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  • Gujarat bridge tragedy: PM Modi meets injured at health facility; chairs assembly in Morbi

    Through On-line Table

    Top Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday night time met the injured within the Morbi suspension bridge cave in who’re present process remedy on the civil health facility within the house. Gujarat Leader Minister Bhupendra Patel accompanied him.

    A high-level assembly, chaired by way of the PM, is now underway in Morbi, to check the location after the tragedy.

    Top Minister Modi at the side of the Gujarat Leader Minister on Tuesday visited the bridge cave in web page and met the ones enthusiastic about rescue and aid operations.

    A minimum of 141 other folks, together with girls and kids, have been killed and over 100 are receiving remedy for his or her accidents sustained after a cable suspension bridge in Morbi the town collapsed on Sunday, plunging other folks into the Machchhu River.

    Top Minister Modi had chaired a high-level assembly at Raj Bhavan, Gandhinagar, on Monday to check the location in Morbi.

    The high-level assembly used to be attended by way of Bhupendra Patel, House Minister Harsh Sanghavi, Leader Secretary and DGP of Gujarat, at the side of different most sensible officers together with from the House Division of the state and Gujarat State Crisis Control Authority.

    The Gujarat executive has constituted a five-member committee headed to probe the bridge cave in incident.

    9 individuals together with officers of Oreva, the corporate that renovated the bridge, price tag dealers, and safety males have been arrested on Monday.

    (With ANI inputs)

    Top Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday night time met the injured within the Morbi suspension bridge cave in who’re present process remedy on the civil health facility within the house. Gujarat Leader Minister Bhupendra Patel accompanied him.

    A high-level assembly, chaired by way of the PM, is now underway in Morbi, to check the location after the tragedy.

    Top Minister Modi at the side of the Gujarat Leader Minister on Tuesday visited the bridge cave in web page and met the ones enthusiastic about rescue and aid operations.

    A minimum of 141 other folks, together with girls and kids, have been killed and over 100 are receiving remedy for his or her accidents sustained after a cable suspension bridge in Morbi the town collapsed on Sunday, plunging other folks into the Machchhu River.

    Top Minister Modi had chaired a high-level assembly at Raj Bhavan, Gandhinagar, on Monday to check the location in Morbi.

    The high-level assembly used to be attended by way of Bhupendra Patel, House Minister Harsh Sanghavi, Leader Secretary and DGP of Gujarat, at the side of different most sensible officers together with from the House Division of the state and Gujarat State Crisis Control Authority.

    The Gujarat executive has constituted a five-member committee headed to probe the bridge cave in incident.

    9 individuals together with officers of Oreva, the corporate that renovated the bridge, price tag dealers, and safety males have been arrested on Monday.

    (With ANI inputs)

  • Morbi bridge cave in: Households line as much as bury lifeless 

    By way of AFP

    MORBI: There have been such a lot of lifeless that their households needed to queue as much as bury them.

    Masses of mourners milled some of the rows of graves on the Muslim cemetery in Morbi on Monday, an afternoon after greater than 130 other folks had been killed in India’s worst bridge cave in in a long time.

    Kinfolk dug graves for his or her kinfolk with the assistance of team of workers, as mourners attempted to convenience each and every different and volunteers presented the grieving households water.

    Some hugged each and every different, some cried, some mourned in silence as they waited their flip to put the our bodies to relaxation, with a scarcity of coffins slowing the method.

    The newly-renovated, just about 150-year-old suspension bridge within the Gujarat the town — a famend vacationer appeal — used to be filled with guests when it collapsed at the ultimate day of the Diwali vacation season.

    Round 50 Hindu cremations had been hung on Monday, and 37 Muslim funerals had been being performed on the most effective Islamic cemetery within the district.

    Native businessman Rafiq Gaffar used to be burying two of his nephews: Nisar Iqbal, 21, and 12-year-old Arman Irfan.

    They had been shut buddies and had instructed their moms they had been going to the bridge. The circle of relatives rushed to the web page after they realized of the cave in.

    “It used to be mayhem,” stated Gaffar, 45. “Folks had been crying and wailing. It used to be a scene from doomsday.

    “There have been our bodies floating at the water in every single place and other folks trapped at the bridge who had been frantically calling for assist.

    “We had no hope after witnessing the scenes. We had been simply hoping to peer their our bodies.” They looked for the men for 8 hours, he stated, however didn’t in finding them.”

