News in brief from across Gujarat

Gandhinagar: Fire broke out on the 7th floor of Ganesh Meridian building opposite the Gujarat High Court late in the evening on Friday. It further spread to the 8th floor also. Nearly a dozen fire vehicles reached the spot to douse the fire.

-Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will hold its national executive meeting of Tribal morcha in Gujarat on 9, 10, 11 May. The party’s tribal leaders from 16 states will attend the national executive meet at the Statue of Unity in Narmada district of Central Gujarat.

– Two talati cum mantri are suspended after a video clip in which they were seen drinking liquor went viral. The video was from Debhari gram panchayat of Mahisagar. The District Development Officer (DDO) has ordered a suspension of both talati cum mantri after finding that there was truth in the video.

– Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel flagged off a bus service connecting Ahmedabad city to Thol lake in presence of former deputy chief minister Nitin Patel. The bus service is operated by Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) arm Amdavad Municipal Transport Service (AMTS).

– Gujarat BJP plans to move 125 vistaraks (full timers) to 182 assembly seats. The tour of trained vistaraks with specific tasks in their hands will start from May 10 through assigned assembly segments, it is learnt.

– Ahmedabad city police has decided to shut 60 traffic signals from 1 pm to 4 pm in order to give relief to commuters from the scorching sun at signal stoppages. The decision will be executed initially for just two days on an experimental basis.

– A local court in Ahmedabad has denied bail to one Mohsin from Juhapura whose wife Amrinben had filed a police complaint over triple talaq.

– Gujarat BJP chief CR Patil will be in Surat district on Saturday in the course of his one-day one-district tour ahead of the State assembly elections that are likely to be held in December this year.

– Recounting of votes in Kuberanagar ward election of Amdavad Municipal Corporation will take place on Saturday as per the Supreme Court order. Kubernagar had gone for polling last year with all other wards of AMC in regular election.

– Aam Admi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Chief Minister will be in Rajkot on 11 May. He will address a public meeting in Shastri ground in Rajkot.

– A wild leopard dragged a two months old girl child to the jungle from her home but then didn’t attack her and just kept watching her.The incident happened in Vavpudi village of Ghoghamba taluka. When the girl child’s parents reached the jungle in search of their child, they were surprised to see that the leopard was sitting silently and just watching the girl child without harming her even slightly. The child was safely brought back by parents and admitted to hospital for check-up and care.

– IPS Anupamsinh Gehloat has been appointed Director of Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB). The Police Commissioner of Ahmedabad city, Sanjay Srivastav was incharge of this post so far.

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