Rajkot: Gujarat reeled under intense heat on Sunday as temperatures soared past the 40 degrees mark across several cities, with inland regions bearing the brunt of the rising mercury amid prevailing heat wave conditions.Rajkot emerged as the hottest city in the state, recording a maximum temperature of 41.7°C, about 2.4 degrees above normal. Ahmedabad and…
Rajkot: A 22-year-old woman, working as a nurse, was allegedly raped by a man who had employed her in the civil hospital of Upleta town of Rajkot district.After the woman filed a complaint, the accused Uday Panera was arrested and booked under sections of BNS, Atrocities Act and IT Act. According to the police complaint,…
Palanpur: A 19-year-old youth was kidnapped in broad daylight in a dramatic case of mistaken identity, only to be stabbed and dumped on the roadside after his abductors realised they had targeted the wrong person.Ashwin Thakor, a resident of Ratanpura village in Kankrej taluka, was travelling from Shihori to Patan with his cousin in a…
Rajkot: Seven people were killed and several others seriously injured at Chharad village in Lakhtar taluka of Surendranagar district in the wee hours of Monday. The victims were part of a large group of Bharwad community pilgrims travelling on foot.The accident occurred around 1.30am, when a speeding truck, allegedly driven by one Aditya Oghaniya, rammed…
Rajkot: President Droupadi Murmu on Monday said that rapid advances in technologies such as artificial intelligence are transforming healthcare and emphasised that the health of citizens will be crucial to achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat by 2047. She was addressing the first convocation ceremony of AIIMS, Rajkot. During the ceremony, degrees were conferred upon…
Rajkot: A marital dispute culminated in a seven-year jail term after a Junagadh sessions court convicted a man for armed robbery and house trespass for storming his mother-in-law’s house with a deadly weapon to try to force his estranged wife to return.Additional sessions judge A R Rana convicted Arbazsha alias Degdi Ismailsha Rifai under Sections…
Rajkot: The Surendranagar local crime branch (LCB) seized a large consignment of Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) worth Rs 76.56 lakh from a truck near Sedla village in Bajana police station limits.According to police, 11,220 bottles of IMFL were found in a truck parked within the Sedla village limits. Together with the truck and other items,…
Rajkot: A week after a caterer ended his life in Bhavnagar, police have booked four persons after allegations arose that they had been harassing him for repayment of high-interest loans.Mehul Mandaliya (34) hanged himself at a warehouse in the Ajaywadi-Subhashnagar area of the city on April 6.His elder brother Krinal Mandaliya, 38, lodged a complaint…
Rajkot: Summer has gripped Gujarat in full force with soaring temperatures and the blazing sun driving an intense heatwave across the state. The India meteorological department (IMD) on Tuesday warned that the extreme conditions are likely to persist over the next seven days, with maximum temperatures hovering around the 41°C mark.Across cities, the effect of…
Rajkot: A 34-year-old electrical engineer working for an energy company was cheated of Rs 25.86 lakh in an online share trading scam.Though the crime happened in 2024, the victim, Kamlesh Tirthani, lodged a complaint at Cybercrime police station in Jamnagar on Monday, against persons knowns as Meera, James, the users of a certain stock trading…
