Surat: A blood donation camp organised for thalassaemia-affected children in Pandesara collected 1,206 units of blood, with participation from industrial workers, entrepreneurs, police personnel and social leaders as part of Ganeshotsav celebrations.The camp was organised by Pandesara Industrial Association (PIA) and the Surat City Police Zone 4 team at Udhyog Bharti Vidyalaya.The owners of industrial…
17 shops were gutted in the incident Surat: Investigators are trying to identify the arsonist of the Shyam Sangini market fire, who was captured on CCTV footage but had covered his face with a handkerchief.Four traders have reported losses worth Rs 24 crore after 17 shops were gutted in the incident.Saroli police registered an FIR…
Surat: The Surat sub-zonal office of the directorate of enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached seventeen immovable properties of former Daman district panchayat president Suresh Patel alias Sukha and his associates, in Daman and Valsad district of Gujarat, valued at approximately Rs 6.52 crore, under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).According to…
Surat: The director of diamond firm SRK Diamonds was allegedly duped of Rs 76.44 lakh by a licensed stamp vendor couple who had been supplying stamp papers to the company for several years.The accused allegedly took the money through a bank transfer but failed to provide the e-stamps or return the amount. The Detection of…
Jayesh Wagh alias Barku Patil is accused of more than 35 criminal offences Surat: A detection of crime branch (DCB) officer shot an alleged gang member in the leg on Thursday after he reportedly attacked police personnel and tried to snatch a sub-inspector’s pistol while being taken for investigation in a firearms case.The injured accused,…
Surat: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday caught a contractual assistant engineer of the Gujarat State Police Housing Corporation Ltd accepting a bribe of Rs 40,000 in Surat. A deputy executive engineer (Class-2) of the corporation was also arrested after allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 50,000 to process a govt contract bill.According to the…
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Surat: Two academicians from the MITRAJ Sarvajanik Institute of Design, Planning and Technology (MS-IDPT) delivered a joint keynote address at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN), Romania. The keynote, titled “The Architecture of Knowing: Designing Understanding in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” focused on the changing meaning of knowledge, education and understanding in an era…
Surat: The proposed Centre for Perishable Cargo (CPC) at Surat International Airport emerged as a key priority during a meeting between the Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation Limited (GAICL) and the Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGCCI). The discussions focused on creating a faster, safer and technology-driven air-export system for perishable and time-sensitive products…
The accused, Pramod Swain, in police custody Surat: A life convict who jumped interim bail in 1997 and remained absconding for nearly three decades was finally arrested by the Surat crime branch from Rourkela in Odisha, around 1,600km from Surat.The accused, identified as 56-year-old Pramod Swain, had been changing locations and identities to evade the…
