Parth Shastri

The month of Oct is already past its half-mark, but the city or the state at large is yet to experience even a semblance of the pre-winter chill. The temperatures say it all.

GNLU launches Nyay Abhigam with Azim Premji Foundation to help Sabarmati jail undertrials secure bail through legal aid, awareness and coordination.

Ahmedabad: Vacant seats in computer and allied engineering courses across Gujarat have reached a five-year peak, with nearly half of all positions left empty in 2026.

A seven-year study involving 519 cancer patients has found that nearly half of the tumours showing microsatellite instability (MSI) — a marker of defects in DNA repair — were associated with Lynch syndrome, an inherited condition that increases the risk of several cancers.

Yellowish-brown soil near Mata no Madh in Lakhpat taluka in Kutch, about 80km from Bhuj, may look like any other soil to the untrained eye. But to scientists studying Mars, the Kutch soil offers a mineral similar to one found on the Martian surface.

Imagine a ‘cricket tournament’ where a sum in physics constitutes ‘one ball’ and answering it correctly earns ‘one run’. A streak of four correct answers gives a team four extra points, akin to hitting a boundary in cricket, while failing to answer a question satisfactorily could get a student out!

As a neurologist, Dr Naushad Ravjani, 38, could sense the onset of a stroke as numbness began to creep up on him. He knew he had to marshal all his steeliness not only in that moment but also through whatever lay ahead after the inevitable hospitalisation.

IIT-Gandhinagar and AIIMS New Delhi developed CHASP, a Hindi digital tool using audio-visual tasks and heart-rate data to screen post-stroke aphasia.

The life of Vishal Patel, 36, was upended in July this year when he experienced a stroke, which caused paralysis. He repairs computers.

Ahmedabad ranks fourth in the country for district court case pendency with about 3.6 lakh pending matters, a national-level review has found. Surat, ranked 80th with around 1.3 lakh pending cases, is the other Gujarat district among the 100 judicial districts identified as ‘hotspots’ by the Ministry of Law and Justice, Govt of India.