Ahmedabad: For nine years, Komal Solanki’s death remained buried under a missing-person complaint, an accidental death report and a critical communication gap between two police stations. On Tuesday, the mystery was solved when the city crime branch arrested her husband, for allegedly murdering her and passing it off as a disappearance during the 2017 rath…
Ahmedabad: A 36-year-old IT professional, who had been missing for two days, was found dead inside his locked car near the Old High Court Metro Station. Preliminary police investigations suggest a sudden cardiac arrest, possibly following alcohol consumption, as a cold drink bottle laced with liquor was recovered from the vehicle.“The deceased has been identified…
Ahmedabad: The civic body partnered with the anti-human trafficking unit and the state social defence department to conduct an anti-begging drive in the West Zone on Tuesday.The team rescued more than 68 people, including 16 children, from 34 hotspots. The child welfare committee transferred nine of the children along with their parents to a civic-run…
Two men were injured when two BRTS buses they were driving collided inside the dedicated transport corridor in Memnagar on Tuesday. The accident took place at 12.45pm behind the Memnagar station, towards Valinath Chowk. Despite the swing gates being fully operational, the two buses crashed head-on. “The drivers were shifted to a medical facility and…
SLUG: LAND GRABBING CASEAhmedabad: A city sessions court on Tuesday rejected the regular bail plea of Popular Builders’ owner Raman Patel in a land-grabbing case registered by CID (crime) last year. The court, while denying bail, cited Patel’s past record, including his conviction in a similar case by a Sanand court, where he was found…
Gandhinagar: Gujarat govt announced on Monday that former Agniveers will get a 20% reservation in direct recruitment to Class III posts in the state police armed units, the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF), the jail department, and the forest guard cadres.The former Agniveers will also be exempt from physical fitness tests and granted relaxation in…
Ahmedabad: Every evening, as office-goers head home and vehicles pour onto the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar (SG) Highway, one of Ahmedabad’s busiest arterial roads transforms into a sprawling traffic bottleneck. The familiar soundtrack of blaring horns, idling engines and slow-moving traffic has become so routine that many commuters have come to accept it as part of daily life….
Investors have sought an independent, transparent and time-bound probe into SDPL’s financial activities Ahmedabad: A group of investors from across the country has sought a court-monitored investigation into the affairs of Shoot Space Digital Pvt Ltd (SDPL), a company that operated from GIFT City and is already under police scrutiny in an alleged investment fraud…
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat govt said on Monday that the Namo Lakshmi and Namo Saraswati Vigyan Sadhana schemes, aimed at encouraging students to complete secondary and higher secondary education, has boosted attendance.An official statement said that through the Namo Lakshmi scheme, the number of girl students maintaining 80% classroom attendance over the past year rose from…
Fire Safety Photo Yogesh Chawda Ahmedabad: In the wake of a fire at a coaching and animation centre in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, that claimed 15 lives, Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services (AFES) has announced a citywide fire safety audit and enforcement drive targeting coaching classes, libraries and mixed-occupancy buildings.Under the “Fire Safe Ahmedabad” campaign, AFES…
