the accusations at the Ahmedabad […]
After a brief one-day relief, the mercury rose again in the city and other parts of Gujarat on Monday and Rajkot topped the chart at 42.0°C. Among the hottest cities and town in the state were Amreli, which recorded 41.6°C, Surendranagar at 41.2°C, and Bhuj at 41.1°C. Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, and Vadodara also faced intense heat wave with temperatures hovering […]
