The flying squad of the department carried out 171 raids in 2019 and 127 raids in 2020 to check illegal practices in leases.
GANDHINAGAR: The menace of illegal mining and malpractices of those who have been granted mining lease dominated the question hour of the Gujarat assembly on Monday.
Congress MLAs sought details of the work by the flying squad of mines and minerals department of the government.
Providing information, minister Saurabh Patel said that in the past two years, the flying squad of the department carried out 171 raids in 2019 and 127 raids in 2020 to check illegal practices in leases. He added that mining theft of Rs 120.7 crore was detected in 2019 and Rs 91.8 crore theft was detected in 2020.
File photo of Mahatma Gandhi
AHMEDABAD: Former West Bengal governor and Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi has donated 550 letters between Bapu, Kasturba, Sardar Patel, Mahadev Desai, and his father Devdas Gandhi (Mahatma’s youngest son) to Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust on Friday. The collection also includes special envelopes made by Sardar Patel while in jail.
These unpublished letters were to form part of the 100 volumes of the collected works of Mahatma Gandhi. Devdas Gandhi had desired to compile these letters himself and publish them with his own notes. However, his death in 1957 stalled the project. The intimate letters include Bapu’s editing instruction to Devdas on certain articles as well as Kasturba remembering Devdas and expressing her desire to meet him.
Jamnagar police with the laptops that were stolen from MP Shah Medical College s hostel on December 26, 2020
RAJKOT: Cyberbullying of his girlfriend by some medical students in Chennai five years ago left this Tamil Nadu man so bitter that he decided to extract revenge from all those studying medicine across India. He did not resort to similar crime, but started targeting their most indispensible gadgets laptops.
On Wednesday, Jamnagar police were also amused when they arrested the 24-year-old laptop thief Tamilselvan Kannan as he confessed to having stolen at least 500 laptops from several medical college hostels across the country, mostly south India, since 2015.