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Rajkot civic corporation polls: On campaign trail, BJP candidates greeted with flowers, peppered with complaintsSubscriber Only
February 14, 2021 20:26 IST
The former MLA assured to look into the complaints but as she got into her car, some of the residents continued to complain.
Ex-chief of executive panel on Congress list of 36 candidates
February 13, 2021 08:38 IST
The list of 36 candidates made public by the Congress for election to Rajkot district panchayat had Khatariya as the party’s nominee for Kotda-Sangani seat. Outgoing president Alpa Khatariya, wife of Arjun Khatariya, did not figure on the list on Friday.
Gujarat: BJP ex-MLA, 6 others convicted of trespassing into limestone mining site
February 12, 2021 22:37 IST
However, all the convicts were granted bail the same day and their advocate said that they would move the session court against the verdict of the trial court.
Flooding of saltpans: Workers threaten to boycott local body polls
February 1, 2021 22:35 IST
Dozens of workers assembled in the desert at Kharaghoda, the entry point to the LRK near Patdi in Surendranagar district, holding placards announcing their decision to boycott the elections if discharge of Narmada waters was not stopped.
Surplus livestock at agricultural universities after sale restrictionSubscriber Only
January 29, 2021 05:41 IST
Junagadh Agricultural Unive-rsity’s (JAU) cattle breeding farm (CBF), among the oldest organised farms in the state, too has 1,100 heads of the coveted purebred Gir cattle and Jaffrabadi buffaloes.
Gujarat: 75-year-old man killed in leopard attack in Amreli district
January 27, 2021 17:40 IST
This is the fifth incident of a human death in conflict with wild animals in the greater Gir landscape over the past five weeks.
Three women charred to death as car rams into fuel tank of truck in Rajkot
January 2, 2021 21:17 IST
The women, residents of Dera Sheri locality at Gondal town, were on their way to Surendranagar to attend a condolence meeting when they met with the accident.
Mass wedding ceremony in Amreli disrupted as police turn up, 1 held
December 25, 2020 23:28 IST
Police said that 17 couples were to tie the knot at the mass marriage ceremony organised by one Suresh Thalecha of Samasta Kili Ekta Dal, but the ceremony was disrupted due to the commotion.
17-year-old girl dies after leopard attack in Bhavnagar
December 25, 2020 19:27 IST
Forest officers said that a leopard pounced on Arti Makwana, an agricultural labourer, while she was washing clothes along with two other girls in a cotton field between 6.30 pm and 7.30 pm in Kasan village of Mahuva taluka.
Pride of lions preys on 10 cows at gaushala in Rajkot village
December 22, 2020 23:19 IST
Being territorial animals, lions are moving out of Gir and other protected areas spread across Junagadh, Gir Somnath, Amreli and Bhavnagar districts, according to forest officials.
Pink bollworm damage to cotton crop in Gujarat may affect yield by 15 per centSubscriber Only
December 5, 2020 13:53 IST
The attack is so severe in some pockets that some farmers, like Jignesh Unagar from Khambha village of Amreli district, are not even going for the third round of picking cotton from their fields.
Rajkot hospital fire: Two more directors of parent firm arrested
December 2, 2020 14:37 IST
The police said that Dr Tejas Motivara (42) and Dr Digvijaysinh Jadeja (20), who are on the board of directors of GLPCL and also serve as doctors at the Uday hospital, were formally arrested at 9:45 on Wednesday.
Rajkot hospital fire: 3 directors of firm that runs pvt hospital held
December 1, 2020 05:22 IST
Police arrested neurosurgeon Dr Prakash Modha, his son Dr Vishal Modha and Dr Tejas Karamta around 8.30 pm.
Seven of family charred to death in Gujarat mishap
November 22, 2020 01:07 IST
The SP said that the Eeco car they were travelling was powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) and that it caught fire after colliding with the truck.
Gujarat: MP Bhardwaj on ventilator, Rajkot records 39 deaths in Covid hospitals in a day
September 15, 2020 20:35 IST
Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama flew to Rajkot in the evening with a team of three senior doctors from Ahmedabad to assess his health even as 39 deaths were reported from Covid hospitals in the city within 24 hours.
Viral video shows nursing staff assaulting Covid patient in Gujarat hospital
September 18, 2020 02:06 IST
The video went viral on social media on Thursday and local TV channels also aired it, prompting the hospital administration to clarify that the staff was merely restraining the patient, identified as 38-year-old Prabhashankar Patil.
BJP corporator in Rajkot Municipal Corporation joins Congress
September 3, 2020 20:13 IST
The corporator said that she was quitting the BJP as she was being neglected by the party.
Rajkot father kills daughter for wanting to marry a Muslim man
August 6, 2020 19:12 IST
Police said that Gopal Nakum, a casual labourer, allegedly hit his daughter Ila with a club used in doing laundry at their residence in Shah Nagar-4 in Gandhigram area of the city at around 8 am on Thursday.
Rajkot: Gujarat CM lays foundation stone of BJP’s Saurashtra zone office
July 27, 2020 21:24 IST
The proposed building will come up on a 2,288 square metre plot. The ground floor-plus-three-storeyed building will occupy a total area of 51,000 sqm and also have a cellar, which will be used as a parking lot cum store room.
Rise in Covid cases Rajkot jewellery showrooms to remain shut for a week
July 27, 2020 10:53 IST
Around 200 large jewellery showrooms located on Palace Road, University Road and Mavdi Road of the city are members of the RGDA and Saholiya said that all of them have agreed to support the voluntary lockdown.
Rajkot Covid-19: Going gets tough with 6-fold jump in city, 12-fold in ruralSubscriber Only
July 20, 2020 03:33 IST
By June 30, the total number of cases went up to 167. There was sharp rise this month when the cases crossed 200 on July 4 and doubled in the next 10 days. City added around 175 more cases in the subsequent four days, with total cases touching 574 on July 18.
Earthquake rattles Rajkot, residents rush out of homes in panic
July 16, 2020 09:35 IST
The epicentre of the earthquake was Bhayasar, a village 16 km south-east of Rajkot city, and the quake was felt for around five seconds.
Rajkot: Man gets life sentence for ‘murdering student’
June 17, 2020 20:15 IST
The court of Additional District Judge RL Thakkar pronounced Hanif Juneja guilty of murdering Bilalkhan Pathan, an 18-year-old student, in Bajrangwadi area of the city on May 28, 2011.
Dhanani calls former Cong MLA Jadeja ‘kacho ghado’
June 14, 2020 21:38 IST
Addressing party workers in Naliya, Dhanani said Jadeja, who had resigned as Congress MLA in March, had proved to be a kacho ghado (earthen pot not properly baked).
Gujarat: Over 24 Asiatic lions ‘die of babesiosis’ in 3 months, forest minister says it’s ‘under control’Subscriber Only
June 4, 2020 20:24 IST
The outbreak of the disease caused by the babesia protozoa still persists, sources in Gujarat forest department told The Indian Express on Thursday.
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