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Just when he was running from pillar to post for his father Mohammed Saddik who suffered a brain stroke last month, Mohammed Akib Kazi, 33, caught Cov ....
Surat: Damage due to cyclone Tauktae in the city continued even on Wednesday as the fire department received 66 calls of falling of trees during the d. ....
Surat: A man living in Nanpura area had sent a forged high court order to the Surat Parsi Panchayat last month to allow the final rites of even the community members who succumb to Covid at the Tower of Silence. Mahiyar Patel, who works at a motor driving training school, was arrested and sent to judicial custody. He filed a bail application which was denied by a sessions court here on Monday. In his bail plea, Patel stated that was arrested on suspicion and he has not taken any advantage of the forged order. According to the case details, the Parsi panchayat had passed a resolution to cremate Covid victims according to Hindu rituals. This had hurt Patel’s religious sentiments as his father Ratansha Patel too had succumbed to Covid and his final rites were performed according to Hindu rituals. ....
Surat: After the Apex court’s guideline to decongest prisons in view of the Covid-19 situations, 59 inmates of Lajpore Central Jail (LCJ) were released on bail on Tuesday. These include undertrials and convicts. According to LCJ officials, those released on bail were convicts with sentences below seven years and undertrials whose punishment even if convicted was not more than seven years. Those released were also given ration kits by the local Karuna Trust. FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail ....
While the cyclone has ravaged 50-70% mangoes in Saurashtra and South Gujarat, 10-15 lakh tonnes of salt have been washed away AHMEDABAD/SURAT: Heavy and gusty winds joined by intense spell of rains have wreaked havoc on mango and salt crops. While the cyclone has ravaged 50-70% mangoes in Saurashtra and South Gujarat, a massive 10-15 lakh tonnes of salt lying in mounds across different areas has been washed away. Mango farmers from Gir-Somnath, Junagadh, Amreli and Bhavnagar, where tons of mouth-watering Kesar mangoes used to grow, are staring at huge losses as mango trees were devastated due to the heavy rains accompanied by strong wind currents. ....