Ahmedabad e-challan E-Challan Systems introduced in Chennai Traffic on Wednesday.This scene at Spencer’s signal on Anna Salai in Chennai. Photo.C Suresh Kumar Ahmedabad: Vehicle owners with unpaid traffic e-challans will lose access to several RTO services until they clear their dues, as authorities tighten enforcement through the integrated digital system. Even services related to a…
Gandhinagar: Gujarat govt is drafting legislation to regulate groundwater use by treating it as a shared public resource and not private property. The proposed Gujarat Groundwater Bill, 2026, likely to be tabled next month, will prioritise groundwater for drinking, farming and livelihood purposes as water levels continue to decline across the state. The bill will…
Gandhinagar: The state agriculture, farmers welfare and cooperation department has issued a notification, imposing a ban with immediate effect on the manufacture, sale, storage and use of glue traps or sticky boards used to catch rats and other small creatures.An official statement said glue traps have very strong, non-drying glue applied to them. When an…
Ahmedabad: A 58-year-old managing director of based valve manufacturing company in Odhav lost Rs 75.6 lakh to cyberfraudsters who allegedly posed as representatives of two business-to-business (B2B) export marketing firms and lured him with promises of international purchase orders. The complaint was registered with Ahmedabad Cyber Crime police on Monday.According to the FIR, the businessman…
Blurb: Amendments to Comprehensive General Development Control Regulations will not allow PG facilities in new apartments and commercial complexesAhmedabad: State govt is changing rules to reject plans for mixed apartment-and-PG constructions, and to bar PG facilities in new apartments and commercial complexes.The term “Paying Guest” has never appeared in Gujarat’s urban planning rulebook. But on…
Ahmedabad: Cyber Crime police have arrested three members of a fraud syndicate who posed as officials of Civil Hospital and AMC and allegedly duped a biodegradable packaging company of Rs 9.6 lakh after promising them a lucrative contract.Officers said the accused allegedly used AI-generated govt documents, fake employee identity cards and forged email accounts to…
Ahmedabad: A 29-year-old homemaker from Juhapura lost Rs 11 lakh to cybercrooks who allegedly lured her with a work-from-home offer on Instagram, gained her confidence by making small initial payments, and later persuaded her to transfer bigger amounts on the promise of higher commissions.According to an FIR registered with the city Cyber Crime police station,…
Gujarat High Court, Ahmedabad Ahmedabad: In a relief for a doctor, Gujarat High Court has quashed a rape FIR filed against him by his former employee, with whom he was having an affair. The complaint was filed by the 28-year-old employee in July 2024 after the doctor’s wife accused her and another employee of Rs…
99-year-old Hispano-Suiza won the highest honour at the inaugural Schlumpf concours Ahmedabad: Nearly a century after it was commissioned by the Maharaja of Alwar, a 99-year-old Hispano-Suiza from Ahmedabad has driven away with the highest honour at an international vintage-car event in France. The 1927 extended-wheelbase H6C from Pranlal Bhogilal’s collection, housed at Dastan Autoworld…
Ahmedabad: Experts from fields including defence, quantum technology, cybersecurity and critical minerals examined the impact of evolving geopolitical dynamics on technology in the Indian context at a conference jointly organised by Dhirubhai Ambani University (DAU), Gandhinagar, and the Deccan Centre for International Relations, Chennai, on Tuesday.Participants broadly agreed that the current global environment, marked by…
