Overall, Gujarat has received 70% of the season’s rainfall so far Ahmedabad: Amdavadis will remember July 23 as a day when heavy rain lashed the city, leaving several areas inundated. It brought disruption and chaos as many societies remained waterlogged, schools and colleges declared a holiday and commuters were caught in long jams. According to…
The accused was arrested on Saturday night Ahmedabad: A 27-year-old security guard, arrested late Saturday night for allegedly raping a woman on the terrace of a residential building in Jodhpur, was shot in the leg by a police inspector in the early hours of Monday.R S Parmar of Anandnagar police, who shot the accused, said…
Gandhinagar: Digital crop survey will be taken up for a period of 45 days from Aug 15 under Centre’s ‘AgriStack’ project, the state govt informed on Monday.Approximately 95 lakh survey plots of all cultivable areas located in 18,197 villages of all districts of Gujarat will be covered in this survey.Surveyors will visit each field/survey number…
Gujarat University Building Ahmedabad: Recruitment processes across several state varsities, including Gujarat University, have been stalled for nearly six months due to the absence of formal govt approval. The hiring drive was launched in late Dec following state directives to fill sanctioned posts before the implementation of a new pay commission.At Gujarat University, recruitment was…
The anti-encroachment drive at SBR Ahmedabad: AMC’s North-West Zone estate department and Ahmedabad city police ‘M’ Division traffic department jointly carried out an intensive night drive against traffic-obstructing encroachments in Bodakdev and Thaltej wards and on Sindhu Bhavan Road.Action was taken against street vendors who were found selling goods from vehicles parked on Sindhu Bhavan…
A flooded commercial complex in Surat After four years of financial struggle, Mahesh Rathod, personal assistant to Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar for 28 years, saw a sari business as a ray of hope for his family. He rented a shop in Parvat Patiya in late June and stocked it with saris procured from Banaras. But…
Rape-related offences account for five of the 19 incidents, the largest single category among those shot at, with murder cases forming the next-largest group. Ahmedabad: Gujarat has recorded 19 police-firing incidents since May 2025, with Ahmedabad emerging as the most frequent location on the list, accounting for five cases. The offences span murder, rape, extortion,…
Gujarat firms have built world-class EPC and project management expertise Ahmedabad: After helping transform Gujarat into a power-surplus state, the state’s solar companies are now exporting their expertise to overseas markets.From Zambia and Botswana to Mauritius, Madagascar and Vietnam, Gujarat-based renewable energy (RE) firms are executing large-scale solar and battery storage projects, emerging as preferred…
A security guard was arrested for allegedly raping a student on a society terrace. AHMEDABAD: A security guard deployed at a residential society just six days earlier allegedly stalked, restrained and raped a 22-year-old paying guest on the building’s terrace late Saturday night — an assault that police say lasted nearly an hour, in the…
Ahmedabad: 2m-wide staircases to be mandatory in all commercial buildings Ahmedabad: The state govt has proposed making it mandatory for all commercial constructions in the city to build staircases that are at least 2 metres wide.Currently, CGDCR (Comprehensive General Development Control Regulations) stipulate that the staircase width be 1.5 metres in commercial buildings below 25…
