Articles tagged under: Bhachau

Hindu students, parents allege religious conversion attempts in school; Videos go viral

January 31, 2024
Hindu students, parents allege religious conversion attempts in school; Videos go viral

Kutch: Videos have gone viral recently on social media from Adhoi village in Bhachau taluka, where students and parents confront the Christian teachers of an English school after they gave the Bible to Hindu students in an alleged attempt at conversion. In the viral video, the parents can be seen confronting and questioning the teachers about why the Bible was given to Hindu students. When the teacher claimed that the students asked for the Bible, the young student promptly said that he did n...Read More

25 km traffic jam on Samakhiali Highway due to trucker’s protest

December 30, 2023
25 km traffic jam on Samakhiali Highway due to trucker’s protest

Kutch: The Samakhiali National Highway in Bhachau taluka has been witnessing a traffic jam since 10:30 am today, causing long queues of vehicles on both sides of the road. There is a 25-kilometre traffic jam on the National Highway, and stones were pelted at a government bus during a protest. One person was injured in the stone-pelting. The protesters further vandalised the bus. Truck drivers in Kutch are protesting against a new Central Government law that mandates a ten-year sentence for driv...Read More

Gujarat ACB nabs Police Inspector, his middleman Constable in bribe case

July 20, 2023
Gujarat ACB nabs Police Inspector, his middleman Constable in bribe case

Bhachau: Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Gujarat has nabbed a Police Inspector and an Additional Head Constable cum PI Writer of Bhacuah Police Station in the Kutch district in the bribe case. A complainant in this case had taken money on interest and later he was facing harassment over repayment of lent money. When the complainant contacted Bhacuah Police Inspector AB Patel against this harassment by the loan shark, the Police Inspector demanded Rs. 5 lakh bribe for filing a complaint. As...Read More

Much delayed highway work on Bhuj – Bhachau highway

August 03, 2021
Much delayed highway work on Bhuj – Bhachau highway

Bhuj: Collector of Kutch Pravina DK stated in a letter to the secretary of Gujarat Road and Buildings Department about the delay in the development of Bhuj-Bhachau Highway and Bhuj-Nakhatrana Highway and in construction of overbridge between Bhuj and Bhachau. It was requested in the letter to hand-over these works to the Roads and Buildings Department which is currently under GSRDCL (Gujarat State Road Development Corporation Limited) so that regular monitoring by regional officers can be possib...Read More

‘Congress mukt Gujarat’ mission continuing, the latest is Kutch

September 03, 2013

Bhuj, 3 September 2013 Assembly elections are over last year, but 'Congress mukt Gujarat' mission of BJP is just going on. After recent news of BJP managing split in Dahod Congress, here's another development. 20 out of total 22 Congress Councillors of Bhachau municipality in Kutch on Monday faxed their resignations to state party president. Kutch district has total six municipalities, and only one is ruled by Congress. The elections of 22 seats of Bhachau munici...Read More

News in brief from across Gujarat

March 30, 2013

Ahmedabad, 30 March 2013 -4.5 intensity tremor was felt today in Kutch district of Gujarat in Bhachau/Rapar belt. No casualty or damage is reported. Some prominent TV channels are claiming to have the details of new team of BJP President Rajnath Singh. According to the reports, Rajnath may announce his new top team today evening or tomorrow morning. Amit Shah is new General Secretary of the party along with Varun Gandhi, Uma Bharti, Prabhat Jha, while Narendra Modi has bee...Read More

Three highway broadening works kicked off

January 28, 2013

by our correspondent, Bhuj, 28 January 2013 The broadening works of the Adipur-Mundra highway, Bhuj-Anjar highway and Bhachau-Rapar highway were kicked off by the state R&B minister on Sunday in Kutch district. A five meter wide Adipur-Mundra highway will be converted to 10 meter, while Bhuj-Anjar and Bhachau-Rapar both 7-meter wide highways will be converted to 10 meter status. Bhuj-Anjar highway work will involve a cost of Rs 40.95 crore, while the Bhachau-Rapar highwa...Read More

Sadbhavna mission is giving sleepless nights to anti-Gujarat elements:Narendra Modi in Kutch

November 19, 2011

By our political desk, Bhuj, 19 November, 2011 As many as 10,000 people from Kutch today voluntarily fasted with the Chief Minister Narendra Modi when he took upon a day-long fast today at Bhachau of Kutch district as a part of Sadbhavna mission. Rounding up his fast Chief Minister said that all-round growth of the people of Gujarat is the indicator of the strength of unity and peace, which is the only way to development. Because of Sadbhavna mission, Chief Minister said, ...Read More