Sparks are likely to fly in Bhavnagar on Thursday after the local police refused permission for' against 'police excesses' during state BJP president Jitu Vaghani's felicitation function on September 11.State junior home minister Pradipsinh Jadeja told TOI that permission for the rally was declined to maintainin the town. Even as Jadeja warned of legal consequences if the rally was held, PAAS func...

Source : Times Of India | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

GRD jawan rapes 11-yr-old girl, held

An 11-year-old girl was alleged raped twice in a month's time by her 30-year-oldAccording to case details, Rajesh lives in the government housing scheme for the economically poor in Lalwadi. He is a jawan with the Gram Rakshak Dal (GRD) in Jamnagar rural. Earlier, about a month ago, Rajesh had called the girl who lives in his neighbourhood to his house and allegedly raped her.On Tuesday, Rajesh once...

Source : Times Of India | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

60-yearr-old man bludgeoned to death

60-year-old man was bludgeoned to death by five persons in broad daylight in, was intercepted by the five accused on the Vardhaman Nagar main road at around 10am. The assailants thrashed his head with sledge hammers and beat him with sticks and hockey sticks.alias Narendra Thakor, his brother Gopal, Ajay Kathi, Dharmendra Thakor and Bhavesh Thakor. All have been booked for murder and criminal conspiracy....

Source : Times Of India | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

15 persons booked for ransacking toll plaza

Over a dozen unidentified persons were booked on Tuesday for ransacking 10 booths of(37), 15 unidentified men with sticks and iron rods came in 10 cars late Monday evening and without any instigation started ransacking the booths. They smashed the glass windows of the booths and broke the computer units placed inside the booths. As a result, traffic on the route was affected for over two hours.Sharma...

Source : Times Of India | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

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Rajkot, Sept. 26 (PTI): Eight persons were killed after a truck allegedly hit the auto-rickshaws in which they were travelling in Gujarat's Morbi district this morning, police said.The victims, who were in two auto-rickshaws, had stopped for tea at a roadside stall on Morbi-Kutch highway when the speeding truck hit their vehicles from the rear, a police officer said. The victims were all pilgrims....

Source : Telegraphindia | 4 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

8 killed as tanker rams into parked vehicles in Morbi

least eight people, including four women, were killed and eight others injured when a speedingdistrict on Monday early morning. The deceased were part of a group of pilgrims from Khambhat taluka of Anand going towards Mata Nu Madh in Nakatrana taluka of Kutch. The pilgrims belonged to Dhansa, Golana and Kasbara villages of Khambhat.took place near Surajbari bridge on the Morbi-Kutch highway. About...

Source : Times Of India | 4 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

3 from Upleta, Talala drown in two accidents

Three children drowned in two separate drowning accidents reported since Saturday.In Moti Paneri village, near Upleta town, a 12-year-old boy Ridham Jhakhaniya drowned in a lake where he had gone to bathe with his two friends on Sunday. Jhakhaniya lived in, 12. The boys had gone to bathe in a lake near their village. Their bodies were fished out late in the evening, said M K Movaliya, head constable,...

Source : Times Of India | 5 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

Bomb hoax at GSRTC bus depot keeps police on toes

The city police was sent into a tizzy on Sunday after the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) depot received an anonymous phone call informing that three bombs were planted at different places in the premises.The call was received at 11:20am on Sunday at the inquiry counter of the depot. The person who answered the call immediately informed the depot manager N B Varmora who called up the...

Source : Times Of India | 5 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

Husband, wife killed in accident near Virpur

A man and his wife were killed while their young son got critically injured when a speeding car hit their bike from behind on the Rajkot-Jetpur highway late on Saturday night.to meet his in-laws. When they reached Pithadiya toll plaza at around 9pm, a speeding vehicle rammed their motorcycle from behind.The four were rushed to a private hospital in Rajkot where Harsola and Jagruti succumbed to injuries....

Source : Times Of India | 5 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

Ex-Army man shoots himself to death in Porbandar

ex-Army man shot himself to death with his licensed gun at his home inThe deceased was identified as Devsi Bhutia. According to police sources, Devsi had shot himself in the head with a .12 bore gun at his residence on Chhaya Plot in Porbandar town.Police said that the immediate reason for Devsi taking the extreme step was not immediately known.Prime...

Source : Times Of India | 5 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot