Ahmedabad: Damaging public property to fix private problems has landed the owner of a restaurant in Gota in hot water. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) sealed the eatery and on Monday after the owner dug up a newly constructed footpath to repair the establishment’s private sewer line.Taking a strict stance against the destruction of civic…
Ahmedabad: As the probe intensified into violence in Dhandhuka allegedly after a fatal stabbing, Ahmedabad rural police on Monday focused on reconstructing the sequence of events. The key accused were taken to key locations to recreate the crime scene where 29-year-old Dharmesh Gamara was stabbed and where the violence started. The police team took the…
Ahmedabad: It starts with a WhatsApp message; a location pin. By the time most people look up from their phones, young volunteers are already on their way to a construction pit, a mobile tower, or a burrow in the ground. Across Gujarat, students, mechanics, accountants, and teenagers, some as young as 12, are building informal…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has directed the Gujarat Adani Institute of Medical Sciences in Bhuj to deposit Rs 12 lakh with the Krantiguru Shyamji Krishna Verma Kachchh University, which is demanding Rs 34 lakh towards affiliation fees and penalty for late submissions and Goods and Services Tax (GST).The university has asked for Rs 1.65…
Ahmedabad: Mumbai-headquartered Lilavati Hospital expanded its footprint in Gujarat with the start of its GIFT City premises. As a pre-launch activity, senior members of the hospital administration were at GIFT City on Monday for free health check-ups. Prashant Mehta, director of Lilavati Foundation, said that the GIFT City premises will be fully functional in three…
Ahmedabad: On April 26, 3 lakh voters will cast their votes to elect councillors. Voting was earlier scheduled for 192 seats across 48 wards in the city, but two seats reserved for women in Vasna and Thaltej witnessed walkovers, leaving 190 seats. In the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) polls, voters cast four votes using EVMs,…
Ahmedabad: A high-speed hit-and-run accident in Nikol left an autorickshaw driver critically injured after a BMW electric vehicle rammed his rickshaw and crashed into an AMTS bus stand near Bhakti Circle on Monday afternoon.Police said the BMW EV was being driven at a very high speed when it hit the autorickshaw. The impact was so…
Ahmedabad: The city recorded a maximum temperature of 40.2 degrees celsius and a minimum of 24.9 degrees celsius on Monday. Due to the impact of the Western Disturbance, both maximum and minimum temperatures were 0.6 degrees above normal. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast, the maximum temperature is likely to be around 40…
Ahmedabad: A new hydrochemical study published in the April edition of an Elsevier journal, ‘Cleaner Water’, suggests that the Sabarmati river’s health is increasingly being influenced by the industrial pollution it carries.The study, based on a “multi-index” framework, tracked ten specific sampling sites from the city’s northern entry at Motera Stadium to its southern exit…
Gandhinagar: State Congress president Amit Chavda on Sunday released the party’s ‘vision document’ and theme song for the upcoming local body elections in Gujarat. The vision document is based on five basic principles of inclusivity, citizen services, transparent governance, accountability and affordable living, the party said.Speaking to reporters, Chavda said that development in Gujarat’s cities…
