Thursday, December 16, 2010

Bhanvad - Ancient Cave found

Ancient cave buried under 80 feet was found yesterday near Bhanvad's pachtchar village.

People flocked the place after the news spread, this cave has three stones resembling shivaling and the cave seems to be very long, archaeological department was rushed to conserve the spot and dig on further to get more information.
This cave was found when DCC Cement Company's mining department was unearthing some of the ore.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Dwarka - Rising Sea Level

Rising sea level around Dwarka is worrying, in a new development area near Hanuman Dandi in Bet Dwarka is now separated from land area of Bet,
around five sweet water wells are now submerged, few temples that were accessible by land in last few years are now moved to this new island, soon one will need to visit the temples by boats.
Bet Dwarka is very popular tourist place near Dwarka, many temples of Lord Krishna, Devi Rukmani are in bet Dwarka, a Dargah and a Sikh holy place makes this place a must visit for believers of all religion

Amiben Parikh - New Mayor Elected

Amiben Parikh has been elected as new Mayor while Suresh Araiya is elected Deputy Mayor,

Tulsi Patel will be new chairman of Standing Committee.
More details awaited;

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

JNV Aliabada - Khel Mahakumbh Completed

Jamnagar (Gujarat) District Khel Maha kumbh was completed successfully at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Aliabada on Wednesday.

Navodaya Vidyalaya Students performed welcome songs and many cultural programmes, district additional collector, local MLAs etc were present and they distributed awards to various winning team and participants

Monday, December 6, 2010

Ship Drowned, Mayor Elections

A ship returning from Dubai torn to pieces and drowned when a larger ship hit her near Dwarka, the broken ship was from Mandavi and carrying cargo of Dates from Dubai.
All eight sailors were saved by a passing ship.
On news from Jamnagar city, Jamnagar Municipal Corporation will hold mayor elections on 14 December.
Jamnagar's M. P. Shah Medical college and GG Hospital (Irwin) will undergo an audit check by Medical Council of India.

Retired Mamlatdar - cleared of all charges

A retired Mamlatdar from Kalavad, was cleared of all charges by Gujarat High Court (HC), 18 years after he was trapped by the ACB while accepting bribe of mere Rs 300.

Chandrakant Bhuptani, a mamlatdar working in Kalavad was arrested in January 1992 was caught by ACB officials while accepting bribe of Rs 300 from a kerosene vendor, Chandrakant Joshi. ACB suggested that Joshi bribed Bhuptani so that he could carry on his business. And earlier special ACB court had convicted Bhuptani for four years rigorous imprisonment in 1997.
Bhuptani moved to Gujarat High Court, and was cleared of all charges considering there was no evidence against him.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

INS Veer , Navy Week : Okha

INS Veer - A Vidyut class missile boat and a killer of 1975 Indo-Pak war will be in Okha for few days to celebrate Indian Navy Week starting 1st Dec.

INS Dwarka has organised many event to promote Navy and bring awareness of civilians to navy capabilities.
India is celebrating 40th anniversary of victory against Pakistan in 1975 Indo-Pak War.

Three Temple Looted - Ranjitnagar

In a major embarrassment for Jamnagar Police, thieves looted cash from donation boxes across three temples in Ranjit Nagar on friday night.

Three temples in RanjitNagar includes Janki Vallabh Mandir, Chamunda Mandir and Ram Mandir near the market area, strangely thieves left the ornament untouched.
Police is trying forensic and dog squad to nab the thieves

Thursday, December 2, 2010

3 boats - 21 Pakistani Fisherman nabbed

Indian Coastguard captured 21 Pakistani nationals in 3 boats fishing in Indian waters; they were caught near Mithapur and were sent in judicial custody

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Unseasonal Rain - Farmer suicide

Unseasonal rains forced a farmer killed himself yesterday near Jamnagar.

A farmer in a small village near Jamnagar committed suicide by poisoning himself; he was worried over unseasonal rain that spoilt his field. The farmer had bought the money on credit and there was no way to repay it back.

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