

Tuesday 3 November '09
The ‘Friends of Zoo’ scheme of Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden at Kankaria here doesn’t fare well with the hard-core vegetarianism prevalent in the city.Thursday 29 October '09
With an aim to train police officers to efficiently handle cases of drug trafficking, a comprehensive training session on narcotics and psychotropic substances was held at the police headquarters here on Wednesday.Wednesday
28 October '09Policemen make up 25 per cent of those arrested under the Anti-Corruption Act (1988) in the state, it has been revealed. According to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) there is an increase in the number of complaints registered against police officers.Friday
23 October '09Five-year-old Tariq does not know that he is an illegal Bangladeshi migrant violating the Foreigner’s Act, even though he was born in Gujarat.Thursday
15 October '09Babulal Patel, a casual labourer, paid several times more than his actual share (Rs 2,500) to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation...Wednesday
14 October '09Nine years after a Central law was passed and six years after Gujarat decided to implement it, women police stations across Gujarat will now serve as Special Juvenile Police Units under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000.Tuesday
13 October '09In a first, a special scheme will be designed for vendors (the informal sector) in Ahmedabad on the lines of the National Street Vendors Policy.Monday
12 October '09The Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project (SRDP) could ring the death knell for the 15th-century-old Khass Bazar of Ahmedabad...Wednesday
7 October '09The team of fire fighters from the Fire and Emergency Services sent to Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh for relief and rescue operations consists of people who only know swimming and are not professionally qualified to undertake diving operations.Monday
5 October '09When you see a Gandhi poster, think of prohibition. But, perhaps, this ought to be in the past tense for in the present times...Friday
2 October '09Gujarat Police and the state Home Department are preparing to set up a White Collar Crime Wing, the first in the country, for investigating serious economic offences in the state.Thursday
1 October '09The Gujarat Police will have an all-new Prohibition Squad to check on the illicit liquor trade in the ‘dry’ state.Tuesday
29 September '09Two of the eight arrested by the Thane police recently for forging demand drafts of Rs 175 crore have reportedly confessed to have forged DDs worth Rs 18 crore issued from the Bhandup branch of the Bank of India in Mumbai.Thursday
24 September '09The liquor dens in the rural areas of Ahmedabad operate from Valsad through a network of three men in Gujarat, according to the Ahmedabad rural police.Wednesday
23 September '09Slum dwellers and homeless beggars evacuated from their original settlements and shifted to new areas in Ahmedabad ‘no longer live below poverty line’, if their ration cards and government records are to be believed, which show belonging to the Above Poverty Line category.Tuesday
22 September '09The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation last week demolished around 10 hutments and four deris (small temples) at Gulbai Tekra despite a stay order from the Supreme Court.Monday
21 September '09The city traffic department has come up with a few solutions to check road mishaps at the Sola Bridge following a spate of accidents in the area.Sunday
20 September '09The Ahmedabad Rural Police, which was assigned the task of tracing the hot spots of liquor and chemical in the state in the wake of the Ellisbridge chemical tragedy...Thursday
17 September '09The Jan Sangarsh Manch (JSM) filed a contempt of the court petition against the state government and the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in the Gujarat High Court on Monday.Wednesday
16 September '09The Police have come across some important clues in the recent tragedy in Ahmedabad in which five people died last month after consuming a chemical cocktail.Friday
11 September '09Gujarat encounter cop N K Amin, one of the accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case of 2005 and lodged in Sabarmati Jail....Thursday
10 September '09Following confusion between the railway police and the city police over area of jurisdiction, it took the city police two days to register a case when a college clerk committed suicide on railway tracks in Sola area on Saturday.Monday
7 September '09In view of the recurring instances of hooch consumption in Ahmedabad, the Gujarat Police have decided to ‘detoxify’ the people from liquor addiction.Friday
4 September '09With the police tightening the noose around bootleggers following the July Ahmedabad hooch tragedy, addiction to a different kind of drink — generally a cocktail of banned as well as prescribed drugs and toxic chemicals — is fast becoming a trend in the city.Tuesday
1 September '09The prestigious Slum Networking Project of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has benefited 48 slums in the city.