1. No More PUBG in Rajkot, Top Gujarat Police Bans Popular Game
Rajkot Police Commissioner Manoj Agrawal on Wednesday, 6 March issued a notification to ban PUBG ( PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds), a popular mobile game. The decision was taken to curb increasing violence amongst children addicted to the game.
As per the notice, the ban will be implemented in Rajkot from March 9 to April 30. As per police, anyone can file a complaint and inform the nearest police station against people playing the game and strict action will be taken against them under Central Government Act under Section 188.
A similar notification was issued regarding 'Momo Challenge'. The 'Momo' account shares a series of challenges (read activities) that needs to be completed to finally meet the 'Momo'.
(Source: DNA Ahmedabad)
2. Modi Government the ‘Weakest Ever’ Regime at Centre: Patel
Congress treasurer Ahmed Patel Thursday said the NDA government is the "weakest ever" dispensation at the Centre since independence and its leaders are only good at delivering good speeches.
Patel was replying to a question of newsmen at Singala village in Karjan tehsil on the grenade attack in Jammu in which one person died and around 30 others were injured.
"I say this is the weakest government after independence. This government believes that by delivering speeches they can fight terrorism."This government needs to do basic things to fight terrorism," Patel said.
He recalled BJP leaders telling the then Congress-led UPA government at the Centre to talk tough with Pakistan. Without naming anybody, he criticised the Modi-led government for "weakening" spirit (mano bal) of the Army by politicising the air strike inside Pakistan.
(Source: PTI)
3. HC Rejects Sanjiv Bhatt’s Plea for Bail in 1996 Drug ‘Planting’ Case
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday rejected former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s bail plea in connection with a 23-year-old case.
Bhatt, who was arrested in September last year, has been accused of framing a lawyer from Rajasthan in a false case by planting drugs at a Palanpur hotel room in Banaskantha in 1996 as part of a “well-planned conspiracy” to get a property vacated in Rajasthan. Bhatt was SP of Banaskantha district then.
“Justice S G Gokanki passed an oral order rejecting the regular bail petition of Bhatt. A detailed order is awaited,” said a lawyer associated with the litigation.
The lawyer said that Bhatt had moved the petition on the ground that he has already got an anticipatory bail related to the alleged offence registered by Rajasthan Police, and therefore, the second FIR registered in Gujarat in connection with the same incident was not maintainable.
(Source: Indian Express)
4. 3,000 ASHA Workers on Strike for Over a Week
Nearly 3,000 ASHA workers in Gir Somnath, Porbandar and Junagadh districts are on strike for about 10 days now. They have sought minimum wages and other entitlements from the government and claim that the wage hike in 2017 was an eyewash. They say that they will continue to protest until their demands are met.
Vandana Sutariya, one of the prominent ASHA workers fighting for their rights, told DNA that ASHA workers were given 50 per cent hike when they had conducted protests in 2017, but other benefits were withdrawn so there was no net benefit.
"We are not getting Rs 3,000 per month. If we get minimum wages, we can get about Rs 300 per day. On the other day, we have round the clock duty. Whenever pregnant women are facing problems or if there's a case of delivery, it is the ASHA workers, who are first approached," said Sutariya.
(Source: DNA Ahmedabad)
5. Govt Releases Vibrant Summit ‘Success’ Report: ‘Work Begins on 1,737 Projects in First 45 Days’
With the Lok Sabha elections around the corner, the BJP government in Gujarat on Thursday, 7 March claimed that a total of 1,737 projects, worth Rs 1.66 lakh crore, for which MoUs (memorandum of understanding) were signed during the latest edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit, have either been inaugurated or are under various stages of implementation within the first 45 days of holding the summit.
At a special post-Vibrant Gujarat ceremony held at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar on Thursday, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani released a booklet containing details of the projects signed during the ninth edition of the investors’s summit that was held in mid-January.
(Source: Indian Express)
6. Five Years' Jail for Ex Court Employee, Nephew for Graft
A former employee of the Ahmedabad Metropolitan Court and his nephew were sentenced to five years in prison by a special anti-corruption court on Thursday, 7 March after it found them guilty of corruption. Apart from the jail term, the court also imposed a penalty of Rs 10,000 on the duo for their act.
Notably, a former assistant superintendent in the Ahmedabad Metropolitan Court No 22, Jaikar Bhatt, and his nephew Hardik was arrested by the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) in July 2011 over corruption charges. After a thorough trial, the court found them guilty of indulging in corruption.
While pronouncing the verdict, the court held that corrupt practices by the court staff tarnishes the image of the judiciary and hence, stricter punishment is required. It also remarked that people have faith in the judiciary and if a staff of the judicial system indulges in corrupt practices, it is unpardonable. The court also said corruption is like a disease which eats into the system like termites and therefore, it needs to be completely eradicated.
(Source: DNA Ahmedabad)
7. Students Denied Hall Tickets Vandalise School
Students who did not receive hall tickets for the class X and class XII board examinations that began on Thursday, 7 March and their parents, vandalised the Prabhat Tara school at Adajan in Surat. Police detained about 10 students and a few of the parents and later released them.
The students and parents pelted stones at the school and then entered the office building and damaged furniture and broke windows, police said, after the school, which had been derecognised, could not secure hall tickets for its students.
Later in the evening, the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) issued a press release that the affected 54 students could register with the National Institute of Open Schooling run by the Union Ministry of Human Resources and Development, and appear for the exams in April.
(Source: Indian Express)
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