Ahmedabad: A team of four senior IPS officers of the state will investigate into reports about US national David Headley's visit to the state.The input about Headley's alleged visit to the state and several other Indian cities was given by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.The FBI had caught Headley, a US national believed to be a LeT operative. The director general of police, Gujarat state, SS Khandwawala said that the team will investigate if Headley had actually visited the state."If the... Read Full Story

AHMEDABAD: An 87-year-old who participated in the Quit India movement was shocked when Ahmedabad cops summoned him on Tuesday, suspecting him to be a Bangladeshi terrorist, living under a fictitious identity. Santosh Kumar Saha fled his native village of Bagura, now in Bangladesh, in 1942, to Howrah to evade an arrest warrant for taking part in the Quit India movement. His service to the nation was acknowledged by none other than Mahatma Gandhi, who presented him a shawl. After India got free... Read Full Story

New Delhi: The Zee Business survey of best B-Schools in India has thrown up interesting results this year. While IIM -Ahmedabad retains its place at the top spot, followed by IIM-Bangalore and IIM-Calcutta, IIM-Lucknow has been left behind by both XLRI and IIPM in the overall rankings. IIPM has gained in this year’s ranking, coming up from number 7 last year to the 5th position this year in the overall rankings. Like last year, the top rankers in Industry interface and Placement have been the... Read Full Story

Ahmedabad, Nov 15 (PTI) "I read in the newspapers somewhere recently that a boy in Mumbai scored 400-odd runs.The papers said he's going to be the next Sachin. How can anyone say that?" an incredulous Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan asks as the Indian master batsman completed 20 years of international cricket today."There will never be another Sachin," Muralitharan says, paying tribute to the champion batsman with whom he has played against a lot of times during their long interna... Read Full Story

AHMEDABAD: Sachin Joshi, a witness in the Naroda Gam riots case, retracted from his statement during his deposition on Friday before special judge BU Joshi and claimed that he was made to sign on an already prepared statement. Joshi's uncles Jayesh and Nipun Joshi are the accused in this post-Godhra riots case, where 11 persons were killed on February 28, 2002. Even after Jayesh and Nipun were booked in this case, the special investigation team (SIT) made Sachin a panch witness during the ide... Read Full Story

Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad – MICA has announced Certificate Program in Research and Analytics. The course aims at skill as well as perspective building for Junior and Middle level executive in the data analytic Industry. The program enables participants to foster objective data analysis strategies, apply critical thinking skills to data analysis, generate and validate solutions to a problem and clearly articulate and communicate findings.Today’s marketing environment is witn... Read Full Story

Ahmedabad: The Detection of Crime Branch (DCB), Ahmedabad, has arrested a senior executive in human resource department of a city-based marketing company for allegedly posting fake profile of his female colleague and inviting readers for physical relationships with her. The accused posted contact details of the woman on Orkut, which proved to be nothing less than a mental torture for her and her husband.Gaurav Joshi, the accused, was fired from his job for allegedly clicking photographs of hi... Read Full Story

AHMEDABAD: Three persons were nabbed with stolen crude oil from near Narol circle. According to crime branch officials, two of the accused were nvolved in extracting oil from ONGC pipeline near Rampur Patia and sold it to third accused. A team led by inspector PG Vaghela, got a tip-off that two men were selling illegally-acquired crude oil to an industry in Ramdev Estate. When the officials raided the premises on Thursday, they found Naseer Khan Pathan, 34, a resident of Danilimda, Arvind Yad... Read Full Story

AHMEDABAD: Protesting against the increase in CNG prices, rickshaw drivers in the city have decided to go on a 24-hour strike from Sunday midnight. Also joining the strike will be the school rickshaw drivers."The price increase will put a great dent in our earnings. We want the prise rise to be rolled back. In total, the city has 80,000 rickshaws and all will participate in the strike," said Harihar Mishra, president of Ahmedabad Autorickshaw Drivers' Association. The other organizations that... Read Full Story

Ahmedabad: An 87-year-old freedom fighter has accused the Sabarmati police of harassing him by alleging falsely that he belongs to Bangladesh and has links with the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI.The octogenarian, Santosh Kumar Saha, has sent a legal notice to the state's home secretary, the director general of police (DGP) and the Ahmedabad police commissioner, about the alleged police harassment. Saha has alleged that he was called to the Sabarmati police station for questioning.Sah... Read Full Story