News in brief from across Gujarat

Gandhinagar:

– Dead body of a Philippines sailor was found from a cabin of Venture Joy ship anchored at Kandla Port.

-Pakistan Marine agency has apprehended five boats of Porbandar with 30 fishermen aboard off Gujarat coast for alleged violation of international maritime boundary. Update: Pakistan apprehended more three fishing boats and 13 fishermen late in the night. Thus in 24 hours period Pakistan captured 8 Indian boats and 43 fishermen aboard.

-Gujarat government will purchase 1 lakh tonne more groundnut from farmers till February 10 on higher support prices. The government had earlier purchased 8 lakh tonne groundnut. Some new rules attached to purchase include; videography of purchase, GPS system in transport vehicles, mechanized as well as manual scrutiny of groundnut quality during purchase.

-Due to infighting within the party MLAs, the Congress party in Gujarat has been unable to take decision on appointment of chief whip, deputy leader of opposition and public accounts committee chairman.

-Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, his wife and friends before returning to Mumbai visited the white Rann of Kutch at Rann Utsav tent city in Dhordo. Tendulkar spoke to media persons before leaving Kutch and said the time spent in Kutch was memorable for him. People should explore domestic destinations more and give it importance over foreign places.

-It may take around one month time for MS University Vice Chancellor office to get functional again due to the incident of fire yesterday in which head office’s senate, syndicate related documents, recruitment, exams related details were burnt to ashes. Two computers and two UPS machines were burnt to ashes in this incident. 80 persons were rescued by fire brigade in this incident. Complaint has been filed by Niraj Jain in this case Three persons are arrested.

– Two persons from Haryana are arrested in ATM case in Vadodara. They are Iklash Zahirkhan and Ramzankhan. Both would insert the ATM card and enter pin number. Once the cash is out and ATM is in printing mode, they would switch off the power. This would prevent the ATM machine to record the data of withdrawal. The accused would then call the bank and complain that they couldn’t withdraw the money but the amount was debited. Both accused came to Vadodara in flight to cheat the bank once against. When police arrived to nab them, they chew the printed slip and spitted it. Sayajigunj police is probing the case.

– Chhayapuri railway station near Vadodara will be developed as satellite railway station. Ground breaking for the project took place today. The trains running on Ahmedabad-Godhra-Delhi route will halt at Chhayapuri and relieve the burden of Vadodara railway station. Work order issuance process for Rs 45 crore Chhayapuri railway station development is going on. Chhayapuri will get two loop lines, one platform, railway station building, waiting room, catering facility, ticket window, foot over bridge and subway facilities.

– Widening of one portion of Sardar bridge on river Tapi is over. The bridge connecting Adajan to Athwagate is ready and it will be opened for traffic on Sunday. With this, one portion of bridge will convert from two lane to four lane. The SMC has given Rs 80 crore contract for 8 lane conversion of this 4 lane bridge.

– A sadhu has been arrested and sent on four days remand for creating fake social media account and making indecent proposal to a lady. A woman in Wankaner had complained that she was lured by someone with fake account on social media. A person with fake account claimed he was from America. He had demanded nude photograph of victim woman. Local Crime Branch found that Kalana(Dhoraji) based Sadhu Gautam alias Gautamnath Jagdishchandra Gondaliya was the culprit in this case. According to police Sadhu has three Whatsapp, one Facebook and two Instagram accounts in his mobile phone. His cell phone also contained pornographic material. He would lure girls on social media platforms and would seek nude photo in order to blackmail them later. His mobile phones are sent to forensic science laboratory.

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