Surendranagar: Kamleshbhai Patel, a farmer from Halvad in Morbi, makes an annual turnover of around Rs 15 lakh by selling organic honey generated by him through beekeeping. A team from Japan recently visited Halvad to shoot a documentary film about his work. Kamleshbhai Patel arranged 140 brood boxes in his farm. Around 30 thousand honey bees live in each brood box. The honey bees of 3 types namely king, queen and worker live in each brood box. He is able to generate 3 to 4 thousand kgs of h...Read More

Halvad: The Factory Safety Office has found hat that the salt packing unit at Halvad, where 12 laborers lost their lives due to the wall collapse, was operating without a proper factory licence because of which the power supply of the unit in question was promptly cut, a notice to close down the factory was issued and directions have been issued to initiate punitive action against the owners. A primary report prepared by the factory inspector in light of yesterday’s disaster mentions that S...Read More

Morbi: 12 laborers are dead due to the collapse of the wall in salt manufacturing unit in Morbi district of Gujarat. Morbi MLA and minister Brijesh Merja confirmed that 12 laborers were dead in this incident which took place in Sagar Salt company at Halvad based industrial estate of Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC). Rs. 2 lakh each from PMNRF would be given to the next of kin of those who have lost their lives due to the tragedy in Morbi. The injured would be given Rs. 5...Read More

Surendranagar: Traders in Halvad town have started an indefinite strike over nuisance of extortionist. The strike was started on Friday with demand of nabbing the criminals. The traders of marketing yard marched to Halvad police station in the form of rally and submitted a memorandum demanding action against extortionist. Even after request of DySP Radhika Barai, the traders were firm to continue with their indefinite strike until criminals face strict action. DeshGujaratRead More

Halvad: A rabid dog has bitten 23 people within a day in Halvad town of Morbi district. The injured persons had to be shifted to Morbi and Surendranagar for treatment due to absence of rabies vaccine in Halvad civil hospital. The rabid dog in Dhrangadhra darvaja area of Halvad had bitten one after another person today, leading to a total 23 persons suffering from bite injuries. The stock of rabies vaccine wasn't available in the Halvad civil hospital and the patients had to go to Morbi and Su...Read More

Gandhinagar: Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Gujarat has nabbed a head constable of Halvad Police Station, Pravinbhai Jasmatbhai Chandrala (Patel) and a middleman Bharat alias Chotli Harshadbhai Chauhan for seeking and taking Rs. 40,000 bribe for not involving a person in a liquor prohibition case. Bribe accused head constable had initially demanded Rs. 70,000 bribe but after bargaining, he later settled for Rs. 40,000 sum and asked to pay the amount of bribe at Jamnagar to a middleman Bharat ...Read More

Gandhinagar: Halvad-Dhrangadhra MLA Parshottam Sabaria who resigned from Congress and also from assembly today joined BJP with his around 1,000 supporters at State BJP headquarters Kamalam. DeshGujaratRead More

Surendranagar: Congress MLA from Halvad - Dhrangadhra constituency today resigned as MLA and also from party. Sabaria is likely to join BJP soon. Sabaria is industrialist turn politician who contested and won assembly election for the first time in 2017 assembly general election. He belongs to Kantha Chuvaliya Koli community. He stayed in jail for about 4 months for his alleged involvement in micro irrigation scam. He was later released on jail. Sabaria told media persons that he has taken t...Read More

Morbi: Halvad town of Morbi district is observing strike today protesting against attack on Sauratshtra region Bajrang Dal coordinator Bhavesh Thakkar and Alpeshbhai Patel by Sandhi community Muslims in Jugrivas area of town. Both injured are taken to Zydus hospital in Ahmedabad for further treatment. They were attacked by a group of 50-60 persons with swords and sharp weapon. It is learnt that Bhaveshbhai, Alpeshbhai and others were called by Muslims for compromise over an incident pert...Read More

Surendranagar: Agricultural produce market committee(APMC) at Halvad in Surendranagar district is going to spend Rs 20 crore for modernization after allocation of 20 bigha land by Gujarat government. The APMC has planned protected space to store 50,000 mann agri produce. Farmers on visit to the yard will be provided meal at half price. Guesthouse facility will be available to farmers and businessmen for token rate. The yard will be covered under CCTV camera surveillance system. Halogen l...Read More