People working on shrimp farms being evacuated in Navsari Surat: With a red alert in effect, the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) and district administration have intensified flood preparedness measures to ensure a swift response to heavy rainfall and potential flooding.Authorities are taking a host of measures to check waterlogging as frequent flooding has almost been…
Education Promise Turned Into Months Of Abuse Surat: A trustee of a madrassa in Kudus town of Palghar district in Maharashtra was arrested by Bharuch police after a 22-year-old woman alleged that he sexually assaulted her repeatedly for nearly a year after convincing her family to send her for religious studies. He is also accused…
Flood mitigation study starts Surat: The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Wednesday launched a hydrology survey to tackle flooding caused by overflowing creeks, with plans to develop a detailed 3D model to guide future flood mitigation measures.As part of the first phase of the LiDAR-based study, drone-mounted cameras are being used to capture high-resolution images…
Vishal.Patadiya@timesofindia.com Surat: Surat district consumer disputes redressal commission (Additional) has directed an insurance company to pay a medical insurance claim of Rs. 5.52 lakh to the family of a 15-year-old girl, ruling that the insurer failed to prove its allegation that the injuries resulted from an attempted suicide. The girl had suffered serious injuries after…
Surat: Two Right to Information (RTI) applications filed by a city resident have revealed that a committee set up by Gujarat govt in 2023 to investigate the rise in sudden heart attack deaths among youth in the post-Covid period has not yet reached any conclusion. The RTI responses also stated that the government does not…
Surat: One more case of extortion has been registered against history-sheeter Mohammad Islam Pathan alias Parwana. Police said Parwana had allegedly demanded Rs 25 lakh from the owner of his newspaper office. He had also extorted Rs 20,000 by brandishing a knife and threatening the owner. He also refused to pay Rs 6 lakh pending…
Sixty buffaloes drowned at a farm in Borlai village of Valsad district Surat: As Valsad recovers from the hammering it received from the monsoon, residents of Borlai village in Umargam taluka are grappling with a different threat. Carcasses of 60 buffaloes that drowned in the floods lay unattended for days, causing a a stench and…
Surat: Adajan police arrested a 22-year-old Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) student for allegedly stalking a 24-year-old woman, and posting their photographs on social media to defame her.The accused, a final-year BHMS student at a college in Vadodara, threatened to die by suicide after she rejected his advances,According to police, the accused had…
Surat/Rajkot: Two students lost their lives in separate tragic incidents reported in Surat city and Dhrangadhra town of Surendranagar district on Tuesday.In Surat, a Class IX student was electrocuted during a physical training class on the terrace of a municipal school, while in Surendranagar, a 6-year-old boy died after falling through the floor of a…
A departmental inquiry ordered to determine how the electrocution occurred Surat: The Municipal School Board (MSB) suspended the principal of Municipal School No. 16 after a Class IX student was electrocuted, citing negligence in maintaining school infrastructure. The physical education teacher, who was on contract basis, has also been relieved of duty.MSB officials said the…
