An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner, flight AI-171, carrying 242 passengers and crew members en route from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, crashed shortly after takeoff on June 12, 2025, after the pilot issued a mayday call to air traffic control Ahmedabad: Responding to a letter from a Surat resident seeking black box data of the…
He used AI-generated images of himself in a khaki uniform to woo women Ahmedabad: A 27-year-old man, who allegedly posed as a sub-inspector with Gujarat Police using AI-generated photographs, forged identity cards and fabricated cybercrime credentials, was arrested by the crime branch for allegedly cheating more than 20 women through dating and matrimonial applications.Police sources…
Subsequent testing of the material tested positive for marijuana (cannabis), commonly known as ganja Ahmedabad: A passenger from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International (SVPI) Airport was arrested with 20.36kg of marijuana on Thursday.According to a release by the Customs department, based on specific intelligence from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and passenger profiling, officers…
Hemant Modi, convicted in a 2005 Naroda murder case, kept changing not just his first name but even his surname to blend into different social and professional circles, said police Ahmedabad: For 12 years, 53-year-old Hemant Nagindas Modi treated identity like a costume change. The murder convict — who jumped parole in 2014 — lived…
According to university estimates, out of around 35,000 students currently studying in the final year (Semester 6), nearly 5,500 showed interest in enrolling in the Honours programmes Ahmedabad: Gujarat University has cleared 54 affiliated colleges and institutes to offer fourth-year Honours programmes under the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The decision, finalised during an executive…
Ahmedabad: The construction of Rs 70.7 crore Makarba Railway Overbridge (ROB) began on Sept 30, 2022, and it was originally slated for completion by Nov 30, 2024. However, the deadline has now been exceeded by nearly one-and-a-half years, and the project remains incomplete, causing inconvenience to local residents.An official from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC),…
Ahmedabad: A sessions court in Ahmedabad has sentenced a karate trainer employed by a private school in Vastral, Chakra alias Arya Dube, to three years in prison under the provisions of the Pocso Act for showing pornographic videos to Class 5 girl students.While sentencing Dube to jail, special Pocso judge A B Bhatt imposed a…
Voting will take place at the assembly complex in Gandhinagar from 9am to 4pm on June 18 and counting of votes will be taken up at 5pm Gandhinagar: For the first time, the Congress party will not have a single Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat, as the term of lone Congress MP from the state,…
People up to the block-level can now file RTI applications online Gandhinagar: Filing Right to Information (RTI) applications in Gujarat has become significantly easier as the state’s online RTI portal has finally been extended to local civic bodies, collectorates, and police commissionerates. Moving beyond the offices of various departments located in the Gandhinagar secretariat, citizens…
Details of ration cards from the ration card management system (RCMS) portal of the food, civil supplies, and consumer affairs department can be directly accessed by citizens in their DigiLocker account Gandhinagar: The state govt said on Friday that 65% of its services are connected with DigiLocker, making digital governance simpler.An official statement said that…
