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In October 2023, electoral bonds worth over Rs 11 crore were purchased in the name of six members of a Dalit family from Anjar, a small uneventful city in Gujarat’s Kutch district. As per SBI data released by the Election Commission of India, of these, bonds worth Rs 10 crore were encashed by the Bharatiya […]
Denying that slapping a student by the teacher was abetment to suicide, Gujarat High Court quashed criminal charges against the trustee of Surat’s Samarpan School and a teacher of the school accused of slapping and humiliating an 18-year-old student, allegedly driving him to suicide. Justice Divyesh Joshi found that there was no material on record […]
Less than a month after several foreign students were injured in a clash with a local mob of intruders over namaz offering on Gujarat University campus in Ahmedabad, four overseas students have been asked to vacate the hostel this week. Officials said the visa of these students had expired.The number of international students asked to […]
With the objective of checking crime and making Ahmedabad a safer city, the city police are using artificial intelligence to predict crimes and the locations where the crimes would take place. The aim is to identify crime hotspots and intensify patrolling or increase technical surveillance in those areas. ‘Predictive policing’ involves analysing data on past […]
The Kshatriya leaders of the BJP have been summoned to Delhi by the Party High Command to discuss the Parshottam Rupala controversy. BJP’s senior leaders held a meeting at Gandhinagar to review the situation on Sunday afternoon. The meeting was held at the residence of minister of state for home Harsh Sanghavi. Senior Kshatriya leaders […]
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the maximum temperature may rise to 40 degrees C on Monday in Ahmedabad. IMD has given heatwave warnings in various cities. Heat and humidity will make people in coastal areas experience discomfort. Temperature continued to rise in the city and the state, with the maximum on Sunday in […]
Members of the Kshatriya community stirred controversy by threatening to perform ‘jauhar’ (self-immolation) outside the BJP headquarters in Gandhinagar, demanding the withdrawal of Parshottam Rupala’s candidature over alleged anti-Rajput remarks. Police detained five women along with Shree Rashtriya Karni Sena president Mahipal Singh Makrana before they could carry out their plans.Simultaneously, protests erupted in various […]
Youngsters performing daredevil stunts on Ahmedabad city roads have become a headache for Ahmedabad police. Heart-pounding stunts have seen a significant surge in the first quarter of 2024. Now the police are mulling cancelling the driving licence of such violators.Last year, the RTO received a whopping 777 recommendations for licence suspension due to reckless driving […]
Gujarat Police Recruitment Board is in the process of recruiting for Class 3 Cadre posts in the department. Interested and eligible candidates can apply by visiting the official website of the Board. This recruitment drive aims to fill a total of 12,472 posts. The registration process began on April 4 and will conclude on April […]
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat arrived in Vadodara on a three-day visit to Gujarat.Bhagwat is likely to tackle the reported internal frictions between factions of the BJP in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha elections as well as the ongoing Kshatriya agitation against Union Minister Parshottam Rupala. Rupala is BJP’s Lok Sabha […]
Authorities at Gujarat University (GU) have issued official notices to seven students from Afghanistan, instructing them to vacate their hostel rooms on the campus. Five of these students have already complied with the directive, officials confirmed.The move comes in the wake of a controversy that erupted about a month back involving Afghan students who engaged […]
In an interim relief, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed an order of the Gujarat High Court that cancelled the admission of a panipuri seller’s son at a medical college following a dispute over his caste certificate. With the stay, the MBBS student can be readmitted to the course and can continue with his studies for […]
The Gujarat High Court on Friday castigated the state government for lodging an FIR against a contractual sanitation worker for “wilfully” entering a tank despite a prohibition on manual scavenging. The court noted that such a responsibility cannot be put on the worker who is only resorting to such work to feed his family. The […]
A customer has sued a restaurant seeking Rs 30.50 lakh in compensation for serving him non-vegetarian dish. Gaurang Raval, a resident of Shela, went to the Cube Lounge restaurant in Club O7 on March 7 with his sister and brother-in-law. They ordered Veg Makhanwala and other dishes. When the dish was served, it did not […]
An 18-year-old girl, studying in the Pramukh Swami Vocational Training Centre at Dharampur in Valsad district, fell ill after being allegedly locked in the hostel’s washroom. She alleged that she was locked up as she did not attend the prayer meeting on Wednesday evening. The police department on Thursday initiated a probe into an incident […]
Union minister Parshottam Rupala is facing a protracted agitation from the Kshatriya community owing to his remarks about erstwhile princely rulers. He is the BJP candidate for the Rajkot Lok Sabha seat. In what comes as a respite for him, organisations representing the Patidar community to which Rupala belongs, have started rallying around in support. […]
Following a successful trial run, Ahmedabad police have set up AI-based CCTV cameras at 130 of the 737 locations planned in the city to to detect and prevent crime more effectively.These cameras can monitor and analyse video footage to discern traffic patterns and anomalies. They can predict and help prevent traffic congestion. Ajay Choudhari, Joint […]
Intelligence sources say approximately 1,200 Gujaratis, among 4,000 Indians seeking entry into the US via unconventional routes, find themselves in a predicament due to heightened US security measures linked to the election. The attention of both the Homeland Security Investigations agency in the US and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is sharply focused on maintaining […]
With the onset of summer, the number of Swine Flu cases in Gujarat are decreasing. However, even as a decreasing trend has been observed, officials remain wary of declaring an early end to this season’s flu infections. The H1N1 strain has left 16 people dead in the state in the first 3 months of 2024. The […]
A thrilling wildlife spectacle unfolded before tourists at Rajasthan’s Ranthambore National Park recently when a tiger unexpectedly ambushed a cow. The tourists were out on a jungle safari over the weekend, when at one point, a tiger hiding in the bushes suddenly attacked a cow that was observed walking on the path. The cow tried […]
