Rajkot: A dispute triggered by alleged repeated staring between two groups of motorcyclists turned fatal on Thursday afternoon when a 40-year-old man was beaten to death on the Zalansar-Dhoraji road. Junagadh district police arrested two 21-year-old men from Dhoraji late Thursday night in connection with the murder.The victim, Jayesh Vinjhuda, a Dhoraji resident, was riding…
Palanpur: The Banaskantha Local Crime Branch (LCB) arrested three men for allegedly honey-trapping a gov school teacher and extorting Rs 1.15 lakh from him by threatening to implicate him in a false rape case.According to police, the victim, who is currently teaching at a school in a village in the Danta, had earlier worked at…
Nirav Dike with students at Shree Navchetan Andhjan Mandal in Madhaparnear Bhuj. He underwent two years of specialised training inKeralam before taking up teaching Rajkot: For children with visual and physical disabilities, a career in sports can often seem out of reach. But at a school in Madhapar near Bhuj, 26-year-old Nirav Dike is helping…
Science teacher Varun Dave built the AI-powered device, coding it torespond in local dialect Rajkot: “Kem cho?” asks a student. The Rs 1,000-robot answers — not in polished English or formal Gujarati but in the Kathiawadi dialect the child speaks at home.At Bavdi Primary School in Liliya taluka of Amreli district, where only one or…
A video shows Bhavnagar police allegedly beating a murder accused during a crime reconstruction. RAJKOT: A video purportedly showing Bhavnagar police personnel beating a murder accused at public places during a crime reconstruction exercise went viral on social media on Saturday.The accused, Faizal alias Khatki Lakhani, 25, was arrested by Nilambaug police on Friday in…
Rajkot: Rajkot police solved a theft case after burglars allegedly stole electrical wires worth nearly Rs 8 lakh from an under-construction project in Ambika Township in Jivraj Park area.Builder Urmit Moridhara discovered the theft on July 30 after electricians reported that bundles of wires were missing from flats in the D-wing.An inspection found that wiring…
Rajkot: A 73-year-old retired exporter from Bhavnagar was allegedly duped of Rs 23.79 lakh in a stock market investment scam after being lured by promises of high returns through a fraudulent online investment scheme.Pradip Doshi filed a complaint at the Bhavnagar Cybercrime police station on Thursday, alleging that he fell victim to the scheme after…
Rajkot: The Gir Somnath police have apprehended a 40-year-old serial fraudster who duped small vehicle operators across Gujarat by posing as a bank employee. The suspect, identified as Jaykumar Dudhat, a resident of Amreli, confessed to orchestrating around 82 similar fraud cases across various cities and towns in the state.According to police officials, Dudhat adopted…
Rajkot: A 13-year-old boy allegedly subjected a six-year-old boy to aggravated penetrative sexual assault inside an SUV in Dhoraji on Aug 28, while a 16-year-old allegedly recorded a video of the crime and shared it on WhatsApp.Based on a complaint by the victim’s father, Dhoraji City police registered a case against the two boys for…
Rajkot: A heated argument among co-accused who had gathered at a court premises in Bhuj for a hearing in an old murder case allegedly turned violent on Wednesday when a 30-year-old man, who is not an accused in the case, was stabbed in the abdomen.According to a complaint filed with Bhuj City A division police,…
