Surat, April 16 (IANS) Officials in Surat have seized 2,029 kilograms of adulterated ghee and arrested two men after raiding a manufacturing unit in the Sachin GIDC area as part of a targeted crackdown on food adulteration. The Special Operations Group (SOG) on Thursday conducted the operation under “Operation Shuddhi” after receiving specific information about the sale of duplicate ghee in parts of the city.Following the inputs, multiple teams were formed and deployed, using technical…
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New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced that the dates of IPL 2026 fixtures between Gujarat Titans (GT) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have been swapped due to municipal corporation elections in Ahmedabad and other regions of Gujarat, slated to be held on April 26.Apart from Ahmedabad, municipal corporation elections will also be held in Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Karamsad-Anand, Gandhidham, Nadiad, Navsari, Porbandar, Mehsana, …
Ahmedabad/Surat, April 10 (IANS) A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ahmedabad on Friday convicted and sentenced three retired officials of Punjab National Bank (PNB), along with five private individuals and a company, in a bank fraud case. The case involved the sanctioning of credit facilities on the basis of forged documents, resulting in a loss of Rs 156.98 lakh (approximately Rs 1.57 crore) plus interest to the bank.The convicted bank officials are Gurinder Singh, then A…
Gandhinagar, April 9 (IANS) The Gujarat government has announced key amendments to the rules governing the supply of bulk non-domestic liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to industrial units, officials said on Thursday. According to the Department of Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs, industrial units in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, food processing, polymers, agriculture, packaging, paint, steel, ceramics, glass, and aerosols can now receive up to 70 per cent of their pre-March 2026 consu…
Jaipur, April 9 (IANS) A major financial fraud has surfaced in Ajmer after the Income Tax Department issued a notice to a roadside clothes presser over transactions exceeding Rs 598 crore linked to diamond trading. The presser, Jitendra Kumar, who runs an ironing cart in the Ramnagar area, was left shocked and frightened upon receiving the notice on April 1, 2026. The transactions mentioned involved high-value diamond and jewellery deals far beyond his means.According to his lawyer, Rakesh…
Ahmedabad, April 7 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Gujarat unit president Isudan Gadhvi on Tuesday said the party will not contest the Umreth by-election and will instead concentrate fully on the upcoming local body elections. He further challenged the Congress to directly take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).Speaking to IANS, Gadhvi said, “We will not fight the Umreth by-poll. We want to focus on local body elections only. We want to see a direct contest between the BJP and Congress, as …
Ahmedabad, April 6 (IANS) Gujarat met its monthly LPG requirement of 68 lakh cylinders in March despite a surge in panic bookings triggered by rumours, officials said on Monday, asserting that supplies of petrol, diesel, and cooking gas remain stable across the state. Addressing a state-level briefing, Sanjib Kumar Behera, state head and executive director of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL), said LPG demand rose sharply last month, with 75 lakh bookings recorded.“There were no obstacl…
Surat, April 4 (IANS) Customers applying for new domestic piped natural gas (PNG) connections by June 30 will receive a discount of Rs 500, Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) Managing Director Avantika Singh Aulakh said during a review meeting in Surat on Saturday. The discount will be available in areas with existing gas pipeline infrastructure, and the amount will be credited to the consumer’s bill after the connection is installed.Aulakh said the measure is aimed at encouragin…
Surat, April 3 (IANS) The Central government has reduced the basic customs duty on more than 40 key petrochemical raw materials to zero for a period of three months, a move expected to ease cost pressures on Surat’s textile and plastics industries amid rising global input prices.The duty, earlier set at 7.5 per cent, has been cut to nil on materials including purified terephthalic acid (PTA) and monoethylene glycol (MEG), both critical inputs for man-made fibre production.The relief will remai…
Ahmedabad, April 2 (IANS) Foreign liquor worth around Rs 81.92 lakh was seized during a raid by the State Monitoring Cell (SMC) near Chharodi village on the Sanand-Viramgam highway in Ahmedabad Rural, officials said on Thursday, as part of an operation targeting an alleged illegal supply network. According to investigators, a total of 11,332 bottles of foreign liquor of various brands were recovered from an open plot belonging to Mansi Industries.The liquor was found to have been manufactu…