Rajkot: Tourists and visitors heading to Kutch’s iconic “Road to Heaven” — the stunning 30km stretch linking Khavda to Dholavira — will no longer be allowed to fly drones, as the Kutch Forest Department has enforced a strict no-drone zone across the area, citing concerns over wildlife protection and national security. Officials have warned that…
Rajkot: Police here dismantled a tobacco adulteration operation here and arrested a 50-year-old man for allegedly adulterating and selling spurious tobacco products under the ‘Baghban 138′ brand. The raid, conducted on the evening of April 10, 2026, led to the seizure of spurious tobacco products, packaging machinery and other items worth Rs 84,000.The accused, Jayesh…
Rajkot: Gir Somnath police arrested two men for several cheating cases across the state where citizens at ATMs were defrauded using fudged UPI transaction screenshots.An FIR was registered on Wednesday by a fruit vendor, Ajaj Shekh, 30, stating that on March 23 at an ATM near Una bus station, he and his friend Rahim had…
Ahmedabad: On Oct 4, 2024—barely a month after celebrating her 91st birthday—Asha Bhosle stepped into a recording studio in Versova to lend her voice to a devotional song praising the compassionate and nurturing qualities of Ashapura Mata, the deity revered as a ‘kuldevi’ by several communities in Gujarat.The bhajan conveyed that anyone who approaches Ashapura…
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…
