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Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) Ltd received a much-needed boost for phase-1 of the Surat Metro Project as a loan agreement between the Department of Economic Affairs and Germany’s KfW was signed for the amount of Rs. 3464 crore. Surat Metro Phase 1 is 40.35 km long where the route from Sarthana to Dream city […]
In the latest development of the paper leak scam that took place on December 13 in Gujarat, the Sabarkantha district police have nabbed two more accused in the much talked about case. So far, police have seized Rs 23 lakh in this case. Read more: State Rocked By Another Paper Leak Scam Police have also […]
Electronic Voting Machines and polling staff were dispatched to 10 talukas of Kutch district on Saturday, December 18, in preparation for the forthcoming gram panchayat elections. Around 361 gram panchayats will go to polls on Sunday, December 19 for 344 sarpanch and 2,125 member seats. There are 285 sensitive and 24 highly sensitive polling stations […]
Manisha Vaghela, a Lok Rakshak Dal jawan, posted at Maninagar police station is alleged to have committed suicide at her residence in the Khokra area of Ahmedabad on Friday, December 17. Vaghela is said to have hung herself and did not leave behind any suicide note. The body was discovered when neighbours lodged a complaint […]
The Gujarat High Court on Friday scrapped a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that challenged the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation circular issued on September 17 and has advised the AMC to effectively implement the rule of allowing only fully-vaccinated citizens in public places. Nishant Prajapati, Nilesh Makwana, Jayesh Asari, Piyush Raghvani and Milind Joshi through their lawyer […]
Even as new townships come up on the outskirts of the city, there are large areas within Ahmedabad that are ripe for redevelopment. What is stopping them? The workings of the real estate market are complicated and often opaque, but a glimpse is provided by an academic project at CEPT University, the findings of which […]
AMC spent Rs 5 crores to build a hall-cum-museum in the Bhadra area about seven years ago, however, the property has never been used since. Civic Body Officials have no knowledge of its existence and the place has never even been rented out. The museum was constructed to depict Ahmedabad’s history as a part of […]
According to Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the minimum temperature in Ahmedabad can fall up to 10 degrees Celsius on Saturday. With a fall of 3.6 degrees Celsius in maximum temperature and a decrease of around two degrees Celsius in minimum temperature, the city recorded a maximum of 26 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 11.7 […]
The Gujarat High Court has pulled up State Education Minister Jitubhai Vaghani for stating that even he had studied under open skies during winters and called this “shameful, shocking and disturbing.” A division bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Niral Mehta took suo motu cognizance of reports about pathetic infrastructure in government primary schools, to […]
The Government has finalised the postings of six IPS Officers. Vijay Singh Gurjar, Jagdish Bangarwa, Abhishek Gupta, Atul Kumar Bansal, Vishakha Dabral and Shripal Shesma have been allotted Gujarat cadre in Indian Police Service. The officers in this coveted service have completed their Phase II training at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA) in […]
The Gujarat High Court has maintained a notice given by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation which made it compulsory to be completely immunized with two dosages of both of the Covid antibodies, to enter a large group of public spaces and offices under its ward. A two-bench Justice, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Niral R Mehta […]
Finally, the Gujarat Police have arrested half a dozen people from 10 persons named in an FIR in the alleged leak of the question paper of the December 12 exams for government head clerks. This is the 9th paper leak of a State Government exam in 7 years held by the Gujarat Subordinate Services Selection Board (GSSSB). Not satisfied by the action, the Aam Aadmi […]
Gujarat in the last 24 hours recorded 60 Covid-19 cases. The state saw one death, with 58 discharges. Total five patients are on a ventilator. Total 12 cases registered in Rajkot and similar is the count for Vadodara. Ahmedabad stands third with eight fresh cases. Kutch registered seven new Covid cases. Gujarat’s total Covid count […]
Following the arrest of six gang members, the police have slapped a case under the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organized Crime (GUJCTOC) against a gang allegedly terrorising Surat city. The case was registered against the Maniya Dukkar, Kelia, Amba and Bunty Dayawan gang for terrorizing Udhana, Limbayat and Dindoli police stations. The Surat police […]
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar’s Curiosity Lab and Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences are organising an online camp, ‘Camp CogSci’ for introducing kids, parents and teachers to Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience. Focused on school understudies of classes eighth to twelfth other than educators, guardians, and researchers of training, the goal of ‘Camp […]
A division bench of the Gujarat High Court on December 17, Friday, took suo motu cognisance of a report on students of a government primary school gathering in the courtyard of the school for offline classes after their school building collapsed last year. The court has castigated the state education minister for his “rash” and […]
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel attended the convocation parade of unarmed Deputy Superintendent of Police, Batch-6 and Unarmed Police Inspector, Batch-1 today at Gujarat Police Academy, Karai in Gandhinagar. Cabinet Minister Harsh Sanghavi also graced the event.
The Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad will soon become the first garden in the city to get a two storey gym. The garden in Ellisbridge will be redeveloped with a parking zone and Yoga facilities at a cost of Rs 10 crore but its size will be reduced to decongest traffic. Ahmedabad has more than 250 small […]
The drug menace in Gujarat is not stopping to manifest itself as is evident from large quantities of drug hauls being captured continuously since several months now. In the continuation of the same, narcotics Control Bureau seized two persons with 62 kg of ganja from a car near CTM area of Ahmedabad. Based on the […]
In a glaring example of abominable failure of system which defeats the purpose of judiciary conclusively and paints whole process in extremely bad light, a rape case came up for trial after 41 long years in a Gujarat Court. The accuser woman, now 55, married and with grown up children had to convey to the […]
