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The crime branch arrested a Ugandan woman and two local men for possession of 50.75 gms of cocaine worth Rs 4.5 lakh for supply to rave parties. Rave parties involve fast, repetitive electronic music and light shows. It’s a youth-oriented culture that combines music, art, and social ideals. A city-based tabloid reported that Shalin Shah […]
Heritage buildings, it’s often said, are like detective stories giving us cues to the past. These precious time capsules are our link to history. Nine years ago, Transferable Development Rights (TDR) for heritage buildings was introduced to preserve listed world heritage properties. Ever since the policy has been implemented, only 57 of the 2,236 listed […]
There have been several cases of late, where Facebook accounts of unsuspecting users have got hacked by miscreants and their friends or relatives prompted to pay up, citing some emergency. Four people, including three homemakers, have reported that they have been victims of this gang. Jamnagar cybercrime has arrested two persons, identified as Viren Ganatra […]
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud, heading the five-Judge Constitution Bench hearing the slew of petitions challenging the reading down of Article 370, on Monday (August 28) observed that Article 35A while giving special rights to permanent residents of J&K denied fundamental rights to others. “Article 35A gave special rights and privileges to […]
The year 2022 recorded the highest number of emergencies in Gujarat as reported by Emergency 108 ambulance service — started by the state government in 2007. The numbers are led by road accidents, followed by respiratory issues and other emergencies. While 2020 and 2021 saw a dip in emergencies related to vehicular accidents, 2022 saw […]
An interstate ‘rape’ racket involving two women from Gujarat has been busted by Goa police, leading to the arrest of the two along with their male accomplices. According to their modus operandi, the two threatened to lodge false rape complaints with the police and extorted money from people. They even did lodge false FIRs as […]
Excessive work pressure and long working hours leading to health issues is endemic across our work culture. The pinch is equally felt by the staffers of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, who are grappling with these challenges, leading to disruption in development and upkeep of the city. Over the past year, more than 50 municipal officials from […]
A group of Ahmedabad’s Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) scientists have discovered an explosion of a rare helium Nova white dwarf star named V445 Puppis in the universe. V445 Puppis is the only known helium nova in our Milky Way. Nova is a system of two stars closely orbiting around each other. While one of them […]
Gujarat’s crorepatis soared by at least 4,500 between 2021 and 2022. Against 9,300 people declaring taxable income of Rs 1 crore in 2021, 14,000 people declared the same in 2022. This translates into a 49 per cent rise in ‘crorepati’ taxpayers in the assessment year 2022-23, according to data of the Central Board of Direct […]
Chief Election Commissioner of India Rajiv Kumar said a number of apps would be made available to empower voters, and district-level cells would be set up to tackle the spread of fake news on social media. He was speaking at a press conference in Raipur on Saturday following a three-day visit to the state by […]
The older you get, the harder it is to change. Civic sense is best inculcated when you are young. Picking up on these two tenets, the Ahmedabad Traffic Police is launching a programme for helmet awareness targeting kids. In partnership with SBI Life Insurance, which has already launched a similar initiative with the traffic police […]
Renowned legal luminary Suresh Shelat, former Advocate General of Gujarat and distinguished senior counsel at Gujarat High Court, breathed his last on Sunday following a brief illness. He was 85. The last rites were performed at Thaltej Crematorium. Shelat began his law practice in 1967. He held the office of Advocate General of Gujarat between […]
Technology is transforming the way we interact, think and communicate. It’s also changing the technique of investigations by using images for examples. In what is deemed as another breakthrough in technology, forensic science experts will use an image-based Brain Electrical Oscillation Signature (BEOS) system called BEOS Image Classifier (BIC) to assist investigations. Gujarat will be […]
A TRB Jawan and two traffic police constables were booked for reportedly extorting Rs 60,000 from a couple who arrived in Ahmedabad after a vacation in Thailand and were on their way home in a cab at night. The cops extracted the money by allegedly threatening them with legal action for roaming late at night […]
Empty liquor bottles often end up in dumping yards or garbage bins. Some people use them to grow money plants or keep refreshments. However, little have we thought that these used bottles can also be transformed into colourful pieces of art by some innovation and hardwork. As per media reports, now several artists of Vadodara, […]
Data theft is becoming a new challenge for the law enforcement agencies. Ahmedabad is among the major cities in the country where digital growth has been phenomenal in the last few years and hence, digital threat has also increased manifolds. Apart from the conventional dangers of data breach through credit card hacking or other banking […]
It is raining goodies in Rajasthan for different sections of society as the Ashok Gehlot government is in an overdrive mode to keep everyone in good humour in the election year. The latest in the line is the implementation of the Indira Gandhi Smartphone scheme. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot inaugurated the Indira Gandhi Smartphone scheme, marking the […]
It has been over a hundred days since the government of Manipur decided to ban internet access across the state. It is now more important than ever to understand that the internet shutdown, ostensibly ordered to prevent the spread of violence in the state, has done little to prevent violence or maintain law and order. […]
Adding to growing concern surrounding man-animal conflict in the Amreli region, six people have been found to have entered the Gir national park illegally to watch the Asiatic lions in their natural habitat. Of the six persons, three are reportedly locals and a hotelier who were helping two tourists to enter the reserved area of […]
In a shot in the arm for Gujarat’s Kandla port, Dubai’s leading supply chain logistics firm DP World, with operations in several countries, will invest around $510 million to build a new container terminal, the group’s chairman said. “It will enable the delivery of trade opportunities by connecting northern, western and central India with global […]
