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Gir National Besides Africa, Gir is the only place in the world where one can spot lions roaming freely in the wild. Closed from 16th June to 15th Oct every year, Gir Jungle Safari is opening after a prolonged time as Covid-19 had hit the previous months and the bookings indicate that there is a […]
A tribal girl was killed after being attacked by an Asiatic lion on an agricultural field at Goradka village of Savarkundla taluka of Amreli in Gir (east) wildlife division on Friday. The incident took place during the early hours of the day, forest official Dr Anshuman Sharma said. According to Dr Anshuman Sharma, she was sleeping […]
Jivuben Rabari is enjoying her first motherhood experience at 70. She is married to Valbhai Rabari for 45 years. The only thing that bothered the otherwise happy couple was their unfulfilled desire to experience parenthood. The couple based in Rapar Taluka of Kutch had tried several means to conceive but it all went in vain. […]
Air India came back home just before its 89th birthday. The announcement that Tata Group won the bid to purchase national carrier Air India came as a pleasant surprise. Bhuj airport witnessed history on 15th October, the birthday of Air India, then called Tata Air Mail. Aarohi Pandit, the world’s first woman pilot to cross […]
With the arrest of Amol Sheth, promoter of Ahmedabad’s once reputed firm Anil Starch, Ahmedabad Crime Branch has finally cracked a two-year-old Rs 1,500 crore scam in fleecing people by luring them with huge returns on their investments. Police sources claim Sheth has been evading arrest so far using his political connections but now that he has […]
In third of fatal accidents in a span of one months, Saurashtra Chemicals plant of Nirma Group in Porbandar where two persons died, Police has booked the safety in charge, production head and four engineers of the plant under IPC Sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 287 (negligent conduct with respect to machinery) […]
Results of election of board of director of Gondal APMC was announced yesterday, polling of which was done on Wednesday. 10 seat win of farmers’ constituency has ensured clean sweep by BJP-backed panel fo all the 16 seats of the APMC. The panel had already won four seats of trader’s constituency and two of the […]
Mahatma Gandhi didn’t mind if Indians die but Britishers shouldn’t die; that’s what Mahatma and Nehru believed. Mahatma was sad about the Chauri Chaura massacre in Gorakhpur as Britishers had died. Dono ki mili bhagat, a Social Studies teacher has been recorded making a series of comments on Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru–which clearly were […]
In an announcement which will delight hundreds of fliers from Ahmedabad, Municipal commissioner Mukesh Kuma has said that shuttle bus service from SG Highway to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International (SVPI) airport is set to resume operations within a week. The decision was taken after a meeting held between officials of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and […]
The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday granted interim relief to a Muslim man (21) – accused under the state’s first anti-love jihad case – following a petition jointly moved by him and the Hindu woman (25) he had married in 2019. The complainant woman had filed an FIR against her husband Sameer Qureshi and in-laws […]
The State Government has informed the Gujarat High Court that it is first “focusing on hospitals and schools” to ensure every building has an NOC from the Fire Department. The submissions were made before a division bench of Justice NV Anjaria and Justice AP Thaker, which was hearing a public interest litigation by advocate Amit Panchal about fire safety on Wednesday. The petitioner-advocate also produced the report of Justice DA Mehta Inquiry Commission into the […]
Two were killed and three others were left injured after an overhead container filled with raw material, fell on them at Saurashtra Chemicals, a unit of Nirma Group, on Wednesday. The probe has been ordered into the incident by the Porbandar District Collector, A M Sharma. The incident being the second industrial accident in […]
Gujarat Government is compelled to buy power at Rs 4.5 per unit which is higher than Rs.2.26 variable cost mentioned in the power purchase agreement, from Tata’s Mundra plant after Adani’s plant at Mundra and Essar Power’s plant at Salaya stopped supplying power to the state. Amidst widespread whispers which says there is impending crisis […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Gujarat has arrested four people including Zarin Ansari, the Taluka Development Officer (TDO) of Shahera taluka of Panchmahal district of Gujarat, for demanding and accepting a bribe worth around Rs 2 lakhs. A contractor had received a MNREGA tender for which he had to supply raw materials for road, well and […]
Mehndi Pethani, killed by her live-in partner Sachin Dixit, had called Jeevan Aastha helpline number on November 1, 2019, to discuss the issues going on between her and Dixit. In a 54 minutes long call, Pethani had sought advice from the helpline. Also, around the same period, she had filed a complaint against Dixit, saying […]
Although ragging has now become less rampant over the last few years, it is still a norm, especially in a few medical colleges and hostels. In one such curious case of Gujarat University – an alleged ragging complaint was made by an MBBS student in March 2021. The incident of a 3rd-year resident doctor of […]
Rising prices of imported coal and natural gas have adversely affected the power plants – that operate without thermal and gas-fired power plants with a capacity of 6,400 MW in Gujarat. A senior state government official stated that they have been buying 4,000-5,000 MW of power every day from the exchange. The official further said […]
The tussle between family members who run Mumbai’s famous Lilavati Hospital for the last 43 years has turned murky with a section of the trustees accusing the others of burglary of rare jewellery and artefacts worth Rs 45 crore in the hospital’s Palanpur unit. The son of two lifetime trustees, Kishore Mehta and Charu Mehta, […]
Even as it is still a year to go for the 2022 assembly polls in Gujarat — assuming that the elections are not advanced to hold it along with Uttar Pradesh in March-April as is being speculated — the BJP and the Congress, along with an apparently serious contender AAP, have already launched the preparations. […]
A major revelation has come out in the Heena murder case which has revealed that Heena’s baby was born at Sangeeta Hospital in Bopal. A team of police is currently investigating the matter at Sangeeta Hospital. Moreover, the Gandhinagar police have also kept the accused husband Sachin Dixit in custody. Also read: Even In Death […]
