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Gandhinagar: Overcrowding and recurring clashes among inmates have emerged as big challenges inside Sabarmati Central Jail, prompting the prison administration to enhance the mental health preparedness of its personnel through a specialised training programme.The prison, which currently houses about 4,000 undertrial and convicted prisoners, recently organised a week-long workshop titled PRAHARI (Psychological Risk Assessment, Health…

Ahmedabad: Will St Xavier’s High School in Gandhinagar shift a Class IX classroom to the ground floor for a student with cerebral palsy, or must the child access a first-floor classroom? Gujarat High Court is exploring a solution after the Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities ordered the school to admit the student to its Gujarati-medium…

Ahmedabad: Bhoumik Patidar, a student of BTech (computer science), at IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) completed his external exposure activity (EEA) at Qualcomm. As part of the semester-long internship, he developed an open-source ELF linker – a software tool that combines compiled codes and libraries into a single, executable file. “Working on a production-grade open-source project has…

Big financial data theft concept. An anonymous hacker is hacking highly-protected financial data through computers. Ahmedabad: Several police inspectors in Gujarat found themselves answering uncomfortable questions after explicit links were automatically sent from their Telegram accounts to colleagues and senior officers. The CID (crime) cyber cell suspects a malware attack may have compromised the accounts….

Solar panels installed on residential rooftops in Bihar, India, highlight the growing adoption of renewable energy and rooftop solar power in the region. Ahmedabad: Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU) on Monday launched Rooftop Solar Training Academy to strengthen the green workforce. The initiative started with a batch of 33 women from the state who will…

Ahmedabad: Quoting a Union govt progress report on sustainable development goals (SDG), the state unit of the Congress launched an attack on the ruling BJP on Monday, revealing that only 50.8% of students completed Class XII in Gujarat, compared with the national average of 61.1% in 2024-25.“The Union govt figures have exposed the actual condition…

AMC removed the tyre killers within hours of installing them on Monday morning Ahmedabad: The civic body has faced yet another failure with tyre killers. This time, officials from Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) North-West Zone had to themselves remove the speed barriers they had laid on Monday morning, within a couple of hours. The reason:…

Ahmedabad: Four women have been arrested in the case wherein a couple’s month-old daughter was allegedly sold by their former neighbour to recover a Rs 1 lakh loan. Vatva police inspector A A Vachheta said the neighbour, Vatva resident Jagruti Suthar, and two women who helped her — Krishna Kheradia, a resident of Vejalpur and…

Teams from Shahpur and Naroda fire stations rushed to the hospital campus and rescued the three workers Ahmedabad: Three sanitation workers engaged in repair work inside an underground drainage line at UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre at the Civil Hospital campus on Monday evening collapsed after entering a sewage tank without safety…

Ahmedabad: Electric vehicle (EV) adoption is accelerating in Gujarat, with registrations almost doubling during the first six months of 2026 compared to last year, as buyers increasingly shift towards cleaner mobility options. EV registrations in Gujarat rose 97% from 28,148 units during Jan-June 2025 to 55,344 units during the same period this year, according to…