Rajkot: A 56-year-old auto-rickshaw driver died in the city after being brutally assaulted with an iron pipe by three men following an altercation over staring, police said on Saturday.The incident took place around 1 am near a paan shop beneath Khwaja Apartment in Rajkot. The deceased has been identified as Iqbal Ibrahim (56).According to the…
Rajkot: A 23-year-old woman died after falling from the ninth floor of a residential building in Rajkot on Sep 24, hours after returning to her parents’ home amid a marital dispute. Police have booked her husband for allegedly abetting her suicide.Manasi Ambaliya, had been married to Milan Ambaliya, a salon owner, for three-and-a-half years. According…
Palanpur: A six-member delegation from Kerala, led by state’s dairy development, milk cooperatives and animal husbandry minister, Bindhu Krishna, visited Banas Dairy in Palanpur to study its operations and explore ways to adapt its cooperative model for Kerala.The delegation inspected various Banas Dairy units at Badarpura and learnt about the processing of milk and manufacture…
Palanpur: Three policemen and an alleged associate of Rajasthan’s Bishnoi gang were injured in an exchange of fire between police and suspected drug traffickers in Aravali district late Thursday night.A team of Aravali Local Crime Branch (LCB) tried to intercept a Scorpio allegedly being used to transport poppy husk when its occupants opened fire at…
The lioness after it was tranquillised and caged Amreli: A lioness went on a near-12-hour rampage in Amreli district, attacking five people, including a forest department guard, in Arjansukh village of Vadia taluka on Thursday night. The animal was finally tranquilised and caged on Friday, with foresters suspecting that its unusually aggressive behaviour could be…
Rajkot: A 25-year-old MBBS intern at Rajkot AIIMS has lodged a police complaint alleging sexual harassment by a 32-year-old nursing staffer, who was arrested within hours of the complaint.According to the complaint, the intern had been posted in the dressing department of AIIMS since Sept 25. On Sept 26, the accused, identified as Lalit Sharma,…
Rajkot: A 42-year-old jewellery businessman has alleged that a man obtained Rs 10 lakh from him on the pretext of repaying a gold loan, later redeemed the pledged jewellery without his knowledge and threatened him when confronted.Hardeep Dhorada of Jasdan filed a complaint against Abhilav Khachar, alias Lala, at Jasdan police station for cheating and…
Palanpur: Acting on a tip-off, Malpur police in Aravalli district seized 11.397kg of ganja allegedly being cultivated and stored on the premises of a temple in Ubhran village and arrested three persons in connection with the case.Police said they found six cannabis plants and 11.397kg of dried ganja from the premises allegedly occupied by the…
Palanpur: Sabarkantha local crime branch (LCB) seized 967 cannabis plants, weighing about 345.6kg and valued at Rs 1.72 crore, from a farm in Kotda Gadhi village near the Rajasthan border, police said on Thursday.Acting on a tip-off, a team raided farms in the Magra Faliya area of the village in Poshina police station jurisdiction. Police…
Rajkot: MBBS interns at AIIMS Rajkot staged a protest on Thursday after a nursing officer allegedly made derogatory remarks against a woman student. The institute has begun an inquiry into the matter.Around 50 MBBS interns are currently being trained at the hospital. According to the complaint, the nursing officer — a member of the paramedical…
