Tag: Gujarat

Ahmedabad: Centred nearly 600 km south of the Saurashtra coast in Gujarat, Cyclone Vayu is likely to make a landfall in the state on Thursday, even as teams of state and National Disaster Relief Force have been drafted in all the coastal districts, officials said on Tuesday. Gujarat Chief Secretary J.N. Singh told reporters in […]

Bhubaneswar: With cyclonic storm Vayu inching towards the Gujarat coast, the Odisha government on Wednesday offered support to the western state to use its expertise on disaster preparedness mechanism. Gujarat chief secretary J.N. Singh on Wednesday called up his Odisha counterpart Aditya Prasad Padhi. Singh sought Padhi’s advice on how to tackle the situation of […]

Ahmedabad: Moving north-westwards, Cyclone Vayu on Thursday afternoon started skirting the Saurashtra coast in Gujarat while heavy rains which lashed the coastal areas were likely to continue till the evening, the Indian Meteorological Department said. As was feared, the ‘severe cyclonic storm’ did not make landfall in Gujarat but was passing over the Saurashtra region, […]

New Delhi: In the wake of Cyclone Vayu, flight services to some 5 airports in Gujarat will become operational from Thursday. “After assessing the situation and the prevalent weather patterns as per the locally available meteorological reports… AAI’s Kandla and Keshod Airports to resume normal flight operations from 12 midnight today,” AAI said in a […]

Vadodara: The Gujarat government will recruit over 10,000 police personnel in the state, a minister said on Sunday. Chief Minister has cleared a proposal to this effect, Gujarat Minister of State for Home Pradeepsinh Jadeja said. He was speaking after reviewing the passing-out-parade of the Lokrakshak Dal jawans at the Police Training School here. “About […]

Ahmedabad: A total of 32 labourers including 30 residents from Odisha got a new lease of life today when the Indian Air Force (IAF) rescued them from flood-hit Mahuva village in Navsari district of Gujarat. According to sources, heavy and incessant rain for last four days had marooned Mahuva village cutting off hundreds of local […]

Bhubaneswar:  With day in and day out the challans being made over traffic norm violations count to a staggering amount, the resentment among the public in the State over the big pinch seems bordering on rebellion. And it seems many anti-social elements and vested interest groups are working overnight to sabotage the drive. At this […]

Bhubaneswar: With PM Modi’s home State Gujarat showing the way, Odisha, which has already expressed its willingness to do a surgery on the amended Motor Vehicles Act (MVA), may soon follow suit. However, the States cannot go for a through surgery of the MVA 2019 provisions. The states cannot do any tinkering with regard to […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as a mere 3 per cent drivers put under breath analyser tested alcohol positive in Odisha post the clamp down order by Odisha DGP BK Sharma, the disconcerting fact is Odisha has the dubious distinction of bearing the burden of scoring the second highest deaths on roads due to drunken driving in the […]

Surat: Bidding adieu to close ones is probably the toughest task, but for parents, the decision to donate the organs of a dying son can take no less than extraordinary courage. One such family from Ganjam district decided to make their son Suraj Behera ‘immortal’ by donating his heart, eyes, kidneys and liver to save […]

Junagadh (Gujarat): Upset over his wife delivering a girl for the fourth time, a 35-year-old farm labourer on Wednesday afternoon killed his three minor daughters by pushing them into a well in Khambhalia village in Junagadh district of Gujarat, police said. The man, identified as Rasik Solanki, hanged himself outside his house after killing his […]

Surat: A team of the Rajasthan and Gujarat child rights commissions, the former’s anti-human trafficking unit and an NGO jointly rescued 138 children in the 10-16 age group from Surat on Sunday, officials said. These children were brought from Rajasthan to work in the city’s textile sector, hotels and as domestic workers, they said. The […]

New Delhi: Kerala retained the top rank while Bihar was adjudged as the worst performer in Niti Aayog’s SDG India Index 2019, which evaluates the progress of States and Union Territories on social, economic and environmental parameters, as per a report released on Monday. According to ‘SDG India Index 2019′, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim […]

Amreli: A statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the banks of Hari Krishna Lake in Gujarat’s Amreli district was vandalised by unidentified persons late Friday night, the police said. The statue was installed in a garden near the lake in 2018. The lake was built by the Dholakiya Foundation of Surat-based diamond baron Savjibhai Dholakiya. It […]

Surat: A major fire broke out in a seven-storey market in Gujarat’s Surat city in the wee hours of Tuesday, engulfing several shops in the complex, a fire official said. While there was no report of any casualty so far, the fire brigade declared a ‘brigade call’ and deployed over 60 fire tenders, water tankers […]