• Having bought two acres of prime land in Versova in Mumbai for Rs 900 crore recently, the Adani group is close to sealing a deal to buy 100 acres worth Rs 300 crore in Surat for its upcoming realty projects.

  • Parimal Trivedi became the first vice-chancellor of Gujarat University – the state’s largest and oldest university – to be arrested on Tuesday for allegedly making a castiest slur at a lecturer.

  • Parimal Trivedi became the first vice-chancellor of Gujarat University – the state’s largest and oldest university – to be arrested on Tuesday for allegedly making a castiest slur at a lecturer.

  • In the first round of the maiden tree census that began in the city on February 5, more than 1,700 enumerators, mostly children of municipal schools, were able to count only 50,000 trees.

  • Anganwadi workers in the state have threatened to go on a state-wide strike on February 28.The workers are demanding a salary of Rs 10,000 per month.

  • Fed up with his constant jibes about her character, a woman hacked her 60-year-old husband to death in Bhavnagar on Wednesday morning.

  • Victim of a two-month-old assault case in a village of Tankara taluka died at Civil Hospital here during treatment on Tuesday night.Following this, police have converted the case from attempt to murder to murder.

  • The Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has initiated a process to regularize illegal structures in the city.According to RMC officials, the forms in this regard will be available within the next two days.

  • A 13-year-old girl from Ramnathpara was lured away from a wedding and raped for two days in confinement. Accused Alpesh Bavaji is an imitation jewellery worker.

  • At least seven low intensity tremors were reported in the state on Tuesday. Four occurred in Saurashtra, two in Kutch region and one near Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited's (SSNNL) dam in south Gujarat.

  • The issue of organisations working for animal welfare not acting when citizens sought their help and that of cattle owners leaving cattles unattended on the roads in the city was keenly discussed at the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) general board.

  • Three children of a family died in a freak incident and their mother committed suicide at a village in Dahod district. Police have registered a case of accidental death and are conducting further investigations.

  • After months long efforts put in by budding engineers of M S University's Faculty of Technology and Engineering (FTE), Gujarat's largest technical festival - Footprints X2 - will kick off on Friday.

  • Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has hiked the lease amounts charged on three schools operating from plots of land owned by the civic body.

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