A Heritage Haveli in Ahmedabad Ahmedabad: Marking nine years since Ahmedabad was inscribed as India’s first Unesco World Heritage City, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Wednesday launched a new heritage website and approved the creation of a dedicated sub-committee to fast-track Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) scrutiny for development projects in the old city areas.The…
The route will be closed to traffic on July 15 and July 16 Ahmedabad: City police have declared the entire route of the 149th Jagannath rath yatra as a no-parking zone for two days to ensure smooth movement of the procession and traffic. Police commissioner Anupam Singh Gahlaut issued the notification on Wednesday under the…
Varanasi: The Robertsganj police in Sonbhadra district busted a gang involved in preparing fake E-form C/MM-11 (mineral transport permit) and carrying out illegal mineral transport. The police arrested five members of the gang on Wednesday, while a search is on to nab three others. The police seized a laptop used in preparing the fake e-form,…
Shillong: A Bangladeshi man, caught in a tense stand-off between the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), returned to his homeland on Thursday morning after spending the night in no-man’s land along the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya.The individual has been identified as Sati Rajbanshi, son of Baghbatta of Chalna village under…
Ludhiana: A man allegedly posing as a cop duped two fruit vendors of cash and a mobile phone in the Jamalpur. Police have registered a case against the accused, Gurjit Singh of Jhambewal village.The complainant, Sunil Yadav of Mundian Kalan, told cops that he and his cousin, Chand Kishore Yadav, were selling fruits on 33-Foot…
A gas-fractured New Mayapuri road in Ludhiana being repaired on Wednesday Ludhiana: Extreme summer heat and trapped underground gases are suspected to have caused a reinforced cement concrete (RCC) road to fracture and rupture in the city’s New Mayapuri area on Tuesday.The incident, which occurred near a sewer manhole in Ward 66, is the third…
An electricity station on fire at Doraha on Tuesday Screenshot Ludhiana: It was a dual crisis on Tuesday when a massive timber warehouse blaze and an out-of-control landfill fire exhausted local resources and choked the region in dense smokeThe blaze at Ferozepur Road’s at the Ganpati Timber Traders took 25 fire trucks and more than…
An electricity station on fire at Doraha on Tuesday Screenshot Ludhiana: It was a dual crisis on Tuesday when a massive timber warehouse blaze and an out-of-control landfill fire exhausted local resources and choked the region in dense smokeThe blaze at Ferozepur Road’s at the Ganpati Timber Traders took 25 fire trucks and more than…
Ahmedabad: The city reported five suicide cases from different localities over the past two days, with police registering accidental death cases and initiating investigations into the circumstances behind each incident.In Shahpur, Siddharth Datania (24), a resident of Nagoriwad near Krishna Chowk, allegedly died by suicide at his residence between Thursday and Saturday. Police said he…
Ahmedabad crime branch begins tracking more ‘ghost stories’ AHMEDABAD: After cracking two murder cases in six months by following up on local “ghost stories”, the city crime branch has begun systematically collecting reports of similar stories from across Ahmedabad, suspecting they may lead to unreported or undetected killings. In the Sarkhej case, a man was…
