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The cybercrime police station of Ahmedabad on Wednesday filed a complaint of fraud against a fake State Bank of India customer care employee. Complainant Bhavika told the police that the person whom she had contacted to assist her with the net banking issues posed as an SBI employee. The 41-year-old complainant, working in a private […]
Kindness comes naturally to humans. When people found out a fox had fallen in a well in the Moti Khokhari village of Jamkhambhaliya taluka in Devbhumi Dwarka district of Gujarat, people arranged to rescue it The fox fell into 80 feet deep well in the wadi area of the village. As soon as people came […]
The Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) was created for employment opportunities through micro-entrepreneurial ventures in rural and urban areas. Of the 8,567 projects slated, only 27 percent were realized. Three-quarters into the fiscal year (2021-22) and stock-taking reveals that barely 27 percent of the targets have been met. In fact, on a dismal note, […]
In a major crackdown by the Income Tax department on Wednesday, the Ahmedabad department officials raided 24 locations of SAL Group of Companies. Director Rajendra Shah, his son Karan Shah and other board of directors of the company are under I-T department’s radar. A team of around 100 I-T officials are deployed for the raid […]
Maybe as a soft launch to the currently debated relaxation of prohibition in Gandhinagar, the sessions court here on Nov 24, deemed six months of rigorous imprisonment for alcohol consumption “too high a penalty.” This in reference to a particular case. It suggested a 15-day jail instead, in view of the fact that the accused […]
Ahmedabad: Here’s news to bring good cheer during the holiday season. State health officials on Tuesday, shared that 81 percent stayed on schedule for second vax dose in Gujarat. While state capital Ahmedabad has reached 99 percent coverage of its first dose, it lags behind at 66 percent for the second shot. Gandhinagar, Bhavnagar, Rajkot and Junagadh […]
After a 38-year-old rape accused was sentenced to death by a court in Surat after completing the trial in just 33 days, Gujarat MoS for Home affairs, Harsh Sanghavi said that the state government has decided to put up hoardings all over the state, displaying the photograph of every rape convicts along with the details […]
In a rare synergy between police, forensics and judiciary in Gujarat, justice has been delivered to families of three minor rape victims within a month’s time of the incidents. That three families got justice within a month of the crime having taken place does mean that the system has been responsive. “This is the fastest and quickest […]
In a move that indicates the Centre’s willingness to adopt new technology, the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Friday released a ‘National Strategy On Blockchain.’ Allaying all apprehensions given that blockchain technology is associated with the yet-unregulated cryptocurrency business, the ministry aims at making India a global leader in blockchain technology. The union ministry says its mission is to provide a “consensus-based, […]
The State Government has appointed retired chief secretary Anil Mukim as the Chairperson of the Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC), a statutory body that fixes domestic as well as commercial power tariff. According to an official notification issued by the State Energy and Petrochemicals Department, the Gujarat Government had constituted a selection committee to recommend […]
The vigilant forest official D G Gadhvi and his staff on patrol have nabbed two persons on charges of hunting antelope from the Bhal geographic region in Gujarat. The Bhal region is an area spread across the political boundaries of the districts of Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad, and Anand, on the deltas of the Sabarmati, Bhogawo, Bhadar, […]
Twenty-three per cent of young women in India still use cloth instead of sanitary pads during menstruation, reveals the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS) on menstrual hygiene by the International Institute of Population Science, Mumbai. In its fifth edition this year, the survey provides information on the use of hygiene products during menstruation in […]
The Income Tax Department seized unaccounted cash of Rs. 1.80 crore and unexplained jewellery valued at Rs. 8.30 crore from Ahmedabad-based company Ratnamani Metals and Tubes. The I-T raid was initiated on Nov 23. The search action has led to the detection of total unaccounted transactions exceeding Rs. 500 crore. The search operation covered more […]
With a confirmed case of Omicron variant of Covid-19 in Gujarat, Ahmedabad airport will today receive around 2,000 people coming from abroad. 14 flights coming from abroad will be monitored and all the passengers will have to mandatorily undergo the Covid-19 test. Earlier on December 4, the health department of Gujarat had confirmed the first […]
A quiet balancing act between the ideals of “dry” Gujarat and compulsions of attracting businesses is underway in the form of efforts for relaxation from prohibition inside the limits of Gift City SEZ. As early as September 27, 2020, the Gift City management had requested the Superintendent of prohibition and excise to allow relaxation in […]
The special POSCO court convicted Guddu Yadav, 35, a migrant worker from Bihar in record 28 days after his arrest for the heinous crime he committed on the 4th of November. Yadav raped and murdered a two-and-a-half-year-old girl whose body was found on November 7 near a factory, located about one km away from her […]
In a tiny village about 52 km from Ahmedabad, two women, though illiterate in conventional terms, are fighting a battle that has the potential to turn some of the most archaic and patriarchal rules on land ownership on their heads. “The land is everything to me and it is my right to own it. I […]
In a tragic incident, a four-year-old toddler, who had come to attend his uncle’s marriage, was mowed down by a car on the housing society’s campus. The boy died while being treated in a private hospital. The marriage revelry turned into a place of mourning for the Swastik-42 housing society in Gandhinagar. Father of the toddler, Dhvanil Raval, in […]
The upcoming Gram Panchayat elections in Gir Somanth has taken an interesting turn as both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are vying for the post of Sarpanch in the Delwada village of Una taluka. Both family members are contesting for the post of Sarpanch in Delwada Gram Panchayat and are adamant about not withdrawing. The family feud […]
Call it political expediency or succumbing to Patidars in view of the crucial 2022 Assembly polls, the Gujarat Government has assured them that it would withdraw all criminal cases against the community’s youngsters pending since the reservation agitation. The assurance was given by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel during a meeting with a delegation of the […]
