The Latest Breaking News from Gujarat

Bestselling Indian author Ashwin Sanghi is back with a new book this month! Titled 'The Magicians of Mazda', the book is a part of his chart-topping 'Bharat Series'. Hailed as Sanghi's "most gripping and provocative novel yet" by publisher HarperCollins India, the book travels backwards-- through the epochs of Islamic…

AHMEDABAD: Almost a year after TOI exposed allegations of corruption against IAS officer K Rajesh, who was then the Surendranagar collector, CBI officers late on Thursday night conducted searches at the residence, offices, and other premises associated with him. He and an accomplice have been held by the CBI.

AHMEDABAD: In the last month, Gujarat used 1,400 million cubic metres (MCM) of water, which represents a tenth of its water reserves as of April 22. Only three reservoirs of the 206 in the state (barring Sardar Sarovar) are more than 70% full.

AHMEDABAD: On Friday, Ahmedabad was the hottest spot in Gujarat with maximum temperature touching 43.6°C. It was 1.7 degrees higher than the normal. The minimum temperature was 1.9 degrees higher at 29°C.

AHMEDABAD: Civil Hospital in the city recorded the cadaver donation of a girl on Thursday, making it the 62nd donation of a brain-dead person. It created a record for the hospital with the number of kidneys donated reaching 100. State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (SOTTO) officials said that it…

AHMEDABAD: Five-year-old Dhairya Amit Shroff of Gujarat has become the youngest rated chess player in India and the second youngest in the world. He achieved the feat at the age of five years, four months and two days, breaking the record of Pune’s Sarthak Deshpande, who became the youngest rated…

AHMEDABAD: The city on Friday recorded 19 new Covid cases. With the discharge of 23 patients, the active cases were down to 125. Gujarat recorded 32 new cases and discharge of 33 patients, taking the active cases to 205.

NEW DELHI: After BJP replaced Biplab Kumar Deb with Manik Saha as chief minister of Tripura last week, suspense looms large over the continuance of Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh CMs Jai Ram Thakur and Shivraj Singh Chouhan respectively.

NEW DELHI: Gujarat Congress working president Hardik Patel resigned from the grand old party on Wednesday. There are speculations that Patel may join the BJP in the coming days like Punjab leader Sunil Jakhar who quit the Congress and joined the saffron party. Whether or not Patel joins the BJP,…

Gujarat Congress unit president Jagdish Thakor claimed Hardik Patel quit Congress fearing jail in sedition cases

A day after resigning from the party, Patel claimed the Congress had no vision and that its leaders were biased against Gujarati people like “Adani and Ambani”