10 From a town, 8 from a family killed in road mishap

A Patel family lost eight of their members in a road accident near Dwarka, a Mahindra Bolero collided with a standing truck with a bang. Whole of Sultanpur village and many nearby villages attended the cremation,

Rain continue to lash Jamnagar

Rain lashed complete Jamnagar district yesterday also, lightning has muted BSNL network in Bhatia, Harshad and Jam Raval area as the lightning stuck on a BSNL tower. Jam Kalyanpur received 12 inch in just one day, a village in Kalyanpur is isolated from rest of the area.

Jamnagar city received 5 inch and totalled the season rain to 18 inch.

Almost all Dam in Jamnagar district are in condition to overflow, Sinhan/ Ghee in Khambhalia are overflowing. Many boats are stuck near okha, police marine department etc are working to get them ono the shore.

There was once again havoc created when two of the new door installed in Sani Dam got damaged and precious drinking water was wasted, villagers around the area could not tolerate this and they targeted staff and vehicle of irrigation department, one of the Tata Sumo was thrust in flowing water following this incident, Police had to intervene to control the mob.

Vishal Madam Arrested

Jamnagar Congress MP Vikram Madam has new things to get worried,

Vishal Madam, who was absconding for last several years, was arrested by the Jamnagar local crime branch on Friday in Ahmadabad,

Vishal Madam is nephew of Vikram Madam and is facing several criminal cases including attempt to murder, kidnapping, extortion and murder.

Vishal was also linked to the kidnapping of Rajkot-based jeweller's son Bhaskar Parkesh,. Vishal was absconding since last five years.

Vikram Madam will face tought time now, as he is facing allegation of creating hurdles for a leading oil company in Jamnagar for its piping layout.

Ravindra Jadeja : Back in Indian Cricket Team

Jamnagar is celebrating as Ravindra Jadeja is re-selected in Indian Cricket Team,

Gautam Gambhir's injury forced him to move back to India, and Ravindra is now onboard Indian Cricket Team.

Good Luck to Ravindra Jadeja

Sahara's Jamnagar Dreams Shattered

Jamnagar Collector Sandeep Kumar did some action recently; Collector took back 100 acres of land allotted to a Sahara group company.

Sahara had purchased from farmers for its township project, the price of this project is amounting to around Rs 300 crore. Collector acted on a complaint by a local farmer, who sold his land to Sahara and the work is yet to commence.
 
The farmer had asked for land back 2 years back, however, Sahara has not been able to provide the land back which prompted collector to take this action, although more details are awaited but it seems Sahara's Jamnagar Dreams are shattered for now.

Gujarat Tourism - Ignoring Gujarati Tourists

Jamnagar is known for its marine national park, and this area has potential to draw many tourist across the world, Including Gujaratis from Gujarat.

However recent experiences from a Tourism Fair at Surat revealed that Gujarat Tourism is not looking forward to attract Gujaratis, When asked about Pirotan Island visit, officials asked them to visit Jamnagar and arrange the trip from there. The fact is one needs a permission from forest / marine department clearance before visiting either Pirotan, Narara or any other island under the Marine National Park.

It is very shamefull that Gujarat Tourism Development authorities also published most of the flyers in english , perhaps reused the distribution flyers that was meant for oversea customers.

Sapda Celebrations - Ganesh Chaturthi

A note from Sapda temple of Sidhhi Vinayak Temple outlines scheduled program for the Ganesh Chaturthi Celebrations on 01-Sep.

Schedule will be as follows:

06:00 AM - Mangal Aarti
07:30 AM - Dhwajarohan Vidhi
08:30 AM - Mahayagna (Ganesh)
12:30 PM - Prasaad

There will be Lok Dayro in the evening.

Income Tax Raid on Many Jamnagar Units

Income Tax officers raided many units in Jamnagar yesterday, many old and prosporous commercial establishments and residences of at least three businessmen in Jamnagar city were inspected for alleged tax evasion.

IT Official confirmed that more then 120 Income Tax officials are taking part in this operation.

Major industrial names being searched includes Shanti Constructions, Vijay Builder and Pankaj Oil mill, almost 20 premises of these units have been inspected.

Ranjit Singhji Rememberd in UK

Sussex cricket museum dedicated a part of the museum to K S Ranjit Singhji, read more on http://halar.org/post/2011/08/26/Cricket-Sussex-Ranjit-Singhji-Jamnagar-museum.aspx

2 Crore looted from Royals house recovered

In a weird news, Jamnagar police's patrolling jeep intercepted a car 2 nights back, to find Rs 2 crore in cash and 20 gold biscuits in it. As the three occupants of the car couldn't explain the origin of the cash, police arrested them, later it was learnt that the money from the house of Bhavanisinh Vala (86), a member of the Jamnagar royal family.

SP Subhash Trivedi updates that Vala received the cash recently after a land sale, strangley he died on Friday before he could keep it at a safe place. Two of Vala's nephews learnt about this cash from the watchman and housemaid Rita, and planned to steal it., the trio was arrested along with the car and cash.

After the arrest of trio and the maid, Bhavanisinh Vala's daughter filed a formal police complaint about the theft.