News in brief from across Gujarat

Ahmedabad:

– Gujarat High Court has issued notice to CIC and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on petition moved by Gujarat University on Prime Minister’s degree row. Gujarat University has moved High Court against Kejriwal and others in response to which hearing was held.

– Gujarat High Court has sanctioned the scheme of Amalgamation of Aristique Ceramic Pvt Ltd into Asian Granito.

– Parts of Gujarat today received light showers. Jamnagar, Amreli, Junagadh, Veraval, Botad, Arvalli etc were some of the areas where rains were witnessed. According to Met department, conditions are favorable for further advance of SouthWest monsoon into some parts of north Arabian sea, South Gujarat region in next 48 hours. SouthWest monsoon has so far advanced further and onsent over Mumbai today and upto the parts of South of Gujarat.

– The city of Rajkot will witness the largest Prenatal Yoga in the world on Tuesday on the occasion of World Yoga Day.

– Students from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad(ABVP) in Vadodara submitted a representation before the district collector and demanded that internal mark system which is root of financial and moral corruption in colleges must be abolished. ABVP’s this move was after rape incident in Parul University in which Nursing student has accused University’s founder president of committing rape and filed police complaint in Waghodia police station here.

– Wadhodia today observed bandh against Parul University rape incident. Bandh call was given by BJP MLA of Waghodia Madhu Shrivastava. Parul University founder president Jayesh Patel is accused of rape. Patel had contested assembly election from Waghodia twice against Madhu Shrivastava on Congress ticket unsuccessfully. Patel is wanted by police. Shrivastava wants Gujarat government to take over Parul University.

-The Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Gujarat police has nabbed yet another accused of the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts, who was also a former SIMI operative, from Belgaum in Karnataka.PSI of the ATS M L Saluke today said that Nasir alias Parvez Abdul Mazid Rangrez (38), against whom a local metropolitan court had issued arrest warrant since long in connection with the conspiracy of the blasts, was nabbed from his native place Belgaum in Karnataka yesterday.’We had collected information about him and got to know that he was working as an auto-rickshaw driver there. He was also a member of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and had conducted training camps in Pawagarh and other places with regard to the terror attack,’ the PSI said.On July 26, 2008 a series of 21 bomb blasts hit Ahmedabad, within a span of 70 minutes. 56 people were killed and over 200 people were injured in the incident.

– Ahead of 7 July annual Rath Yatra, Jagannath Mandir in Ahmedabad organized Jal Yatra today.

– Hundreds of cadre of ‘Gujarat Khedut Samaj’, an anti-government anti-development projects body in rural Surat area today marched in rally against Surat Urban Development Authority move.

– DeshGujarat