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Guj: Accident survivors recount midnight horror

2 hours ago

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After a day of hard labour at a construction site, the group of migrant workers fell fast asleep on the pavement on the roadside near Kim crossroad. But within a couple of hours, some were crushed to death in sleep while others woke up to the wails for help when the truck crushed 21 of them...

Electric car manufacturer Tesla may park in Guj

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Gujarat, which has emerged as a preferred destination for global automobile giants, has made a strong pitch to invite Tesla — a leading name in the manufacture of electric cars — to set up base in the state. The company, which is setting up its research and development centre in Bengaluru, is in touch with a few states, including Gujarat, to start India operations...

Ahmedabad: Phoney rape case as revenge

2 hours ago

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To take revenge for a cheating case filed against them, two men conspired to frame two textile traders in a rape case, the city crime branch said on Tuesday...

Discoms project low growth in industrial segment

2 hours ago

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State-run power distribution companies expect lower growth in sales of electricity to industrial and commercial consumers due to the Covid-19 pandemic and other factors. The four discoms affiliated with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) have projected a lower growth rate of 5% for electricity sales in the industrial HT (high tension) category for 2021-22. ..

Guj: Father-son duo held for conning hundreds

2 hours ago

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A father-son duo from Junagadh who conned hundreds of people of Rs 35.9 lakh to repay loans were arrested in Banaskantha district on Tuesday...

Gujarat sees 485 new Covid cases, 2 deaths

10 hours ago

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Gujarat on Tuesday recorded 485 fresh coronavirus positive cases, taking the count of infections to 2,56,852, the state health department said...

Cops nab real-life Ricky Bahl

20 hours ago

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Matrimonial websites were the hunting ground for this real-life Ricky Bahl. He would lure girls registered on the sites by promising them marriage, then rape and abandon them. He would also get his victims to divulge their credit/debit card details and rob them of their money. The crime spree finally came to an end when the city cybercrime cell arrested Sandeep Sharma, a resident of Delhi, from Somnath when he arrived with a girl from Madhya Pradesh. ..

Crocodiles flourish in Charotar wetlands

20 hours ago

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If the prospect of spotting the large, ponderous, lizard-like amphibious reptile with carnivorous habits stirs the inner Steven Irwin in you, then head to the wetlands of Charotar this season. The lush green belt of Central Gujarat has been buzzing with ‘jaw-dropping’ crocodile activity proving it to be safest haven for reptile species in Gujarat...

Ahd Metro Phase I to be complete by August 2022

20 hours ago

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The Phase I of the Ahmedabad metro project, the lines from APMC to Motera Stadium and Thaltej to Vastral, will be completed by August 2022, in time for the celebration of the 75th year of Independence...

13 killed after being run over by truck in Surat

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PM Modi lays foundations of Ahd Metro Phase II

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-II at the Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar on Monday. He will also lay the stone for the Surat Metro Rail Project...

Ahmedabad: Accidents to deaths ratio up 6%

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The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown restricting vehicular movement caused a dip in total number of road accidents and fatalities recorded in the city in 2020, in comparison to figures of 2019...

Trump said namaste, AMC said bye to Rs 9 crore

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An RTI applicant in Ahmedabad has been provided with a detailed list of the costs incurred by the municipal corporation during the ‘Namaste Trump’ visit on February 24-25 last year. The costs related to sprucing up some city sites and for publicity material placed along Trump’s route to Motera Stadium and Sabarmati Ashram. It took several months for the applicant to get details...

Bapu’s Hriday Kunj to go home to halcyon days

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Hriday Kunj, Mahatma Gandhi’s home, is set to undertake a grand march back to its pristine 1948 legacy...

Gujarat sees 518 new Covid-19 cases

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Gujarat on Sunday reported 518 fresh coronavirus positive cases, taking the total number of infections to 2,55,872, the state health department said...

