The Pigeon Express
At least 28 people have died and 60 others became ill from drinking altered liquor in western India, officials said Tuesday. Senior government official Mukesh Parmar said the deaths occurred in Ahmedabad and Botad districts of Gujarat state, where manufacturing, sale and consumption of liquor are prohibited. It was not immediately known what chemical was […]
In a first, a new blood group has been found in India, which is also the rarest in the world. A 65-year-old man from Gujarat who is a heart patient has been identified with EMM negative blood group, a unique blood type which cannot be categorized into the existing groups of ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘O’ or […]
A five-year-old lion in the western Indian state of Gujarat is recovering his vision after doctors performed cataract surgery on both his eyes. Officials at the Gir forest – the last abode of the Asiatic lion – first noticed something was wrong when the lion stopped responding even when prey was nearby. They then took […]
Officials in India seized more than 70 kg of heroin worth more than US $42.7 million in Mundra port on Tuesday. This is the second major drug consignment to be intercepted at Mundra port in less than a year. The container shipped from a Gulf country was detained by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) […]
Police in India have shut down an elaborate hoax cricket league that saw labourers masquerading as professional cricket players allegedly to dupe gamblers in Russia. Fashioned along the lines of the popular Indian Premier League, a group of men in the western Indian state of Gujarat hired a field, set up cameras and asked local […]
A judge of a high court in India directed a police officer to distribute 100 cans of a cold drink to the bar association, after he spotted the latter sipping the beverage during a virtual hearing. Gujarat High Court Chief Justice Aravind Kumar noticed inspector A M Rathod drinking something that looked like a cold […]
Six workers at a dyeing and printing mill in India were killed and more than 20 were taken to hospital on Thursday after inhaling toxic gas caused by an illegal dump of waste chemicals, officials said. The disaster took place in the industrial city of Surat in Gujarat state at about 4:00am. The workers were […]
Indian authorities seized nearly three tonnes of heroin reportedly worth around $2.7 billion in a major operation at a port in Gujarat state. Two people have been arrested and several others are being investigated. Forensic testing is still under way to determine the exact value of the seized drugs, officials said. The shipment originated in […]
Upendra Goswami lost his sister in 1994. One day, while celebrating her posthumous birthday, a cat entered his house and ate the birthday cake, and then, she never left. Now, Upendra has some 200 cats living in a place he solely dedicated to the felines and is called ‘Cat Garden.’ Upendra based in Gandhidham city […]
Eighteen people are dead after a fire broke out at a Covid-19 hospital ward in India’s Gujarat state in the early hours of Saturday. The fire broke out in the intensive care unit of the Welfare Hospital in the western state’s Bharuch district, according to Dr. MD Modiya, a senior district official. According to Modiya, […]
Concerned about the rise in coronavirus infections in India, a man threatened to self-immolate if the ongoing T20 cricket series between India and England at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Motera, Gujarat state was not called off. Following the threatening phone call to a senior police inspector, a police complaint was lodged against the caller Pankaj […]
An Indian court convicted seven people, including three tourists from Ahmedabad, and awarded them different jail terms for harassing a lioness in Gir forest in 2018. The Judicial Magistrate First Class at Gir Gadhada, Sunik Kumar Dave order on Monday awarded three years’ rigorous imprisonment to six of the accused, while another accused was sentenced […]