Gandhinagar: After unveiling an ambitious data centre policy to attract large-scale investments, the Gujarat govt has now turned its attention to developing cable landing station (CLS) infrastructure, a key component of the state’s digital ecosystem.Official sources said govt has initiated discussions with leading players in the cable landing station sector and is considering policy measures,…
Ahmedabad: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday and Friday registered three separate bribery cases across the state.The biggest trap was laid by the Gandhinagar unit of the ACB, which caught an unarmed police constable posted at Kadi police station in Mehsana district. According to the ACB, the complainant and his brothers were involved in a…
Ahmedabad: A city sessions court in Ahmedabad has denied regular bail to Jaipur resident Sumer Singh Meena and Kota resident Akash Meena, who were arrested by Ahmedabad Cybercrime Branch in June in connection with the NEET paper scam. The two are accused of promising access to Re-NEET question papers through Telegram channels.After their arrest in…
Ahmedabad: Officers at the Cyber Centre of Excellence, Gandhinagar, on Friday said that they busted an interstate racket that allegedly used online advertisements for potency medicines to extort money from customers by posing as police officers and doctors. Seven persons were arrested after raids at two call centres in the city and another facility being…
Gandhinagar: The state govt has a launched large-scale relief and restoration drive in Surat after the floods, officials said on Friday. Deputy chief minister Harsh Sanghavi chaired an emergency high-level review meeting late on Thursday night at the Surat collector’s office. The meeting was attended by all district coordination officers, senior officials of the Surat…
Ahmedabad: A teenager riding a scooter was killed after coming under the wheels of a school bus taking a wide turn near Shastrinagar Crossroads in Naranpura on Friday afternoon.Police said barricading around an Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) cave-in repair site forced the bus to negotiate a wider-than-normal turn before the collision.The deceased worked at a…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat State Branch of Indian Medical Association (IMA-GSB) on Friday wrote to health minister Praful Pansheriya to represent the issue of MBBS doctors who have submitted bonds.‘A large number of bonded MBBS graduates remain unemployed for several months after successfully completing their MBBS course and compulsory internship while awaiting official posting orders from…
Ahmedabad: The Cyber Centre of Excellence in Gandhinagar arrested three more persons in connection with the hacking of the Bhavnagar District Cooperative Bank’s core banking system, taking the total number of accused held in the case to 10.Police said that the accused were part of a network that arranged bank accounts for routing funds generated…
Ahmedabad: Officials from Gujarat Railway Police (GRP) and Childline, while searching a train from Bihar on Friday, found three children travelling without their immediate relatives. The children were sent to an observation home while efforts to contact their families continue, officials said.“Based on information from a social worker, the train from Darbhanga to Ahmedabad was…
The additions took Gujarat’s total telecom subscriber base to 7.2 crore Ahmedabad: Gujarat now has more phone connections than people. The state’s tele-density crossed the 100% mark for the first time in nearly five years after telecom operators added 4.06 lakh subscribers in May, according to the latest Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) subscription…
