Of the bigwigs who will cast their votes in the city on Sunday include chief minister Vijay Rupani and governor of Karnataka, Vaju Vala.
RAJKOT: Of the bigwigs who will cast their votes in the city on Sunday include chief minister Vijay Rupani and governor of Karnataka, Vaju Vala. There is separate registration for Covid patients who would want to cast their votes which will be opened after 5 pm, said sources.
According to officials, Rupani, who has registered himself as per the Covid guidelines, is expected to arrive at Anil Gyan Mandir school voting booth of ward number 10 wearing his PPE kit. While Vaju Vala is expected to cast his vote around 2pm in Harihar hall booth on Kalavad road, Rupani’s wife Anjali will cast her vote at 9am. Rajkot Municipal commissioner Udit Agrawal and his wife Shweta Teotia, the managing director of PGVCL, will cast their votes at 10am in school number 11.
Rajkot: Blood groups can give a fair indication of how much one is at the risk of contracting coronavirus infection as well as the infection’s severity.
A study involving 405 Covid patients carried out by Rajkot-based Saurashtra University (SU) has shown that people with A blood group are the highest risk of getting infected while those having O blood group have the least chances.
The findings done by by the psychology department team complements the similar findings published in the reputed ‘Blood Advances’ journal of American Society of Hematology, said Yogesh Jogsan, head of the psychology department.
“Several studies carried out during the peak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) pandemic had also concluded that O blood group people had less risk of infection. The genetic code of novel coronavirus and SARS virus match 80%, said Jogsan.
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RAJKOT: After Surat cops caught two garment traders earlier this month for turning into bootleggers to tide over their humongous losses owing to the pandemic-induced lockdown, an owner of a home appliances showroom in Surendranagar too was arrested on Thursday evening along with his son for similar offences under the Prohibition Act.
The father-son duo was caught selling Indian Made Foriegn Liquor (IMFL), which they claimed was to offset the losses they had incurred in their legit business and overcome the financial crisis. According to police, 95 liquor bottles worth Rs 47,500 and 134 beer bottles worth Rs 13,400 seized from the residence of Narendra Solanki (56) on bus stand road.
Rajkot: A local court in Vanthli town of Junagadh district on Wednesday ordered an FIR against five policemen who had allegedly thrashed a 20-year-old youth in September last year allegedly for not wearing a mask in public.
The video of the incident was widely shared on social media, in which the policemen were seen beating up victim Aadil Chauhan with a baton while making him stand behind a vehicle with his both hands tied.
On Wednesday, additional chief judicial magistrate Bhadresh Gandhi noted that prima facie it appears that the way the youth was thrashed in public and that too, outside a police station, cannot be termed as an act of discharging duty by the accused cops.