Gandhinagar, July 7 (IANS) The Gujarat government has directed all district administrations to remain on round-the-clock alert, deploy disaster response teams wherever required, and ensure the timely evacuation of residents from vulnerable areas as heavy to extremely heavy rainfall continued to affect several parts of the state over the past 24 hours. The directions were issued during a high-level review meeting chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi in Gandhinagar on Tuesday.Conducted …
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Gandhinagar, July 7 (IANS) With heavy rainfall and red alerts issued for several parts of Gujarat, the state government has placed the health department on alert and reviewed emergency preparedness to ensure uninterrupted medical services and adequate supplies of essential medicines across vulnerable districts. A high-level review meeting was chaired on Tuesday by state Health Minister Praful Pansheriya, who met senior Health Department officials to assess the situation in all districts, includi…
Mumbai, July 6 (IANS) In a major operation against narcotics trafficking, the DRI seized 2.128 kg of cocaine, valued at Rs 10.65 crore in the illicit market, from female passenger arriving from Freetown via Nairobi at Mumbai airport, an official said on Monday. Acting on specific intelligence, officers of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai Zonal Unit, intercepted the female passenger on her arrival on July 5 at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), the off…
Surat, July 5 (IANS) The Surat Cyber Crime Cell on Sunday arrested a 32-year-old man accused of operating a Facebook-based brick sale scam that investigators say is linked to five fraud cases across Gujarat, including one recently registered at the Dumas Police Station in the city. Police identified the accused as Narendrabhai alias Gyanprakash alias Shivam Saraswat, a native of Gangashahar in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district, who was living at Salasar Residency in Surat’s Godadara area.He has studi…
Ahmedabad, July 5 (IANS) Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar received a major transport infrastructure boost on Sunday with the inauguration of Gujarat’s first cable-stayed flyover in an urban area, while the state government also launched a project to widen a key bridge on the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar corridor to ease growing traffic congestion.Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel inaugurated the newly constructed cable-stayed flyover at Bhat Circle on the Gandhinagar-Airport Road and simultaneously laid the foun…
Mumbai, July 4 (IANS) The Economic Offences Department (EOD) of the Mumbai Police has arrested a man accused of operating an alleged Ponzi scheme that cheated 42 investors of nearly Rs 30.26 crore by promising lucrative returns through a stock market investment platform, officials said on Saturday. According to the investigators, the accused allegedly induced investors to invest through the Investok app by assuring monthly returns ranging from two to five per cent on stock market investments.The…
Surat, July 3 (IANS) Three men have been sentenced to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment each by a special court in Surat after being convicted in a ganja trafficking case involving the seizure of more than 562 kg of the narcotic, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said on Friday. According to the NCB’s Ahmedabad Zonal Unit, the case stemmed from an operation carried out on May 4 and 5, 2020, when officers, acting on specific and reliable intelligence, intercepted three persons at Krishna Industry …
New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) India is nearing completion of its first bullet train corridor, the Mumbai–Ahmedabad High‑Speed Rail (MAHSR) project, which will provide a standardised template for upcoming bullet train corridors across the country, a statement said on Friday.MAHSR will connect Mumbai to Ahmedabad in about 1 hour 58 minutes and the corridor has a design speed of 350 kmph with an operational speed of 320 kmph supported by advanced rolling stock, signalling and train control systems.T…
Gandhinagar/Ahmedabad, July 3 (IANS) Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Gujarat on Saturday, State Science and Technology Minister Arjun Modhwadia said on Friday that the inauguration of the CG Power Semiconductor Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility at Sanand marks another step in establishing Gujarat as the country’s leading semiconductor manufacturing hub. The facility, developed with an investment of more than Rs 7,500 crore under the ‘India Semiconductor …
Ahmedabad/Surat, July 3 (IANS) Gujarat Police’s Cyber Centre of Excellence has arrested four people from Ahmedabad and Surat in separate investigations into mule bank accounts used for cyber fraud and the Bhavnagar District Co-operative Bank hacking case, uncovering a cybercrime network across the country.The action forms part of “Operation Mule Hunt 2.0”, under which the Cyber Centre of Excellence of CID Crime said it has arrested 55 accused over the past month.According to police, verification…