Ahmedabad: A family from the city is desperately seeking answers after their son, an MBBS student studying in Georgia, allegedly went missing nearly 10 days ago under mysterious circumstances. Dhvanit Rajdeep, studying medicine at Caucasus International University, has been unreachable since May 14, before he was to board a flight back to Ahmedabad, his family…
File photo of Hemant Modi in police custody Ahmedabad: Escaping the long arm of law takes audacity, knowledge of how the system works, and its loopholes. The case of Hemant Modi, the absconder-actor, who hoodwinked the system for 12 years, is unravelling act after act, role after role. Police say that Modi — an aspiring…
Ahmedabad: A Gujarat resident from Valsad was detained at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport after immigration officials allegedly detected a tampered passport and evidence of a forged Russian visa during his arrival from Moscow on May 11. Delhi Police have registered a case in the matter and are now in touch with Gujarat Police…
Ahmedabad: A 48-year-old Shahpur resident was allegedly defrauded of Rs 3.3 lakh by cyber criminals posing as Punjab National Bank officials who enticed him with promises of enhanced credit card benefits and higher spending limits.According to a complaint lodged with Shahpur police, the complainant Yash Shah (48) received a call on April 16 from a…
Ahmedabad: The CID Crime’s Cyber Centre of Excellence on Saturday arrested another accused in the Rs 226-crore cryptocurrency laundering and terror-funding case that allegedly has links to Hamas and international drug syndicates. Officials said the latest arrest takes the total number of accused held in the case to 10.The arrested accused, identified as 25-year-old Ghulam…
Ahmedabad: A Gujarati woman, aged around 30, holding a US green card was arrested in the US on May 19 for allegedly acting as a courier in a multi-million-dollar fraud in which a 74-year-old was duped into handing over more than $3 million worth of gold. This is a rare incident where a green card…
Ahmedabad: While the public debate circles endlessly around carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides, a new study has found a “significant yet underexplored factor” in Indian cities and towns, toxic smog — chlorine produced by human activity.The study was published in the journal ‘Nature’ and was titled “Linking anthropogenic chlorine emissions to regional air quality in…
Ahmedabad: A Kutch crater that was long thought to have been blasted into existence by a meteorite could actually be evidence of a civilization extracting metal.In April 2024, a picture of the ‘Luna crater’ in the Banni area of Kutch, known for its grasslands and sites such as Dhordo, was picked up as the Image…
Ahmedabad: On Sunday, the city’s maximum temperature stood at 42.2°C, which was 0.3°C above normal, or near normal. Meanwhile, the minimum temperature at 29.6°C was 1.7°C higher than normal. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the maximum temperature is likely to hover around 42°C on Monday.It was the second consecutive day of maximum temperature…
A protest by pastoralists near Chhari-Dhand in Kutch AHMEDABAD: On May 22 – International Day for Biological Diversity – more than 500 Maldharis and other villagers from 16 Banni villages gathered near Fulay in Kutch to protest a proposed solar project of NTPC Renewable Energy Ltd. The villagers were joined by some conservationists.The villagers said…