    In the end round six within the morning their our bodies had been fished out. “Our circle of relatives is devastated and it’s tricky to conquer the loss.”

    Arman used to be the eldest of 3 brothers, he added. “He used to be in class and used to be too younger to die.”

    Nisar had simply got to work at a spare portions store and used to be serving to to generate profits for the circle of relatives.

    “He has a sister who’s getting married subsequent 12 months however we do not know what’s going to occur now. It’ll take us ages, actually our lives to return out of this tragedy.

    “They had been younger and we’ve got not anything left now.”

    ‘Damaged and shattered’ 
    The bridge had simply re-opened after a months-long renovation and experiences stated it had now not had right kind approvals.

    9 other folks from the control company that ran it had been arrested Monday on suspicion of culpable murder now not amounting to homicide, police stated.

    “The federal government is obviously at fault,” stated Gaffar. “Our lives had been diminished to the mere 15 rupees (18 US cents) that the federal government earned from the tickets.

    “We do not be expecting any justice. The tough rule this nation and the deficient endure. Nobody will ever be held accountable for the deaths.”

    Qadir Bhai Sama, 80, had fond reminiscences of often taking his grandson to the bridge as a kid.

    Now 17, Sahil Dilawar Sama went to it for the ultimate time on Sunday, with 3 buddies.

    “He promised his mom he can be again in two hours however tomorrow most effective his frame returned,” stated Sama. Of the 3 buddies who accompanied him, one additionally died and the opposite two had been hospitalised, he added. “They had been shut to one another or even attempted to avoid wasting each and every different.”

    The reputable accountable for the graveyard, Mohammad Toufeeq, 40, stated his team of workers have been running with out a destroy to assist the sufferers’ households.

    “We’ve not slept or eaten anything else since ultimate evening,” he stated. “All the house is in mourning.

    “We really feel damaged and shattered. There aren’t any phrases to explain the loss and I feel there is not anything which can ease our ache.”

    MORBI: There have been such a lot of lifeless that their households needed to queue as much as bury them.

    Masses of mourners milled some of the rows of graves on the Muslim cemetery in Morbi on Monday, an afternoon after greater than 130 other folks had been killed in India’s worst bridge cave in in a long time.

    Kinfolk dug graves for his or her kinfolk with the assistance of team of workers, as mourners attempted to convenience each and every different and volunteers presented the grieving households water.

    Some hugged each and every different, some cried, some mourned in silence as they waited their flip to put the our bodies to relaxation, with a scarcity of coffins slowing the method.

    The newly-renovated, just about 150-year-old suspension bridge within the Gujarat the town — a famend vacationer appeal — used to be filled with guests when it collapsed at the ultimate day of the Diwali vacation season.

    Round 50 Hindu cremations had been hung on Monday, and 37 Muslim funerals had been being performed on the most effective Islamic cemetery within the district.

    Native businessman Rafiq Gaffar used to be burying two of his nephews: Nisar Iqbal, 21, and 12-year-old Arman Irfan.

    They had been shut buddies and had instructed their moms they had been going to the bridge. The circle of relatives rushed to the web page after they realized of the cave in.

    “It used to be mayhem,” stated Gaffar, 45. “Folks had been crying and wailing. It used to be a scene from doomsday.

    “There have been our bodies floating at the water in every single place and other folks trapped at the bridge who had been frantically calling for assist.

    “We had no hope after witnessing the scenes. We had been simply hoping to peer their our bodies.” They looked for the men for 8 hours, he stated, however didn’t in finding them.”

    In the end round six within the morning their our bodies had been fished out. “Our circle of relatives is devastated and it’s tricky to conquer the loss.”

    Arman used to be the eldest of 3 brothers, he added. “He used to be in class and used to be too younger to die.”

    Nisar had simply got to work at a spare portions store and used to be serving to to generate profits for the circle of relatives.

    “He has a sister who’s getting married subsequent 12 months however we do not know what’s going to occur now. It’ll take us ages, actually our lives to return out of this tragedy.

    “They had been younger and we’ve got not anything left now.”

    ‘Damaged and shattered’ 
    The bridge had simply re-opened after a months-long renovation and experiences stated it had now not had right kind approvals.

    9 other folks from the control company that ran it had been arrested Monday on suspicion of culpable murder now not amounting to homicide, police stated.

    “The federal government is obviously at fault,” stated Gaffar. “Our lives had been diminished to the mere 15 rupees (18 US cents) that the federal government earned from the tickets.

