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Even as Ahmedabad continues being labelled a “safe city,” the city police have identified at least 70 hotspots where criminal activity is said to be higher than average. Briefing on the undesirable trait, joint commissioner Ajay Chaudhary listed the culprits encountered could range from thugs, thieves, pickpockets to even gangsters. “The most notorious areas include […]
In a scam that is waiting to be unearthed, officials from Gujarat Income Tax Department have stumbled upon racketeers who trap illiterate and needy on false assurances of government aid. Once forms are filled and details obtained, the Aadhar card number is used to procure GST registrations for fake companies through which bogus billing and […]
In Gujarat, six people including four women were killed and eight injured after a jeep rammed into a stationary truck from behind in Patan district today afternoon, police said. Deputy Superintendent of Police K K Pandya said that the incident occurred near Radhanpur when the Mahindra Jeep tyre burst, the driver lost control which was […]
The Gujarat government is set on an early date for the annual “Sujalam Sufalam Water Conservation Drive.” This year, it will be on from February 17 to June 15. The drive is usually held onwards mid-March and culminates close to May 1, observed as the State Formation Day. Briefing media on the revised dates Tuesday, […]
Vastrapur police registered a case against a man based on a complaint filed by his wife, alleging he cheated her of Rs 2.54 crore by borrowing money from various institutions and making her the guarantor for them without her knowledge. Vastrapur police registered a case on Monday under Indian Penal Code Sections 420 (cheating), 406 […]
A review petition calling for the recall of a decision approving the sale of a shop in a mostly Hindu neighbourhood of Vadodara to a Muslim man was denied by the Gujarat high court. Approximately 10 petitioners who were witnesses to the sale transaction were also fined with Rs 25,000 by the court, which rejected […]
Ahmedabad’s Kamala Nehru Zoological Garden, near Kankaria lake, will be home to two more tigresses from Aurangabad. Two 26-month-old tigresses, Pratibha and Ranjana, born in Aurangabad’s Siddharth Zoo are being transferred to the Kankaria zoo on February 19. The tigresses will be kept in quarantine for 15 days before being shifted to the zoo enclosures. […]
On Valentine’s day members of Bajrang Dal on Tuesday entered a prominent garden in Gujarat’s capital Gandhinagar to register their protest against celebrations and drove away couples sitting inside the park. The Gandhinagar police came into action and summoned Bajrang Dal activists involved in the protest against Valentine’s Day, celebrated worldwide on February 14 as […]
The Gujarat government has demanded the Morbi municipality to submit a fresh reply to a show-cause notice as to why it should not be dissolved for failing to discharge its duties before the collapse of a suspension bridge in the Morbi that killed 135 persons last year. In a letter to the chief, the Urban […]
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation in collaboration with banks and Traffic Police organised a Lok Darbar to grant a loan of Rs 10,000 each to registered street vendors, at Gomtipur police headquarters in Ahmedabad, Monday. The darbar was attended by as many as 300 street vendors from nearby areas. Over a lakh vendors have been registered […]
The death of a popular doctor in Veraval of Gir-Somnath district has created a controversy after a purported suicide note recovered from the incident spot. The Gir-Somnath police is investigating the matter and has sent the note to FSL for analysing the handwriting. Dr Atul Chag owned a multi-storey MDA hospital at Veraval’s Tower Chowk […]
A larger bench of the Gujarat high court held that the state government can levy stamp duty in the event of amalgamation or reconstruction of unlisted companies based on their market capitalization, and the premium paid for issuance of shares cannot be treated as its face value. A three-judge bench gave various references regarding computation […]
When Ramesh Chaudhary, 36, stood on the podium after bagging gold in mixed doubles at ITTF Egypt Para Open last year with his wife Sonal Patel, 35, it was a moment in the making for a decade – Chaudhary who started playing para table tennis after getting coaching from Sonal had sacrificed his chances at […]
Even though the numbers appear vastly minimised, figures uploaded on the Baal Swaraj portal state that Gujarat has the second highest number of children who live on the streets. Maharashtra with 5,153 children tops the list, followed by Gujarat’s count at 1,990, as on March 24, 2022. However, child rights activists and personnel working the […]
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad has arrested five persons for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to extort Rs 8 crore from a retired Indian Police Service officer by preparing and circulating a false affidavit to claim he had raped a woman, an official said on Monday. GK Prajapati is identified as the mastermind of the case, turned […]
In the last five years, the highest number of custodial deaths have been reported in Gujarat at 80, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Rajya Sabha. This is followed by Maharashtra (76), Uttar Pradesh (41), Tamil Nadu (40) and Bihar (38). Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai informed the Rajya […]
Once known as a major hub for ship building, Gujarat’s claim to the same is now a questionable one. Of the seven ship-building yards in the state, three major names are lying shut since a decade. These include: ABG Shipyard at Dahej and at Hazira and Reliance Naval at Pipavav. Reasoning the downslide, Mehul Patel, […]
The ripples of the economic upheaval in Europe, Latin America and the US following the Russia-Ukraine war are being felt in India’s denim capital – Gujarat. Denim majors like Arvind, Nandan Denim and Vishal Fabrics have reported decline in revenues during the third quarter of the current fiscal, due to declining demand for denim. For […]
The famed Harappan-era seals and tablets show various symbols – indicating a writing system or possible script. However, even a century after the discovery of Harappa in 1924, the script has remained an enigma for researchers. In the international colloquium ‘Emerging Perspectives of the Harappan Civilization’ that concluded at IIT Gandhinagar (IITGn) on Sunday, the […]
Government and grant-in-aid schools in Gujarat have an estimated 30,000 vacancies — around 18,000 in primary and 12,000 in secondary schools. Of this, visiting teachers occupy nearly 22,000 posts. Instead of recruiting regular teachers in government and grant-in-aid schools in Gujarat, the state government continues to fill the vacancies with visiting teachers or Pravasi Shikshaks. […]
