News in brief from across Gujarat

Gandhinagar: Kankaria Lake Front opens completely for public with entry restricted to 50 percent; All rids and stalls reopen today with 50 percent staff, all 300 staffers including cleaning staff, stall owners, ride operators tested for COVID19

– Union Home Minister Amit Shah likely to visit Gujarat – Pakistan border on November 12 with BSF DG Rakesh Asthana

– Last day of campaign for 8-seat Gujarat assembly by-polls. Campaign ends at 5 pm today

– A major fire was reported at Jindal Worldwide textile unit in Narol area of Ahmedabad. A team of 60 officers and personnel from Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Service doused the flames after six hours of operation.

– Election for the post of the Chairman of Banas Dairy will take place on Monday in which existing Chairman Shankar Chaudhary will be declared reelected.

– Opposition Gujarat Congress chief today held a press conference and showed a video clip in which an unidentified person converses with former Congress MLA Soma Ganda Patel. In this conversation, according to Congress party, Soma Patel was heard saying that BJP paid to MLAs for their resignations.

– The Supreme Court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking withdrawal of Z+ security cover given to Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and his family while observing that it is for the State to assess and review the threat perception of individual and take a call on such issues. A Bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan dismissed an appeal filed by petitioner Himanshu Agarwal against a December 2019 order of the Bombay High Court.

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