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The Rajkot-Jetpur six-lane highway, promised in two years back in 2022, now has a June 2027 deadline. Tolls continue while daily commuters absorb the delay.

Vadodara's civic body wants to raise Rs 200 crore through India's first municipal blue bond, betting investors will pay for water security the way they did for its green bonds.

Star Air's new thrice-weekly Ahmedabad-Mundra flight, launched with Adani Airports, gives Gujarat's port and industrial traffic a fast alternative to the long Kutch road trip.

Surat's civic body has surveyed 180 of the city's 188 km of creeks using drones and LiDAR, laying groundwork for a flood-prevention plan after this year's waterlogging.

A spurious liquor tragedy in Bhavnagar's Ghogha taluka has killed at least seven people and hospitalized dozens, with investigators tracing the fake bottles to Madhya Pradesh.

India's gem and jewellery exports rose in July, but Surat's core polished-diamond trade fell 18%. Lab-grown stones and studded gold are picking up the slack.

AI-based driving test tracks at Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar RTOs are failing far more applicants than the old sensor system. Here's why, and what it means for licence seekers.

Sardar Sarovar dam is nearly full weeks early this year, easing water worries for Gujarat but bringing earlier downstream flood risk too.

Sixty-five CNG pump dealers in Banaskantha plan a shutdown over commissions frozen since 2019, with an indefinite strike threatened next.

Gujarat signed six new ESIC hospital MoUs, four of them in Rajkot, widening super-speciality healthcare access for over a crore covered workers.

Gujarat's new e-challan system sets fixed deadlines for traffic fines. Miss one and your vehicle can be blocked from sale or seized.

Surat embroidery artisans struck over a weekly Sunday holiday. By day two, police had booked over 500 of them in an FIR after stone-throwing broke out.