Leh-Ladakh region has proven to be a good market for Amul products like butter, tetrapak milk and mithai mate
VADODARA/ ANAND: Homegrown dairy giant Amul has opened its highest altitude branch in Leh near the strategically crucial Indo-China border. This branch will work to meet the demand of remote areas up to the Chinese border even when the road is closed in winter.
The Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) that markets Amul brand has opened its 70th branch at Leh. The branch is fully equipped with ambient, cool and frozen warehousing and logistics infra, GCMMF officials said.
The road connecting Srinagar, where Amul already has a branch, to Leh remains closed for nearly six months.
Vadodara: Burglars targeted an electronics shop in Padra town in the wee hours of Sunday and decamped with appliances worth Rs 38,015.
Police said that two thieves broke into the shop near VUDA crossroads sometime around 4 am on Sunday. The duo stole an LED television, two air coolers, seven mobile phones and two music systems. The owner of the shop Vrajesh Patel learnt about the burglary at 10 am when he received delivery of refrigerators. The deliveryman called Patel asking where he was since the shop was open. Patel was initially shocked as the shop was closed for Sunday. When he reached the shop, it came to light that there was a theft.
Vadodara: A day after deputy chief minister Nitin Patel warned of action against hospitals unnecessarily admitting Covid-19 patients, 10 inspection teams were formed on Sunday to carry out checking at private facilities in the city. The teams comprised of 20 senior doctors and professors from Medical College, Baroda associated with the state-run SSG Hospital and GMERS Hospital, Gotri.
“Inspection of private hospitals has started. We will enforce the notification for admission of Covid-19 patients and divert others for home-based Covid care under the Sanjeevani Abhiyan,” said Dr Vinod Rao, officer on special duty for Covid-19 in Vadodara.
“Those hospitals who violate the guidelines will face action under the Epidemic Act and Disaster Management Act,” he said.
Khalil Dhantejvi, one of the most prolific poets in Gujarati language, died on Sunday
Vadodara: Mana ki zindagi se bahot pyaar hain magar, kab tak rakhonge kaanch ke bartan sambhal kar (We know that you love life immensely, but how long will you take care of the glassware?) the man, who wrote these lines that were later sung by ghazal maestro late Jagjit Singh, is no more.
Khalil Dhantejvi, one of the most prolific poets in Gujarati language, died at the age of 82 in Vadodara due to age-related issues on Sunday.
Born in a poor family in Dhantej village of Vadodara’s Savli taluka, Khalil could not complete his formal education beyond Class IV. But from a very young age he started mastering the art of writing, turned into an author, poet, journalist and columnist.