Ahmedabad: A firecracker shop near Kalupur Circle was sealed on Thursday evening for storing crackers worth Rs 3.5 lakh and selling them without a statutory licence or a fire safety no-objection certificate. Acting on a tip-off, a CID Crime team raided Shivam Traders in Sakar Bazaar around 5pm. About 42 varieties of crackers were stored…
Makarba over bridge traffic Ahmedabad Friday,25,September,2026Photo Yogesh Chawda Makarba over bridge traffic Ahmedabad Friday,25,September,2026 Photo Yogesh Chawda Ahmedabad: Within hours of the Makarba railway overbridge opening on Thursday, traffic snarls developed near Corporate Road, and on Friday, traffic police introduced diversions that forced motorists to take U-turns at the end of long stretches. Those travelling…
Ahmedabad: A daring attempt to loot an angadia firm in Narol was foiled after the owner confronted two armed men who allegedly barged into his office and pointed a country-made firearm at him on Thursday evening. The angadia owner managed to disarm the men, one of whom was 70 years old, and grabbed the accused’s…
Ahmedabad: The district education officer (DEO) has issued a show-cause notice to the management and principal of Shri Jaymanben Dave and Sheth Shri Hirabhai Kanya Vidyalaya in Maninagar, following complaints alleging that the school’s approved educational campus was being used for commercial and other non-academic activities.The action follows a complaint received by DEO’s office regarding…
Ahmedabad/Vadodara: More than 600 trade associations across Gujarat will observe a symbolic statewide ‘No UPI Day’ on Oct 2, urging customers to pay by cash or card instead of UPI.The one-day protest, planned on Gandhi Jayanti, is being organised by trader bodies opposing a new National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) rule that introduces a…
Ahmedabad: Enforcement Directorate’s Ahmedabad office has provisionally attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 4.5 crore in connection with an alleged bank fraud involving Steel Konnect India Pvt Ltd.The attachment order was issued on Aug 24 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. According to the ED, the alleged diversion and misuse of loan…
Ahmedabad: Repeated threats of suicide by her teenage daughter over nearly two years left a single mother from west Ahmedabad seeking help from the Abhayam 181 women’s helpline. The 17-year-old had also reportedly attempted suicide by consuming pills and had engaged in self-harm. Counsellors spoke to both the mother and daughter and advised them on…
Ahmedabad: For Meman Mohammad Shaikh, a resident of Salad village in Vadodara district, a confirmed admission at a private medical college came with a hefty price tag which his family could ill afford. The open-category candidate secured admission at Parul University, but the annual fee of about Rs 10 lakh made him abandon his long-held…
Gandhinagar: Gujarat govt and govt of India have submitted a formal Expression of Interest (EoI) to Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) for hosting the 2038 edition of the Asian Games in Ahmedabad. The 2030 edition of the Asian Games will be held at Doha in Qatar, while the 2034 Asian Games will be hosted by…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat unit of the Congress party said on Friday that five students died by suicide in Surat, Rajkot and Vadodara over the past eight days, terming the trend as a “growing crisis among students and young people in the state”.GPCC media convener Manish Doshi said that 1,899 students had died by suicide in…
