Ahmedabad: Industries in Sanand GIDC have been hit by waterlogging following recent heavy rain. To register their protest, the Sanand Industries Association (SIA) has announced a rally on Monday, demanding accountability for what it termed faulty infrastructure.“Due to severe flooding, power supply has been completely disrupted in nearly 50 factories, forcing a total shutdown of…
Ahmedabad: A 57-year-old tempo owner and trader from Isanpur lost Rs 1.9 lakh to cyber fraudsters after downloading a fake Bank of India KYC application sent through WhatsApp, city cybercrime police said.According to the FIR, the victim received a call on July 22 from a man claiming to be a Bank of India official. The…
Ahmedabad: Seven years ago, 60,000 students in Gujarat sat NEET in Gujarati. This year, fewer than 50,000 did. Educators attribute the trend to the growing preference for English-medium education, the dominance of English medical terminology, and the lack of Gujarati reference books and study material.Coaching institutes also report a shortage of teachers capable of teaching…
Ahmedabad: As floodwaters swept through several parts of Ahmedabad over the past three days, they carried away around 300 vehicle registration number plates got detached from cars, two-wheelers and other vehicles, prompting the city traffic police to launch a drive to trace owners and prevent any misuse.The recovered number plates were found floating in stagnant…
Flooding was the consequence of decades of lapses. Ahmedabad: On July 23, rainfall of 177mm in two hours paralysed Ahmedabad. By the day’s end, total rainfall had reached between 278mm and 294.6mm — the fourth-highest single-day total recorded in nearly 100 years.Urban planners and geoinformatics specialists argue the resultant flooding was the consequence of decades…
Ahmedabad: City police arrested a 37-year-old man from Kalupur and recovered Rs 14 lakh in cash within hours of a burglary at a handloom shop in Sindhi Market, police said on Sunday.The complaint was lodged by the owner of the shop in Revdi Bazaar, who told police that he and his family have been running…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court has quashed a man’s divorce decree after his death, thereby granting his wife the status of a widow and bestowing on her the right to the husband’s property, “considering the peculiar facts and circumstances of the present case”.A Christian couple got married in 1976 and had six children. In 2020, the…
Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad traffic police have cancelled 1,855 AI-generated e-challans worth nearly Rs 15 lakh that were issued on Rath Yatra day, July 16, after finding that many motorists were penalised due to temporary traffic arrangements put in place for the annual procession.A senior traffic police officer said several roads along the 16-km Rath Yatra…
Ahmedabad: A cab driver of a Sindhu Bhavan Road hotel has been booked by Airport police after a Delhi family alleged that he did not return a jewellery bag accidentally left in the vehicle.The family said the bag contained three gold necklaces worth Rs 14.3 lakh. The bag was left behind in the cab after…
The Indian Army rescued over 790 people from flood-hit areas in Gujarat AHMEDABAD: The Indian Army has rescued more than 790 people from flood-hit areas of south Gujarat, Ahmedabad and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli after launching relief operations in the wake of heavy rainfall.South Gujarat received incessant rainfall on July 21…
