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A Pakistan court on Friday found former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, guilty of corruption in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case. They were sentenced to 14 and seven years in prison, respectively. The verdict was delivered by Judge Nasir Javed Rana of the anti-corruption court. Initially scheduled for January 13, […]
In a curious and unsettling case of identity fraud, a 26-year-old named Musibul Shaikh from West Bengal was arrested in Surat for charges of cheating and forgery after living under a false identity for an extended period. Surat Special Operations group officials raided his rented house at Canal Road in Jahangirpura area, it is reported. […]
The Director General of Police (DGP) Vikas Sahay on Thursday announced that four police officers in Gujarat have been suspended for travelling abroad without obtaining the required permissions from their superiors. The suspended officers are Firozkhan Pathan, head constable from Botad; Harvijaysinh Chavda, police constable from Amreli; and Mahipatsinh Chauhan and Mahendrasinh Darbar, police constables […]
On National Startup Day 2025, 110 students from Gujarat were awarded a total of Rs 22 lakh in incentive support to kick-start their entrepreneurial journeys. The event was held at the Vidya Samiksha Kendra in Gandhinagar on Thursday. Education Minister Dr Kuber Dindor and State Education Minister Praful Pansheriya presided over the statewide celebration. The […]
Long-standing backlog of cases has been a big challenge before the Indian judiciary. In September last year, it was reported that there were nearly 62,000 cases pending in various High Courts, which were more than 30 years old, including three awaiting disposal since 1952 A lifetime passes, new generations are born, but cases linger, and […]
Ahmedabad: The Uttarayan festival has been marred by tragedy as kite-related accidents resulted in several fatalities and left over 100 injured across Gujarat. The worst-hit regions have been Saurashtra and Vadodara, with reports of fatal incidents due to kite strings and falls. In Ahmedabad, a young man died after falling from a roof. Over 100 […]
Elon Musk’s high praise for the German far-right political party, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), and his recent conversation with its chancellor candidate Alice Weidel has relaunched a debate around the world’s richest man’s influence in global politics. With little over a month to go for Germany’s federal elections, Musk took to X – a platform owned […]
Many celebrities, including Zaira Wasim and Sana Khan, have left the entertainment industry to pursue spirituality. Among them is Barkha Madan, a former model, beauty queen and actress, who transformed her life to become a Buddhist monk, now known as Gyalten Samten. Barkha first rose to prominence in the modelling world, participating in the prestigious […]
Four people, including a four-year-old boy, lost their lives after their throats were slit by ‘manja’ amid Uttarayan festivities. Numerous injuries were also reported across the state, police said. Fatalities were recorded in Rajkot, Panchmahal, Mehsana and Surendranagar districts. Officials confirmed that many others sustained injuries in similar incidents during the celebrations. In Halol town […]
Uttarayan in Ahmedabad turned tragic as more than 100 people sustained injuries from kite strings or falls while flying kites. Among the victims, a 28-year-old man lost his life and a 37-year-old woman was left in critical condition with a deep throat injury caused by a kite string. According to government reports, Sheth LG Hospital […]
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in a fiery rebuttal has flayed RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat over his comments on the Constitution, accusing him of treason. Addressing a gathering at Congress’s newly established headquarters at 9A, Kotla Road in New Delhi, he criticised Bhagwat’s recent comments suggesting that the Constitution was “not the symbol […]
Dense fog enveloped New Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), leading to delayed trains and over 100 deferred flights at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport due to poor visibility. Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Rajasthan are also expected to experience foggy weather in the next two days. According to reports, intense fog and cold […]
An unidentified person threw a stone at a train travelling to Uttar Pradesh, close to Jalgaon station in Maharashtra. The passengers were going to Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh fair, and they had boarded the Tapti Ganga Express from Udhna Railway Station in Surat. Following the incident, the glass window of a coach seat cracked. […]
At least 70 candidates, the most of any of Gujarat’s four main city units, including past MLAs, mayors, and deputy mayors, have shown interest in serving as the BJP president of Surat. So far in the state’s ongoing organisational reform, the party hasn’t been able to choose its city unit leaders. Seventeen members of the […]
A 53-year-old French woman, identified as Anne, fell victim to an elaborate scam involving artificial intelligence and impersonation, which led her to believe she was in a relationship with Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt. The scam resulted in Anne losing an estimated Rs 7.47 crore (approximately €830,000). The ordeal began in February 2023 when Anne, an […]
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has refuted Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s claim on Monday that most incumbent governments, including India’s, lost elections in 2024 following the Covid-19 pandemic, stating that his remark was “factually incorrect”. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Vaishnaw stated that India, the biggest democracy in the world, held a general election […]
Union Minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah is set to celebrate the annual kite festival of Uttarayan in his Lok Sabha constituency of Gandhinagar on Tuesday, with planned visits to three residential societies in the area. Shah is expected to begin his Uttarayan celebrations in the morning at the Shantiniketan Apartment in the Memnagar area, […]
The Border Security Force (BSF) apprehended a Pakistani man near Harami Nala in Gujarat’s Kutch district on Sunday, marking the latest incident of cross-border intrusions in the region. In a press release issued on Monday, the BSF detailed the incident: “On January 12, 2025, alert BSF personnel intercepted a Pakistani national breaching the international border […]
A simple Rs 300 test could save thousands of young lives, yet only 2 out of 100 people are taking it, even as cardiac arrests in people aged 20-50 soar due to high Lipoprotein-A (LPA) levels. At the Joint International Conference (JIC-2025) in Ahmedabad, doctors raised concerns over the growing number of heart attacks in […]
In a bid to regulate private universities and improve the quality of education, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has urged the Gujarat government to establish a Gujarat Private University Regulatory Board. This demand was formalised during the students’ body’s 56th Regional Conference, which concluded on Friday. Highlighting concerns over the state of higher education, […]
