Lalpur - Heavy Seismic Activities

Lalpur Town is experiencing very heavy seismic activities in last few days, some places in Jamnagar also felt the tremors in few days.

 

The first tremor was measured as 2.6 on Richter scale with second of scale 3.

 

Basic theory believes that these are caused by elevation of ground water table due to heavy rains in this region.

 

500 Brahmin trapped near Haridwar

Around 500 Gugli brahmins from dwarka are believed to be trapped near haridwar, recent rains and landslide near Uttarakhand have made things from difficult to worst.

Although there are no casulties reported yet but these travellers are afraid and are in dire need of food and life essentials

Under trial killed himsef in jail

A undertrial killed himself in Jamnagar Jail today, his body was founded hanging by a fellow prisoner

Seconds before Crane Tragedy - By DeshGujarat

Seconds before disaster - a photo captured seconds before the crane accident near Jamnagar By DeshGujarat

http://deshgujarat.com/2010/09/16/a-picture-taken-seconds-before-the-jamnagar-tragedy/

Rozi bunder - ganesh visarjan accident

atleast 1 person was killed and 1 is still missing when a crane went down during a ganesh visarjan at Rozi bunder

Of 5 people feared down 3 were rescued by locals

Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chasma in Jamnagar

Popular Gujarati Magazine Chitralekha is entering in 61 year, and to celebrate this Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chasma team was in Jamnagar

Artists spent time with kids and also visited Talav Ni Par and Lakhota Kotha, Team also visited Bala Hanuman temple and also enjoyed "Kawa" at Rajwadi Kawa Ghar

News Courtesy : Nobat.com

Sapda - Ganesh Chaturthi Celebration

Sapda Ganesh Chaturthy Celebrations

Sapda , Ganesh Celebtrations

Vignaharta Ganesh - Siddhi Vinayak

Ganesh Chaturthy was celebtrated at its best at Sapda, best known as Ganesh on hill near Jamnagar, mere 10-15 km from city yet in its nature abode, with a magnificient view and with Sapda dam nearby.

Siddhi Vinayak Temple @ Sapda is believed to be more then 600 year old, it is believed that ancient kings of Halar (Chavda Dynasty) build this temple and Later Jam Kings protected the temple.

 This year Ganesh Chaturthy was celebrated with mahaprasad,Maha-aarti and maha bhojan.

In the evening there was Santwani program with participants like Mayabhai Ahir and Kirtidan Gadhvi, around 50-60,000 audience participated in the program and enjoyed it.

From : http://www.halar.org/gujaratinews/

http://rameshbhadra.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/%E0%AA%97%E0%AA%A3%E0%AB%87%E0%AA%B6%E0%AA%9A%E0%AA%A4%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%B0%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%A5%E0%AB%80-%E0%AA%A8%E0%AB%80-%E0%AA%96%E0%AA%B0%E0%AB%80-%E0%AA%AE%E0%AA%9C%E0%AA%BE-%E0%AA%A4%E0%AB%8B/

Builder Shot dead in DKV College Campus

Image Courtesy - Ramesh Bhadra 

On Sunday - in broad daylight a contractor was killed in campus of D K V College,

A builder named Suresh Santoki was shot dead in DKV College campus, it is believed that this was due to some money related issues in partnership.


From  : http://rameshbhadra.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/426/ 

Heavy Rains Marooned Khambhaliya , Jamnagar District

Last 2 days, heavy rains marooned entire Jamnagar district, and Jamnagar city received 5 inch more rain

And Khambhaliya completed century (100 inch) of rain.

Details of total rainfall as under

Area	Today's Rain (mm)	Today's Rain (inch)	Total Rain (mm)	Total Rain (inch)
Khambhaliya	287	11.48	2547	101.88
Jamnagar	134	5.36	2031	81.24
Dhrol	84	3.36	675	27
Kalavad	93	3.72	903	36.12
Lalpur	81	3.24	1903	76.12
Kalyanpur	44	1.76	1822	72.88
Bhanvad	44	1.76	1356	54.24
Jodiya	42	1.68	1031	41.24
Dwarka	36	1.44	1054	42.16
Jamjodhpur	26	1.04	1133	45.32

Bholeshwar Amavasya Fair - Cancelled

A note from Bholeshwar Temple priest indicates that the Annual Amavasya fair is cancelled due to the recent causeway tragedy