AHMEDABAD: A sessions court (Ahmedabad rural) has acquitted three persons over three decades after they were accused of spreading terror in post-Babri Masjid demolition riots. They were charged with bringing explosives to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in 1993.The court concluded that Pankaj Patel, Vrajlal Patel and Virukbhai Kharasiya, of Bhesan in Junagadh, did not know that their…
AHMEDABAD/VADODARA: Respite from downpours is expected to be short-lived as Gujarat braces for another round of heavy rain from Sunday, even as the official death toll in the five days of torrential showers till Aug 29 hit 47.As per IMD, a depression formed in the Bay of Bengal is travelling towards Gujarat and Maharashtra. Heavy…
AHMEDABAD: If you thought Gujarat had seen the last of weather systems this monsoon, think again. A new one, in the form of a well-marked low-pressure area from the Bay of Bengal, is moving towards Gujarat and is likely to affect the local weather Sep 1 onwards, bringing heavy to very heavy rain. IMD says…
AHMEDABAD: A man from Gujarat and his Chinese associate have been arrested for their involvement in conning two elderly US couples out of their life’s savings by having it converted into gold.Harmish Patel, a migrant from Gujarat, and Wenhui Sun from China have been arrested by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officials for the fraud currently…
NEW DELHI: Three men have been arrested in connection with the game zone fire that resulted in the loss of 28 lives. They have been sent to a 14-day police remand by a court in the Rajkot district on Monday. The court of additional judicial magistrate BP Thakar has remanded three accused individuals, namely Yuvraj…
AHMEDABAD: A special bench of the Gujarat high court on Sunday took suo motu cognizance of the fire incident at a game zone in Rajkot which left 32 persons dead and said it was prima facie a ‘man-made disaster‘ on Sunday.The bench of Justices Biren Vaishnav and Devan Desai observed that gaming zones and recreational…
AHMEDABAD: In a significant development in the Ahmedabad schools bomb threat case, the crime branch has uncovered a Pakistani connection to the threats that targeted at least 14 schools in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The threatening emails were received on May 6, just a day before the Prime Minister’s visit to the state for polling.The investigation initially…
Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi is back in the news, having vacated the party’s traditional stronghold, Rae Bareli, for her son, Rahul Gandhi. This political maneuver has drawn attention to a curious anomaly among Gujarat’s tribal communities of South Gujarat: the prevalence of the name ‘Sonia’ among men.The name, believed to have been derived from…
In a rare case, Gujarat high court has reunited a live-in couple separated by the woman’s estranged husband. The woman’s partner took legal recourse for her custody after she was forcibly taken away by her husband and kept in her maternal home.The couple, living together in Amreli district’s Khambha town since Jan this year, had…
AHMEDABAD: A year of separation looms ahead for Ankit Dakhane and Mamta Chiniya, a couple that works with the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), as they embark on a unique journey of personal and professional growth. Dakhane, a senior project manager for telecom and instrumentation, and Chiniya, a project manager for city gas distribution, have…
