Gopal B Kateshiya

Police said that fire broke out in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Uday Shivanand Covid Hospital near Anand Bungalow Chowk in Mavdi area of the city at around 12:30 am on Friday.

On March 19, Jungleshwar area in Rajkot had reported the first confirmed coronavirus case in the state when a man, who had returned from Saudi Arabia, had tested positive for the infection.

Data suggests that tourist footfall at Devaliya Interpretation Zone (GIZ) near Sasan, the village in Gir (west) forest known for its lion safaris, has remained unaffected with officers saying that the new safari park could have tapped into new tourist circuit.

The home minister claimed that the Modi government had done more for border development in six years than what was done in 50 years before it.

Father Carlos G Valles taught mathematics at the St Xavier’s College fore more than 20 years and his popular image is of the author-teacher who lived with ordinary families in the walled city area of Ahmedabad and would cycle his way to college and back.

These arrivals are significantly higher than the corresponding period in 2019 which saw a bumper harvest of groundnut in Gujarat, also the biggest producer of the oilseed in the country.

The resignations by the eight Congress MLAs had helped the BJP secure three out of four RS seats that went to polls in June this year.

Due to pothole-riddled rural roads damaged further by heavy rain this monsoon, Pradyumansinh Jadeja and Dr Shantilal Senghani, the BJP and Congress candidates respectively, are finding it difficult to cover around 400 villages of Kutch district.

Keshubhai Patel passed away in Ahmedabad at the age of 93 years on Thursday.

In the Muslim dominated village of Amara, Jadeja, 56, told the people that if he loses the bypoll, BJP won’t be affected but development of the area would suffer.

Jaswantsinh Bhatti, Congress leader from Rajkot, and Devendrasinh Jadeja, president of Morbi Youth Congress, joined Jayantilal Patel, Congress candidate from Morbi for the upcoming bypoll, in the campaign.

In normal times, the two safari parks remain open to tourists round the year, while safaris inside the GNPWS are allowed from October 16 to June 15. The sanctuary remains closed to tourists during the monsoon.

Gondal APMC in Rajkot, the biggest market of groundnut in the state, has recorded arrivals of 60,608 quintals of groundnut in the first eight days of this month.

In UHT process, milk is boiled at high temperatures to make it sterile and so treated milk then can be stored for a long time at room temperature without any preservatives, while also keeping most its properties intact.

“Spending eight hours in a personal protective equipment (PPE) suit is the toughest thing to do. One can’t even drink a glass of water though one has to speak loudly to be heard by patients and assistants...," says 25-year-old Dr Kinjal Nadia.

According to the First Advance Estimate of the Gujarat government, groundnut production in the state is likely to remain 54.64 lakh tonnes (lt) this Kharif season. This is almost 21 per cent higher as compared to the previous year’s estimated production of 45.03 lt.

All the accused and those detained, including Raval’s employer Mahesh Bhoja Hanat, who runs a printer repairing shop in Malad, Mumbai, have been connected in someway, with the victim, Maheshwari, who came to live in Rapar town 20 years ago and belongs to Lakhpat taluka.

In November 2018, a special court in Una had convicted 11 men of murdering Lalji and also under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and sentenced them to life imprisonment.

Alarm bells first rang when nodal officer at Vadodara’s Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society-run (GMERS) Dr Shital Mistry, wrote to the state health and drug control departments about the crisis it had been facing since September 2.

After Ahmedabad and Surat, now Rajkot has emerged as a new hotspot of Covid-19 infection.

Residents of Sardhar say that Siddharj Jaysinh, the 11th century ruler of Gujarat, had the lake dug in a ridge around a 1,000 years ago.

Onion prices have more than doubled over the past one month at Mahuva agriculture produce market committee (APMC), the biggest wholesale market of the bulbs in the state, as arrivals have remain more or less stable while fresh crop is yet to arrive.

The park was inundated following heavy rain in the basin of Kalubhar and Ghelo rivers over the past week, forcing the ungulates to move to higher grounds near villages.

The Gujarat government has moved in a team of 15 doctors from other cities to Rajkot after the district reported nearly 100 cases per day in the past week.