Golden Peacock - Reliance Refinery Jamnagar Begs it

RIL's (Reliance Industries Limited) Jamnagar Refinery has grabbed the
prestigious "Golden Peacock National Training Award -2007."

The Golden Peacock award recognizes excellence in training practices and
relates it with improvement in Culture, Business and Efficiency of an
individual or a company.

Jamnagar Kite accident - Youth feared dead

Jamnagar is noted for not following the "Usual Gujarati" festival of kite,

 

However this year Kites were seen all over the city,

 

Deshraj sinh Jadeja (24) was injured while getting kite from the electric wire near momai nagar

 

The youth is feared dead now.

Jamnagar Air Force - Hawk AJT on the way

Indian Air Force has designted Jamnagar Air force base as a reception place for much talked Hawk Advance Jet Trainers.

India Air Force (AIF) is acquiring 66 Hawk advanced jet trainers (AJTs) from UK, these Training jets are designed by BAE Systems of a contract worth 1.75 Billion USD.

Out of 57 of the first batch, 40 will go to IAF and Navy will get 17.

The first two Hawks designed for the Air Force had alreway flewn from the BAE Systems facilities in Brough, East Yorkshire to India at Air Force Station, Jamnagar (Gujarat), in last November, from there they flew to Air Force Training Station at Bidar in Karnataka.

HAL will design 42 of more such training aircrafts.

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Jamnagar - Woman Burnt alive because she could not bear a male child

Its horrified news for the Jamnagar District, A Mother of three
daughters was burnt alive by her husband and in-laws on Tuesday
afternoon in Suraj Karadi Village of Okha Taluka.

Rita Samani, the victim had been to married Ramlal for 12 years, they
had three girls.

After the incident, Rita was taken to the Irwin (GG) Hospital of
Jamnagar, but she died on Wednesday.

Rita has clearly stated that her husband and her elder brother-in-law
had set fire on her, because she could not bear a male child,

Jamnagar - Vaishnav's V/S Ekta Kapoor

Recent controversy in one of the Ekta Kapoor's soap has stirred anger
amongst the Vaishnav's in Jamnagar as well, some of the noted Jamnagar
Vaishnav members have wrote a letter to Govt. opposing the same, and
urged that no Vaishnav's should watch the daily soap.

Jamnagar - Illegal Bauxite Mines Sealed

Around 33 Trucks were detained in a mass operation against organized
illegal Bauxite mining near Jam-Kalyanpur in Jamnagar District.

On Sunday, Civil supply and Kalyanpur authorities raided the mining
sites of "Ashapura Minechem" and "Orient abrasives" , As there were no
supervisors, no maps and no adequate security, officials have sealed
this mines.

Jamnagar News : Much Hyped Okha Viramgam Rail Project derailed

A much hyped Okha - Viramgam , estimated at around 560 Crore is now
de-railed. The reason said is that Jamnagar based industrial giants
prefer road as compared to Railway,

However internal sources says that Reliance and Power plant (TPS Sikka)
are not the only driving force for this kind of project, if railways
authority can upgrade the infrastructure then they can make money out of
the growing tourism in Jamnagar and Saurashtra region.

It is said that this move is politically motivated.

Jamnagar News Team

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Jamnagar Essar Power Project- 10% stake sold

Private equity firm General Atlantic is almost close to buying 10% stake
in Essar Power (EPL) for around $600 million, cashing in on the
increasing power demand, EPL is planning to increase power generation
capacity to 6,500 mw by 2012.

This includes a much hyped 1,200 mw coal-fired project at Jamnagar.

Jamnagar - Quake Scare contines

More quake threats are feared in Jamnagar district.

Jamnagar is one of the areas where lot of seismic activity has been
observed in recent times, it is believed that in 2007, there were more
than 60 earthquakes of magnitude between 2 to 3.4 on Richter scale in
Jamnagar district.

These tremors were used to concentrate near Kotra village in Jamnagar
tehsil but now they are growing at a length of 20 km at various points
between Vijarakhi, Theva and Kotra villages and moving towards Rajkot.