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A shadow of its former self: Morbi’s LEC sees dwindling admission numbers

September 19, 2025 9:00 pm

The admission numbers have registered a decline from 74 per cent to 52 per cent in the last 10 years, according to the data.

Gujarat: Part of ‘bootlegger’s’ home demolished as top cop directs dossiers on ‘hooligans’ in 100 hours

March 16, 2025 3:28 am

A group of youths, including the son of a local bootlegger, had put an open challenge to Surat police to identify them

Gujarat: How luck ran out for 2 fake toll booths, an irrigation office, and a court in state

November 11, 2024 8:43 am

The Indian Express recently visited the sites from where the fake operations were carried out and found how the illegal activities continued for months, and years, on end.

Parents, elder sister strangulate 16-yr-old girl over ‘affair’ with relative in Morbi; father arrested

March 28, 2024 9:59 pm

The family tried to pass the crime as a case of death due to heart attack; the murder took place hours after the girl’s mother caught her talking to a person related to her elder daughter’s husband over phone.

Oreva Group MD Jaysukh Patel walks out of jail after SC grants him bail in Morbi bridge collapse case

March 27, 2024 1:18 pm

Jaysukh Patel is the ninth accused to be released on bail in connection with the Morbi bridge collapse case in which 135 people were killed in 2022.

Days after Vadodara boat capsize, Morbi victims association moves SC seeking body of experts to examine repeated incidents of negligence

January 21, 2024 7:19 am

The petitioner is seeking that the Supreme Court also issue guidelines to the effect that the investigations in all such tragedies should be carried out by an independent agency and monitored by the High Court concerned or the apex court.

GSRTC bus driver held for drink-driving as Morbi-bound bus skids off carriageway

January 02, 2024 10:55 am

The driver lost control of the bus while negotiating a speed-breaker in Mansar.

Morbi illegal toll booths: Gujarat govt moves to suspend accused sarpanch, he skips hearing

December 20, 2023 7:10 pm

A court has dismissed an anticipatory bail plea filed by sarpanch Dharmendrasinh Zala, who has been on the run since being booked in the case.

Bogus toll gates in Morbi: Patidar leader says factory premise was leased out, son has 'no role'

December 06, 2023 12:37 am

During the Patidar quota stir in 2016, Jairam Vansjaliya had acted as one of the mediators between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Gujarat and the community leaders.

Have you ensured Gondal bridges’ repair is not done as it was in case of Morbi, HC asks govt

November 30, 2023 8:37 am

The bench had earlier slammed the state for its “complete apathy” in heeding the recommendations of an expert committee on the repair of the bridges, the link between two parts of the Gondal town.

MORBI PHOTOS

Week in pictures: Most compelling images from around the world

November 05, 2022 7:13 pm

Here are some of the top photos of the week.

Broken cable ties, torn ticket & rescue boats: Glimpses from Morbi bridge collapse site

November 01, 2022 1:48 pm

On Sunday, a suspension bridge over the Machchhu river, popularly known as Jhulto Pool, in Gujarat's Morbi town collapsed, killing at least 134 people.

Morbi bridge collapse: CM, NDRF, Army at site as rescue ops continue

November 01, 2022 7:46 am

The suspension bridge, or jhoolta pool, over Machchhu river in Gujarat's Morbi town collapsed Sunday evening. On Monday morning, official sources confirmed that at least 133 people were killed in the incident.

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