Bharuch, July 1 (IANS) A father and his 21-year-old son were killed after a wall at the under-construction World Trade Centre shopping mall site collapsed onto a nearby house in Gujarat’s Bharuch district, during heavy overnight rain on Wednesday, officials said.The incident occurred at around 2.30 a.m. in the Ali Matariya Talab area of the city, where a section of the construction site’s boundary wall gave way and crashed onto a residential house.According to officials, four members of a family…
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Anand, June 25 (IANS) The Gujarat government on Thursday granted in-principle approval for a Rs 1,700 crore barrage-cum-bridge project over the Mahi river near Dhuvaran in Anand district, a development expected to strengthen regional connectivity while significantly improving water security across central and southern Gujarat. The proposed ‘Badalpur-Kareli Barrage-cum-Bridge’ will combine transport infrastructure with large-scale water conservation.Officials said the project is designed not …
Gandhinagar, June 8 (IANS) Gujarat Police have arrested 609 illegal Bangladeshi nationals across the state under the ongoing ‘Operation Delta Hunt’, with authorities intensifying verification and enforcement measures against illegal immigration, officials said on Monday. According to official figures released up to 8 p.m. on June 6, those detained include 161 men, 323 women, and 125 children.The largest number of arrests was recorded in Ahmedabad City, where 207 people were detained, followed by…
Ahmedabad/Bharuch, May 20 (IANS) Construction of a 130-metre-long steel bridge spanning an Indian Railways freight corridor in Gujarat’s Bharuch district has been completed as part of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project, with officials stating that 230 metres of a planned 330-metre steel bridge structure has now been built. According to a statement issued on Wednesday, the bridge is being constructed near Tralsi village and crosses the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFC…
Gandhinagar, April 30 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Thursday issued instructions to district administrations during the ‘Swagat’ programme to ensure the timely, judicial, and impartial resolution of citizens’ grievances. During the monthly State Swagat online public grievance redressal hearing, more than 110 complainants from across the state appeared before the Chief Minister.Officials stated that a total of 1,335 representations were taken up across district-level Sw…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report regarding an explosion and subsequent fire at a chemical factory in Gujarat’s Bharuch district that left at least 16 workers injured. Observing that the contents of the news report, if true, raise serious issues of human rights violations of the victims, the apex human rights body has issued notices to the Chief Secretary of Gujarat and the Superintendent of Police, Bharuc…
Gandhinagar, April 27 (IANS) Allegations against AAP MLA Chaitar Vasava intensified after an altercation at a factory site in Gujarat’s Bharuch district, with BJP MP Dhaval Patel accusing the legislator of assaulting members of a tribal victim’s family.Patel claimed that multiple serious cases have been registered against the MLA and that he is currently out on conditional bail.“He has violated court conditions, and we will make every effort to send him back to jail,” Patel said.The deve…
Bharuch, March 13 (IANS) Deputy Chief Minister, Harsh Sanghavi, criticised Opposition parties for what he described as “vote bank politics” while addressing a large gathering at a ‘Tribal Pride Convention’ in Bharuch district on Friday.In the event, several leaders and workers from the AAP joined the BJP.Addressing the gathering, Sanghavi said Opposition parties had historically treated tribal communities primarily as a vote bank.“For years, Congress used the tribal community only as a ‘…
Gandhinagar, March 9 (IANS) The Gujarat government on Monday informed the state Assembly that 196 out of 198 children reported missing in Junagadh and Gir Somnath districts over the past two years have been traced. While responding to a question on missing children and women, Minister of State for Law and Justice, Kaushik Vekariya, said 152 complaints of missing children were registered in Junagadh district and 46 in Gir Somnath during the period.“The police system has traced all 46 chil…