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Ahmedabad: Gujarat’s 2024 Chandipura virus outbreak was the worst in 20 years. And now, for the first time, scientists have decoded the virus’s genetic blueprint from that episode. Researchers from the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre (GBRC), the state health department, and the National Institute of Virology, Pune, sequenced the full genome of the virus and…

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has dismissed a petition filed by a man seeking directions to his estranged wife to send their two minor daughters for counselling through a qualified child counsellor. The daughters have been reluctant to meet him.Justice J C Doshi upheld an order passed by a Valsad family court on Dec 18,…

Ahmedabad: A woman called the Abhayam women’s helpline after finding her husband, a school principal, with a former colleague. The couple was counselled, after which the man agreed to sever the relationship with the ex-colleague or face consequences.According to counsellors, the woman said in her complaint that she has been married for 16 years and…

Voter turnout in elections to 15 municipal corporations across Gujarat touched 50% on Sunday, as citizens braved intense heatwave conditions with temperatures nearing 45°C. Polling was largely peaceful across the state, barring minor skirmishes, while repolling was ordered at one booth in Surendranagar following an EVM malfunction.The elections covered 15 municipal corporations, including Ahmedabad, Surat,…

Voter turnout in elections to 15 municipal corporations across Gujarat touched 50% on Sunday, as citizens braved intense heatwave conditions with temperatures nearing 45°C. Polling was largely peaceful across the state, barring minor skirmishes, while repolling was ordered at one booth in Surendranagar following an EVM malfunction.The elections covered 15 municipal corporations, including Ahmedabad, Surat,…

Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad customs officials seized 61 luxury and collector-edition pens from an Indian flyer, an IIT graduate working in Japan, after he arrived at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport from Japan via Ho Chi Minh City. The flyer is currently seen as an unsuspecting carrier of the pens sans duty and not as a part…

Ahmedabad: In a relief for a govt lawyer, the Gujarat high court has quashed departmental punishment given to him for giving his NOC to the bail application filed by a builder, who was arrested after the collapse of a building in the 2001 earthquake.Three increments of the assistant public prosecutor, B G Chaudhary, then posted…

Ahmedabad: Sporadic incidents of violence, clashes and allegations of bogus voting across several wards were reported on polling day, even as authorities maintained that the overall voting process remained peaceful.In the Rajpur-Gomtipur ward, Congress worker Imran Meer, alleged that he was assaulted by independent candidate Imran Pathan and his associate Amir Pathan. Meer sustained serious…

Ahmedabad: The Shahibaug police have registered an offence against a Civil Hospital security guard for allegedly assaulting a 25-year-old patient’s relative and abusing him inside the hospital premises.According to a complaint lodged on Saturday, Rahul Marwadi, a resident of Meghaninagar, said he works as a daily wager and lives with his mother. His grandfather, Madanlal,…

AHMEDABAD: Homegrown pharma major Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd on Monday announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire US-based Organon & Co in an all-cash transaction at $11.75 billion. The US-listed firm’s acquisition marks one of the largest outbound deals by an Indian drugmaker.Under the agreement, Sun Pharma will buy all outstanding shares of…