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Gang of 3 disguised as cops, prostitute to extort money in fake raids
Ahmedabad: The Meghaninagar police arrested three persons, including two women, for blackmailing and extorting money from their victims. ... -
Ahmedabad: Deccan winds up chartered flights
Ahmedabad: Within just eight months of launching chartered flights in Gujarat, Deccan Shuttles has suspended its operations here. Promoted by Capt... -
Narendra Modi govt had to bow down, Gujarat to implement minority scholarship schemes
Ahmedabad: After giving a tough fight in the Gujarat High Court (HC) against the implementation of the Centre’s pre-matric scholarship scheme... -
Future bleak for India’s lone mountaineering training institute in Gujarat
Ahmedabad: On one hand while the Gujarat government is launching new programmes to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, a...
Engineering aspirants can smile! IITRAM to start classes in Gujarat from this year
Ahmedabad: It’s been just a year since the bill to set up Institute of Infrastructure, Technology, Research and Management (IITRAM) was passed. And, the state government is ready to start academic programmes for academic year 2013-14. To begin with, the IITRAM will have two branches –...Monday, May 20, 2013 03:35 AM [IST]Gujarat Tourism goes to Cannes with sops for foreign film-makers
Ahmedabad: For the second consecutive year, Gujarat Tourism department has landed at Cannes with a mission to popularise the state as a film tourist destination among foreign filmmakers. With that aim in sight, it has also set up a stall at the French Riviera to help producers and...Monday, May 20, 2013 03:27 AM [IST]Controversy queen converted to Hinduism but couldn't marry
Ahmedabad/ Jamnagar: She’s one of the most talked about and also the most controversial actress in the South Indian film actress. Nayantara as she is known now, belongs to Jamnagar. It is here that she was born as the daugheter of Kurien Kodiyattu and Omana Kurien. Nayantara...Monday, May 20, 2013 03:06 AM [IST]Gandhi and Tilak: Parallel ideologies to a singular goal
Ahmedabad: Mahatma Gandhi’s associations with his compatriots often led to controversies, and much has been written about it. But city-based historian, Rizwan Qadri, has penned a book that explores Gandhi’s cordial terms with Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, though their...Sunday, May 19, 2013 05:35 AM [IST]Ahmedabad: 2,200 kg carbide-ripened mangoes destroyed
Ahmedabad: Close on heels of a massive raid on Friday in which 22,700 kg of artificially-ripened mangoes were seized, the health department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Saturday, seized and destroyed around 2,200 kg more of such mangoes. While the first major raid mainly...Sunday, May 19, 2013 05:31 AM [IST]Sabarmati jail tunnel was a product of meticulous planning?
Ahmedabad: The conspiracy to dig a 213-feet-long tunnel in the Sabarmati jail, discovered in February this year, was meticulously planned. The details have been highlighted in the charge sheet filed on Saturday by Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) against 24 accused in the case. The...Sunday, May 19, 2013 05:28 AM [IST]IPL betting racket in Gujarat comes to a standstill
Ahmedabad: Scared of the recent raids by the Special Branch of Delhi Police and formation of special squads by Gujarat police to track bookies, almost all the members of the betting world have switched off their mobile phones, shifted their base or have gone underground. According to sources,...Sunday, May 19, 2013 05:24 AM [IST]BRTS drives land rates up 50% on Iskcon-Bopal stretch
Ahmedabad: After the skyrocketing rates it witnessed in the last couple of years, realty sector in Amdavad has not seen much movement for about a year now. However, the announcement of high density corridor along the BRTS route and proposed Metro corridor in the new development plan (DP) by...Sunday, May 19, 2013 05:08 AM [IST]2 Gujarat varsity students held for IPL betting
Ahmedabad: The police have arrested two students from Gujarat University (GU) boys’ hostel for betting on IPL cricket matches, even as they received an application by a person alleging harassment by some persons to refund the money borrowed for betting. Two youngsters,...Sunday, May 19, 2013 03:23 AM [IST]Sabarmati jail tunnel: Accused used engineering books to dug tunnel
Ahmedabad: The accused had dug a 213-feet long tunnel from Chhota Chakkar area of the Sabarmati central jail, which had come to the notice of the prison authorities on February 11. City Crime Branch on Saturday filed a charge sheet against 24 persons, all of whom are under trials in 2008...Saturday, May 18, 2013 09:27 PM [IST]

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