New Delhi: A court in China on Wednesday sentenced five Surat based diamond traders to imprisonment of between three to five years and acquitted 16 others of charges of smuggling. The diamond traders, mostly Gujaratis, were arrested by Shenzhen customs officials for allegedly smuggling diamonds from Hong Kong to China on January 8, 2010. Shenzhen is a major city in China's Guangdong province close to Hong Kong. Apart from the...
05:03 PM, Dec 07, 2011
Surat: A man was on Thursday arrested with a huge cache of explosives hidden in his house in Umarpada taluka in Surat. According to police, about 2300 kg of ammonium nitrate, 496 gelatin sticks, 420 metre long fuse wire and 150 electric fuses were seized from house of one Mukesh Vasava of Umejar village in Umarpada taluka. The man was arrested. The police said that the explosives were hidden in...
10:56 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Surat: A diamond trader in Surat has decided to light up the city this Diwali with a unique initiative. Industrialist Pintu Dholakia is gifting saplings to his employees as Diwali greetings. No glossy greeting cards, but as many as 10,000 such green saplings will be used to say "Happy Diwali" to spread the green cheer. "In Diwali, you get lot of pollution through crackers, so we thought that rather than...
09:08 AM, Oct 24, 2011
After t-shirts and caps, the Anna Hazare fever seems to have caught the imagination of Surat's famous sari industry as well. A textile wholesaler has placed a bulk order for saris each carrying an embroidered image of Anna. ...
10:54 AM, Sep 03, 2011
Surat: Every year, about 25,000 idols of lord Ganesha and other deities are immersed in Surat's Tapi river. Most of them made of Plaster of Paris and painted with hazardous chemicals leave the river polluted and dirty. But that's set to change. Following a Gujarat High Court order, the Surat police is cracking down on idol makers. As many as 6000 idols have been seized and six people arrested. From...
08:34 AM, Jul 29, 2011
Surat: Diamond traders gathered in Surat to condole the loss of their counterparts in Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar blast. But the only question that dominated collective consciousness - has the diamond industry become a key target for terrorists? While July 13 serial blasts is the third attack on Zaveri Bazaar, Surat remains vulnerable too, with 20 live bombs being recovered from its diamond industry-dominated areas in 2008. In the wake of...
07:31 AM, Jul 17, 2011
Tripoli/Washington: US and allied forces on Thursday shifted focus on hitting Libyan ground forces, targeting tanks and artillery to obliterate Muammar Gaddafi's war waging machine, as French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe warned that the campaign may go on for weeks. The shift to attack the ground forces came after coalition commanders claimed that Libyan air force had been completely destroyed and that the US and NATO warplanes had total sway...
05:00 PM, Mar 24, 2011
New York: Overweight or obese girls get their first period months earlier than their normal-weight peers, according to a Danish study. It's nothing new that girls are getting younger and younger when they have their first period, but experts worry that the current obesity epidemic could be fueling that trend. Early-onset menstruation is linked to later health problems such as breast cancer, said Sarah Keim, a researcher at The Ohio...
03:02 PM, Mar 18, 2011
Kanubhai Mawani, a former Mayor of Surat forced a corrupt PwD official to return the bribe. ...
09:19 AM, Feb 08, 2011
Surat: Gujarat Forest department has issued shoot at sight orders in Surat district after a pack of leopards went on a killing spree. Four people were killed by the cats over the past 10 days. Forest department personnel had already shot and injured one leopard that was suspected of killing a teenage girl on Friday, but it escaped. A massive search operation has been launched in the area so far....
09:38 AM, Nov 28, 2010
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11:10 PM, Nov 19, 2010
Surat: The young in Surat have a new way of dancing this year on Navratri " on wheels! Decked up in the traditional ghaghra-cholis and other garba outfits, the youngsters, all between eight and 18 years, have traded their dancing shoes for skates. Parth, a garba enthusiast said, We need to concentrate while dancing because if we fall we might injure ourselves. Sakshi, another garba dancer who plans to set...
02:16 PM, Oct 12, 2010
London: A key 1993 Surat terror bombing suspect, hunted by police worldwide for over 17 years, was arrested from a north England grocery store. A city court in London will decide over his extradition to India. The 49-year-old Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel alias Tiger Hanif was traced to the grocery store in Bolton by Scotland Yard and later arrested from a house in Astley Street in Halliwell on February 16,...
07:01 PM, Mar 03, 2010
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