On Monday, the city experienced the second consecutive day of heat over 44°C, as the maximum temperature touched 44.2°C, 2.6 degrees higher than normal. On Sunday, the maximum temperature rose to 44.8°C, giving Ahmedabad its third hottest April day since records began.On Monday, the city did not get any respite during night hours, either, as…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat University (GU) has made internships compulsory for students of undergraduate and postgraduate courses appearing as external candidates, aligning the requirement with the provisions of the National Education Policy (NEP). The move had initially triggered confusion among students over the process, duration and evaluation system, prompting the university to issue detailed guidelines.According to the…
Ahmedabad: An elderly woman lost her life after falling from a two-wheeler on a highway near Adalaj, turning a family’s return trip from a social function into a fatal incident. Police have registered a case of negligent driving against her son following a complaint lodged by his younger brother.Police said the family, residents of Kalol,…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat’s 2024 Chandipura virus outbreak was the worst in 20 years. And now, for the first time, scientists have decoded the virus’s genetic blueprint from that episode. Researchers from the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre (GBRC), the state health department, and the National Institute of Virology, Pune, sequenced the full genome of the virus and…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has dismissed a petition filed by a man seeking directions to his estranged wife to send their two minor daughters for counselling through a qualified child counsellor. The daughters have been reluctant to meet him.Justice J C Doshi upheld an order passed by a Valsad family court on Dec 18,…
Ahmedabad: A woman called the Abhayam women’s helpline after finding her husband, a school principal, with a former colleague. The couple was counselled, after which the man agreed to sever the relationship with the ex-colleague or face consequences.According to counsellors, the woman said in her complaint that she has been married for 16 years and…
Voter turnout in elections to 15 municipal corporations across Gujarat touched 50% on Sunday, as citizens braved intense heatwave conditions with temperatures nearing 45°C. Polling was largely peaceful across the state, barring minor skirmishes, while repolling was ordered at one booth in Surendranagar following an EVM malfunction.The elections covered 15 municipal corporations, including Ahmedabad, Surat,…
Voter turnout in elections to 15 municipal corporations across Gujarat touched 50% on Sunday, as citizens braved intense heatwave conditions with temperatures nearing 45°C. Polling was largely peaceful across the state, barring minor skirmishes, while repolling was ordered at one booth in Surendranagar following an EVM malfunction.The elections covered 15 municipal corporations, including Ahmedabad, Surat,…
Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad customs officials seized 61 luxury and collector-edition pens from an Indian flyer, an IIT graduate working in Japan, after he arrived at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport from Japan via Ho Chi Minh City. The flyer is currently seen as an unsuspecting carrier of the pens sans duty and not as a part…
Ahmedabad: In a relief for a govt lawyer, the Gujarat high court has quashed departmental punishment given to him for giving his NOC to the bail application filed by a builder, who was arrested after the collapse of a building in the 2001 earthquake.Three increments of the assistant public prosecutor, B G Chaudhary, then posted…
