Vaibhav Jha is a senior correspondent at The Indian Express, Ahmedabad. He tracks crime, politics and central agencies as beats.

March 01, 2022 06:25 IST
Vaghela joined the Gujarat police as an 18-year-old. He is a second generation policeman in his family; his father RK Vaghela had served as a police sub-inspector in Ahmedabad.
Tue, Mar 01, 2022
February 21, 2022 04:27 IST
Gujarat Director General of Police Ashish Bhatia held a meeting with senior police officials from Ahmedabad, Mehsana and Gandhinagar as well as the Anti Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of the CID Crime department and the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) to discuss the blueprint to tackle the menace.
Mon, Feb 21, 2022
February 19, 2022 03:20 IST
Survivors and the family members of those killed welcomed the verdict, but they said the long wait of over 13 years for justice prolonged their pain.
Sat, Feb 19, 2022
February 19, 2022 02:47 IST
Families of most of those awarded the death penalty in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case plan to move higher courts against the special court's decision on Friday.
Sat, Feb 19, 2022
February 15, 2022 08:26 IST
The victims were initially asked to come to Mumbai and then were taken to Kolkata where they were allegedly kept in confinement and tortured for money.
Tue, Feb 15, 2022
February 14, 2022 07:09 IST
An agent of the gang has been arrested in Ahmedabad, while the rescued persons returned to Gandhinagar Sunday.
Mon, Feb 14, 2022
February 09, 2022 09:14 IST
Shahid was one of the 77 accused in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case in which 26 bombs went off, killing 56 people and injuring over 200 others.
Wed, Feb 09, 2022
February 07, 2022 21:52 IST
Meanwhile, the remaining family members arranged a 'besna' ceremony at Dingucha village in Kalol taluka Monday morning. Over 100 people from their clan attended the ceremony.
Mon, Feb 07, 2022
February 03, 2022 19:47 IST
On Jan 19, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police discovered four frozen bodies near Emerson in Canada’s Manitoba province. They were part of an 11-member group of Indians allegedly trying to cross over to the US from Canada illegally.
Thu, Feb 03, 2022
February 01, 2022 08:41 IST
The Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) also submitted that it will investigate if the two accused are affiliated with any Islamic fundamentalist organization or banned anti-India terrorist groups.
Tue, Feb 01, 2022
January 31, 2022 22:55 IST
Demanding capital punishment for the perpetrators, several right-wing groups held demonstrations in Rajkot, Morbi, Banaskantha, Surendranagar, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Porbandar, Patan, Vadodara and Chhota Udepur.
Tue, Feb 01, 2022
January 28, 2022 04:54 IST
🔴 At around 3 am on Friday India time, the High Commission in Ottawa issued a statement identifying the four as Jagdish Patel, 39, his wife Vaishali (37), their daughter Vihangi (11), and son Dharmik (3).
Sat, Jan 29, 2022
January 24, 2022 20:52 IST
🔴 On Wednesday last week, Canadian agencies found the bodies of the four, a US national was arrested at the US-Canada border allegedly trying to make two undocumented Indian nationals cross over the border.
Tue, Jan 25, 2022
January 24, 2022 03:46 IST
🔴 People in the village who knew the family said they had flown to Canada last Monday on visitor visas and it was their first visit abroad.
Mon, Jan 24, 2022
January 24, 2022 03:04 IST
🔴 In the past three years, his complaints on irregularities in government recruitment exams have resulted in the cancellation of two government exams, over two dozen arrests and an ongoing investigation in the third.
Mon, Jan 24, 2022
January 18, 2022 06:16 IST
A senior AAP leader said, “AAP leader Isudan Gadhvi had reached the residence of Suvada Saturday to have a discussion on his prospects in the party. However, today, we got to know about his decision of joining the BJP.”
Tue, Jan 18, 2022
January 13, 2022 06:18 IST
Srinivas B V, 40, is the national president of the Indian Youth Congress, who had come to the aid of Covid-19 patients during the second wave of the pandemic. He speaks about the Youth Congress’s role in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls and the organisation’s preparations in case of a third wave of the pandemic.
Thu, Jan 13, 2022
January 01, 2022 16:18 IST
🔴 The AAP recently made waves in Gujarat by raking up the state exam question paper leak scandal following which 93 of its leaders and activists were arrested for protesting outside the BJP headquarters and sent to the Ahmedabad jail.
Tue, Jan 04, 2022
January 01, 2022 00:24 IST
The college students, after being released from jail, claimed that their resolve to join politics has only got stronger in jail.
Sat, Jan 01, 2022
December 26, 2021 05:10 IST
Behind that long line at a job fair in a Gujarat district, pandemic losses, lure of government tag, unemployment
Sun, Dec 26, 2021
December 25, 2021 03:46 IST
🔴 All of them face charges under 22 sections of the IPC, including criminal conspiracy, and sections of the Epidemic Diseases Act and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.
Sat, Dec 25, 2021
December 25, 2021 02:59 IST
All of them face charges under 22 sections of the IPC, including criminal conspiracy, and sections of the Epidemic Diseases Act and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act. The 65 male accused in the group face sexual harassment charges, too.
Sat, Dec 25, 2021
December 22, 2021 14:20 IST
🔴 The AAP has demanded the ouster of state Subordinate Service Selection Board Chairman Asit Vora over the paper leak in the head clerk recruitment exam and has sought an impartial probe.
Thu, Dec 23, 2021
December 20, 2021 20:21 IST
The Taktsang residential school is located on an elevated platform surrounded by mountain ranges, barely 8 kilometre from the Bum La pass, line of actual control (LAC) between India and China.
Mon, Dec 20, 2021
December 16, 2021 19:56 IST
At 15,200 feet above sea level along Indian side of LAC, Bum La, cold and windy, is located between India’s Tawang district and Chinese-occupied Tibet Autonomous Region
Fri, Dec 17, 2021



