Ahmedabad: A 49-year-old teacher was arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a 13-year-old boy inside the school’s computer laboratory on Wednesday, police said. The accused is a teacher in a Dholka school. He has been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Pocso) and for criminal intimidation under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.According to…
Ahmedabad: The city recorded a maximum temperature of 40°C on Saturday, which was 2.1 degrees above normal. At 29°C, the minimum temperature was 1.4 degrees above normal. At 8.30am, the relative humidity (RH) was at 61%, whereas at 5.30pm, it was 36%. According to the Met department forecast, the city may record maximum temperature of…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat govt’s Fee Regulation Committee (FRC) has issued a show-cause notice to Prakash Higher Secondary School in Bodakdev over allegations of collecting fees higher than those approved for the 2026-27 academic year.The notice follows multiple complaints from parents claiming that the school charged excess fees. The FRC has directed the school authorities to…
Former senior municipal councillor Iqbal Sheikh has raised alarms over the alleged negligence during the demolition of a 30-year-old overhead water tank in Gomtipur. In a press release addressed to the municipal commissioner, Sheikh said that the contractor was risking lives and property by using cranes and steel ropes to raze the structure instead of…
Ahmedabad: For thousands of diploma engineering students in Gujarat, a diploma is no longer the finish line. More are choosing to stay in classrooms instead of heading straight into the job market. Data from the Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC) shows admissions from diploma to degree (D2D) engineering courses climbed from 17,246 in 2024…
Police personnel deployed at M G Science Institute ahead of NEET re-exam Ahmedabad: The road to medical college has already been unusually bumpy this year. After the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) on May 3 was cancelled due to a paper leak, students will once again sit for the test on Sunday. This time,…
Gujarat High Court at Sola in Ahmedabad. Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has quashed an FIR under IPC and a complaint under the Domestic Violence Act filed against an elderly couple as counterblasts after their NRI son divorced his wife.Quashing both the cases filed against the couple by their daughter-in-law, the HC said, “The petitioners…
The local crime branch (LCB) of Zone-1 arrested two men accused of carrying out a series of chain-snatching incidents in some of the city’s prominent residential localities Ahmedabad: A gold chain snatched in broad daylight near Mithakhali eventually led police to two alleged repeat offenders, ending a surveillance operation that stretched across several parts of…
Ahmedabad: In a coordinated effort between medical authorities and the police, a green corridor was created to transport organs from a brain-dead woman at GMERS Medical College and General Hospital, Gandhinagar, to Ahmedabad Civil Hospital for transplantation.According to officials, Kajal Rathod, who was undergoing treatment at the Gandhinagar hospital, was declared brain-dead by doctors. Her…
Ahmedabad: A solar project contractor has been booked by Sector 7 police in Gandhinagar for allegedly cheating a housing society by accepting advance payments for a solar power project, failing to complete the work, and issuing cheques that were later dishonoured. The complaint was filed by a retired engineer and executive committee member of Siddharth…
