Vadodara: A woman lost her life after being attacked and dragged into the Vishwamitri River by a crocodile near Kalaghoda Bridge today. Local residents, upon seeing the woman being dragged, informed the fire department, which promptly arrived at the scene. However, the team faced significant challenges while retrieving the woman's body from the water, as four to five crocodiles were nearby. According to the fire department, a call was received at the Command & Control Centre on October 14...Read More

Vadodara: The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) announced today that water is being released from the Ajwa and Pratappura reservoirs into the Vishwamitri River, which flows through the city. The VMC, via a social media post at around 7:30 AM today, said, "The water level of the Vishwamitri River is 15 feet, and the gates of the Ajwa and Pratappura dams have been opened. However, this will not bring any major change to the water level of the Vishwamitri River, so the public need not panic."...Read More

Japan K Pathak Extremely heavy rainfall of around 12.44 inches in Vadodara coupled with very heavy rainfall of 7.51 inches in Halol on August 26 brought flood to the city of Vadodara. This was a 37 ft height flood, much higher than the floods in 2005, 2014 and 2019 in the city that were below 35.50 ft (at Kalaghoda bridge in Vishwamitri river in Vadodara). Due to this 37 ft height the flood waters travelled to more areas of city in more volume. 23 August IMD forecast on August 23 clearly ga...Read More

Updates: -Two teams of National Disaster Response Force(NDRF) are deployed in Vadodara city. They arrived at the city command and control centre of Vadodara Municipal Corporation(VMC) in the evening. They shall move to the location where they are needed as per the directive. -Holiday is declared in all school students in VMC area on Monday, 30th September due to heavy rains. -IMD has upgraded its bulletin and declared Orange alert for the period of upto 8.30 am on Monday. Earlier it wa...Read More

Vadodara: The city civic body today launched the operation to demolish the illegal encroachment by the Agora Mall near the Vishwamitri River in the city. As part of this operation, the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) is razing the three-story clubhouse of Agora Mall, built in a 3,000 square foot area. Six JCB machines are being used in the operation that began today. In the aftermath of the floods that submerged the city of Vadodara in August, the city’s civic body issued notices to 10...Read More

Vadodara: In the aftermath of the floods that submerged the city of Vadodara in August, the city's civic body has issued notices to 10 entities for encroaching on public land. The Vadodara Municipal Corporation has given a 72-hour ultimatum to these entities to give reply to notices, stating that constructions done without leaving the required margin shall be demolished. Encroachments at Smriti Mandir, Maryland Party Plot, and the club house and compound wall of Agora Mall are to be cleared i...Read More