News in brief from across Gujarat

Gandhinagar: News in brief from across Gujarat this morning:

– Suffering from food poison, diabetes and blood pressure, Education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama has been taken to UN Mehta hospital in Ahmedabad. Chudasama was unwell when he returned in train to Ahmedabad from Vapi in South Gujarat late in the evening yesterday.

– AMC has started Rs 12 crore construction work for a road connecting Vishwakunj – Chandranagar to Ambedkar bridge on Sabarmati Riverfront.

– The Government of Pakistan is likely to release 27 Indian fishermen – Most of them from Gujarat – on August 13. There are at present 418 Indian fishermen in Pakistani jails.

– 12 teams of RTO Ahmedabad today conducted checking for fitness certificates of school vehicles outside some prominent schools of city including CN School and Mount Carmel.

– City police in Amdavad continued its drive against road side parking and encroachments jointly with the Municipal Corporation staff on Saturday. The stretch chosen today to take actions was Vasna road upto Anjali theater. Another such drive has been initiated in Prabhat Chowk area of Ghatlodia.

– It’s second day of fast by leader of opposition Paresh Dhanani at Gondal against irregularities in groundnut purchase at Minimum Support Price(MSP).

– Over 300 Congress workers and leaders including outgoing city unit president, general secretary and others have resigned protesting against appointment of Vinu Amipara as new president of party’s city unit in Junagadh.

– City police crime branch in Ahmedabad has raided a call centre in Gaziabad in Uttar Pradesh involved in cheating through phone calls. A local in Ahmedabad had filed complaint regarding Rs 4.80 lakh cheating. Police has arrested 6 including 4 women.

– Thieves took away ATM machine of Bank of India from Chhapi village of Banaskantha district of North Gujarat late in the night. Police has started probe into this incident of crime.

-Union Textile minister Smriti Irani is on Surat visit today. She is scheduled to attend screening of recently released movie based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s childhood. She will also inaugurate Yarn Expo at Sarthana. She will hold meetings with representatives of industries.

-The Divisional controller of GSRTC here, J R Buch was today arrested by police in connection with a sexual harassment complaint by a subordinate woman employee.The woman had filed the complaint against Buch on July 24 after which the officer had applied for anticipatory bail in a local court here. The court rejected his plea today following which he was arrested by the police.The woman has in her complaint alleged that Buch was pressurising her for physical relationship for past one year.

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