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Travelling to Kutch from Ahmedabad and Rajkot is going to be more time consuming for the next three months, thanks to the closure of a railway over bridge on the route for repairs. Usually it takes a little over five hours by road to reach Gandhidham from the state capital and about seven hours to […]
Passport applicants in Gujarat will no longer need to visit a police station for verification, according to a circular issued by the state police chief. The circular states that police will verify the applicant’s citizenship and criminal history through online records. In addition, police may conduct a home visit if necessary. The change is expected […]
Women and Cadila Pharma owner Rajiv Modi, a known Gujarat-based pharmaceutical unit, always has had an uneasy relationship. Elena (not her real name), a Bulgarian woman working as a personal assistant to Cadila CMD Rajiv Modi has accused him of sexual harassment. The woman earlier had written an application to the local Vastrapur police but […]
Witch hunt is widely prevalent in Gujarat’s Dang district even as the police received 145 written complaints of women being dubbed as ‘dakan’ over the past decade. Most of these women were found to be widows and they were subjected to torture under superstition, cops found when they traced 64 such women. The police initiated […]
The annual five-day Girnar Parikrama (circumambulation) begins in Junagarh on November 23 but what is concerning is the possible plastic pollution in the sanctuary area like last year, in which environment activists had collected around five tonnes of plastic wastes at the end of the five days. Devotees who come to the ritual throw plastic […]
The lakes of Ahmedabad, the crucial cogs in stormwater management and keeping the environment that bit cooler, are not in good shape, a study of 10 lakes in the city has found. While four lakes have reportedly lost 10% or more of their area in the past decade, the other six are plagued by degradation […]
A Bulgarian flight attendant has accused an Ahmedabad-based pharma company CMD of rape and harassment. However, she alleged the police were not registering an FIR on her complaint. The 27-year-old has moved the Gujarat High Court with the accusations. The woman has also sought directives to secure digital evidence to establish the police coerced her […]
The Gujarat Council of Educational Research and Training (GCERT) has started collecting and documenting the special innovative efforts of its teachers, like the use toys and games in teaching primary school students. This is in line with the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 that emphasises Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) focussing on the use of innovative […]
As the European Union (EU) is bringing in norms to stop the direct import of rough and polished diamonds from Russia, Surat’s diamond industry is in for trouble. The tougher norms are likely to be implemented from January next year. The EU also plans to introduce a traceability mechanism from March 2024 to ensure processed […]
Recently a lioness and her cub were sighted in Kutiyana of Gujarat’s Porbandar district, thereby making it officially the 10th district in the state where the Asiatic lions have marked their presence. Thanks to the state government’s sustained conservation efforts, in the last 50 years, there has been nearly a five-fold increase in the number […]
Surat Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) director Fakruddin Yusuf Shaikh was elected director of the Gujarat State Agricultural Marketing Board (GSAMB). GSAMB is the apex body that governs the 224 APMCs across the state.The GSAMB — with nine members from farmer bodies and three from trader bodies — looks after development works of APMCs and […]
The Gujarat high court has ordered the state government to consider paying Rs 25 lakh compensation to the kin of a sanitation worker who died of Covid, after she contracted the virus while working in a Covid ward at Civil Hospital during the first wave of the pandemic. This case involves Kokila Makwana, who had […]
The EMRI 108 emergency services in Gujarat recorded 2,258 emergencies related to vehicular accidents in three days – averaging 753 emergencies a day and 31 every hour, which translates into one every two minutes. The data also says that while the roads were relatively empty in cities due to the festivities, highways saw relatively higher […]
Former star footballer David Beckham recently embarked on a four-day journey to India, to carry forward inspiring stories of girls breaking barriers and young women overcoming obstacles to narrow gender gaps. A UNICEF goodwill ambassador, Beckham met one of the beneficiaries Rinku Pravibhai, a 21-year-old from Banaskantha, Gujarat, who after facing pressure to marry at […]
Commendable state-level and district-level livestock rearers were awarded as a token of encouragement in the ‘Shreshth Pashupalak Puraskar’ award distribution ceremony for 2023 in Gandhinagar. The dignitaries, including Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Union Minister of Animal Husbandry Parshottam Rupala, and Gujarat’s Minister of Animal Husbandry Raghavji Patel took part in the virtual launch of 25 […]
In the wake of growing incidents of crime in passenger vehicles (engaged in commercial operation), Ahmedabad police chief GS Malik has issued a notification with stringent rules. Among other things, these rules mandate the display of critical details inside passenger vehicles to enhance passenger safety and facilitate express crime reporting in case of an exigency […]
A man from Gujarat, on way to his hometown in Ratlam, MP, was pushed out of his train due to overcrowding, despite having a confirmed AC 3 Tier ticket. The 27-year-old victim identified as Anshul Sharma later took to X, the former Twitter platform, to express his annoyance at Indian Railways’ poor performance at the […]
In a bizarre incident, a 6-year-old boy was killed in an elevator malfunction in Gujarat capital Ahmedabad. The incident took place in a residential society in Shahibagh area of the city when the head of the child got stuck in it. The boy was playing on the ground floor of the Vasant Vihar Society when […]
Platform tickets sales at Ahmedabad railway station has been suspended for the rest of the festive season. The decision was taken by the Ahmedabad Division of Western Railway (WR) following a recent incident at Surat railway station where overcrowding led to a death. A man lost his life to cardiac arrest and two more people […]
The Gujarat government is eyeing a 500-acre land parcel for the development of a sports city in preparation for the 2026 Olympics, which it is planning to host. Sources said the state government will acquire land at Godhavi located along the proposed 90m Ring Road for the purpose. Strategically positioned on the western side of […]