Three dupe Surat diamond unit owner of Rs 5cr

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Three businessmen were booked for allegedly cheating a diamond polishing unit owner of Rs 5.40 crore in Varachha on Saturday...

Ahmedabad: Legal-tech startup on hiring high

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One of the worst after-effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economy was perhaps the loss of jobs and consequently shrinking workforce. Bucking the trend of laying-off employees, Ahmedabad-based legal-tech startup, Legalwiz.in didn’t just begin hiring in November, it is in fact, looking to double its workforce by financial year 2021-22. The startup currently serves at least 5,000 firms across India, aiding them in legal, financial and taxation-related compliances...

Kahn’s IIM-A campus on worldwide heritage alert

3 days ago

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The advisory body to Unesco and an independent think tank in matters of world heritage, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), has issued a ‘worldwide heritage alert’ to amplify awareness on the threat to Louis Kahn designed Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad (old campus) buildings...

Ahd: Vaccination a family affair for these medicos

3 days ago

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While some sections of the population still have apprehensions about getting a shot of Covid-19 vaccine, here are a few frontline corona warriors who took the jab along with their better halves! Ahmedabad recorded multiple instances where couples got vaccinated simultaneously at the same or at different locations...

Gujarat kicks off Covid vaccination drive

3 days ago

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When Dr Naveen Thaker, the executive director of the International Paediatric Association (IPA), and Dr Ketan Desai, the former president of World Medical Association (WMA), were given the shots of Covishield at 11.25am on Saturday, Gujarat marked the start of the mass vaccination drive for Covid-19...

Curfew in 4 major Guj cities extended till Jan 31

3 days ago

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The state government on Friday extended the night curfew in four major cities of Gujarat till midnight of January 31. Accordingly, night curfew from 10 pm to 6 am will remain in effect in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot, and Surat till month end. The step has been taken to curb transmission of coronavirus in these cities, said CM Vjay Rupani in Jamnagar. An official statement was later issued by the government...

Vax drive: ‘1st day, 1st shot’ at 161 spots in Guj

3 days ago

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On Friday, the top health department officials took stock of the vaccines that the department received from Pune three days ago. The availability on the web platform was checked against the required shots for Saturday’s vaccination...

'Guj studying anti-conversion laws of UP, MP'

4 days ago

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Bonfire, bhangra: Punjabis celebrate Lohri

5 days ago

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Punjabis living Surat city celebrated Lohri in different parts of the city keeping alive the tradition of their native state. At Avadh Copperstone in Surat, Punjabi residents where bonfire was lit and members organised a dinner as part of the celebration...

Strange revenge: TN man steals laptops of medicos

6 days ago

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Cyberbullying of his girlfriend by some medical students in Chennai five years ago left this Tamil Nadu man so bitter that he decided to extract revenge from all those studying medicine across India. He did not resort to similar crime, but started targeting their most indispensible gadgets — laptops...

Guj man held for blackmailing 19-yr-old girl

6 days ago

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Govt announces new tourism policy

6 days ago

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Bird flu: Ahmedabad under surveillance

6 days ago

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Even as samples of four dead crows from Modhera and those from live birds in Thol tested negative for avian influenza, the animal husbandry department launched a surveillance in Ahmedabad district...

Cop missing from duty, charged with cowardice!

7 days ago

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A cop has been charged with ‘cowardice’ for his absenteeism for not reporting to duty for four months and for not obeying seniors’ orders. Following the police invoking this unusual charge, unarmed constable Ranjitsinh Chamansinh of Sola police station approached the court for legal protection against possible arrest...

Gujarat's Dang to adopt Sikkim model

7 days ago

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The state government has chalked out a plan to adopt the Sikkim model of organic farming and has decided to make the tribal-dominated Dang a 100% organic agriculture district. The plan is to convert the entire cultivable land in the district into organic farming areas and promote agricultural products of Dang as certified organic products...

