Karan Jadeja, son of late Santokben Jadeja, popularly known as godmother, was acquitted of murdering his sister-in-law Rekha Jadeja.
Body of an unidentified man found from a field near Khirsara village in Rajkot district. The body was half naked and disembowelled.
A 22-year-old widow has filed a complaint of rape against her lover at the women police station.The woman, whose husband died in January 2011, has one and a half-year-old daughter.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast light to moderate rains or thundershowers at isolated places in Saurashtra and Kutch region in the next 24 hours.
The bible has been translated into Kachchhi language by Manilal Gala, a research scholar.The book has been published by the Bible Society of India.
About 49 co-operative banks in south Gujarat will observe a day’s strike called by National Federation of State Co-operative Banks Limited (NAFSCOB) on Thursday to demand restoration of the four-decade-old income tax (I-T) exemption on profits scrapped by Union Finance Ministry since 2006.
Surat Municipal Corporation’s (SMC) revenue will go up by at least 60 per cent due to the ongoing drive to assess each property.
GJEPC has stated that the company has fulfilled all the formalities under the Kimberley Process (KP).
Close to 100 intern medical students of Government Medical College (GMC) have gone on a strike after a junior doctor was slapped by a senior.
A city-based gynaecologist and an infertility expert Dr Sejal Naik has for the first time performed a successful single incision laparoscopy surgery (SILS) for the removal of uterus from a 48-year-old woman.
When 18-year-old jari worker Anil Bhojaviya was brought to Surat Municipal Corporation-run SMIMER Hospital on Saturday night, chances were slim that he would survive.
A youth abducted on Saturday was rescued on Sunday night by police from Kamathiya village of Jodiya taluka near Morbi.
Massive auction of cotton bales was suspended at Rajkot Market Yard before it started, following a bandh call given by Kisan Sangh, incurring losses worth crores of rupees on Monday.
Hamirsar lake in the heart of the city is all decked for the ‘Kutch Carnival,’ taking place on the eve of the one-month long Rann Utsav beginning Friday.
Police have cracked the 11-day-old murder of an old advocate couple and arrested two persons, one of whom turned out to be the son of the couple’s security guard.
People living in Gir in talala taluka of Junagadh district are panic stricken due to regular tremors in the area for the past two months.
First they sold potatoes at Rs 3 a kg, then they donated them to gaushalas, now they are dumping them by truckloads in the river.Such is the desperation among potato growers of Deesa, who also supply to McDonald's.
War of words ensued between the BJP and its Mahuva MLA Dr Kanubhai Kalsaria, who held a parallel fast to chief minister Narendra Modi's Sadbhavna fast in Bhavnagar.
The Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has won the Manthan Award (South Asia-Digital inclusion for Development) for its mobile-governance project in the e-governance category.
Lack of personal records of autorickshaw drivers is proving to be a big challenge for the city police to prevent the misuse of these three-wheelers, which are earning a bad name for increasing incidents of loot by miscreants using them.
The meeting of coordination committee of the city unit of BJP is scheduled for Saturday night.It will be one of the most important ones for the party in the last two years.
The diamond city is witnessing a sudden spurt in the number of schools, most of them being promoted by city-based textiles, diamond and realty groups.
After years of dilly-dallying, the Bharuch-Dahej broad gauge railway line has been formally commissioned successfully with the first goods train transporting coal from Adani's Dahej port plying on it from Thursday.
All-India Saputara Trekking Expedition, which is conducted by National Cadet Corps (NCC), was flagged off from the foothill base camp of Wagai on Saturday by Colonel Vivek Matta.
The coordination committee meeting will try to reach a consensus on the names for posts of standing committee chairman, deputy mayor and leader of the ruling party in Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC).
Anand Agriculture University (AAU) has entered into an agreement with Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation (GAIC) Ltd. for licensing of liquid bio-fertilizer technology developed indigenously by the agriculture university.
After persuasion by the Federation of Gujarat Industries (FGI), Jet Airways has decided to start an additional evening flight on Vadodara-Mumbai route from December 15 onwards.
Jewellery amounting to Rs 4.42 lakh was stolen from the house of an elderly woman residing in Khodiyar Pole on Rajmahal Road.Unknown persons stole the jewellery from a cupboard at her residence.
Five candidates are in fray for the sole seat of trade union in M S University's senate.
