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ABVP wants action taken against Shah
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad has demanded action against president of South Gujarat College and University Teachers8217; Association professor Suryakant Shah for giving a call to boycott the flag hoisting function on Independence Day.
The parishad has written to the state government demanding action against Shah, who gave the call as part of teachers agitation to press for more wages, under The Prevention of Insult to National Honour Act 1971. Assistant secretary of Parishad8217;s Surat unit Tejdeep Vansia said the teachers8217; action could be compared only to terrorists.
Anniversary
A number of functions have been organised to mark the 167th birth anniversary of Kavi Narmad on Tuesday. Mayor Savita Sharda and other civic body officials will garland his statue at Gandhi Baug in the morning, according to a SMC release. Later in the evening, a rare collection of essays of Narmad, compiled by Dr Ramesh Shukla, will be released at a function at 6 pm at Samruddhi. The compilation is the 13th on Narmad being published by the Kavi Narmad Yugavart Trust.
LIC contests
The Surat division of the Life Corporation of India has organised essay, elocution, quiz and poster contests for students of schools and colleges of Surat and South Gujarat, to mark the 42nd year of its establishment. The contests, from August 30 will be held for a week, a release issued by the LIC here stated. While the drawing contests will be held on August 30, essay competitions for school and college students on September 1, inter-school quiz competitions on September 3, the inter-college elocution contest will be held on September 4. An essay competition on Life Insurance8217; will be held on September 5. All competitions will begin at 9 am at the LIC office in Muglisara.
Liquor seized
The Navsari rural police arrested four people with Indian Made Foreign Liquor worth Rs 60,000 and seized a Maruti Van GJ 7 A 2748 used to transport the liquor on Saturday evening. The police intercepted the car on the Purna river bridge on national highway no 8 and arrested Mohammed Rafiq Gajiwala, Javed Moin Shaikh, Mohammed Irfan Shaikh and Idrish Ahmed Shaikh. According to the police, the four were transporting liquor from Daman to Vadodara. The seized goods, along with the van, amounted to Rs 2.35 lakhs.
Suspended
Licences of two fair price shop owners Kiran Bhavsar and Bharatkumar Rana of Navsari district were suspended after raids by the civil supplies department officials. The department had received information that the two were selling subsidised grains at higher rates. Legal proceedings have been initiated against them.
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