Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is set to revive a 26-year-old mandate to dismantle internal cartels. The mandate requires the vigilance department to scrutinise all project files before payments are disbursed. This “pre-audit” system, which was standard practice over two decades ago, is being reintroduced to prevent engineers from certifying their own fraudulent work.The…
Ahmedabad: Intensifying its crackdown on food adulteration and hygiene violations, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) health department collected fines worth more than Rs 5.1 lakh and destroyed 2,089 kg of unhygienic food during a fortnight-long drive ending June 15.According to AMC officials, 409 food samples collected from across the city were tested at the civic…
Times News NetworkGandhinagar: An event to mark the state-level celebrations of the 12th International Day of Yoga will be held at Mansa, Gandhinagar district, on June 21. As part of the day’s observance, yoga sessions will be held at 24,000 locations across the state with about 1.25 crore participants, the state govt said on Thursday….
Ahmedabad: A 72-year-old woman returned home in Vastrapur from Mumbai after nearly two months in Mumbai for her husband’s cancer treatment only to find it burgled.According to the complaint filed with Vastrapur police, the woman, a retiree, lived at her daughter’s in Mumbai for nearly 55 days for the treatment of her husband’s oesophageal cancer….
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Information Commission (GIC) has directed that documents such as the FIR, panchnama, FSL report, inquest panchnama, postmortem report, and related records be supplied free of cost to insurance agents and accident victims.The order was given in a case where an agent of an insurance company had requested the Kamrej police station for…
Ahmedabad: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has declared the results of the CA Final exam held in May, revealing a modest performance. Notably, no student from Ahmedabad secured a place on the all-India rankers’ list this year.A total of 54,606 candidates appeared for Group I across India, of whom 6,555 passed, recording…
Ahmedabad: Several hundred applicants across the 39 RTOs in the state faced inconvenience on Wednesday after the Sarathi server, the backbone of the state transport department’s online services, suddenly went down.The technical failure affected RTO offices in Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara and other districts, bringing driving licence-related services to a complete standstill. As a result,…
Ahmedabad: Boating at the famed Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary, suspended since June 2024 due to safety certification issues, is set to resume from the next birding season that begins in Oct.Officials from the forest department said the Gujarat tourism department, in coordination with the forest department, has finalised the design of new boats and initiated the…
Ahmedabad: A routine tap on what appeared to be a software update notification ended in a shock for a 41-year-old Sarkhej resident, who lost Rs 99,001 from his bank account in an alleged cyberfraud. Police suspect that cybercriminals may have used the fake update prompt to gain access to his mobile device and banking information.According…
Ahmedabad: Shell bangles with gold foil, pearl and gold ear ornaments, and several game pieces, bestow the gleam of a treasury on the camp of archaeologists at Valabhipur, a town about 40km northwest of Bhavnagar.The camp belongs to the Excavation Branch V of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and State Archaeology, Gujarat.Another precious item…
