Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Swine Flue - First Case In Jamnagar

There are 3 suspected cases from Jamnagar where results are awaited.

In the last 2 days, there are five suspected cases reported at the G G Hospital in Jamnagar.

G G Hospital authorities said that two cases has negative results, in other three cases, the reports are still awaited.

The first confirmed case of swine flu in Saurashtra is reported from Bhavnagar.

Update: Jamnagar G G Hospital confirmed its first Swine Flu case, the patient is a student of Mumbai Arts Theater Group and flew to Jamnagar from Mumbai 2 days back.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Lakhota: Dutch Engineer Saved life

In a bizarre incident, a lady was saved by a dutchman passing by lakhota yesterday morning.

Young woman named Harsha jumped in lakhota due to unknown reasons, Reliance Engineer and a Dutch citizen who happened to pass by jumped in Lakhota lake and saved the girl.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Doctor Couple Drowned in Sasoi Dam

A day Picnic turned into fatal tragedy for a doctor couple here.

The couple and few doctors friends of G G Hospital were on a picnic at the dam on river Sarsoi, while taking a dip, Bindu (35), wife of Dhananjay Kumar (41), the Chief Medical Officer at G G government hospital here, lost balance and was swept away in deep waters.

Dhananjay tried to save his wife but he too got drowned, Their bodies were fished out by the fire department divers in the evening.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Fake Note racket busted by Shopkeepers

A Shopkeepers' awareness helped unearth giant fake currency racket in Jamnagar. A racket with Pakistani connection was unearthed few days ago.

Shopkeepers will help local police by installing of machines to identify fake notes and hire employees that can check the authenticity of notes coming to their counters. Once found they can inform police , in effect, the shopkeepers will now call the police, rather than the customer the next time they come across a fake note.

The 800-member association has now asked all members to prominently display an RBI guideline in their premises as well.

It is well noted that recent 1000 rs fake notes can not be be detected by machines, it can only be detected by bare hands.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Rain , Agriculture , Shravan and more

In last 56 hrs Jamnagar recorded around 340mm of rainfall. Local government has alerted the authorities because of water logging caused by incessant rain.

Jamnagar district agriculture department claims that the district has completed 94% of sowing, more rain could wipe-off the plantation.

Along with the rain comes the Shravan month of devotion and celebration. thousands of pilgrims, including those from non-resident Gujarati community, have started flocking to various temples of Saurashtra, Somnath and Dwarka being the main attractions.

Jamnagar district collectorate of Dwarka and management board of Jagat Mandir in Dwarka have begun preparations for the Janmashthami celebrations. Devotees have already started thronging the town to attend the celebrations. In a recently convened meeting attended by Rajya Sabha MP and Dwarkadhish Devasthan Samiti chief Parimal Nathwani and collector VP Patel, preparations for the big day's events were discussed.

Jamnagar City Scape

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Sunday, July 5, 2009

60 KG used bullet shells found

Three bags containing used bullet shells, weighing over 60 kg were found by some villagers of Dodiya vilage.

Police saied that samples were sent to forensic lab for testing. There are many metal scrap dealers in Jamnagar and the bags may be of some such dealers.

It is to note that Indian defence has huge presence in Jamnagar area and such incidents are frequent, some also notice the foul play that could have happened and these shells could cross borders.

Thes bags were lying on the outskirts of Dodiya village, about 25 km from Jamnagar.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Hall of Shame for JMC

JMC recently decided to increase the city limits to 101 KM from existing 68 KM, JMC thought of adding few nearby small villages around Jamnagar to increase the area , ofcourse this is backed by lobby of builders who wanted to grab lucrative land and get costly benefits from it..

However JMC hit a little snag when around 6,000 villagers gathered near Lal Bunglow to oppose the move.
Sarpanch's from villages like Dhuvav, Vibhapar, nawa-Nagna, Juna-Nagna, Khimaliya, Theba, Dared, Khimrana, Khijadiya, KanSumra, Naghedi, Morkanda, Dhinchda, hapa, Gordhanpar and chela came together and submitted letter to RDC.

Crank caller arrested from train.

Rajkot City picked up the son of a Jamnagar police constable, who traveling in a train, for allegedly making hoax call for bombs.

A factory owner from Patan, received a call on his cell phone on Tuesday night. The caller asked: 'What happened about the bombs that were planted in Rajkot?' and the phone got disconnected. This information made Rajkot police start a search operation just to find that it was a hoax call.

Police traced the caller as Rahul Dahiya, a medical student. The calls were traced to a train going towards Ranchi. Railway police, who were alerted, picked up Dahiya near Agra.

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