Loan repayment - father murdered son

a surat based business man who is from jamnagar had killed his own son
to escape from loan repayment.

A patel businessman murdered his 9 yr old son and later drafted a
kidnepping scene.
Police found this easily during interrogation and he confessed the crime
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Mukesh Ambani - New House from Diwali

Come Diwali, and Mukesh Ambani will move to his new House “Antilla” Economic Times reported.

Dubbed as the world's most expensive home “Antilla” is located on Altamount Road in downtown Mumbai, this house is built at $2 billion, spread across 400,000 square feet and has 3 helipads on the top.

For 27 floors, it had 570 feet height, there are three floors of garden, and first 6 levels are for car parking that can park 160 cars.

Economic Times also reported that there are no same floors; house has a ballroom with crystal chandeliers. With top 4 floors reserved for Ambani family and mother Kokilaben.

BJP clean sweap for JMC Election

BJP won 35 seats and made clean sweap in JMC Elections, while Congress acquired 16 and 6 were for others

JamJodhpur - Antique Silver utensils / ornaments found

Doctor’s found chest of antique silver ornament while doing leveling for their new home in Jam Jodhpur;

Two doctors, Desai and Raithattha found a huge pot filled with silver ornament and utensils yesterday, the duo bought this place from a goldsmith just 2 days back and were leveling it for building a house

JMC Election - 50% Votier Turnout

Although this may be a low voter turn out, it is highest compared to other municipal corporation across the state, There were couple of incidents of EVM failures, names not found on list etc, else where the voting was peaceful.

Green Jamnagar Day Celebrations

Come 11^th October and Jamnagar will celebrate “Green Jamnagar Day”.

Jamnagar based Activity builders and developers are promoting this event with collaboration of Jhanvi Institute of Management and Technology.

Activity Builders are aiming to plant more then 10,000 trees in next 2 years; promoters of this event have urged citizens / NGO to collect plants by 7^th October.

To collect the plants please contact 2710204 or contact 9601289153

Ayurvedic student killed herself

A 22 year old ayurvedic student killed herself in the hostel.

She was in tension of forth coming exams and thought she might fail.
Friend and relatives were shocked, and police is doing investigation further.
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40K Crore RIL Expansion plan leaked in media

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is planning to increase capacity of the Jamnagar refinery and will be making it as biggest refinery in the world.

RIL will invest more then 40,000 crore by 2014.

Off the 40K crore, 15K crore will alone be spent on the prestigious cracker project, this craker will decompose crude into Ethylene, propylene, low-density polyethylene and monoethylene glycol etc.

Second pie of 15K crore will be ised in coke gasification plant.

Small investments like supporting projects would cost Rs. 4,000 crore. it will have a crude distillation unit (CDU) that would utilize crude from Cairn.

For the first time "J3" a code name for Jamnagar refinery expansion was mentioned in the media. This news may flash during ‘Vibrant Gujarat’ conference for global investors to be held in January.

GL estimates net profit for RIL from 2011 to 2014 between 17-18 Bln USD.

Vidya Sahayak - Bogus Certificate Scandal

One more scandal hits Jamnagar, a local education observer and a head cleark are under investigation for a possible case of forging and issuing bogus certificate to hundreads for Vidya Sahayak Scheme.

Approx more then hundread illegal candidates made their way through this Vidya Sahayak scheme, these were not from Jamnagar district still were enrolled for this program.

Many are saying that each of the candidate have paid more then 4 lakh to get enrolled in the scheme, so this will not be an easy task for the law enforcement agencies to clear this mess

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

Coral Rehabilitation Project - Marine National Park

Coral Rehabilitation Project - Marine National Park

Under a conservation project for eco-diversity, Gujarat State Forest dept will get some coral from Lakshadweep, and re-plantation them in Jamnagar Marine National Park

These Acropora Corals are on the brink of extinction, earlier it was found in abundance now are a rare sight in Pirotan / Narara.

Two more coral species, Corites and Feviya, will also be replanted. Jamnagar's Marine National park is of the few parks in world where travellers can see coral in shallow water also.

