Rajkot: Five persons from Bhutdi village in Visavadar taluka have been booked under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for allegedly imposing discriminatory rules and insulting Dalit villagers during a community feast.The alleged offence took place on Monday evening, during the ‘Pran Pratishtha Mahotsav’ (consecration ceremony) of the Ramji Temple in…
Rajkot: In a boost to the city’s sporting ecosystem, the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has announced the addition of new facilities at the Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sports Complex in Mavdi. The upgraded complex will now offer squash, table tennis and shooting, creating fresh opportunities for young athletes to train in widely played national and…
Rajkot: Vanthali police in Junagadh district have registered a case against Praveen Chavda, the winning Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate from the Kanaja seat of the Junagadh district panchayat, and five others, along with four unidentified individuals, for allegedly conspiring to create unrest during vote counting and possessing weapons.The case has been filed under Sections…
Rajkot: After nearly four decades, Gujarat is set to add a new zoo to its wildlife infrastructure — and notably, not within an urban sprawl but inside the natural setting of a sanctuary. The Gujarat forest department is firming up plans to establish a zoo in Barda Wildlife Sanctuary in Porbandar district, an area that…
Palanpur: Six women were killed and eight others injured when a private bus crashed into their van on the National Highway- 48 near Himmatnagar in Sabarkantha district on Wednesday.The women were members of a catering team for social events, and they were going from Sardoi village of Modasa to Hunj village near Himmatnagar, police said.“Inspection…
Rajkot: In a major anti-corruption operation, a superintendent of the central GST department and a tax consultant were arrested in Rajkot on Tuesday for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20 lakh. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) laid the trap at Creative Complex, located behind the GSRTC depot.According to the ACB, the action followed a complaint…
Rajkot: The family court in Junagadh has ordered the immediate return of a one-year-old baby boy to his mother, in an ex parte order passed 94 days after a family suit was filed on Jan 21, 2026. The order was delivered by principal judge Prem Hansraj Singh.In its order dated April 24, the court directed…
Rajkot: A 40-year-old woman filed a complaint at C Division police station in Jamnagar against three persons for allegedly cheating her and others of Rs 6.7 lakh on the pretext of securing jobs abroad and withholding their passports.According to the FIR, the woman, Ila, was looking for work to support her children after separating from…
Vadodara/Rajkot: It may sound like a cliché that every vote counts, but two nail-biting contests in Gujarat’s local body polls showed just how decisive a single ballot can be — with one Congress candidate winning by a vote and another losing by three.In the Bharuch taluka panchayat, Congress candidate Mohsin Pathan clinched the Palej seat…
Rajkot: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retained control of the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC), winning 65 of the 72 seats across the city’s 18 wards, with results declared on Tuesday.Though the BJP secured a comfortable majority, its tally dipped marginally from the 2021 elections, conceding three seats to the Congress. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)…
