File photo of Jangleshwar demolition drive in which 1,400 illegal dwellings were removed Rajkot: Months after Rajkot Municipal Corporation’s high-profile demolition drive cleared vast encroachments in Jangleshwar, the focus has shifted from bulldozers to bills, with the new political board withholding approval of nearly Rs 27 lakh spent on food, water and related arrangements during…
Rajkot: The death of three lion cubs aged below one year within two days in Amreli district of Gujarat has alarmed wildlife activists and prompted the forest department to investigate the deaths. However, forest officials have denied any foul play or poaching, maintaining that all three deaths appear to be due to natural causes.The first…
Rajkot: A fatal accident in Morbi district has been followed by a criminal case against a local online journalist, with Halvad police alleging that he orchestrated a road blockade using grieving women and children to film footage — causing safety risks and disrupting traffic on a key rural route.Halvad police have registered an FIR against…
The Rajkot police have registered a case against the minor driver Rajkot: Two young girls — one aged 4 years and another 11 — were killed in two separate accidents allegedly caused by reckless driving by underage boys, in Rajkot city and Morbi district’s Halvad.In Rajkot, the 4-year-old girl Jiyanshi Chudasama was playing with her…
Rajkot: A lion cub’s carcass found in Amreli’s Dalkhaniya range — the same area hit by the canine distemper virus (CDV) outbreak in 2018 — has put forest officials on alert, though preliminary findings rule out foul play and point to disease as the likely cause.A lion cub, less than a year old, was found…
Rajkot: Forest department officials have brought to justice a man who allegedly bludgeoned an eight-month-old lion cub to death near Junagadh, using intelligence inputs to swiftly track him down in Porbandar district.The cub’s carcass was found on Wednesday in the Rabari Ness area of the Dungar (South) range in the Junagadh forest division.Preliminary findings pointed…
Rajkot: A five-year-old boy walking with his father on the edge of Chaturi village on Wednesday night was pounced on by a lion, dragged away and killed, in Khambha taluka of Amreli.Family members and villagers immediately began a search for the boy, Jiyan Sidda, but could only find his body about a kilometre away. Foresters…
Rajkot: After the death of 21-year-old Nandani Bosmiya, who was found hanged in an apartment in the city on Monday, her family said she was murdered and accused her live-in partner of being involved in it. Police have not registered a case of murder.According to police, Bosmiya’s body was discovered on Monday evening in a…
Rajkot: A tip-off led police to a roadside room in Satapar village of Anjar where they found an chemical-based counterfeit liquor factory. The raid led to the arrest of Sunil Mata and Ramzan Juneja, who were allegedly running the factory. Police also seized spurious alcohol, chemicals and manufacturing equipment worth Rs 8.8 lakh. Two persons…
Rajkot: Small salt manufacturers in Morbi and Kutch are scrambling to complete their harvesting before the monsoon, but the cap on diesel supply has disrupted operations, threatening output in Gujarat, which produces about 75% of India’s salt.Marine Salt Manufacturers Association last week made a representation the Morbi district administration stating that the cap on diesel…