This Project funded by World bank will have lifecycle of 5 years.

Vedanta Resources - Bauxite from Jamnagar

UK Based Vedanta Resources lead by Anil Agarwal now turns its head towards Gujarat, has Vedanta got deniel from Orissa.

Vedanta has bid for five lakh metric tonnes of non-plant grade bauxite from a Gujarat PSU , GMDC.

Vedanta is looking to acquire the same from a bidding / transfer process. GMDC is looking to sell around 9 lakh metric tonnes of bauxite, along Kutch this Bauxite is also available in Mewasa village of Kalyanpur taluka in Jamnagar district. GMDC already has approval for mining of bauxite Jamnagar district.

Now on home front, Area near Bhatia / Kalyanpur and Mewasa are excited as land and rental prices are on rise.


If this deal is through then vendetta acts of moving state machinery against Vedanta by biggest private company of India may be in vein.

Shravan Fair - Extended for 2 More Days

JMC has extended the Jamnagar Janmashtami Fair for 2 more days.

Frequent rains had dampened the spirits of citizens as they cant visit fair in heavy splashes. this news also bought cheers for the shop owners of the fair.

This 2 days also coincides with celebration of Eid, so organizers hope to recover the money via this extension.

Normally Shravan / Eid fairs brings lot of cloud and entertainment / business, however this year frequent rains throughout all three days of Shravan had spoiled the celebrations.

Sasoi Dam - 2 dead , 3 Missing

2 members of a brahmin family were drowned to death and 3 more are feared dead.

The accident happened when 8 members of 3 Brahmin family were returning from Bholeshwar and were crossing a causeway bridge over the river. 3 were rescued by firefighters.

[UPDATE]

2 more dead bodies were found totalling the drowned number to 4

Baba Ramdev : Home Minister is Mental

Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev kicked guns at Home minister P.Chidambaram and declared him as a possible mental patient

Baba Ramdev, was in Dwarka on the eve of Janmashtami, Journalists asked him about PC's remarks of "Saffron Terrorism".

Baba Ramdev said he was upset with this remarks, and called PC a metal patient, baba ramdev also suggested Yoga  and Pranayam as he can not see a difference between terrorism, Maoism and Naxalism. Baba ramdev was promoting his new political party Yatra from Dwarka.

Dwarkadhish Janmashtami Webcast - Live

Ancient Buildings in worst condition

Jamnagar, Once known as Paris of Saurashtra now cries for restoration of its famous ancient buildings, forts and great architectures.


Jamnagar Municipal Corporation spends millions in re-building the city circles, where it can not look for restoring famous Lakhota Lake Fort.


Take a case of Statue of Jam Raval near Lakhota Lake, this place is filled with dirt and is not cleaned since almost a year. The horse on which founder of Jamnagar seats, has lost 3 legs, this statue can fall at any moment. Lakhota Lake Fort itself is going under restoration since last 5 years with no progress.


Ironically the same department which is looking for these architecture (ASI) is spending around 32Lakh on cleaning up and painting a tower (Pancheshwar Tower) in city, building that are older then 150-200 years are completly ignored, this includes Bhujio Kotho, Lakhota Lake Fort, Khambhaliya Gate etc.


In last 5 years, JMC had spent more then 3-4 crore in gardening, plantation and slum cleanup which is though not visible here. Now only the alert citizens can wake up the JMC from its prolonged intended ignorance of the situation.

Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev in Dwarka / Jamnagar

Yoga Guru, Baba Ramdev arrived yesterday in Jamnagar and will be staying in district for 3 days.

JamSaheb Shri ShatruShalyaji., Pabubha Manek, Dinesh Parmar welcomed him on the airport

Baba Ramdev will be launching his Yatra from Dwarka and will host Yoga Camp in these three days.

Three Drowned in Und River

In a tragic incident after the rains. three persons were drowned in a river in Hamapar village in Dhrol taluka of Jamnagar district yesterday.

Und River which passes through this village was already with heavy flow when four youths went in to take a dip, two of them manage to swam out safely but Amit and Rajesh Dangar were drowned.


