Ahmedabad: City-based Tanmay’s Space Museum has dedicated a special gallery to astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, who inaugurated it during his visit to the city on Saturday. Shukla, a member of India’s first human spaceflight mission and the first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station, toured the museum and interacted with visitors. He urged citizens,…
Ahmedabad: With rain continuing to elude the city, Ahmedabad experienced hot and humid conditions on Sunday. The maximum temperature settled at 37°C, three degrees above normal, while the minimum temperature was 27.7°C, 1.4 degrees above normal. Relative humidity in the city stood at 71% at 8.30am and 46% at 5.30pm.The state did not receive any…
Ahmedabad: A woman and her husband, residents of Gandhinagar district, strangled their 20-year-old neighbour allegedly because he was blackmailing her into a sexual relationship.According to police sources, the 20-year-old secretly recorded the woman bathing around two months ago. Police suspect he used the video to blackmail her into a physical relationship.The woman eventually confided in…
Slug: CG Rd Drama & ‘Settlement’Ahmedabad: A privately owned car bearing a “Police” sticker and driven by a police department employee allegedly hit a two-wheeler carrying a couple on CG Road on Saturday night.Although no FIR has been registered as the parties reached a settlement, the police employee’s vehicle was subsequently seized for multiple traffic…
Ahmedabad: Svarit Joshi, a Class 11 student from Ahmedabad, won a gold medal at the 56th International Physics Olympiad held in Bucaramanga, a city in South American country of Colombia, from July 4 to 12.All five Indian contestants have won gold medals, placing the team at the top with those from China, Kazakhstan, Russia, South…
Development is taking a toll on open grounds which double up as playgrounds for hundreds of Amdavadis Ahmedabad: Where does Ahmedabad go to play as privately owned open grounds, once a big draw for people living in surrounding neighbourhoods, shrink? The ones flanking the Manekbaug Society-Shyamal Crossroads road are an example. These grounds, which doubled…
Union home minister Amit Shah, Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel and deputy CM Harsh Sanghavi launch the Mission 5 Million Trees campaign, and several development projects, at Science City, Ahmedabad, on Sunday Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel, Minister Harsh Sanghavi, and BJP State President Jagdish Vishwakarma launch the ‘Mission 5 Million Tree’…
AMC created a Guiness World Record for planting 3.6 lakh saplings in an hour using the Miyawaki method, on July 12, in Ahmedabad’s Bhadaj area Gandhinagar: On Sunday, when 1.25 crore saplings were planted across the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) set a Guinness World Record by planting 3.61 lakh saplings in…
Gandhinagar: Union home minister Amit Shah will inaugurate the 11th Interpol Digital Forensic Expert Group (DFEG) meeting on Monday at the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) in Gandhinagar.Delegates from 47 countries, including officials of law enforcement agencies, will participate in the meeting, an official statement said. Chief minister Bhupendra Patel and deputy chief minister Harsh…
Ahmedabad: A 32-year-old woman from Bopal has accused her husband living in Canada and his family of demanding money for IELTS coaching and her migration expenses as dowry before abandoning her and sending her back to India.The woman on Saturday filed a complaint with the Women Police (Rural), alleging years of physical, mental and financial…