Isolation wards to be set up at Guj govt hosps

8 days ago

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In wake of bird flu cases reported from Junagadh, Vadodara, Surat and Valsad districts, the state government has decided to set up isolation wards in all government hospitals...

Avian flu confirmed in Vadodara, Surat districts

8 days ago

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Bird flu is spreading its wings dangerously in Gujarat...

Bird flu found in crow samples in Surat, Vadodara

8 days ago

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Bird flu cases have been confirmed in Gujarat's Surat and Vadodara districts as some samples of dead crows from there have tested positive for the avian influenza, officials said on Monday...

Women beat men in tobacco use in Gujarat

8 days ago

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The National Family Health Survey (NFHS) report reveals that while the number of men who consume tobacco has gone down in the state by 10.3%, the number of women who consume tobacco has increased by 1.3%...

More birds die in Saurashtra, Kutch

8 days ago

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In the 48 hours ending Sunday evening, deaths of birds were reported from Kutch, Gondal taluka of Rajkot district and Gir-Somnath district...

In dry Gujarat, women drinkers double in 5yrs

8 days ago

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In “dry” Gujarat, and in just five years, the percentage of alcohol consumption among women has doubled while it has nearly halved in the case of men during the same time. The recently released National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2019-20 report surveyed a total of 33,343 women and 5,351 men during the period. Of these 200 women (0.6%) and 310 men (5.8%) said that they consumed alcohol. In the 2015 NFHS survey, the figures were 68 women (0.3%) and 668 men (11%) from 6,018 men and 22,932 women...

Guj: Schools reopen for students of std 10, 12

9 days ago

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Ex-Gujarat CM Madhavsinh Solanki cremated

9 days ago

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Former union minister and Congress veteran Madhavsinh Solanki, who had served as chief minister of Gujarat on four occasions, was on Sunday cremated with full state honours in Ahmedabad...

FIR filed over lewd social media posts, threats

9 days ago

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A 22 -year-old woman of Maninagar filed a complaint with cybercrime cell of the city police on Saturday alleging that in August 2020 a Facebook user by the name of Dipak Thakor had tagged her. His account had her and her friend’s profile pictures on it, said a cybercrime cell official...

Decide on tax deadline: Gujarat HC

10 days ago

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The Gujarat high court has ordered the central government to take a decision in two days on extending the deadline to file the income tax returns (ITR) for taxpayers and tax audit report (TAR) for tax practitioners due to the Covid-19 situation...

Gujarat: Four crows found dead in Junagadh

10 days ago

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Even as Gujarat recorded its first confirmed cases of bird flu, four crows were found dead at a village in Mangrol taluka in the state's Junagadh district, an official said on Saturday...

It’s official: Gujarat hit by bird flu

10 days ago

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Around 17 crows were found dead at a graveyard in Bardoli town on Friday, forcing the local authorities to swing into action...

Bird flu hits Gujarat, four sanctuaries closed

11 days ago

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Gujarat’s fear has come true. The state recorded its first confirmed cases of avian flu after samples of two dead birds from Junagadh tested positive. The forest department also shut down four bird sanctuaries to contain the spread...

Clouds to stay over Ahd; rain likely in south Guj

11 days ago

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The city experienced cloudy weather with a cold breeze on Friday with a change in the weather...

Why Amdavadis are paying less professional tax

11 days ago

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This company has closed down, that person has lost her job: Every day, we are inundated with news of how people have suffered on the job front in the Covid-19 aftermath. And, this impact is now clearly visible in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s professional tax collection. The data of collection from April 2020 till January 2 this year shows a dip of 12% when compared to the same period last year...

Leopard mauls four-year-old boy in Gujarat

11 days ago

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A four-year-old boy was mauled to death by a leopard in front of his parents in Una Ugala village in Gir-Gadhada taluka of Gir-Somnath district on Thursday evening. The deceased was identified as Hashmukh Makwana...

