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After a security alert onboard, a Delhi-Mumbai Akasa Air flight was diverted to Ahmedabad on Monday morning. Up to 186 passengers, including an infant, and six crew members boarded the aircraft. The aircraft made a safe landing at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport at around 10.13 a.m. after being diverted to Ahmedabad. At the airport, […]
With Ahmedabad registering extreme temperatures this summer, the power demand also has picked up. Torrent Power, has informed that there has been an increase of 13% in electricity consumption in the city for the month of May over the same period last year. In May 2023, the city consumed 95 crore units. In May 2024, […]
The Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which markets dairy products under the brand name Amul, has increased milk prices by Rs 2 per litre with effect from Monday, June 3. The increase will be across all milk variants including Amul Gold, Amul Shakti, Amul cow milk, Amul Slim n Trim, Amul A2 cow milk, […]
Rajkot Town Planning Officer M. D. Sagathiya and Deputy Engineer Mukesh Makwana are suspended from their service in the fallout of the horrible fire tragedy, which took 27 lives on 25th May. TPO Sagathiya has been a permanent fixture in the town planning department for ten years, even though as many as six municipal commissioners […]
After fighting for her life for 24 hours, the 16-year-old girl who was hit by an SUV driven by a 17-year-old boy succumbed to her injuries at a private hospital late on Saturday night. The accident occurred on Friday in Thaltej. The juvenile accused, who passed his Class 10 exam this month, was driving his […]
The Founder and Chairman of the Adani Group, Gautam Adani, has overtaken Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries, as the richest person in Asia, as per a report by Bloomberg Billionaires Index. This is after the Adani Group’s valuation rose after a 14% share increase on May 31. The reason for this was that Jefferies […]
Game zones and recreation centres in the state will soon be put under a special category as the government is working on new rules for them under the Gujarat Comprehensive General Development Control Regulations (CGDCR). The move comes after the fire tragedy at the TRP Game Zone in Rajkot that killed over 30, many of […]
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat will mark its victory in the Lok Sabha general elections on June 4, the results day, in a very simple manner. The State party general secretary, Rajnibhai Patel, has issued a letter instructing the cadres to celebrate the victory in a very simple and restrained manner. These […]
The UNM Foundation (named after Shri UN Mehta, the Founder of Torrent Group) and the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre (UNMICRC), Ahmedabad have signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide financial assistance for heart transplants to needy patients. Heart Transplant surgeries and the post-operative care required are expensive and generally out […]
After three days of the Rajkot game zone fire tragedy that killed 27, the chief of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Wednesday said that they have been given the go-ahead to question even senior IAS and IPS officials if the probe warranted. The Rajkot collector said that the DNA samples of all the victims […]
Two outdoor advertising agencies in the city are in a soup for illegally trimming 536 trees on edges of roads to make advertising hoardings more visible. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has fined them Rs 50 lakh each. Condemning the act, AMC commissioner M Thennarasan asked the deputy municipal commissioner, I K Patel, to initiate […]
Prakash Hiran, one of the owners of the TRP Game Zone in Gujarat’s Rajkot, has been confirmed dead in the fire that broke out in the facility on May 25. He was one of the main accused in the incident. The identification was made through DNA testing, which matched samples from the remains found at […]
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Rajkot fire tragedy on May 25 has highlighted serious lapses by the promoters of the TRP Game Zone, leading to 28 deaths. The SIT report revealed the lack of separate entry and exit gates, absence of emergency exits, and unsafe welding practices inside the facility. Instead of having […]
The Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) and the Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) will release Shyam Benegal’s restored ‘Manthan’ in 100 cinemas across 50 cities in the country. The film will be released on June 1, World Milk Day. In Gujarat, it will be released in Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Anand, Rajkot, Gandhinagar and Nadiad. The […]
The High Court of Gujarat has begun the online registration process for the recruitment on 1,318 vacancies of various posts in high court, district courts, industrial and labour courts on its recruitment portal at hc-ojas.gujarat.gov.in. Eligible candidates can apply for the advertised posts on the official portal created by the exam-conducting body – National Testing […]
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) is soon leaving for Sri Lanka to further probe the arrest of four ISIS terrorists at Ahmedabad airport. Sri Lankan police have detained two individuals related to the case, while a third suspect, Osmond Gerrard, remains at large. Sri Lanka has declared Gerrard wanted and announced a $2 million reward […]
Subhash Trivedi, the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), said on Wednesday that all suspended officials, including IAS, IPS, and fire department officers, will be summoned and questioned concerning the incident at the TRP Gamezone in Rajkot within a day or two. Members of the SIT held a meeting with the Minister of State […]
A man pretending to be an IAS officer and his accomplice allegedly duped a journalist and his friend out of Rs 60 lakh. The conmen lured the victims by promising fictitious government jobs. The scam began in May 2023 when the conmen published a deceptive advertisement in a Gujarati newspaper, promoting Class 3 and Class […]
Former Gujarat chief minister, Shankersinh Vaghela, wrote to Governor Devvrat Acharya on Tuesday appealing for the establishment of a separate commissionerate of fire safety and disaster management. He also called for a transparent and effective single-window online licensing authority system in the wake of the Rajkot gaming zone fire tragedy. He said he hoped the […]
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Monday slapped show cause notices on at least nine of its fire officers for giving fraudulent certificates. The Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services (AFES) has been in the spotlight in view of the Rajkot fire tragedy that killed 28 persons. The nine AFES officers, currently making fire safety checks […]
