Gandhinagar: Families of 115 employees of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC), including drivers and conductors, who died while on duty during the Covid-19 pandemic, will receive financial assistance of Rs 25 lakh each, the govt announced on Tuesday.Deputy chief minister Harsh Sanghavi said that GSRTC played a vital role in safely transporting migrant workers…
Ahmedabad: A team of doctors in the city gave a new lease of life to a premature baby born via normal delivery at just 26 weeks of pregnancy, weighing only 760 grams at birth. After 80 days of intensive treatment, the baby was discharged from hospital after attaining 1.67kg weight, said officials.Dr Munjal Kapadia, in…
Ahmedabad: The Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC) on Tuesday announced Round 1 seat allotments for MBA and MCA programmes for the 2026-27 academic year.Of the 4,857 candidates who completed registration by paying fees, 4,723 made it to the merit list — 2,469 for MBA and 1,647 for MCA, with 177 eligible for both programmes.In…
Gandhinagar: State govt said on Tuesday that Gujarat had cut carbon emissions by 49.8 million tonnes during 2025-26, a step towards its net-zero goal.The state also generated a record 67,655 million units of electricity from renewable sources in the same period, govt said.A key driver behind this has been the rapid expansion of solar, wind,…
Ahmedabad: A one-year-old boy was killed after a speeding car ran him over inside the Government Polytechnic campus in Sector 26 on Monday afternoon.The victim, Lavyansh Amliyar, was the son of Urvish Amliyar, a mason from Simaliya Khurd village in Dahod district. Urvish and his wife, Laxmi, were engaged in construction work on an under-construction…
Ahmedabad: Days after the blast at an illegal firecracker factory in Ramol claimed 10 lives, police across Gujarat intensified inspections of firecracker units, leading to the seizure of illegal stock worth Rs 39.6 crore from two godowns at Matoda Patiya in Ahmedabad on Monday.Changodar police raided two adjoining warehouses operating under the name Ambika Trade…
Ahmedabad: Darshil Modi, who owns an Amul parlour in Bopal, has been awarded a one-year jail term by an Ahmedabad rural court after an 18-year-old was electrocuted by a signboard pole in 2020.According to the prosecution, Modi erected an iron pole for an advertising signboard on a public road and illegally drew an electricity connection…
Ahmedabad: A local court on Tuesday allowed state govt to withdraw a criminal case registered against Hardik Patel, BJP MLA and former Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) convener, and six others “in the interest of justice”.State govt has withdrawn several other criminal cases against Patel in the past. In this case, Nikol police filed an…
Caption: Forest department says it has found no evidence to support the big cat’s visit to ChandkhedaAhmedabad: The news of a leopard sighting at Serendeep Mansions in Shela early on Monday was followed by reports on Tuesday of a big cat strolling in Chandkheda.A picture of a leopard crossing a Chandkheda road went viral, with…
Caption: Forest department says it has found no evidence to support the big cat’s visit to ChandkhedaAhmedabad: The news of a leopard sighting at Serendeep Mansions in Shela early on Monday was followed by reports on Tuesday of a big cat strolling in Chandkheda.A picture of a leopard crossing a Chandkheda road went viral, with…
