Ahmedabad: The civic body’s estate department has removed 6,887 handcarts and stalls between Jan 1 and April 25 this year, officials said, adding that approximately 25,089 illegal boards, banners and hoardings were also removed. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) locked 10,598 illegally parked vehicles and collected penalties besides removing 49,857 miscellaneous goods and materials from…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat’s GST collections surged 44% to Rs 9,916 crore in April, up from Rs 6,901 crore during same month last year, marking the highest monthly mop-up since the levy’s implementation, according to the office of the commissioner of taxes.Alongside GST, the state reported additional inflow of Rs 2,711 crore from VAT, Rs 1,055 crore…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) has introduced an online approval system for private schools seeking permission to start additional classes, sections, or sequential higher classes for the academic year beginning in June 2026.According to the board, schools can submit applications through the online portal from May 1 to July 15….
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has discharged several people accused in dummy candidate scams in Bhavnagar district from offences under the Gujarat Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2023. It ruled that the law cannot be applied retrospectively to alleged exam fraud committed before the Act came into force.Quashing an order passed by a…
Ahmedabad: Four youths were killed, and three suffered serious injuries after an SUV overturned on the Dholka-Bagodara road near Valthara village on Thursday afternoon. The group was travelling from Bareja to Bhamsara to attend an engagement ceremony when the accident occurred.According to preliminary information, six occupants were inside the SUV when the driver allegedly lost…
Ahmedabad: Rising incidents of attacks and an increasing number of rescue calls has led the forest department to initiate Ahmedabad’s first-ever monkey census, which experts say, could shift the approach to addressing the issue from a complaint-driven rescue model to data-backed conflict management. The ongoing survey comes amid growing concern over feeding of monkeys including…
Ahmedabad: Months after a 30-year-old man from Gandhinagar district went missing, DNA testing has confirmed that a decomposed body recovered from the Sabarmati was his. Police have now registered a murder complaint against an unknown person.The complaint was filed with the Sabarmati Riverfront East police station by the victim’s father, a 66-year-old autorickshaw driver from…
Ahmedabad: In a twist to the 34-year-old murder case detected in Vatva, the city crime branch has traced the prime accused, Shamsuddin Khedawala, alive, contradicting earlier claims that he died years ago. The development is expected to significantly alter the course of the investigation into the alleged murder of a woman, whose remains were recently…
Ahmedabad: Real estate developers’ body Credai Ahmedabad has urged the Gujarat Real Estate Regulatory Authority (GujRERA) to grant a six-month extension for ongoing housing projects under the force majeure provision of the RERA Act, citing rising construction costs, supply disruptions and labour shortages.In a representation to the regulator, the association said the ongoing conflict in…
Officials from AMC’s North West Zone and senior police officers, including the assistant municipal commissioner and the DCP (traffic) met on Thursday to discuss traffic management in the zone. Also present were all traffic police inspectors, besides officials from AMC’s engineering and estate departments. The discussions focused on traffic junction development, GSL routes, BRTS routes,…
