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Academic pressure affects every child. In a tragic incident, a 17-year-old girl took her own life, fearing she would not achieve the marks needed for her desired medical college. The Class 12 student was found hanging at her residence in Oscar Residency near Ayodhya Chowk in Rajkot on Sunday night. Local police informed that she […]
The naming of the newly constructed Hirasar Airport in Rajkot has again taken centre stage, with Rajya Sabha MP and Director of Corporate Affairs at Reliance Industries Limited Parimal Nathwani weighing in on the matter. In a recent social media post, Nathwani proposed that the airport be named after former Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel, a […]
The Gujarat government on Thursday issued a new order amending the regulations governing gaming operations and issuing licenses based on the previous GDCR requirements, providing relief to owners of gaming zones. In the announcement, Prakash Dutta, Joint Secretary of the state urban development department, stated, “The government has decided to exempt certain existing gaming establishments […]
In a significant development related to the devastating fire at the TRP gaming zone in Rajkot that claimed at least 30 lives, two former municipal commissioners have been given a clean chit. The Gujarat High Court’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) Committee has cleared Anand Patel and Amit Arora of any involvement in the tragedy. The […]
The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday released the city-wise and centre-wise results for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test- Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2024 on its official website. The most recent NTA data on NEET results for 2024 has shown some startling facts. With 22,701 students overall, the Unit School of Engineering Centre in Rajkot had […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials on Monday searched the private office of Rajkot’s former town planning officer Mansukh Sagathia, who is presently under arrest for alleged involvement in the TRP Game Zone fire tragedy. The raid was carried out on Monday night at Sagathia’s office, which is located in the posh Twin Star building. An astounding […]
Major marketplaces in Gujarat’s Rajkot city had appeared empty and various other businesses remained closed on Tuesday as a bandh was declared to mark one month of the fire tragedy at a game zone which claimed at least 27 lives. Schools, universities, teaching facilities, marketplaces for gold and jewellery, and other businesses closed in support […]
Dwija Patel of Rajkot emerged as the top scorer among girls with an All India Rank of 7 in the JEE-Advanced results that were declared on Sunday. She scored 332 out of 360. Six students from Gujarat are among the top 100 in the JEE-Advanced results. Of them, four are from Rajkot and two from […]
Rajkot Town Planning Officer M. D. Sagathiya and Deputy Engineer Mukesh Makwana are suspended from their service in the fallout of the horrible fire tragedy, which took 27 lives on 25th May. TPO Sagathiya has been a permanent fixture in the town planning department for ten years, even though as many as six municipal commissioners […]
Subhash Trivedi, the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), said on Wednesday that all suspended officials, including IAS, IPS, and fire department officers, will be summoned and questioned concerning the incident at the TRP Gamezone in Rajkot within a day or two. Members of the SIT held a meeting with the Minister of State […]
In a scathing attack on the state government, the Gujarat High Court on Monday said that it no longer has faith in the state machinery that gets into action only after lives are lost. The division bench of Justice Biren Vaishnav and Justice D M Desai was hearing the suo motu PIL on the TRP […]
Following a massive fire that claimed 33 lives at a gaming zone in Rajkot, police on Sunday said they had registered an FIR against six partners on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and had taken into custody two individuals. Rajkot Police Commissioner Raju Bhargava told reporters that the gaming zone had been […]
The Gujarat High Court on Sunday took suo moto cognizance of the fire tragedy that claimed 33 lives at a gaming zone in Rajkot, saying that it was a “man-made disaster” prima facie. It was observed by the bench of Justices Biren Vaishnav and Devan Desai that gaming facilities and recreational amenities had been built […]
Atleast 24 people, including 9 children, have died after a massive fire broke out at the TRP Game Zone in Rajkot, Gujarat, on Saturday. The entire gaming facility was engulfed in fire, leaving many people—including children—fearfully trapped. Rajkot Police Commissioner Raju Bhargava confirmed that around 20 bodies have been recovered from the gamezone facility. “We […]
In a disturbing turn of events, Raju alias Rajesh Solanki, 40, a resident of Khodiyarnagar in Rajkot city, succumbed to injuries allegedly inflicted by the police on Wednesday. Over a week ago, his friend, a Dalit man, Hamir alias Gopal Rathod, died due to alleged police torture. Rajesh Solanki was picked up by a team […]
Rajkot: The Special Operations Group (SOG) apprehended individuals in possession of 91.8 grams of mephedrone, valued Rs. 9 lakh on the Bhavnagar-Ahmedabad highway during Sunday night. Harshad Patel, Superintendent of Police in Bhavnagar, stated that the police received specific intelligence regarding a man named Taufiq Mansuri (34), suspected of transporting the drug in a vehicle. […]
In a tragic incident outside the Rajkot bus port, a 21-year-old student from Gondal lost his life after being crushed between two state transport buses on Saturday. The victim, identified as Brijesh Solanki, tragically passed away before he could receive medical attention. Brijesh Solanki, a student at a polytechnic college, had arrived in Rajkot with […]
The Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has decided to set up a plant that will treat wastewater and make it suitable for industrial and other uses. The plant will have a capacity of 90 million litres per day (MLD) and will be built on a public-private partnership (PPP) model. The RMC’s standing committee approved a proposal […]
A shocking case of murder has come to light in Gondal town of Rajkot district, where a 45-year-old man was killed by his wife in May last year. The wife, Kanchan Parmar, tried to cover up the crime by claiming that her husband, Mukesh Parmar, died of a heart attack in his sleep. The truth […]
Rajkot witnessed the grand launch of the realme 12 Pro series 5G, the latest offering from the leading smartphone brand, at the Poojara Telecom Rajkot today. The event was attended by the famous Gujarati singer, Aditya Gadhvi, who mesmerized the crowd with his lively performance and revealed the realme 12 Pro 5G & realme 12 […]
