The case dates back to July 2008, when ACB caught an assistant commissioner of land development allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh Ahmedabad: A police inspector posted earlier with Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Dipak Vyas, is in the soup as a special court has issued a perjury notice to him for his alleged attempt…
Ahmedabad: A 35-year-old woman from Shahibaug has moved Gujarat High Court against three doctors and a laboratory, alleging negligence after she gave birth to a child with Down’s syndrome, cardiac anomalies and ambiguous genitalia.The woman had earlier filed a police complaint against Zeel Maternity & Nursing Home, obstetricians and gynaecologists Dr Phagun Shah and Dr…
Ahmedabad: Dry Gujarat processed 1.89 lakh samples in the past year in cases linked to illegal liquor consumption under the Gujarat Prohibition Act, 1949, according to home department figures. That averages 518 samples a day—about one sample every three minutes!The data is significant as prohibition enforcement faces renewed scrutiny following the death of 13 people…
Santosh and Aarti Karode at Mahatma Gandhi Granth Mandir in Ahmedabad Ahmedabad: Every part of the Nirnaynagar home of Santosh Karode, 64, and his wife Aarti, 63, is a bookshelf: books line the kitchen counter, pile up on beds, spread across sofas, and sprawl out on the verandah.One upstairs room is the only space where…
Ahmedabad: The NEET PG 2026 exam for admission to postgraduate medical courses will be conducted across the country on Sunday in a single shift. Around 2.73 lakh candidates have registered for the exam nationwide, including approximately 8,000 candidates from Gujarat.The exam will be conducted under stringent security and monitoring arrangements to ensure transparency.According to the…
Blaze erupts at raisin products factory in Naroda GIDC AHMEDABAD: A fire broke out at a raisin products factory at Plot No. 28 in Naroda GIDC Phase-3 around 9.40am on Saturday, the Ahmedabad Fire Department said.Fire tenders from GIDC, Nikol, Naroda, Chandkheda and Shahpur, along with a water bowser from Nikol, were rushed to the…
Ahmedabad: A girl ties a rakhi on the wrist of Union Home Minister Amit Shah during Raksha Bandhan celebrations in Ahmedabad on Friday, August 28, 2026. (Photo: IANS/X/@AmitShah) Gandhinagar: Union home minister Amit Shah celebrated Rakshabandhan on Friday with girls suffering from Type 1 juvenile diabetes. The girls tied rakhi to him on the occasion.The…
Ahmedabad: A 27-year-old land dealer has approached Adalaj police alleging that 11 people subjected his father to prolonged financial and mental harassment, took control of several properties through disputed transactions and ultimately drove him to suicide in Jan 2025.According to the complaint filed on Thursday, the deceased too was a land dealer and operated from…
Gujarat draws up plan to free 25 locations of beggary Ahmedabad: Gujarat has launched a rehabilitation programme to make Vadodara, Gir Somnath, Ekta Nagar and Pavagadh and 21 other places free of beggary as part of central govt’s SMILE (support for marginalised individuals for livelihood and enterprise) campaign. These locations had performed well in the…
A Tale of 2 Cities, Drainage Version in Ahmedabad: Paperwork, charges waived for some Ahmedabad: AMC will implement two sets of rules for water and drainage connections: societies in areas merged into Ahmedabad in 2020 won’t have to submit documents or pay charges; those merged in 2007 aren’t so lucky.Areas merged in 2020 include Bopal-Ghuma,…