A sliver lining in anti-Covid fight

12 days ago

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With its broad-spectrum of antimicrobial activity, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have proven to be effective in minimizing the risk of transmission of infectious agents, especially airborne viruses including Covid-19, in confined or crowded places like hospitals, public transport, schools, offices, malls and markets, among many others...

Cloth trader from Ahd hangs self after GST notice

12 days ago

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A 50-year-old cloth trader from Isanpur, Bharat Chandel, committed suicide on Wednesday afternoon at his house by hanging himself...

Earthquake of 2.7 magnitude hits Gujarat

12 days ago

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An earthquake of magnitude 2.7 struck the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat on Thursday, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said...

Ahmedabad: Thief takes key to Rs 45 lakh booty

12 days ago

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Even as robberies targeting jewellery shops in the eastern part of the city have exposed the security claims of police, a burglary of Rs 45 lakh was reported at a jewellery shop in New Ranip on Tuesday. Jitendra Shah, 51, a resident of Naranpura, filed a complaint with Sabarmati police stating that a man broke into his jewellery shop and decamped with gold ornaments weighing about 892 grams...

Pandemic slows education loan disbursals in Guj

13 days ago

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With most students either shelving foreign education plans or opting for online courses from foreign universities, disbursals for education loans have taken a hit...

Gujarat: Wife rejects husband’s custody

13 days ago

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It was an unusual legal fight where a woman was engaged in a fierce battle with her in-laws, desperately wishing to relinquish her husband’s custody. The wife finally succeeded in distancing herself after she told the appellate court that only one of them would survive if she and her husband were forced to live together based on a lower court order!..

Guj: Small fin banks see highest credit growth

13 days ago

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Small finance banks have seen the highest credit growth rate in Gujarat on the back of robust credit uptake by underbanked consumers following a successful kharif season. Branch expansion and rapid improvement in sentiment further supported these banks’ credit growth during the quarter ended September 2020...

Gandhinagar man booked for possessing air pistol

13 days ago

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Ignorance about the law that requires one to have a license to for a .22 calibre air pistol landed a man from Gandhinagar district behind bars, after he allegedly used it to hunt animals...

Ahmedabad: Five held in two robbery cases

13 days ago

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Ahmedabad crime branch picked up five people, including two from Uttar Pradesh, in two armed robberies cases,..

Guj govt allots Rs 15cr for development works

17 hours ago

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Temple donation rally: Migrant dead in Guj clash

20 hours ago

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A 30-year-old migrant worker became a victim of fierce communal clashes that erupted in Kidana village near Gandhidham late on Sunday night during a rally to collect donations for the Ram temple...

13k healthcare workers in Guj to get shots today

20 hours ago

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After a gap of three days, a batch of 13,000-odd healthcare workers (HCW) would get Covid-19 vaccination on Tuesday. On January 16 – the first day of nation-wide vaccination drive – 12,320 in Gujarat received the shot...

Guj: PIL seeks local polls through paper ballots

20 hours ago

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Ahead of the state election commission (SEC) announcing the dates for local body polls, an advocate has moved the Gujarat high court demanding that the elections be conducted through ballot papers and not electronic voting machines (EVMs)...

Gujarat: Four held for Covid insurance fraud

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A doctor and three others were held for allegedly trying to claim insurance with the help of bogus Covid-19 medical records in Vadodara in Gujarat, police said on Monday...

Egret’s sudden death triggers bird flu panic

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Death of an egret on Sunday created a bird flu scare in Maninagar. The animal husbandry department later sent it to Bhopal for further investigation...

Pvt hospital occupancy in Ahmedabad drops by 91%

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On November 23, the number of non-requisitioned beds for Covid-19 patients in city-based private hospitals was 3,043. Of the total, 2,789 or 92% of the beds were occupied — and 208 of 223 ventilators were in use. Fifty days later, the hospitals recorded 247 patients in non-requisitioned beds, 7% of the 3,395 beds available. Patients on ventilators and in ICU were 24 and 43 respectively. In absolute terms, the drop in the number of patients is 91.2%, reveals an analysis...

