Amreli: A lioness and two cubs have been captured in Luvara village in Saverkundla Taluka after the lioness mauled a 7-year-old boy to death on Thursday night. Three teams of the forest department conducted an overnight operation to capture the lioness. During the operation, they also traced two cubs. After significant efforts, the lioness and cubs were caged at around 5 am in the morning. The captured wild cats are being taken to a wildlife rescue center. A 7-year-old boy was attacked in ...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat BJP chief CR Patil will on Thursday attend a mass wedding function organized by Savli MLA Ketan Inamdar at Ketan farm on Poicha road. He will also address booth workers' gatherings at Anand, Nadiad, and Mahesana during the day.  Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel will attend a party meeting at Hotel Lords in Old Marketing yard in Amreli and also hold interaction with voters at the same venue. DeshGujaratRead More

Amreli: Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has declared final list of six candidates for 26-seat Lok Sabha election in Gujarat. One of the name declared is Bharat Sutariya for Amreli Lok Sabha seat. Sutariya is presently the District Panchayat president of Amreli. He is from Jarakhiya village of Lathi. He hails from Leuva Patidar community. He is a farmer by profession and class-10 pass by education. He is BJP cadre since 1991. He was taluka general secretary of party during 2009-11. He was tal...Read More

Amreli: The district headquarters in Amreli will get a broad gauge railway line. Groundbreaking for this was performed today virtually by Prime Minister Narendrabhai Modi. Amreli has been demanding broad gauge connectivity of railways for over three decades. The railway station here was built by Britishers in 1912. It will get broad gauge connectivity from Khijadiya at a cost of Rs. 178 crore. Presently the civil work for the same is underway at a cost of Rs. 85 crore. Apart from this, Rs. 129 c...Read More

Amreli: The forest department has arrested two men from Ahmedabad who were seen harassing a lion in a viral video. In the video, a person in a car turns on the headlights and honks at a lion on the road. Another individual exits the car, approaches the lion, shoots the video, and takes pictures with it while disrupting the natural behavior of the animal. The arrested individuals, Rohit Heerlal Rajput and Tejas Rajendra Singh Parmar, had come to Khambha's Tulsishyam range under Dhari Gi...Read More

Amreli: A police complaint has been filed against Moinbin Imtiyaz Kashiri and Shahnawaz Taufiq Sheikh in Amreli for harassing a 17-year old minor Hindu girl. As per the facts of the police complaint reported in a local edition of Gujarati daily, a victim Hindu girl was returning to her house after shopping when Moin and Shahhawaz came to her. Moin held her hand and sought her phone number. When denied, he spoke abusive words and chased the girl upto her house. After sexual abuse, Shahnawaz ...Read More

Amreli: About two decades ago, the land was purchased for setting up a copper plant on Hindorna-Barpatoli stretch and public hearing was held for proposed plant. After an agitation, the proposal was shelved. However now the proposal has been revived again and an environmental hearing is going to take place on March 13. The company representatives had dropped their Nigala visit last year after protests from the locals last year. The company now plans to reenter with fresh plans. The projec...Read More

Amreli: A lioness (5 to 9 years old) died of drowning in Arabian Sea off Amreli coast in Gujarat. Its body was found on Thursday evening along the coast of Dharabandar village. Death of Lion by drowning is rare and uncommon instance. DeshGujaratRead More

Amreli: The forest department on Friday night rescued and caged a lioness that had become violent, attacking three people in Vavera village of Rajula taluka in a single day. The lioness was caught at the end of a 10-hour mega operation by the forest department. According to the details, the aggressive lioness attacked Washrambhai Solanki and Manjuben Solanki, residents of Vavera village, on Friday morning. Both individuals were shifted to Rajula Hospital for treatment in a bloody condition. ...Read More

Amreli: A soft-release facility at Ambardi Safari Park welcomed six zoo-bread wolves recently.  Originating from the wolf breeding center in Sakkar Baug Zoo, Junagadh city, the wolves spent around three months acclimatizing in a quarantine facility before Forest and Environment Minister Mulubhai Bera released them into soft-release enclosures. Ambardi Safari Park now stands as the third soft-release facility in the state, joining the ranks of Nadabet in Banaskantha and Devaliya Safari Park. ...Read More