The Latest Breaking News from AHMEDABAD

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat DGP Ashish Bhatia on Monday told reporters that 24,000 police personnel will be deployed for the 145th Rath Yatra in the city, as this year’s event will be as was held before Covid.

AHMEDABAD: After two years of the pandemic, the juggernaut is set to roll again on city streets on Friday. In 2020, the chariots did not leave the temple premises, whereas in 2021, the chariots were taken out in a procession without other participants.

AHMEDABAD: Social rights activists , Teesta Setalvad, on Sunday alleged that she was roughed up and manhandled by a team of Gujarat police and also showed bruises on her hand.

AHMEDABAD: Officers of the city crime branch, the special operations group, and the Gujarat ATS who are part of the special investigation team (SIT) formed by the state home department are now probing individuals, NGOs, and entities over the alleged fabrication of evidence in the 2002 riots cases.

AHMEDABAD: Five persons, including two government employees, were recently "blacklisted" for asking too many questions by the state information commission - the very vanguard of the right given to citizens to ask questions under the RTI Act.

AHMEDABAD: Though demand has improved and economic activity resumed after the worst of the pandemic, MSMEs still face working capital problems. Disbursals under the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) continued to see offtake grow, as inflation and high raw material and logistics costs are pushed up working capital requirements…

AHMEDABAD: When a house is torn down in cities, developers or owners have to pay for removal of the rubble or construction waste. But in the ancient town Vadnagar, also birthplace of PM Narendra Modi, owners of century-old homes are getting paid to sell the bricks from torn houses!

AHMEDABAD: A missing comma in a definition of the state’s stamp duty jantri guidelines, causing a misinterpretation at the office of the registrar of stamp duty, has led the government to collect duty seven times lower than sanctioned for land located within the city limits. Since 2011, the owners of…

AHMEDABAD: In an important order, the Gujarat high court has reduced punishment imposed on a retired cop for an incident of a prisoner’s escape from custody with observation that there should be a parity in punishment, for others held responsible were let off with minor penalty.