Ahmedabad: Ellisbridge police have arrested a 41-year-old physical training (PT) instructor working on contract at Gujarat College for allegedly cheating 20 students by promising them jobs in the Air Force and Navy as well as spots in state-level cricket teams.Investigators are examining whether more students were cheated.According to Ellisbridge police, the accused was arrested from…
A postgraduate student of environmental science, Inkster sorts city’s waste at the Ranip centre of Paryavaran Mitra Every morning, in a tin-roofed shed, 21-year-old Samuel Inkster reaches into piles of discarded plastic. The bottles are crusted with betel juice, sticky with spit and sometimes still filled with remnants of gutka. There are half-eaten snacks and…
An early picture of Alembic Pharma in Vadodara Ahmedabad: Tracking the biggest names in Indian pharmaceuticals over a century, IIM Ahmedabad associate professor Chinmay Tumbe mapped top firms from 1920 onward and found a rare constant from Gujarat. “The data revealed that Alembic Pharmaceuticals has been among the top 25 companies for over a century…
Today, the restored heritage building is preparing to open a new chapter as an Education and Innovation Centre for girls On a winter afternoon in 2020, Spanish architect Manuel M de Las Heras was passing through Ahmedabad’s Raikhad neighbourhood when a century-old govt girls’ high school caught his eye. The elegant vintage facade drew him…
Ahmedabad: Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit Gujarat on Aug 27, during which he will address public grievances and review major infrastructure projects in the state. Apart from attending a public function in Amreli, Shah will chair a series of high-level meetings in the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar region.The review meetings will focus…
The incident occurred in the Nakhatrana area in the afternoon KUTCH: Four persons, including two children from the same family, were killed after the fuel tank of a commercial vehicle exploded at a scrap yard in Gujarat’s Kutch district on Saturday, police said.The incident took place in the Nakhatrana area on Saturday afternoon, according to…
Gujarat High Court at Sola in Ahmedabad. Photo by Kevin Antao. 12-07-11. Ahmedabad: A doctor working at a govt hospital has approached Gujarat High Court seeking custody of his five-year-old daughter, alleging that his estranged wife failed to return the child after being granted temporary custody during the summer vacation by a Maharashtra court.The doctor,…
Ahmedabad: Textile processing units in Gujarat are facing mounting cost pressures following a sharp rise in GMDC coal and lignite prices during the first half of 2026, prompting Narol Textile Infrastructure & Enviro Management (NTIEM) to seek immediate relief and a stable pricing framework from the state-run miner.According to NTIEM, six successive price revisions between…
Ahmedabad: The city on Friday received 1mm of rain with several areas experiencing light rain in the early afternoon hours.The city’s maximum temperature at 31°C was 1.6 degrees below normal, whereas at 26.6°C, the minimum temperature was 1.3 degrees above normal. Relative humidity (RH) remained higher than 70%.According to IMD bulletin, a low-pressure area is…
Ahmedabad: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the city crime branch has begun investigating an alleged Rs 6.3-crore fraud case in which an accountant of a jewellery company on CG Road allegedly siphoned off 3.85kg of 24-carat gold and Rs 13 lakh in cash over a year.According to a complaint filed by the company’s director,…
