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A man named Bhurkabhai Kajibhai Nayak of Dhar Simel village gets murdered in Turkheda village of Chhota Udepur district at night by his distant cousin Bahadurbhai. Bhurkabhai along with his wife visited the cousin at night as guests. He got in a heated argument with his wife which made Bahadurbhai angry. Out of anguish, he […]
Ahmedabad police has initiated an inquiry against police inspector LD Odedra for issuing a circular to about 300 occupants of five buildings in Vejalpur area of Ahmedabad to keep doors and windows of their flats and homes closed when Union Home Minister arrived to inaugurate a community hall in Vejalpur on 11th July 2021. On 13th July […]
On June 24, the Union Labour and Employment Ministry told the parliamentary standing committee on labour that it did not have any data on female labour force participation in the country. “We are waiting for the data. The ministry said it would need 10 days to compile this,” Lok Sabha member from Odisha Bhartuhari Mahtab, […]
The second marriage of Gujarat’s senior-most Congress leader, former Gujarat Congress Chief and Union Minister, Bharatsinh Solanki has crumbled. Not only has the 67-year-old separated from his second wife of 13 years but has issued a public notice asking the people of Gujarat to not indulge in any financial or other transactions with his estranged […]
Three murders took place in Ahmedabad city during the past 24 hours leaving the cops baffled. The most dreadful was the murder of a 29-year-old married woman, mother of three children Bhumika Panchal. Bhumika who was a resident of Jamfadwadi at Ramol was stabbed to death by her lover named Vanraj, who later stabbed himself […]
In Gujarat’s rural areas, reliance on female sterilization for married women aged 15-49 years has increased by 2.3 percentage points, from 33.6 per cent in 2015-16 to 35.9 per cent in 2019-20. The good news: More than half the Gujarati women are increasingly using modern contraception as a method for family planning, according to therecently released Phase 1 of the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS-5). The bad: Nearly 7 out […]
CASE OF COP’S MISSING WIFE: Thirty-nine days after Vadodara inspector’s wife Sweety, 37, went missing, cops recover human bones and suspect it may be her Exactly, 39 days after a Vadodara Police Inspector’s second wife Sweety Desai, 37, went missing from Karjan town under mysterious circumstances, the investigators are startled on recovering small pieces of bones […]
The Congress has a history of Nehru-Gandhis working in pairs and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi are too close for friction over the party, says Rasheed Kidwai Of late, there have been speculations of how Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi think differently and want to pursue different, and often contradictory strategies in dealing […]
After a cloudburst in Bhagsu village near Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh recorded a record high rainfall of 79.4mm, whereas 21.2 mm is normal in the area according to IMD(Indian Meteorological Department) . Many videos of the havoc in the Kangra district have gone viral, especially Dharamshala. Several horrifying videos are posted on Twitter showing […]
Gujarat Police have arrested as many as 180 quacks in three months and more likely to be booked. An idle mind, they say, is the devil’s workshop. And the Covid-19 crisis since March 2020 has spawned many a criminal entrepreneur out of empty minds during various forms of lockdown. Small wonder some quacks renewed their […]
Bimal Roy’s 1959 film Sujata tugs at the heartstrings even today. More than 60 years later, this story of forbidden love between a high-class Brahmin man and a low-caste girl, Sujata, brought up in a Brahmin family, moves one to tears. Sujata gets her name from the broad-minded engineer to whose house she is brought when just […]
Meghaninagar police of Ahmedabad held a 19-year-old youth for allegedly raping a 14-year-old minor girl. As per the FIR lodged by the minor girl’s father, the accused allegedly raped his daughter on the intervening night of 1st and 2nd July. “But the youth had threatened the minor girl of dire consequences and so, she remained […]
This year, your war epic, Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea, bagged three National Awards – for Best Visual Effects (bagged by your son Sidharth), Best Costumes and Best Feature Film. Quite a high? (Laughs) All awards are encouraging because they make you feel you are still good. Otherwise, you start wondering if you are finished. Awards […]
Omair Alavi Be it Cricket, Hockey, Movies or Politics, India and Pakistan never agree on anything, except for Dilip Kumar. He was as big a legend in Pakistan as he was in India, and with his final act on 7thJuly, he united the two neighbors albeit momentarily. Born as Mohammed Yusuf Khan on December 11, 1922 in Peshawar, Dilip […]
The investigation wing of the state Goods and Services Tax (GST) department has unearthed a major bogus input tax credit (ITC) scam in three separate incidents after search and raids at 71 locations across the state. The tax authorities have arrested two individuals for running a racket of generating bogus bills and selling them on […]
On Monday, July 12th, during Lord Jagannath’s 144th Rathyatra to be held in the city with Covid-19 curbs, curfew has been imposed in areas that fall under the jurisdiction of the Gaekwad Haveli police station – Kalupur, Shaherkotda, Madhavpura, Karanj, Dariapur and Shahpur police station areas. According to the notification issued by City Police Chief […]
Are you a young college going girl having an affair that has just shattered? Then better be on your guard. Your ex-boyfriend could begrudge. He can fake your social media account and upload your private pictures to malign your repute. An Ahmedabad based 19-year-old college-going girl studying in the second year of college went through […]
Many children are struggling with sexual abuse or have suffered from it, and gradually its figures are also increasing. During the lockdown, there was an unreasonable increase in child abuse. According to NCRB, 32,608 cases were registered in 2017. In 2018, it increased to 39,827. There was an increase of 4.5% in 2019 and a […]
