Crime branch sleuths nabbed four chain persons on Thursday for their alleged involvement in eight cases of chain snatching in the city.

A 21-year-old farm labourer was sentenced life imprisonment on Thursday for rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl in Govat village of Umarpada in Surat district. Accused Prakash Vasava was earlier convicted by the special POCSO court and the quantum of punishment was announced on Thursday.

He is one among the successful textile traders operating at the countrys largest man-made wholesale market at Ring Road.

Thousands of people from Saurashtra region who have now settled in Surat city including the likes of Kanji Bhalala, president of Saurashtra Patel Seva Samaj (Surat), recall how Bapa or former chief minister Keshubhai Patel

An multi-state racket of issuing fake visas of different countries was busted by Anand police on Wednesday.

An advocate living on RV Desai Road stabbed his daughter on Wednesday after he caught her filming him while he was forcing his mother and the maid to give statements against his wife.

High-profile users of mephedrone (MD), a banned party drug, were unknowingly feeding their bodies a deadly concoction of chemicals that are widely used to unclog choked gutters or make nail polish removal, paints and thinners.

A man from Shinor taluka of Vadodara was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly hurling a slipper at deputy chief minister (CM) Nitin Patel while he was addressing media persons at Kurali village in Karjan taluka of Vadodara district on Monday.

A 25-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly raping a girl studying in Class XI in Palanpur town.

A case was registered against an unidentified person on Tuesday for hurling slipper at Gujarat deputy chief minister Nitin Patel while he was addressing mediapersons at Kural village in Karjan taluka of Vadodara district on Monday.

A 19-year-old girl has registered a complaint of rape against a station master at Vadodara railway police station. The girl told the police the accused identified as Rajendra Kumar Varma, a resident of Gotri, allegedly raped her at the Pilol railway station about eight months ago.

Dr Sanket Mehta, the Surat-based anaesthetist who won a million hearts by risking his life to intubate a Covid-19 patient, will finally walk out of the Chennai-based MGM Hospital.

A major fire broke out at a textile shop located at Ring Road on Monday morning. Textile and other material in huge quantity were gutted.

As many as 205 mobile phones, 23 tablets and one bluetooth speaker were burgled from Reliance Digital showroom located exactly opposite Varachha police station early on Monday.

A 26-year-old businessman allegedly committed suicide at his office in Mota Varachha on Sunday, reportedly due to financial crisis.