Young footballers at Rander Sultaniya Gymkhana ground Football was still a young sport on the global stage when the first FIFA World Cup was held in 1930. Yet a small trading town on the banks of Tapi took to the game so strongly that barely 10 years later, it launched an annual tournament of its…
In 2012, Pradip Trivedi showcased 100 publications covering Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th international century AHMEDABAD: For most people, old newspapers are waste. But for some, they can become a court case reference, a student research resource or a civic record. Pradip Trivedi, Tushar Shah, Haji Mamdani, Vadilal Doshi and Kanti Vadoliya have spent years preserving what…
Gandhinagar: The Silicon and Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Research and Training Hub (SAMARTH) will soon be launched at IIT Gandhinagar to provide engineering students with training and hands-on exposure in semiconductor technology, according to a statement issued on Friday. The Union govt has allocated Rs 190 crore for the project.“IIT Gandhinagar has already initiated the process…
Gandhinagar: A total of 4,411 students passed the Gujarat board’s HSC Science supplementary examination, taking the overall pass percentage to 27.36%. The results were declared on Friday.According to official figures, 18,549 students registered for the examination, of whom 16,120 appeared. The examination, which was conducted at district centres for students who were unable to clear…
Ahmedabad: The monsoon season began in Ahmedabad, with rainfall recorded in several western parts of the city on Thursday night. Between 8pm and 10pm, some western localities received an average of 15mm of rain. Thaltej recorded 15.5mm, the Science City area received 15mm, and Bodakdev registered 11mm of rainfall.According to data released by the Ahmedabad…
Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad has moved a step closer to developing the proposed Sardar Patel Sports Enclave after the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) cleared land by changing the land-use of reserved plots in Sabarmati and Koteshwar town planning (TP) schemes.The sports enclave, estimated to cost Rs 5,050 crore, is planned around the Narendra Modi Stadium in Motera…
Rajkot/Surat: What began as a relatively quiet morning, with barely an inch of rainfall till noon, snowballed into monsoon mayhem in Junagadh’s coastal Mangrol taluka by evening, leaving the region battered by nearly 500 mm (about 20 inches) of rain in just 14 hours on Friday.Though there were no deaths or mass shifting of people…
Ahmedabad: A special Pocso court in Ahmedabad on Friday sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for raping his minor stepdaughter, an ordeal that resulted in the birth of a child.Special judge N H Vasvelia, delivering the verdict, also imposed a fine of Rs 1.05 lakh on the convict and directed the state govt…
Ahmedabad: Eight letters allegedly addressed to Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar and recovered during raids on eight arrested terror suspects have revealed how some of the accused sought to join the banned outfit, praised its leadership and sought religious guidance on participating in jihad, according to the Gujarat ATS.In a statement issued on Friday, ATS…
Ahmedabad: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday arrested an assistant clerk posted in the appeals department of the City Civil and Sessions Court at Bhadra here after allegedly catching him red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000.The accused, identified as Ashok Patel, allegedly demanded the bribe in connection with proceedings related to a court…