A local villager tried to rescue the youths and jumped to save them but he was pulled into the force and drowned too.


Authorities had found bodies of Amit and the villager but still looking for third dead body.

khushboo gujarat ki - video on Youtube

Posted here links of of khushboo gujarat ki Video

Gujarat Tourism : Khushboo Gujarat ki... by Mr. Amitabh Bachchan

Gujarat Tourism Video by Mr. Amitabh Bachchan

Gujarat Tourism: Khushboo Gujarat Ki..by Mr. Amitabh Bachchan English Version

Garib Kalyan mela - organized in hapa

Garib Kalyan mela was organised by state's bjp government near hapa,
politicians like dilip sanghani, vasuben trivedi, mulubhai bera etc
were present.
Amount worth crores were distributed.
This was to note that jmc elections are on the way
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Municipal Elections around 3rd Oct

6 Municipal Corporation including that of Jamnagar may vote on 3rd Oct 2010.

One More death due to Swine Flu

One more person succumbed to swine flu and four new cases are reported at Irwin / Guru Govindsinh (GG) hospital in the past 2 days.

A lady named Damyanti Nanani, 60, died at the hospital at 9.30 pm yesterday.

Air Chief Marshal on Jamnagar Air base Visit

Air Chief Marshal P V Naik visited the Air Force base at Jamnagar..
Air chief was presented with station activities, Naik visited squadrons and units in Jamnagar Air Force base.

This visit is seen very important as India is mounting its weaponry against china border.

Honest Students returned 2.5L Cash

Two Students named Satyajit parmar and Sagar Solanki found cash worth 2.5L on their way back from school, they returned this cash to nearby police station and provided a good example of honesty to everyone.

CSMRI Found New Vegetation Near Vadinar

Jamnagar coastline is biggest coastline in India in terms of length and hence has the only Marine National Park in the country,

Bhavnagar based CSMRI recently found around 93 new species of florals near Vadinar, this area is in close proximity to Pirotan and Narara Island in Jamnagar.

Of these 93 species around 13 are found first time rest 80 species are found elsewhere in the world but not near Jamnagar. These species are variety in sea-weeds.

Saurashtra Janta - Fatal Accident averted

A drivers mistake could have been fatal for thousands of passengers of Saurashtra Janta Express yesterday,

Yesterday, on 24-Aug Engine driver of Jamnagar bound Saurashtra Janta train ignored the signal near Bileshwar and stopped when they saw another train on the same track.

Driver and assistant of Saurashtra Janta Express are suspended.

Cairn - Farmers Issue Explosive : Vikram Madam

Jamnagar Congress leader and MP Vikram Madam raised the issue of ongoing conflict with Cairn and Farmers of Jamnagar in Parliament,
Vikram Madam warned the parliament of the extreme consequences if the farmers cries are not heard, he also said that this could be a ticking bomb.

Jamnagar MP Vikram Maadam claims that farmers across Jamnagar district are exploited by Cairn India by acquiring lands at dirt cheap rates.

This issue was raised in Lok Sabha, Vikram Maadam informed the parliament that Cairn India is extending its work from Rajasthan to Gujarat is forcing farmers to give up their precious lands at the price of mere Rs 40,000 per acre. The same size of land is costing 4Lakh in Aligarh and still farmers are protesting. there, Vikram Maadam said that Gujarat farmers are being forced by the company to sell land at cheap rate under pressure from the land mafia and the local administration.

Khushboo Gujarat ki - Update

Image Courtesy - Ramesh Bhadra

Bollywood megastar Amitabh left Jamnagar yersterday and was overwhelmed with his experiences in Gujarat.
 
Amitabh Bachchan, stayed in Meethapur and went to Dwarka yesterday morning, Bachhan was featured in a video presentation with 1008 lamps on Gomti Ghat, he reached Jamnagar by road from where he left for Mumbai on a special plane.

Bachhan had completed filming for last piece of video for Gujarat Tourism promotion -  'Khushboo Gujarat Ki'.

Mobile Shop Looted near Police Station

In what could have been a nose cutting news for Jamnagar Police, a mobile showroom on PN Road was looted and booty worth 9 lakh.