The bypolls for ward 22 of Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) will take place on Sunday.
Criminals have found auto-rickshaws, the popular mode of passenger transport, to be handy than any other vehicle while carrying out crimes, even if it were heinous ones, in Surat.
After a delay of 14 months, the work to construct the cable-stayed bridge is now on track again. So far only 18 per cent of the work has been completed.
The decision to confer Pandya with an honorary D Litt degree was taken when the eminent litterateur was still alive. Pandya passed away on November 6 in Valsad.
Fire broke out in Salabatpura area of the city on Friday at around 10.45 am following a short circuit in a junk shop opposite Diamond Jubilee Bank. No casualties were reported in the fire accident.
Diamond baron Chandrakant Sanghvi of Sanghvi Exports felt that not enough oxygen was going into his lungs and experienced weakness.
A two-day seminar on ‘Designing communication for India Vision 2020’ organized by the department of applied arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts of M S University (MSU) was inaugurated on Friday. The event aims to prepare students for the future needs of the industry.
The city police on Thursday arrested the third accused involved in the murder of a lady in Akota last month.
Nine candidates withdrew from the fray in the keenly contested polls for the M S University (MSU) senate’s registered graduate category.
This is one project that citizens of the southern parts of the city have been following very eagerly. However, the wait has been agonizingly long. The Lalbaug rail over-bridge (ROB) that has missed several deadlines is expected to be open for use next month.
Elderly Gujaratis seeking partners for live-in relationships now won’t have to wait for live-in melas. They can just log on to a first-of-its-kind website that will offer them profiles of men and women.
If cases of tampering with evidence fall in years to come, a Gujarat-based company can claim the credit for it.
People living in Gir in talala taluka of Junagadh district are panic stricken due to regular tremors in the area for the past two months.
A man was stabbed to death by a group of eight assailants owing to old enmity at Chital village of Amreli taluka on Saturday night.
On the eve of Muharram, the city has been turned into a virtual fortress with police beefing up security measures.
That Vadodara is a safe city, especially for women, was always a subject of discussion at family get-togethers, social functions and during Navratri.
“As many as 20 companies have already conducted campus interviews this year and offered jobs to 136 students, while other students who have been shortlisted will be getting offer letters shortly,” professor in-charge at training and placement centre at FTE Sanjay Soman said.
M S University officials have put on hold a proposal to allow students of university’s Faculty of Performing Arts to submit their PhD thesis in Hindi and Gujarati.
Attendance has always remained news at M S University’s Faculty of Commerce. Now, if officials of university’s biggest faculty are to be believed they will start compulsory attendance system from Monday.
It seems controversies and elections are going hand in hand at M S University. After controversies surrounding the registered graduates category elections, now a new one has erupted on the election for the one seat of trade union in MSU’s senate.
The crime branch sleuths on Sunday arrested two persons, who posed as National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) president and anti-corruption bureau cop.
When about 80 senior citizens from the city turned up to participate in the fast walking contest on Sunday morning, there was a loud applause from the participants just before the event began
The civic bypoll for ward 22 passed off peacefully in the city on Sunday, much to the relief of police and Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC).
A 62-year-old woman was robbed of her gold chain by two unidentified persons riding a motorcycle in the city on Saturday.
Unfinished business with Gujarat troubles NRG Neville J Roach — who currently chairs a large number of high-profile organizations such as the Australia India Business Council.
A 31-year-old woman was arrested by police for having allegedly poisoned her son to death in the city, on Saturday.
Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee president Arjun Modhwadia accused the BJP in the state of denigrating the Indian Constitution by levelling baseless allegations against the Central government.
The coordination committee of the city unit of the BJP on Saturday night at its meeting here failed to reach a consensus on the names of its nominees for the posts of deputy mayor, standing committee chairman and leader of the ruling party in Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC).
Many shop-keepers across Saurashtra observed a bandh on Thursday as part of a nationwide stir against the central government’s move to introduce foreign direct investment (FDI) into the retail sector.
Over 100 people, including bridegrooms, suffered food poisoning after they consumed food at a mass marriage function at Anandpar village near Kalavad in Jamnagar district on Wednesday night.
Intense speculation is on with regards to the names of the new members of the Rajkot Municipal Corporation, the standing committee chairman and deputy mayor.
