Gandhinagar: Special ‘tourist police stations’ will be set up at Gir Somnath, Dwarka and Dang with the aim of enhancing the safety and convenience of tourists, said the state govt on Wednesday. DGP K L N Rao chaired a meeting on Wednesday to work out modalities for operationalising the police stations in key destinations visited…
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat govt is preparing to roll out a wide-ranging policy aimed at fixing some of Ahmedabad’s most persistent urban problems: traffic congestion, road safety gaps, encroachments and the cattle menace. The announcement is expected soon after the new elected body of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is constituted in the coming days.The move…
Resolve complaints at the earliest: Gujarat chief minister Chief minister Bhupendra Patel on Wednesday asked officials to ensure that complaints of citizens are resolved at the earliest. Briefing reporters after the cabinet meeting, spokesperson Jitu Vaghani said that top officials of the administration were directed by the CM to prepare an action plan to ensure…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat University has begun conducting the second phase of exams for candidates who cleared the first stage of its ongoing recruitment process for non-teaching posts. The exams are being held on April 29 and 30 to fill long-vacant administrative positions across the university.On April 29, written exams were conducted for multiple posts, with around…
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…
