Ahmedabad: Teachers of govt engineering colleges in Gujarat have announced a protest over their long-pending issues, which remain unresolved despite repeated representations to the state govt and the technical education department. The demonstration is scheduled to take place near the CTE office at Karmayogi Garden in Gandhinagar at 3pm on Thursday.The participants will wear black…
Ahmedabad: Boosted by unmatched support from the electorate in Gujarat, especially urban voters, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured nearly 60% of all the votes cast in polls for municipal corporations in the state. The saffron party stamped its dominance over the state’s urban landscape, pocketing 59.36% of the vote share.The Congress came in…
Ahmedabad: Are diabetes cases rising in Gujarat, or are drug sales climbing faster? Possibly both. Data from Pharmarack shows that the moving annual total (MAT) of anti-diabetic drugs in Gujarat touched Rs 1,196 crore in March 2026, marking a 25% rise over two years from Rs 962 crore in March 2024.While annual growth in the…
Ahmedabad: Wednesday was like any other workday for a Vejalpur couple, until their phone rang. Their teenaged daughter had called them in panic to say that a man was standing outside their door with a knife and banging on the door, demanding to speak with her. The girl had allegedly ended her relationship with the…
Ahmedabad: It is 7.30pm and the counter at Gujarat Gramophone LP House in Amraiwadi has customers ranging from a retired govt employee to a college-going youth inquiring about the latest vinyl, like that of the recent blockbuster ‘Dhurandhar’, or an LP (long-playing) record of a Khayyam special.Sadguru Sharan, the owner of the shop — considered…
Ahmedabad: The humongous task of restoring songs dating back to the era of India’s first talkie, ‘Alam Ara’ (1931), demands much more than just passion — a finely tuned ear and a deep technical knowledge of vintage recordings.Yet, by his own admission, Shekhar Iyer, an Ahmedabad-based management professor, possessed none of these qualities. Rather, 36…
Ahmedabad: Amdavadis stepped out to vote on Sunday under one of its hottest April days in recent memory. The temperature climbed to 44.8°C, matching the same figure recorded on April 29 last year. This makes it one of the hottest April days in Ahmedabad in at least 25 years. Early April offered some respite. Since…
Ahmedabad: The Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) on Tuesday registered a case in connection with an alleged counterfeit bidi and cigarette racket, while the Special Operations Group (SOG) launched a probe after seizing suspected fake tobacco products worth Rs 3.57 lakh from Juhapura area of the city.According to the complainant, a long-time representative of a…
Ahmedabad: A 26-year-old factory worker from Asarwa was allegedly duped of Rs 1.1 lakh after he deposited cash through an unauthorized customer service point set up outside a bank.According to the police complaint filed on April 28, the victim, employed at a readymade garments unit in Abhishek Estate-1, Asarwa, went to deposit Rs 20,000 in…
Ahmedabad: The National Medical Commission (NMC) recently introduced significant changes in its policy for approving new medical colleges, aiming to increase the number of MBBS seats across the country. One of the key decisions is removing the earlier cap that allowed institutions to apply for up to 150 seats. Under the revised norms, colleges with…
