Surat: Mahidharpura police have booked a couple for allegedly abducting their 18-year-old married daughter from a temple in the city. The incident occurred on Sunday evening when the woman had gone to the temple with her husband. Police have launched a search for the couple based on the husband’s complaint.Complainant Raj Pipaliya (22), a diamond…
Surat: Relentless rain battered South Gujarat on Tuesday, flooding homes, submerging roads and forcing authorities to shut dozens of routes as rivers and creeks swelled. With water levels rising rapidly, schools, colleges and train services faced widespread disruption.Heavy rainfall across South Gujarat inundated low-lying areas and forced authorities to close roads after rivers and creeks…
Surat: Torrential rain battered Surat and large parts of south Gujarat from the early hours of Tuesday, triggering widespread waterlogging and disruption of traffic movement. The situation turned tense as several key roads began to get blocked, affecting daily commute and economic activity in the city.An official from the district disaster management office confirmed that…
Surat City received four Inches of rain in just two hours, and many areas across the city gets heavily waterlogged Surat: A fierce spell of monsoon rain on Monday exposed cracks in Surat’s stormwater drainage system as 122mm of precipitation led to flooded roads and shops, paralysing traffic at key location. Even areas that had…
Surat: The promise of extraordinary returns and claims of vast overseas wealth cost a Surat textile trader Rs 90 lakh. Police are investigating a cheating case in which a couple allegedly lured the trader into investing money before using forged Dubai-related documents to reassure him when repayments failed to materialize.Athwalines police have launched an investigation…
New Civil Hospital in city has introduced an RFID tagging system in the NICU and will soon add it at the gynaecology ward Surat: In a move aimed at preventing infant kidnappings and strengthening security for newborns, New Civil Hospital introduced an upgraded RFID-based monitoring system in its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The technology…
Subhash Rathod was arrested by Singanpor police Surat: Singanpor police in Surat arrested a 28-year-old man for allegedly murdering his father after exposing what investigators said was an attempt by the family to pass off the killing as a suicide.The victim, Rajesh Rathod (56), a resident of Moti Ved village, allegedly had frequent disputes with…
Surat: Heavy rainfall and widespread waterlogging in Mumbai and Palghar severely disrupted rail services on the busy Ahmedabad-Mumbai corridor on Monday, forcing Western Railway to divert, reschedule or short-terminate 70 trains and cancel 16 others.The disruption was triggered by heavy waterlogging at Saphale, Kelve Road, Vasai Road and Nallasopara stations in the Mumbai division of…
The accused in police custody Surat: A 49-year-old man posing as a BAMS doctor was arrested after Amroli police raided an illegal clinic in the Chhapra Bhatha area. Medicines, injections, IV sets, syrups and abortion pills were seized from the clinicThe accused, identified as D K Singh, holds a Master’s degree in Arts (MA) and…
The accused in police custody Surat: A 32-year-old man was arrested by Surat cybercrime police for allegedly cheating buyers through fake social media advertisements offering construction materials at throwaway prices. The accused allegedly collected advance payments for bricks, concrete and other materials before switching off his phone and disappearing.The accused, Narendra Saraswat (32), a resident…