    “We do not be expecting any justice. The tough rule this nation and the deficient endure. Nobody will ever be held accountable for the deaths.”

    Qadir Bhai Sama, 80, had fond reminiscences of often taking his grandson to the bridge as a kid.

    Now 17, Sahil Dilawar Sama went to it for the ultimate time on Sunday, with 3 buddies.

    “He promised his mom he can be again in two hours however tomorrow most effective his frame returned,” stated Sama. Of the 3 buddies who accompanied him, one additionally died and the opposite two had been hospitalised, he added. “They had been shut to one another or even attempted to avoid wasting each and every different.”

    The reputable accountable for the graveyard, Mohammad Toufeeq, 40, stated his team of workers have been running with out a destroy to assist the sufferers’ households.

    “We’ve not slept or eaten anything else since ultimate evening,” he stated. “All the house is in mourning.

    “We really feel damaged and shattered. There aren’t any phrases to explain the loss and I feel there is not anything which can ease our ache.”

  • EXPLAINER| Gujarat tragedy: What’s a suspension bridge? What resulted in Morbi bridge cave in?

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: What’s a suspension bridge? How does it switch the burden to the bottom? The ones had been questions at the minds of many on Monday, an afternoon after a century-old suspension bridge in Gujarat’s Morbi over the Machchhu river collapsed, leaving 134 other people lifeless.

    Simply earlier than the bridge collapsed, CCTV pictures confirmed, some males had been looking to rock the suspension bridge from one facet to every other.

    Saptadip Sarkar, a structural engineer running with Delhi-based Engineers India Restricted solutions those questions.

    “The deck of the suspension bridge, which bears the load of the folks strolling on it along with its personal weight, is held in position by way of the way of vertical suspenders which can be produced from ductile subject matter and subjected to pressure,” he stated.

    “Those suspenders are then attached to the primary cable which could also be ductile and subjected to pressure. The principle cable, which spans between the issues attached by way of the bridge and is intermediately supported by way of vertical major column piers, has two purposes. The primary is to enhance the vertical suspenders and the second one is to handle the verticality of the piers,” he stated.

    Total, the load of the deck, together with the visitors of other people, is transferred to the bottom during the vertical piers, which can be in compression, defined Sarkar.

    So, at what issues is one of these form of bridge probably the most susceptible? Slightly a couple of, it seems.

    “To start with, the primary cable, suspenders and the issues at which the suspenders connect with the bridge deck are all prone to failure,” Sarkar stated.

    “If truth be told, the primary cable calls for probably the most consideration relating to common assessments and upkeep over the provider length of the bridge. The cause of this being the fatigue load that it’s ceaselessly subjected to right through its provider,” he stated.

    Fatigue load refers to ceaselessly subjecting a subject matter to a few drive till it develops a crack.

    Relating to the suspension bridge in Morbi, Sarkar stated its cables are of a extremely ductile subject matter and must have stayed in position for much longer, in spite of the type of deflection being intentionally created by way of the folks observed within the video (CCTV pictures).

    “Additionally, the bridge that failed was once not too long ago renovated, so fatigue failure can also be safely dominated out as a imaginable reason,” seen Sarkar.

    So then what was once it that gave means? The relationship issues the place the vertical suspenders meet the deck of the bridge are subsequent in line to warrant consideration, the structural engineer stated.

    “It’s thru those issues that the numerous the deck and persons are in combination transferred to the suspenders. The suspenders, in flip, switch the rather a lot to the primary cable,” he elaborated.

    “As I realize it, the dynamic loading created by way of the synchronous and planned actions of the folks at the bridge created over the top deflection from the standpoint of the joint of the suspender to the bridge deck,” he added.

    At the transmission of forces to the bottom, Sarkar additional stated that the primary cables are in slope and so the stress within the cable on the pier junction has a horizontal and a vertical element.

    “Whilst the horizontal element of this drive is catered to by way of the cables anchored on the two ends thru pressure, the vertical element creates a compression within the pier,” he stated.

    “Failure happens when the structural integrity at any of those issues described is compromised,” he concluded.

    NEW DELHI: What’s a suspension bridge? How does it switch the burden to the bottom? The ones had been questions at the minds of many on Monday, an afternoon after a century-old suspension bridge in Gujarat’s Morbi over the Machchhu river collapsed, leaving 134 other people lifeless.

