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After three Class IX girl students of St. Xavier’s School, Loyola, raised concern against their physical education (PE) teacher for inappropriate behaviour, six more girl students joined in reporting inappropriate behaviour against them by the PE teacher. The total number of complaints against the teacher by girl students now stands at nine. The 38-year teacher […]
On the first day of his three-day Gujarat visit, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal left no stone unturned to woo voters across cross-sections. In the run-up to the upcoming Gujarat assembly elections, he held three town halls for autorickshaw drivers, traders and lawyers on September 12. He also unleashed […]
Satish Chandra Verma, the IPS officer of Gujarat cadre is fired from his job. He was about to retire in one month’s time. Verma’s major claim to fame is leading the CBI investigation into the controversial Ishrat Jahan case. Since the time, Verma joined the Ishrat Jahan investigation team, he had been at loggerheads with […]
A 21-year-old man from Gujarat’s industrial town of Vapi was found hanging from the ceiling fan in his hostel room because of his online gambling debt. According to the sources, Prabhat Sharma, a resident of Deepmala apartments in Valsad’s Vapi area died of suicide in his hotel room on Sunday evening, September 11, 2022. Chandkheda […]
A policeman in Ahmedabad killed himself and his family recently, and the wounds haven’t healed yet. In that background, a police constable named Prakash Pardhi who tried to kill himself while working at the police headquarters in Rajkot city, succumbed to death while being treated. After he completed his job, Prakash Pardhi went home to […]
Despite the fact that the ship-breaking yard at Alang was not being used to its full capacity, Union Minister for Ports, Shipping, and Waterways Sarabananda Sonowal stated that the Gujarat government planned to double the ship-breaking capacity at Alang to 10 million metric tonnes per year (MMPTA). This is when more than half of the […]
A 43-year-old man in Ahmedabad registered a complaint with the city crime branch alleging that six people duped him and three others. The man who owns a garage and automobile accessories shop said that by promising Canada work permits, the fraudsters cheated him of Rs 10 lakh. The man, Lalji Patel is a resident of […]
Ahead of the Gujarat assembly elections later this year, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal interacted with the auto-rickshaw drivers, businessmen and attorneys in three separate town hall-sessions on Monday, September 12, 2022 in Ahmedabad city. The national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Kejriwal arrived in the city on Sunday night to participate in […]
In a recent robbery case on September 4, 2022, a 33-year-old man from Ahmedabad’s Motera area was robbed by three motorcycle-borne men at gun-point. These men slashed his knees after robbing him of INR 39,000. The restaurant owner of Karnavati Club and resident of Sangath apartment, Ruchik Dave filed a complaint on Saturday, September 10, […]
Established in 1885, Sabarmati Jail is considered to be the safest and biggest jail in Gujarat. But, it has become a hub of corruption in the last few years. To receive all the basic facilities inside the jail, a prisoner is asked to pay some kind of ‘facilitation fee’, after which, he gets the due facilities. […]
The Aam Aadmi Party, which is fast emerging as a major opposition to the BJP in upcoming the Gujarat Assembly elections, has alleged that the Gujarat Police raided their state office and conducted search. However as the Ahmedabad Police was swift in denying to have conducted any such raid, a controversy has erupted. The incident […]
As many as 54 hotels and restaurants in Ahmedabad have procured licenses from the Municipal corporation despite not being in possession of mandatory BU permission. The information amplifies in its seriousness as it is in direct contravention of the Gujarat High Court directives. Gujarat High Court had ordered that no license to the hotel and […]
Bhagwati Uttamchandani, who lives in Gota’s Bhagwati Apartments, informed Sola police that her nephew Jay Lalwani had disappeared from the hospital and filed a FIR. Jay’s father passed away nine years ago, and his mother died in 2017. He was also seeking support for depression at the time. He used to stay with his aunt. […]
Police Sub Inspector Vasava presently attached with the Okha Marine Police Station of Devbhoomi Dwarka district has been suspended following an inquiry by the District Police Chief Nitesh Pandey. As such, uniformed officers are bound by a layer more than the ordinary bond of discipline. As part of their terms of employment, uniformed officers are […]
Four workers have been killed and 20 others injured after a chemical container burst at a Sachin GIDC based Anupam Rasayan India Limited’s chemical factory in Surat. The dead workers include one from Gujarat, two from Bihar and one from Uttar Pradesh. Serious questions are being raised about fire safety in Gujarat. From hospitals to […]
When a woman in Gujarat called up 181, the State helpline Abhayam, to register a complaint and seek police intervention, the team handling the call was concerned and with their usual tone asked for details to the caller. The caller was an educated young woman from Vadodara. She complained that it was regarding her 87 […]
India’s western state of Gujarat’s Alcohol Prohibition Policy of 1960 has proved a significant loss to industries like Tourism and has kept away most of its tourists from visiting the state. Gujarat is one of the ‘dry’ States where manufacturing and sale of liquor is prohibited. However, in its recent announcement, the state department has […]
The management of St Xavier’s High school suspended the physical training teacher Raviraj Vaghela after three Class 9 girl students complained about the inappropriate messages sent on their Instagram by the accused. An inquiry committee is also set up by the management. The girls accused the 38-year-old teacher of sending them inappropriate and objectionable messages. […]
Let us be clear. The criticism that Gujarat has become the drug hub of India can be contested. Could it be because Gujarat police have caught drugs of over Rs 6500 Crores in the current year? Much of this credit goes to Gujarat State Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi. Now Sanghavi is determined to expand the […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is visiting Gujarat today, just ahead of the plans of prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit scheduled on 29-30 September Amit Shah will visit Ahmedabad, Amreli and Somnath to attend several programmes. It is pertinent to note that Gujarat is a poll-bound state with a high political stake for all parties […]
