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Acting on the complaint, Surat Crime Branch sleuths on Tuesday arrested Gaurang Kakadia, a resident of Ganesh Apartment, Yogi Chowk, and Piyush Virani, a resident of Ramnagar Society, Hirabag, who were handed over to Sarthana police station.

Gavit was reportedly in touch with state BJP leaders ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections in June when he was promised ticket to contest bypolls from Dangs seat. He submitted his resignation after the assurance, sources said. However, the BJP chose Vijay Patel to contest from Dangs.

In Rajkot, according to the district collector, nearly 67% of total beds, including private and government hospitals, are vacant at present. Over a 1,000 patients are currently undergoing treatment.

At a meeting of the state health functionaries with the MoHFW, several issues were flagged by the latter, including the observation about districts of Gandhinagar, Vadodara and Rajkot where half the patients who succumbed to Covid-19 died within 48 hours of detection of the infection or hospitalisation.

The land acquisition is specifically meant to build flood protection embankments on both sides of the river near Bharuch.

Sources revealed that this will save the GSHSEB nearly Rs 1 crore as rental cost spent annually for three centres (schools) taken on rent in Ahmedabad, wherein answer sheets are stored, data entry work is undertaken and verification of evaluation is done.

Centre for Labour Research and Action had undertaken a survey of farms in Danta taluka of Banaskantha district along with another NGO, Adivasi Sarvangi Vikas Sangh.

On the reasons for his resignation, Dinesh Sharma said, "I have resigned in party's interest. There are differences among party members, it is normal. I will accept whatever the party will decide."

According to police, the accused identified as Suresh Parmar and Vishnu Parmar, both residents of Anand, have been held under Indian Penal Code section 376 for rape and 302 for murder.

While around five dozen candidates have been left in contention for the by-election to Limdi, Morbi, Abadasa, Dhari and Gadhda seats, the main contest in all of the segments is between candidates of BJP and Congress.

Several social media users alerted the cyber crime cell authorities on Twitter, asking them to verify the contents of the advertisement.

Usually this time of the year, Khanwadi, a small settlement with 1,000 households, brims with colourful effigies of Ravana and other Hindu mythological demons, often 10 to 12 feet in height.