    Simply earlier than the bridge collapsed, CCTV pictures confirmed, some males had been looking to rock the suspension bridge from one facet to every other.

    Saptadip Sarkar, a structural engineer running with Delhi-based Engineers India Restricted solutions those questions.

    “The deck of the suspension bridge, which bears the load of the folks strolling on it along with its personal weight, is held in position by way of the way of vertical suspenders which can be produced from ductile subject matter and subjected to pressure,” he stated.

    “Those suspenders are then attached to the primary cable which could also be ductile and subjected to pressure. The principle cable, which spans between the issues attached by way of the bridge and is intermediately supported by way of vertical major column piers, has two purposes. The primary is to enhance the vertical suspenders and the second one is to handle the verticality of the piers,” he stated.

    Total, the load of the deck, together with the visitors of other people, is transferred to the bottom during the vertical piers, which can be in compression, defined Sarkar.

    So, at what issues is one of these form of bridge probably the most susceptible? Slightly a couple of, it seems.

    “To start with, the primary cable, suspenders and the issues at which the suspenders connect with the bridge deck are all prone to failure,” Sarkar stated.

    “If truth be told, the primary cable calls for probably the most consideration relating to common assessments and upkeep over the provider length of the bridge. The cause of this being the fatigue load that it’s ceaselessly subjected to right through its provider,” he stated.

    Fatigue load refers to ceaselessly subjecting a subject matter to a few drive till it develops a crack.

    Relating to the suspension bridge in Morbi, Sarkar stated its cables are of a extremely ductile subject matter and must have stayed in position for much longer, in spite of the type of deflection being intentionally created by way of the folks observed within the video (CCTV pictures).

    “Additionally, the bridge that failed was once not too long ago renovated, so fatigue failure can also be safely dominated out as a imaginable reason,” seen Sarkar.

    So then what was once it that gave means? The relationship issues the place the vertical suspenders meet the deck of the bridge are subsequent in line to warrant consideration, the structural engineer stated.

    “It’s thru those issues that the numerous the deck and persons are in combination transferred to the suspenders. The suspenders, in flip, switch the rather a lot to the primary cable,” he elaborated.

    “As I realize it, the dynamic loading created by way of the synchronous and planned actions of the folks at the bridge created over the top deflection from the standpoint of the joint of the suspender to the bridge deck,” he added.

    At the transmission of forces to the bottom, Sarkar additional stated that the primary cables are in slope and so the stress within the cable on the pier junction has a horizontal and a vertical element.

    “Whilst the horizontal element of this drive is catered to by way of the cables anchored on the two ends thru pressure, the vertical element creates a compression within the pier,” he stated.

    “Failure happens when the structural integrity at any of those issues described is compromised,” he concluded.

  • Morbi bridge cave in: ‘650 folks have been allowed on bridge that would toughen best 150-200’

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    AHMEDABAD: It was once a ‘Black Sunday’ at Gujarat’s Morbi on October 30.

    The Rs 17 go for a stroll down the well-known bridge grew to become out to be a dying price ticket for lots of.

    Resources now allege that Oreva corporate, put in control of the operation and upkeep of the bridge for 15 years, of their quest to make simple cash brought on the tragedy through permitting the distribution of tickets with out paying any heed to the dealing with capability of the century-old suspension bridge.

    Those assets claimed that round 650 tickets for the bridge were offered on Sunday when the bridge may just best care for 150 to 200 folks at a time.

    “There was once an enormous crowd at the bridge even supposing it was once by no means simple to stroll at the bridge, because it was once a Sunday. My circle of relatives and I have been at the bridge when some youths began shaking it deliberately. Folks could not stand with none toughen. Since I had a sense that it’s going to turn out unhealthy, my circle of relatives and I got here again after overlaying a long way at the bridge,” stated a fortunate Vijay Goswami, who returned after strolling midway.

    Every other native resident questioned, “In the end any vacationer vacation spot in a the city is the accountability of the municipality. However why has no crime has been registered in opposition to the municipal officers on this twist of fate?”

    What has been finished is {that a} First Knowledge Record (FIR) has after all been registered in opposition to the ones accountable, however this has additionally resulted in questions being raised.

    The police grievance has been registered underneath Sections 304, 308 and 114 in opposition to the bridge repairs company. However, the title of Oreva or its proprietor unearths no point out. No crime has been registered in opposition to the accountable municipal officers, too.

