RMC intensifies Covid-19 testing all across Rajkot
Rajkot: The number of Covid-19 cases in Rajkot city touched 300 while 16 more people died in corona wards in various hospitals in 24 hours ending Monday morning.
In all, 30 people have succumbed to this deadly virus in the last two days.
Looking at the situation, the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) and district administration are gearing up to increase the beds capacity in the hospitals.
There are 590 beds reserved in PDU Government Hospital for Covid out of which 490 beds were full by Monday.
The district administration opened 110 beds in Samras Hostel with oxygen facility to accommodate more patients. More private hospitals were added for treatment.
Rajkot: A 15-year-old girl has alleged that she was raped repeatedly by her own father at their home on Kalavad Road on the night of April 3. The accused, an auto-rickshaw driver, was detained on Monday.
According to police, the 42-year-old accused on returning home on April 3 night beat the girl when she was sleeping alone at home and allegedly raped her. The girl told police that her father raped her thrice until 7 am on the next day. After he left for work on Sunday, the girl borrowed her neighbour’s mobile phone and called her mother to inform her about her father’s act.
Rajkot: A 51-year-old widow living in Morbi and her son were allegedly cheated of Rs 61 lakh by their tenant who promised to invest their money in systematic investment plans (SIPs). The widow, Ranjan Jha, lodged a complaint against the tenant Nikhil Chandarana on Sunday.
Jha told police that Chandarana, who claimed to be an employee of a private bank, encouraged her elder son Saket to invest through SIPs ever since he hired her apartment in September last year. Saket worked in a private company in Ahmedabad and his younger brother lived with their mother in Morbi.
Initially, Chandarana managed to convince Jha to transfer Rs 45,000 to him. Later, the accused started misleading Jha that income tax department might initiate an inquiry against her if she has a large sum of money in her bank account or other saving schemes. Chandarana’s ploy worked as Jha withdrew money from her bank account and also from all her deposits in postal department and LIC and gave the money to the accus
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AHMEDABAD: Gujarat reeled under relentless third surge of coronavirus as the state breached the 3,000 Covid-19 cases in a day for the first time on Monday. Total 3,160 cases were reported which calculated to roughly two Covid-19 cases detected every minute in the state. Fifteen people succumbed to the infection.
In such a scenario, authorities of the Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, the biggest Covid-designated hospital in the state, revealed that a total of 899 patients were hospitalized with corona complications in the past nine days. Of these, 95% of patients eligible for the Covid-19 protective jab had not got vaccinated.
The Gujarat Ecological and Education Research (GEER) Foundation has successfully implemented a pilot project to rejuvenate the grassland spread across 2,500 sqkm area
RAJKOT: Banni, one of the finest grasslands of Asia, ravaged by the menacing ‘gaando baval’ (prosopis juliflora), increasing salinity and climate change over the years, is set to regain its lost glory.
The Gujarat Ecological and Education Research (GEER) Foundation has successfully implemented a pilot project to rejuvenate the grassland spread across 2,500 sqkm area and also help resuscitate livelihood of the Kutchi cattle breeders. Around 600 hectare (ha) land in arid Kutch has been rejuvenated and blossoming with grass now!