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After three days of the Rajkot game zone fire tragedy that killed 27, the chief of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Wednesday said that they have been given the go-ahead to question even senior IAS and IPS officials if the probe warranted. The Rajkot collector said that the DNA samples of all the victims […]
Two outdoor advertising agencies in the city are in a soup for illegally trimming 536 trees on edges of roads to make advertising hoardings more visible. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has fined them Rs 50 lakh each. Condemning the act, AMC commissioner M Thennarasan asked the deputy municipal commissioner, I K Patel, to initiate […]
Prakash Hiran, one of the owners of the TRP Game Zone in Gujarat’s Rajkot, has been confirmed dead in the fire that broke out in the facility on May 25. He was one of the main accused in the incident. The identification was made through DNA testing, which matched samples from the remains found at […]
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Rajkot fire tragedy on May 25 has highlighted serious lapses by the promoters of the TRP Game Zone, leading to 28 deaths. The SIT report revealed the lack of separate entry and exit gates, absence of emergency exits, and unsafe welding practices inside the facility. Instead of having […]
The Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) and the Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) will release Shyam Benegal’s restored ‘Manthan’ in 100 cinemas across 50 cities in the country. The film will be released on June 1, World Milk Day. In Gujarat, it will be released in Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Anand, Rajkot, Gandhinagar and Nadiad. The […]
The High Court of Gujarat has begun the online registration process for the recruitment on 1,318 vacancies of various posts in high court, district courts, industrial and labour courts on its recruitment portal at hc-ojas.gujarat.gov.in. Eligible candidates can apply for the advertised posts on the official portal created by the exam-conducting body – National Testing […]
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) is soon leaving for Sri Lanka to further probe the arrest of four ISIS terrorists at Ahmedabad airport. Sri Lankan police have detained two individuals related to the case, while a third suspect, Osmond Gerrard, remains at large. Sri Lanka has declared Gerrard wanted and announced a $2 million reward […]
Subhash Trivedi, the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), said on Wednesday that all suspended officials, including IAS, IPS, and fire department officers, will be summoned and questioned concerning the incident at the TRP Gamezone in Rajkot within a day or two. Members of the SIT held a meeting with the Minister of State […]
A man pretending to be an IAS officer and his accomplice allegedly duped a journalist and his friend out of Rs 60 lakh. The conmen lured the victims by promising fictitious government jobs. The scam began in May 2023 when the conmen published a deceptive advertisement in a Gujarati newspaper, promoting Class 3 and Class […]
Former Gujarat chief minister, Shankersinh Vaghela, wrote to Governor Devvrat Acharya on Tuesday appealing for the establishment of a separate commissionerate of fire safety and disaster management. He also called for a transparent and effective single-window online licensing authority system in the wake of the Rajkot gaming zone fire tragedy. He said he hoped the […]
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Monday slapped show cause notices on at least nine of its fire officers for giving fraudulent certificates. The Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services (AFES) has been in the spotlight in view of the Rajkot fire tragedy that killed 28 persons. The nine AFES officers, currently making fire safety checks […]
In a scathing attack on the state government, the Gujarat High Court on Monday said that it no longer has faith in the state machinery that gets into action only after lives are lost. The division bench of Justice Biren Vaishnav and Justice D M Desai was hearing the suo motu PIL on the TRP […]
Thousands of labourers from Arvind Mills gathered on Monday in the state capital, Gandhinagar, protesting against the company. The labourers have been on strike for the last few weeks over complaints of breaches of labour laws by the company, inadequate wages, and exploitation. A group of representatives of the labourers met the Assistant Labour Commissioner […]
A total of 113 couples were cheated out of Rs 24.86 lakh by a man who promised them a community wedding that never took place. Amraiwadi police registered a case against Prakash Parmar, trustee of the Hindu Jan Vikas Seva Sangh Trust for collecting Rs 22,000 from each couple by fraudulent means. The complaint was […]
The fire incident at a gaming zone in Gujarat’s Rajkot, in which at least 27 people were killed, also claimed the lives of a newly-married couple and the woman’s sister. Akshay Dholaria, who was studying in Canada, and his wife Khyati Svaliwea were celebrating their court marriage at Rajkot’s TRP Game Zone on Saturday evening, […]
A video grab has come up showing how the fire started at the gaming zone on Saturday in Gujarat’s Rajkot, that left 33 dead, including nine children. The CCTV camera footage shows the massive fire at TRP Game Zone started from a welding spot. In a 40-second video posted by news agency PTI, a massive […]
Mundra Port, the flagship of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ), created yet another record as it welcomed the largest container ship ever to call at an Indian port, the company announced. The docked vessel, MSC Anna, has a length of 399.98 metres – roughly the length of four football fields – and […]
Following a massive fire that claimed 33 lives at a gaming zone in Rajkot, police on Sunday said they had registered an FIR against six partners on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and had taken into custody two individuals. Rajkot Police Commissioner Raju Bhargava told reporters that the gaming zone had been […]
Around 4.30 pm on Saturday, fire broke out in the TRP Game Zone in Rajkot and within minutes at least 30 persons, including children, were charred to death. The gaming zone did not have the requisite No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Fire and Safety Department. The gaming zone had inflammable substances and tyres. The […]
The Gujarat High Court on Sunday took suo moto cognizance of the fire tragedy that claimed 33 lives at a gaming zone in Rajkot, saying that it was a “man-made disaster” prima facie. It was observed by the bench of Justices Biren Vaishnav and Devan Desai that gaming facilities and recreational amenities had been built […]
