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Concerned about the number of lion deaths on railway tracks, the Gujarat government has conveyed to the Centre and Indian Railways that, from now on only elevated rail and road corridors would be built in and around Gir and Greater Gir areas. Since 2014, 17 lions have been killed in 15 collisions with trains in […]
Hundreds of candidates who had cleared the state education department’s Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) and Teacher Aptitude Test (TAT) on Tuesday morning marched to the secretariat. The rally was stopped by district police teams and around 300 protestors were detained, allegedly by use of force. It was the first demonstration the state government faced after […]
The relatives of the victims of the Morbi suspension bridge collapse have urged the Gujarat High Court to transfer the investigation from Morbi city police to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). They want this because they believe that the investigator is going slow against the office-bearers of the Oreva Group and shielding government officials. […]
The Lulu Group, headquartered in Dubai, has bought a 66,168 sq m plot for Rs 519.41 crore from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to set up India’s largest mall. The e-auction of the plot was held on Tuesday. AMC had received three bids for the prime Chandkheda plot. The base price of the plot was […]
Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is lodged in Sabarmati jail in Gujarat, made another video call that went viral on social media on Tuesday. In the 19-second video, Bishnoi—the alleged mastermind behind the firing at actor Salman Khan’s residence in Mumbai and the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala—is seen allegedly talking about Eid with Pakistani […]
A saree printer misused his expertise in colour and printing to make duplicate Indian currency notes, which he smartly used in a vegetable market for 10 months. But he landed in trouble when a tomato vendor got suspicious of his unusually small and frequent purchases and alerted the police. Udhna police arrested the printer Pintu […]
The operators of private school vans and rickshaws will observe a strike across the state from Tuesday over their pending demands, which include expediting vehicle fitness certificates and permit processes. The transport department has said it will intensify the crackdown against vans and rickshaws plying without valid fitness certificates and permits. About 80,000 school vans […]
Following vociferous protests by members of the Jain community, the state government on Monday directed authorities in Panchmahals district to reinstall idols of Jain Tirthankars that had been removed from their original spot, allegedly to make way for renovation. The centuries-old idols had been placed near the stairs leading to Kalika Mata temple on Pavagadh […]
A vigilant loco pilot of a goods train saved the lives of 10 lions after applying emergency brakes on spotting them on the tracks near Pipavav Port in Amreli district, according to a railway official. The incident took place early on Monday. The loco pilot Mukesh Kumar Meena was piloting the goods train from Pipavav […]
Claiming a financial irregularities involving the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), Gujarat Congress Chief Shaktisinh Gohil has made grave accusations of corruption involving land allotments valued at Rs 1,200 crore. Speaking during a news conference on Monday, Gohil showed records and government resolutions that he claimed exposed the government’s wrongdoings, thereby causing a Rs 350 […]
The Gheekanta Metropolitan Court cleared 50 cases pending for more than three decades. The Gujarat High Court has instructed to clear the long pending cases at the earliest. There are 24,121 cases pending in the Metropolitan Magistrate Court for a very long period of time, ranging from 10 years to 30 years. There are more […]
In a heartening trend, as per the city’s birth registry in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) latest annual report there has been a rise in registration of third gender identities. The number stands at seven in 2023. There were just two registrations in 2021 and a single case in 2022. Among the factors for low registrations […]
A 54-year-old Muslim cleric was arrested at Amod in Bharuch on Sunday for a social media post that could potentially “breach communal peace” ahead of Monday’s Eid-ul-Adha. The arrest is to preventive any untoward incident, according to police sources. The Bharuch district police has booked the accused, Maulvi Abdul Rahim Rathod, who is a cleric […]
In view of the tragic incident at the TRP Mall gaming zone in Rajkot last month, the Gujarat High Court has issued a directive to the Principal Secretary (Urban Development) to conduct an inquiry into the functioning of municipal corporations across the state. The court stressed that no guilty party should be spared, and all […]
Authorities on Sunday said that an Indian passenger headed for Dubai was detained at the Surat airport by personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) for allegedly hiding raw diamonds worth over Rs 2 crore. Sanjaybhai Moradiya was detained on Saturday at 8:30 a.m. as he was being interrogated by airport security before boarding […]
Shaktisinh Gohil is an MP and a member of the Congress party. He was appointed president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee in June 2023, in the run-up to the 2024 general elections. Shaktisinh was the minister of finance, health, education, and Narmada in two consecutive state governments from 1991 to 1995. He also led […]
A casual labourer was stabbed to death by an alleged bootlegger and his three accomplices inside the trauma care centre of government-run GG Hospital in Jamnagar city in the early hours of Thursday. The police said the incident took place at around 12.30 am on Thursday when the victim, identified as Dharmarajsinh alias Bhuro Zala, […]
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday criticised the state government and directed it to set up a high-level fact-finding committee to conduct an independent probe into the Rajkot game zone fire incident. It wanted an investigation into the role of officials who allowed the illegal structure to come up and remain functional for years without […]
Third-year resident doctor of Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research (SMIMER), Rutvik Darji, was suspended on Wednesday for allegedly assaulting a Thai woman in the institute’s boys’ hostel. Darji will remain suspended pending inquiry by the dean of the institute, Dr Deepak Hovale. The action against Darji follows a preliminary inquiry by a […]
The Rajkot gaming zone fire which killed 27 people last month has led the state government to take urgent action. On Wednesday, draft rules were released on licensing requirements, maintenance and public safety for amusement parks and gaming zones under the Gujarat Amusement Rides and Gaming Zone Activities (Safety) Rules, 2024. Earlier incidents include the Harni […]
