News in brief from across Gujarat (updated)

Ahmedabad, 19 December 2013

-Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi today morning addressed a workshop on Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana in capital Gandhinagar(Presented above is video of same).

-According to reports, Pakistan based Militant organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has warned that it will eliminate Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi if he becomes Prime Minister.
JeM’s Pakistan-based founder Maulana Masood Azhar has issued this warning in the outfit’s online weekly magazine al-Qalam. Azhar is a Pakistani national and features in India’s list of most wanted terrorists.

-Over 1500 workers in Valsad based Balaji wafers plant are on strike.

– A plea has been filed in the Gujarat High Court against proposed road blocking for cyclothon event in January 2014. Court seeks Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s reply. Further hearing tomorrow.

-Three students are suspended for ragging in Ahmedabad’s B.J. Medical college. Students are on strike against this action.

-Jamnagar Municipal Corporation’s Standing Committee Chairman and Deputy Mayor’s term extended for six more months.

-Gujarat Congress delegation today called on Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and demanded formation of inquiry commission to probe alleged snooping in Gujarat.

-After 22 days of their strike 22 Ceramic unit owners today sat on symbolic fast over gas price and other issues. Accompanied by Congress MP and a local Congress leader, a group of Ceramic unit owners Prime Minister. Unit owners have threatened indefinite strike if their issues are not resolved in three days.

-Four lions from Junagadh’s Sakkarbag zoo are shifted to Uttar Pradesh based Lucknow zoo under exchange programme. They will be shifted to the breeding centre at the upcoming 150.83 Lion Safari Park on Etawah-Gwalior National Highway early next year, he said. With this UP has three pairs of Asiatic lions. UP had procured two pairs of Asiatic lions from Hyderabad and Rajkot zoos in the past.

-Central Industrial Security Force(CISF) today carried out a mock drill at the Ahmedabad airport.

-Strike in L&T company at Hazira involving over 900 workers is continuing.

-The Surat Municipal Corporation(SMC) has approved Rs. 2.23 crore to develop a garden in Khajod. The SMC has also approved Rs. 4 lakh for Sting Ray fish for Adajan aquarium.

-IPS Mohan Jha today took charge of office as new police commissioner of Rajkot city.

-Former MLA Rajesh Pathak has been made party’s local unit general secretary today.

-Three persons including former BJP MLA of Dahod-Limkheda Mahesh Bhuriya are arrested by Vadodara crime branch in a few years old murder case.

-Around 10,000 roadside tea vendors from Mumbai are getting VIP passes to attend Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s “Maha-Garjana” rally in Mumbai on Sunday at Bandra-Kurla Complex. A special enclosure will be reserved for the tea vendors where they will sit and listen to Mr Modi in this rally. Modi made humble beginnings as a ‘chaiwala’ (tea vendor) at Ahmedabad railway station before plunging into politics. The Congress made fun of him and his modest start in life. He shot back that it was better to sell tea, than sell the nation.