A sub-adult lioness allegedly drowned after falling in an open well on an agricultural field in Botad district’s Itariya village on Wednesday. This is the first death of lion reported in Botad after the district started recording regular movement of big cats around two years ago. The incident came to light Wednesday morning when villagers informed the forest department that a lion carcass was floating in the well of a field belonging to Dahyabhai Makwana, skirting the Tarsingda hills in Itariya. “We rushed a team to the spot but the…
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Gujarat confidential: Double Duty | Ahmedabad News
IF the updated website of the Lieutenant Governor (L-G) of Puducherry is anything to go by, Kuniyil Kailashnathan, popularly known as ‘KK’ – the retired Gujarat cadre bureaucrat who took oath as L-G on Wednesday – is likely to continue to helm the Gandhi ashram redevelopment project. Sources said KK was hands-on on the ashram project in Ahmedabad till Tuesday. Just a month ago, the Gujarat government had put out a notification confirming that KK would lead the project “until further orders”. While the website of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada…
Gujarat confidential: Nothing Fishy | Ahmedabad News
A few Gujarat-based boat associations Tuesday felicitated Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Fisheries Minister Raghavji Patel for extending the ban on fishing activities by 15 days and allowing reopening of the fishing season after August 15. An official release said that considering the situation of turbulent weather conditions owing to climate change, boat associations of all the ports in Gujarat had made representations to the state government to extend the ban on fishing activities by 15 days and to resume the fishing season after August 15. The CM and minister…
Gujarat confidential: On Public Demand | Ahmedabad News
As the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is all set to conduct Swachcha Sarvekshan – 2024, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) earlier this month invited written suggestions from people and various organisations through newspaper advertisements to achieve “7-star rating” for the city during the assessment. A few Ahmedabad-based voluntary organisations had recently assembled to hold discussions on the issue. Among their suggestions, the organisations have also written to AMC demanding to hold a general public meeting on the issue after the advertisement inviting people’s suggestions was “not widely…
Vigil up in Vadodara as three more Cholera cases reported | Ahmedabad News
Vadodara’s Padra municipality on Thursday reported three cases of cholera, prompting the district health department to initiate a surveillance. Over 20 other patients with suspected cholera are already undergoing treatment. Vadodara Chief District Health Officer Dr Minaxi Chauhan, who visited the affected areas in Padra Thursday, said that three patients, including a minor, have tested positive for cholera and are undergoing treatment. “While around 22 to 25 patients with suspected cholera are admitted at the hospital, three have tested positive,” she added.Chauhan said since July 15 the municipality “witnessed an…
Rs 2.14 crore seized from private money lender in Rajkot | Ahmedabad News
The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Rajkot city police has seized cash worth Rs 2.14 crore from an agricultural commodity trader for allegedly running a money-lending business without due approvals and launched an investigation with the police saying that the Income Tax department has also been alerted about the seizure. Acting on a tip off that a person was on his way to deliver a large amount of cash to someone in Morbi, EOW officers intercepted a car near Bedi village on the outskirts of Rajkot city Tuesday and…
Gujarat confidential: Fight For Claim | Ahmedabad News
A day after the partial roll back of fee hike for MBBS courses in all the 13 colleges under the Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society (GMERS), the students’ organisations — National Student Union of India (NSUI) and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) — claimed it happened due to their efforts. While Samarth Bhatt, state secretary at ABVP, claimed that the Gujarat government withdrew the fee hike following the organisation’s strong protests, Narendra Solanki, state president at NSUI, gave the credit to its agitating members as well as other students…
Man claims petrol pump owner confined, urinated on him; 2 arrested | Ahmedabad News
The owner of a petrol pump and his accomplice were arrested by the Naswadi police station in Chhota Udepur district on Friday after the driver of a fuel tanker filed a complaint of alleged abduction and extortion against them. The petrol pump owner, in turn, lodged a complaint of cheating and theft of Rs 6.51 lakh against the driver at the police station. After the cross-complaints were filed on July 11, the Naswadi police arrested petrol pump owner Harish kumar Kandani and his accomplice Dhiraj, in the complaint filed by…
Will make quality basis of development in state, says CM at Gujarat Gunvatta Sankalp | Ahmedabad News
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said on Thursday that Gujarat is committed to achieving total success in quality adoption and making it the cornerstone of development in the state. He was speaking at the inauguration of Gunvatta Sankalp Gujarat, an initiative of Quality Council of India (QCI), aimed at focusing on critical quality interventions across priority sectors in the state. The initiative aims to augment and support the state government’s initiatives through quality interventions, establish a foundation of quality at the grassroots level, and build a holistic quality ecosystem for Viksit…
TRP Game Zone fire: Kin of victims seek monitored probe, more compensation | Ahmedabad News
Family members of those killed in TRP Game Zone fire in Rajkot met Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Wednesday, making several demands, including the ongoing probe be monitored by a committee of retired judges, trial be completed within six months and a compensation of Rs 50 lakh per family. If their demands were not fulfilled, they would launch an agitation, the relatives warned. They submitted a memorandum to Patel, which has also been addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Water Resources Minister and…