Banaskantha: A teenage girl died from asphyxiation on Wednesday morning due to a gas leak from the geyser in the bathroom of her house in the Tirupati Rajnagar Society in Palanpur. Dushyantbhai Vyas, originally from Vadgam and involved in the building construction business, lives in the Tirupati Rajnagar Society. He has three children, and his 13-year-old daughter Durva (the youngest) went to the bathroom around 11:30 AM on Wednesday. When there was no sound from the bathroom for 15 minutes a...Read More

Banaskantha: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Gujarat today nabbed two government-licensed surveyors from the District Inspector Land Records (D.I.L.R.) office in Palanpur in a bribe case involving a sum of ₹1 lakh. The complainant had submitted an application to the D.I.L.R. office to correct area measurement changes in their agricultural land due to promulgation. The application was assigned to the accused, Bhaveshkumar Dalpatbhai Patani, a government-approved licensed surveyor. Bhaves...Read More

Banaskantha: The Gujarat government has given the green signal to the proposal made by the MLA to construct an 8-lane iconic-pattern road from the Aroma Circle on Ahmedabad-Palanpur Highway to the Railway Overbridge near Dhundhiyawadi. This road will help solve traffic problems from the highway to Cozy and ease congestion. The road will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 18 crore, and its iconic pattern will enhance its appearance with LED lights and landscaping. In Palanpur, the distr...Read More

Gandhinagar: Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has decided to allocate ₹262.56 crore for the development of the Ahmedabad-Mehsana-Palanpur road under the high-speed corridor initiative, the Gujarat government announced today. In this year's budget, the state government set aside provisions to develop heavily trafficked highways as high-speed corridors at an estimated cost of ₹3,100 crores. This initiative aims to facilitate transportation through improved road infrastructure and safer routes...Read More

Palanpur: Palanpur in Banaskantha has received a flyover, which is the second such bridge in India and the first of its kind in the state of Gujarat. A three-leg elevated bridge has been constructed at the RTO circle in Palanpur, bringing significant relief to motorists traveling to Ambaji from Ahmedabad. Vehicles traveling from Abu Road to Ambaji and those going from Palanpur to Ambaji will use this bridge. Previously, heavy traffic jams often occurred due to the nearby railway crossing. How...Read More

Palanpur: The three-leg elevated rotary flyover, standing 17 meters above the ground level in Palanpur, has been completed. Gujarat's first three-leg elevated overbridge, the flyover is built at the cost of Rs. 89 crore. The bridge will be inaugurated as the Fair of Bhadarvi Poonam begins at Ambaji on September 12th. The bridge will be helpful for commuters traveling between Gujarat and Rajasthan. The flyover will also solve the problem of heavy traffic on the Palanpur highway. After the ...Read More

Palanpur: The Anti-Corruption Bureau of Gujarat has nabbed a security guard of the Palanpur RTO office today in a bribery case involving ₹1500. The complainant works in the office of an auto advisor and handles insurance and loan matters for clients. He frequently visits the RTO. The complainant was at the RTO to obtain a driving license for his employer's son. The application for the driving license was filled out, and on 20/5/24, the two-wheeler test was taken and passed by the applicant....Read More

Palanpur: A special NDPS court here has given 20 years imprisonment along with Rs. 2 lakh fine to sacked controversial IPS Sanjiv Bhatt in drugs planting case under NDPS sections 21(c), 27A (punishment for financing illicit traffic and harbouring offenders). Sanjiv Bhatt had committing crime of planting drugs in the hotel room of Rajasthan based advocate Sumer Singh Rajpurohit in 1996 when he was the district police chief of Banaskantha. CID Crime had arrested Bhatt and then Police Inspector...Read More