Articles tagged under: Kodinar

One held for sharing Instagram post to incite communal tension

January 29, 2026
One held for sharing Instagram post to incite communal tension

Kodinar: Kodinar police have arrested an accused for allegedly sharing an inflammatory post on social media aimed at spreading hatred between the Hindu and Muslim communities in Mool Dwarka village of Gir Somnath district. The objectionable post had gone viral, prompting the police to take swift action. After the police came to know about the post, the probe revealed that the content had been uploaded from an Instagram account named ‘Firoz Kharai’. Officials conducted an in-depth examinatio...Read More

Combing Operation at Kodinar’s Mul Dwarka Port; Desi Weapons Found from Dargah

November 17, 2025

Kodinar, Gir Somnath: Following the high alert issued nationwide after the recent blast in Delhi, the Gir Somnath district police launched a major combing operation in the sensitive 110-km coastal belt. The operation was carried out under the supervision of SP Jaideepsinh Jadeja, with the objective of tightening security and checking illegal activities in coastal villages and port areas. More than 120 police personnel, including 2 DySPs, 6 PIs, 7 PSIs, SOG, LCB and the Bomb Disposal Squad, pa...Read More

Lioness Attacks Elderly Woman in Kodinar

May 29, 2025
Lioness Attacks Elderly Woman in Kodinar

Kodinar: A lioness attacked an elderly woman in Bodva village of Kodinar taluka. However, the woman’s daughter showed courage and saved her mother from the lioness. The injured victim has been hospitalized and is undergoing treatment. The incident took place near a primary school in Bodva village, where Vanitaben Mansing Bhanbaniya resides with her family. Vanitaben’s 65-year-old mother, Malaiben Boghabhai Makwana from Chikhli village, had come to attend a family wedding. After the celebrat...Read More

Man fights lioness to rescue daughter from attack in Gir

March 29, 2025
Man fights lioness to rescue daughter from attack in Gir

Kodinar: It is often said that a parent can go to any extent to save their child, and this saying proved true when a man fought a lioness in Gir to rescue his daughter. The incident took place in Alidar village in the Gir region, where a five-year-old girl was with her father, a farmer when a lioness attacked her. In a desperate attempt to save his daughter, the father punched the lioness and managed to rescue her. The girl sustained injuries in the attack and was initially taken to a community...Read More