46% plunge in average daily covid cases in Ahd

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The post-Diwali surge had yielded the highest ever daily Covid-19 positive cases for Ahmedabad city (354) and for the district (373), on November 21. On January 17, the city’s tally was 94 and district’s 99. The district recorded a two-digit number in the daily update after April 17, when the number was 77. Ever since, the number has not been below 100 for the district...

Gujarat: 3 dead as boat capsizes in Navsari

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A boat with around 10 members of a family from Surat capsized in a lake at Eco-Point near Soldhara village of Navsari district around 71 km from Surat on Sunday late evening. Three dead bodies including that of a one-year-old child were fished out from the lake while few others rescued have been shifted to nearby hospitals...

Phone stolen, engineering student tracks thief

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When someone’s phone gets stolen, they usually file a police report and leave it upon the gods to retrieve the phone. Not Darshankumar Makwana. Instead of letting fate do all the work, the 20-year-old engineering student tracked down the thief and handed him over to the cops...

3 feared dead as boat overturns in Guj's Navsari

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Guj records 93% vaccination on Day 1 of drive

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On Saturday – the first day of the nationwide Covid vaccination drive – Gujarat vaccinated 12,320 healthcare workers, which accounted for 93% of the registered beneficiaries for the day. The drive will continue from Monday onwards, said senior state health department officials, adding that no major side effects were reported on Day 1...

You can drive your car alone without mask: Cops

3 days ago

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If you are driving in your car alone with your windows rolled up then there’s no need to wear a mask, clarified a police notification issued by the special branch on Saturday. However, masks are mandatory in public places, at workplaces, or if there are two or more people in a car...

505 new Covid-19 cases in Gujarat, three deaths

3 days ago

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Gujarat reported 505 new coronavirus positive cases on Saturday, taking the tally to 2,55,354, the health department said...

Bapu’s unpublished letters donated to Ashram

3 days ago

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Former West Bengal governor and Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi has donated 550 letters between Bapu, Kasturba, Sardar Patel, Mahadev Desai, and his father Devdas Gandhi (Mahatma’s youngest son) to Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust on Friday. The collection also includes special envelopes made by Sardar Patel while in jail...

SOS calls for heart emergencies dip 30% in 2020

3 days ago

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In cardiac emergencies, Gujaratis are quick to dial 108 to reach hospital. This was not the case in 2020 -- the year of Covid-19 pandemic which recorded a surprise drop of 30% calls for heart attack and other related medical contingencies as compared to 2019...

Gujarat vax drive: 16.1k to get the jab on 1st day

4 days ago

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Gujarat will join the nationwide drive for Covid-19 vaccination from 161 centres on Saturday. Each centre will be vaccinating 100 healthcare workers, said Dr Nayan Jani, state immunization officer...

Night curfew to continue in 4 Gujarat cities

4 days ago

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While urging people to be patient and cooperate with the authorities for some more days, chief minister Vijay Rupani said the viral infection has come under control due to the night curfew imposed in November, 2020 in Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot...

Business hit, Surat trader becomes a robber

6 days ago

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In January last year, diamond traders in Varachha or Mahidharpura never thought twice before giving rough stones worth lakhs to Udayvirsinh Tomar alias Pappu for polishing at his unit...

Religious conversion: Man moves HC after a year

6 days ago

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32-year-old Patel youth has moved the Gujarat high court after he failed to get any reply from district authorities to his application seeking permission to change his religion even after a year...

Guj: Teen held for kidnapping neighbour's son

6 days ago

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Guj: Plasma apheresis units rise from 13 to 28

6 days ago

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With convalescent plasma therapy being used in the Covid-19 treatment, the number of plasma apheresis units set up by different blood banks in the state has more than doubled...

