Nagpur: A group of cotton farmers from Maharashtra has moved the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court, alleging that the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) sold thousands of cotton bales below the minimum sale price, causing financial losses to farmers as well as the public exchequer.The petition, argued by Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi president Prakash Ambedkar…
Ahmedabad: City police and the crime branch have registered three cases under the NDPS Act after recovering ganja, mephedrone and charas in raids carried out in different parts of the city over the past two days.In the biggest seizure, the crime branch arrested an individual named Satish Mehta in Ranip and recovered 17.812kg of ganja…
Ahmedabad: Maheshwari Dodiyar, 19, a native of Godhra, cannot see and hear and has very limited speech capabilities. Conventionally, she could have been seen as the proverbial ‘burden’ on her family. On the contrary, Maheshwari is shouldering the financial burden of her family of labourers. She earns Rs 14,000 per month working as a serving…
High-speed overtaking bid ends in four-car pile-up Ahmedabad: A pile-up involving four cars on the SG Highway near Sargasan Bridge left four men injured, one of them critically, early on Friday.Police said a speeding car first hit an electric SUV from behind, pushing it into another vehicle ahead and setting off the four-car pile-up. The…
Surat: In a major drug bust on a key Gujarat rail corridor, the directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI) seized 2kg of high-grade cocaine, worth about Rs 10 crore, and arrested a Navi Mumbai man on Friday.The DRI arrested Fazal Saiyed (39), a resident of Navi Mumbai, at Surat railway station after intercepting him on the…
Ahmedabad: The CBI has booked senior manager of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) for allegedly siphoning Rs 1.5 crore using fake payment vouchers, misuse of SAP IDs and showing fraudulent payments to vendors.According to the FRI registered with CBI Gandhinagar unit, Sejal Kolhatkar, senior manager (finance) at IOCL’s refinery in Vadodara between March 2024 and…
Ahmedabad: A fire broke out in a main gas pipeline near Kudasan on the Por road in Gandhinagar on Thursday after it was damaged during sewer line excavation, triggering panic among residents and shopkeepers, who rushed to safer places. Firefighters brought the blaze under control after the gas supply was cut off. No casualties were…
The company had decided to terminate his services following complaints regarding his conduct and work performance Ahmedabad: A software company in Gota that provides digital management services to schools has accused its former employee of manipulating critical data in its software systems before leaving the organisation.The employee had access to the company’s enterprise resource planning…
Ahmedabad: The state govt has decided to introduce a major reform in the education system by implementing the Holistic Progress Card (HPC) for Class IX students from the academic year 2026-27. Based on the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, this new system aims to move beyond marks and ranks and focus on a comprehensive 360-degree…
Ahmedabad: A businessman in the construction business has accused a former contractor of breaking into his SG Highway office and stealing Rs 8.42 lakh in cash, property documents, cheque books and personal identity documents.The FIR filed with Bodakdev police on Wednesday said the contractor had been hired to lay the flooring for one of the…