    VIEW PHOTOS | Tragic bridge cave in in Gujarat

    The FIR has named “the company answerable for keeping up the bridge” and the “control company” as accused, with out naming the corporate in control of repairs and service or particular folks, underneath IPC sections 304 and 308 (culpable murder now not amounting to homicide), stated B-division Morbi town police authentic.

    Leader Officer of Morbi Municipality Sandeepsinh Jhala had on Sunday stated that the bridge over the Machchhu River in Morbi, Gujarat, was once given to Oreva corporate for operation and upkeep for 15 years. In March this yr, it was once closed to the general public for renovation. It reopened on October 26 after renovation at the Gujarati New Yr day. However the native municipality has now not but issued any health certificates. Some locals questioned how this was once allowed to occur.

    Consistent with a file revealed in native media, Jaysukh, the landlord of Oreva, had inaugurated the bridge after its renovation.

    When the Rajkot Vary IG was once requested concerning the absence of the title of the corporate within the FIR, he attempted to duck the query and stated as an alternative “Motion might be taken in opposition to whoever is located responsible. The SIT is shaped and fact will pop out within the investigation.”

    READ HERE | All you wish to have to find out about Oreva: CFL bulb, wall clock, e-bike maker however no skilled in bridge repairs

    Constructed through Morbi maharaja

    The bridge that got here down was once a Eu-style construction constructed through the Maharaja of Morbi Waghji Thakor, who was once awarded “Evening commander of the state of India” through Queen Victoria 125 years in the past. It was once 765 toes lengthy, 4.6 toes extensive and 60 toes above the bottom.

    Waghji Thakor dominated Morbi until 1922. He determined to build the bridge, a creative and technological wonder of that length, to attach Darbargadh Palace with Nazarbag Palace (the apartments of the then royalty).

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    AHMEDABAD: It was once a ‘Black Sunday’ at Gujarat’s Morbi on October 30.

    The Rs 17 go for a stroll down the well-known bridge grew to become out to be a dying price ticket for lots of.

    Resources now allege that Oreva corporate, put in control of the operation and upkeep of the bridge for 15 years, of their quest to make simple cash brought on the tragedy through permitting the distribution of tickets with out paying any heed to the dealing with capability of the century-old suspension bridge.

    Those assets claimed that round 650 tickets for the bridge were offered on Sunday when the bridge may just best care for 150 to 200 folks at a time.

    “There was once an enormous crowd at the bridge even supposing it was once by no means simple to stroll at the bridge, because it was once a Sunday. My circle of relatives and I have been at the bridge when some youths began shaking it deliberately. Folks could not stand with none toughen. Since I had a sense that it’s going to turn out unhealthy, my circle of relatives and I got here again after overlaying a long way at the bridge,” stated a fortunate Vijay Goswami, who returned after strolling midway.

    Every other native resident questioned, “In the end any vacationer vacation spot in a the city is the accountability of the municipality. However why has no crime has been registered in opposition to the municipal officers on this twist of fate?”

    What has been finished is {that a} First Knowledge Record (FIR) has after all been registered in opposition to the ones accountable, however this has additionally resulted in questions being raised.

    The police grievance has been registered underneath Sections 304, 308 and 114 in opposition to the bridge repairs company. However, the title of Oreva or its proprietor unearths no point out. No crime has been registered in opposition to the accountable municipal officers, too.

    VIEW PHOTOS | Tragic bridge cave in in Gujarat

    The FIR has named “the company answerable for keeping up the bridge” and the “control company” as accused, with out naming the corporate in control of repairs and service or particular folks, underneath IPC sections 304 and 308 (culpable murder now not amounting to homicide), stated B-division Morbi town police authentic.

    Leader Officer of Morbi Municipality Sandeepsinh Jhala had on Sunday stated that the bridge over the Machchhu River in Morbi, Gujarat, was once given to Oreva corporate for operation and upkeep for 15 years. In March this yr, it was once closed to the general public for renovation. It reopened on October 26 after renovation at the Gujarati New Yr day. However the native municipality has now not but issued any health certificates. Some locals questioned how this was once allowed to occur.

    Consistent with a file revealed in native media, Jaysukh, the landlord of Oreva, had inaugurated the bridge after its renovation.

    When the Rajkot Vary IG was once requested concerning the absence of the title of the corporate within the FIR, he attempted to duck the query and stated as an alternative “Motion might be taken in opposition to whoever is located responsible. The SIT is shaped and fact will pop out within the investigation.”