In new 100 Feet Rd, pedestrians don’t fit

6 days ago

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Pharma executive loses Rs 2cr in ponzi scheme

7 days ago

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A pharma executive from the Bapunagar on Tuesday filed a complaint with the economic offences wing of CID (crime) alleging that a resident of Visnagar in Mehsana cheated him, his family members and friends of Rs 2.09 crore after promising him 5% to 10% monthly returns on his investments in a multi-level marketing scheme...

Man rapes 6-yr-old niece, booked in Vadodara

7 days ago

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A labourer in Sokhda village near the city was booked for allegedly raping his cousin’s six-year-old daughter...

No sashtang, only namaskar in Gujarat temples

8 days ago

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All through the Covid-19 pandemic, it was reiterated that `namaste' with folded hands was a safer way to greet people. It turns out it is the recommended way to pay obeisance to gods too as most temples across Gujarat have banned doing `sashtang pranam' citing Covid-19...

Guj: Realty tides over gloom in October-December

8 days ago

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While the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak has had a paralysing effect on all economic activity, the real estate sector in the state appears not only to be bucking the gloom, but rebounding rather emphatically...

Cops in Gujarat top charts in graft cases

8 days ago

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Cops were hailed as ‘corona warriors’ due to their work enforcing the lockdown and night curfews during this pandemic, but cases of corruption filed against them put a blot on their reputation...

Ahmedabad’s dusty air gets deadlier

8 days ago

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The toxic killers in our air are too small to see. For years particulate matter, PM10 and PM 2.5, have often grabbed the headlines and been associated with causing adverse health effects after they cut through our lungs to reach our bloodstream. But in reality, a complex chemical process ensues before we breathe these particles in...

Guj: Schools, colleges reopen for std X, XII

8 days ago

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Schools and colleges all across the state reopened on Monday, after being shut down for more than nine months due to Covid-19 pandemic. The government has decided to reopen educational institutions in the state in a staggered manner...

'Fumes overtake mineral dust in Ahmedabad'

8 days ago

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Mughal emperor Jehangir in 1617 AD could not avoid Ahmedabad’s dust problem and gave the city the moniker ‘Gardabad’, thanks to the city’s proximity to the great Thar desert and the Arabian sea. Till 20 years ago, which is 2009, mineral dust from the Thar constituted 70% of the total dust composition of the city while sea salts from the Arabian sea constituted 10%...

Guj: Schools, colleges ready to open from today

9 days ago

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Schools and colleges all across the state have begun preparations in full swing ahead of the reopening of classroom studies from Monday, after being shut down for more than nine months due to Covid-19 pandemic...

Gujarat: Youth sends parcel bomb to earn money

9 days ago

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Taking a cue from Bollywood potboilers, a 20-year-old youth tried his luck to earn some quick buck by scaring a factory owner, but ended up paying a huge price for his devilish plot. Police arrested accused Jiten Lodhi on Saturday for sending a parcel with a bomb-like device to a ceramic factory at Sartanpar road of Wankaner in Morbi district two days ago...

No gift for son’s birthday, Ahm woman kills self

9 days ago

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A Vastral resident killed herself after her husband allegedly refused to give her money to get a gift for her child’s first birthday. Bhavna Vaghela hanged herself at her home on Thursday, two days before her son’s birthday...

Ahd: Poultry prices down 35% as demand hit

10 days ago

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Soon after the bird flu alert issued by the state health department, the consumption of poultry — chicken and eggs — has taken a major hit and prices have dropped, according to poultry farm owners and wholesalers in Ahmedabad...

ATS arrests Godhra man for link with Pak spies

10 days ago

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A man has been arrested from Godhra allegedly for supplying money to a man who used to reportedly send secret information to Pakistani spy agencies. Based on an input by military intelligence, a joint team of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squads arrested Anas Geeteli of Godhra for supplying money to Saurabh Sharma of Bahadurgarh in UP...

Six suicides reported in Ahmedabad in 3 days

10 days ago

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Six inci