Bharuch: Britannia Industries announced on Monday that a strike has partially impacted operations at its Jhagadia plant in Gujarat. The company stated in an exchange filing, "the operations of the Company at its plant located at Jhagadia, Gujarat have been partially affected due to a strike that commenced today. The Company is in continuous discussion with workers to resolve the situation amicably." "At present, the impact of this event is being assessed and the Company is managing demand thro...Read More

Bharuch: A 10-year-old daughter of a migrant family died of rape injuries in a Vadodara-based hospital. The migrant family of the victim girl was from Jharkhand. The accused in this case, Vijay Paswan, is also a migrant from Bihar. He has been arrested. He is on a 7-day remand approved by the Ankleshwar court's Additional District Judge. The victim girl died on the 8th day of rape. She was abducted from her home and raped by Paswan (36) in a bushy area near her home. Paswan not only raped the...Read More

Bharuch: The Birla Century plant at the Jhagadia GIDC estate has permanently ceased operations, with the employment of 1,400 workers ending under a Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS). According to the company, ongoing financial challenges, exacerbated by global issues impacting the textile industry, led to this decision. Seventy-eight workers who declined the VRS offer were terminated. These employees staged a protest on Monday, alleging they were not informed about the closure. Meanwhile, it ...Read More

Gandhinagar: Former Jhagadia MLA and Bharatiya Trible Party (BTP) president Mahesh Vasava today joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at State BJP headquarters Shri Kamalam here in the presence of Gujarat BJP chief CR Patil. Former Palanpur MLA Mahesh Patel also joined BJP in this function. Paresh Vasava, national vice president of BTP and former chairman of the district panchayat committee also joined BJP. Nitaben Modi, daughter of late former Congress Chief Minister Chhabildas M...Read More

Bharuch: A massive blast and fire is reported from privately owned UPL5 industrial plant. UPL has five plants in Gujarat. Jhagadia plant for speciality chemicals is one of them. The blast according to locals was heard post 1 am and it was so massive that it was heard across 10-12 km radius at the places including Jhagadia, Panoli and Ankleshwar. The blast created earthquake like shaking, said locals. Primary reports suggest that two persons were injured in this incident of blast and fire. Howeve...Read More

Bharuch: Ahead of February-2021 local elections, large number of Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) cadres including Sarpanchs (village heads) and Deputy Sarpanchs from over three dozen villages, taluka panchayat president, vice president, Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) chief, Kharid Vechan Sangh chief have today joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jhagadia, the assembly seat segment, BTP founder chief Chhotu Vasava represents in the State assembly. Chhotu Vasava has meanwhile reacted...Read More