AHMEDABAD: A 29-year-old bank employee lodged a complaint with Vasna police, alleging that a Rs 30,000 loan he borrowed earlier this year drew him into an illegal moneylending racket, forcing him to pay more than Rs 10 lakh in interest before the lender allegedly demanded Rs 30 lakh to settle the account.According to the FIR,…
Gandhinagar: In the first five days of the weeklong Namo Swachhata Abhiyan, an intensive cleanliness drive being carried out across healthcare institutions in the state, more than 5 lakh unusable items have been identified, of which over 46,000 have already been disposed of on site.The state health department is conducting the campaign across all medical…
Ahmedabad: Several areas of the city witnessed moderate to heavy rainfall between midnight and 4am on Sunday, with Ahmedabad recording 39mm of rain in the 24 hours ending at 6am. While a number of localities reported temporary waterlogging, some underpasses in the western parts of the city were closed to vehicular traffic as a precautionary…
Gandhinagar: Chief minister Bhupendra Patel on Sunday inaugurated `Shanti Navas’ and laid the foundation stone of Vallabh Vidyavihar, a school to be constructed at Pansar in Kalol taluka by Vicharta Samuday Samarthan Manch (VSSM) and K R Shroff Foundation.Speaking at the event, Patel said that ensuring the all-round development of nomadic and denotified communities is…
Gandhinagar: In a marked shift from regulation to facilitation, Gujarat govt is set to overhaul its building and urban development rulebook by replacing the existing “permissible use” regime with an approach of “everything is permitted unless it is expressly prohibited”.In line with this approach, state govt is reviewing CGDCR (Comprehensive General Development Control Regulations) to…
Vibrant Gujarat Regional Conferences have broadened Gujarat’s investment story and reinforced confidence amid global uncertainties Amid tariff uncertainties and geopolitical tensions reshaping global investment flows, Gujarat has reinforced investor confidence through a decentralised model that has taken industrial promotion closer to businesses and entrepreneurs across the state.For the first time in the run-up to the…
A region-specific anti-venom is expected to be available within a year, say officials Gandhinagar: The state has moved closer to developing a region-specific anti-venom for snake bites after the Snake Research Institute (SRI) in Dharampur handed over lyophilized (freeze-dried) venom of four snakes found in Gujarat to a licensed manufacturer last week. An official statement…
A study has projects Ahmedabad’s green spaces will shrink considerably by 2045 Ahmedabad: Imagine a city where nearly eight out of every ten steps you take are on concrete, asphalt. They may be little grass, and very few trees left. That could be Ahmedabad by 2045 if development continues unchecked. A new study has predicted…
Ahmedabad: A Gujarati-origin convenience store owner in the US state of Maine has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with his lawyers challenging the arrest in federal court while immigration authorities maintain that he has been under a final deportation order since 2011.Dhaval Kalidas Patel, who runs Wallace Market in the town…
Ahmedabad: Nearly five years after a woman approached the CID (crime) alleging that a forged will had robbed her of her ancestral inheritance, her son on Saturday filed an FIR alleging forgery, claiming that his now-deceased mother was denied inheritance rights.The complaint, filed by 56-year-old Ratilal Thakor, alleges that his late mother, Shakari, was the…
