A 21-year-old man befriended an 11-year-old minor and lured her to going with him to a hotel in Dindoli area of Surat, where he allegedly raped her.

If you imagined ringing off the old year with a large in hand, heres some news that will deflate your bubbly plans. Your favourite watering holes in the state have made themselves out of bounds for New Year revellers this season.

A 72-year-old man who returned from Zimbabwe tested positive to the new variant. He is being treated in an isolated ward of government G G hospital.

With new guidelines for international passengers coming into force, pay about Rs 2,700 for a Rapid RT-PCR test and get results in one hour if you happen to be flying in from a country at risk.

The special operations group (SOG) of city police caught four people and seized nearly 40 kg marijuana worth over Rs 4 lakh that was being smuggled in a train.

A school teacher was on Wednesday sentenced to seven years imprisonment after being convicted for molesting a nine-year-old girl student five years ago.

Police arrested two persons on Wednesday for looting Rs 15.36 lakh from an 80-year-old garment businessman and his 18-year-old grandson on November 26 in City Light area. Cops also recovered Rs 4.83 lakh cash and the moped used in the loot along with Rs 30,000, a gold chain and two gold rings worth Rs 1.63 lakh besides mobile phones from the accused.

When it comes to celebrations of any sort, lights that seem to be aimed at informing the stars about the earthly do, seems to be a must at Surat events.

The pending issues of the teaching staff at government-run medical colleges have not been resolved in the stipulated time, so the doctors have called for a strike from Monday.

Imagine a 500-gram diamond-studded gold pendant in an equally weighing gold chain adorning your neck. Bedazzling, right? Thanks to the growing trend of hip-hop jewellery in a few countries, Diamond Citys fast developing jewellery manufacturing industry too is sparkling these days.

A major fire broke out in a textile processing unit in Pandesara GIDC industrial area on Saturday morning.