This shop is located just 0.5 KM away from SP Office and a police station is not far than 20-30 mtrs.

Police complaint filed by shop owner revealed that 70,000 Cash and around 200 mobile handphone set were looted.


SP Subhash Trivedi rushed to the spot and said forensics team will begin investigation soon.

Vasuben Trivedi in ministry

Jamnagar MLA and three other junior ministers were enroled into Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's Council of Ministers, totaling the numbers to 21.

Vasubhen Trivedi, Jamnagar MLA is likely to get portfoli of child welfare.

Recruitment of this new squad coincides with elections in six municipal corporations, including Jamnagar.

Happy Birthday Jamnagar - 470 Years Celebration

Happy Birthday to Jamnagar

Jamnagar City is completing 470 years Today, on 16-Aug, There are various celebrations lined up to mark the event.

Jamnagar citizens, Rajput community etc will visit the statues of Royal kings and temple of Ashapura near Darbar garh. 

Other celebration items includes Photo exhibition and events for old citizen home, and a elocution competition on "Jamnagar  Mayor of 2021", Students will participate in Swimming, Table Tennis, badminton etc competition, Brahmin's association will create a 470KG Ladoo to mark the 470 anniversary of the City.

Read more on Jamnagar History

Khushboo Gujarat ki - Video Launch

Khushboo Gujarat ki- first phase of Gujarat Tourism Promotion ad will be released on Monday, Amitabh Bachhan and Narendra Modi will be releasing this promo today.
 
Films on Asiatic Lion and Gir, will be promoted with the catch phrase sher dil (lion heart).

Amitabh Bachhan will visit Dwarka, Bet Dwarka and Nageshwar from 20th August onwards and will leave from Jamnagar for Mumbai.

Sasoi Dam Pics

By Ramesh Bhadra

Shops Closing at 12 in night.

With every new police officer there are good things to the city, and sometimes not so good.


DSP Subash Trivedi had bought peace to the city yet few things can be eased out for common man, with new DSP most of the shops and eateries are now being closed at around 12 in night, worst of all common hangout areas like S.T.Stand , Hospital are also asked to be shutdown by midnight, Jamnagari do like to hangout in night and there was never a case when law and order got disturbed by this.

DSP should look into this matter and take neccessary steps.

HPCL Refinery : RIL Jamnagar's New Challenge

Around 50 senior engineers recently left Reliance Industries (RIL) Jamnagar to join HPCL Mittal Energy Ltd's upcoming 9MMT Guru Gobind Singh Refinery at Bathinda in Punjab.


Considering recent refining growth in India, RIL and ESSAR refineries around Jamnagar were the only option left for poaching. most of the new refineries are built on UOP technology which serves as common ground for most of the engineers to venture in different companies.

A HR Analyst also said that this trend is just started and may be increasing over the time.

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Change in BigB's Dwarka Travel

There is slight change in timings of Amitabh Bachhan's Visit to Dwarka

As per official spokesman Amitabh will visit Dwarka on 20-21's August.

Amitabh Bachchan - Dwarka Ad Shooting

Come 16th August and Dwarka will be host to Amitabh Bachhan. Big B will be here to shoot an ad for promotion of Gujarat Tourism.


Amitabh Bachhan is brand ambassador for Gujarat Tourism and have completed a ad tour of Kutchh/Bhuj.

Administration is working on smooth execution of this event that will be on for 2-3days, area near Gomti Ghat, Ambani Marg etc is now cleared of for shooting.

Khambhalia Rain Update

Jamnagar district is still experiencing heavy rain, Khambhalia received 32 inch rainfall in last two days,


This leads to a flood situation. Electricity, Transport and essentials supply is disrupted, Ghee Dam in Khambhalia is overflowing by 4 feet as we note, food packet distribution is underway from authorities.

Jamnagar Heavy Rain Images

Pics by Ramesh Bhadra

Ranjit Sagar Overflow Pics

Ranjit Sagar Dam

Ranjit Sagar Dam

River Near Ranjit Sagar

Causeway Near Ranjit Sagar

Images by Ramesh Bhadra