    READ HERE | All you wish to have to find out about Oreva: CFL bulb, wall clock, e-bike maker however no skilled in bridge repairs

    Constructed through Morbi maharaja

    The bridge that got here down was once a Eu-style construction constructed through the Maharaja of Morbi Waghji Thakor, who was once awarded “Evening commander of the state of India” through Queen Victoria 125 years in the past. It was once 765 toes lengthy, 4.6 toes extensive and 60 toes above the bottom.

    Waghji Thakor dominated Morbi until 1922. He determined to build the bridge, a creative and technological wonder of that length, to attach Darbargadh Palace with Nazarbag Palace (the apartments of the then royalty).

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  • WATCH | Exact frightening moments of Morbi bridge cave in in Gujarat

    Via On-line Table

    AHMEDABAD: A minimum of 141 other people have been declared useless after a century-old cable bridge collapsed round 6.30 pm at the Machchhu river in Gujarat’s Morbi on Sunday.

    The bridge used to be opened 5 days in the past after intensive maintenance and renovation.  An enormous crowd used to be noticed on the bridge in a frightening video captured simply ahead of the cave in. 

    WATCH | Moments ahead of the Morbi bridge cave in

    Moments ahead of the #MorbiBridgeCollapse tragedy. percent.twitter.com/PIRtRt1vjL

    — The New Indian Specific (@NewIndianXpress) October 31, 2022

    AHMEDABAD: A minimum of 141 other people have been declared useless after a century-old cable bridge collapsed round 6.30 pm at the Machchhu river in Gujarat’s Morbi on Sunday.

    The bridge used to be opened 5 days in the past after intensive maintenance and renovation.  An enormous crowd used to be noticed on the bridge in a frightening video captured simply ahead of the cave in. 

    WATCH | Moments ahead of the Morbi bridge cave in

    Moments ahead of the #MorbiBridgeCollapse tragedy. percent.twitter.com/PIRtRt1vjL
    — The New Indian Specific (@NewIndianXpress) October 31, 2022

  • Morbi bridge cave in: Gujarat paperwork high-power probe committee

    Via ANI

    MORBI (Gujarat): Gujarat executive on Monday introduced {that a} high-powered committee has been set as much as examine the incident of the cave in of the suspension bridge in Morbi district of Gujarat through which the loss of life toll has risen to 132.

    Briefing mediapersons right here, Gujarat House Minister Harsh Sanghavi mentioned, “The loss of life toll within the Morbi placing bridge cave in incident has long past as much as 132. The Leader Minister has constituted a excessive continual committee the day past itself whilst leaving Ahmedabad. All officials, posted at other places, had been requested to record at Morbi by way of 2 am. The investigation is happening.”

    The Gujarat House Minister additional knowledgeable {that a} legal case has been registered in reference to the incident.

    “An investigation has begun these days below the management of Vary IGP,” Sanghavi mentioned. Everybody labored all over the evening. The Military, NDRF (Nationwide Crisis Aid Drive), Air Drive and Military arrived on the spot briefly. Greater than 200 individuals have labored all of the evening for seek and rescue operations,” Sanghavi mentioned.

    Groups together with Military, Military, Air Drive, NDRF and Hearth Brigade carried out a seek operation right through the evening to seek out the sufferers who fell into the Macchu river after the bridge collapsed, as according to officers.

    Indian Military groups deployed in Morbi, Gujarat performed seek and rescue operations for survivors of the mishap. All 3 defence products and services have deployed their groups for seek operations. 3 Indian Coast Guard groups consisting of divers, apparatus, boats and different subject matter had been deployed on-site at Morbi since closing evening, mentioned Defence Ministry officers.

    After the incident, Leader Minister Bhupendrabhai Patel, Minister of State for House Affairs Harshbhai Sanghvi, Minister Brijeshbhai Merja, and Minister of State Shri Arvindbhai Raiyani reached the incident spot in the dead of night and for my part noticed the rescue operation and gave instructions.

    In keeping with the main points from the district management, after the mishap, the device was once right away activated and rescue operations began with the assistance of locals.

    But even so this, groups from different puts additionally began arriving on the spot. Round 40 medical doctors from more than a few well being centres, Rajkot PDU Clinic and Surendranagar Civil Clinic began emergency remedy of the injured on the Morbi Civil Clinic.

    After the cave in of the bridge, the Rajkot Municipal Company boat and rescue fabrics together with lifestyles jackets reached Morbi and began the rescue operation.

    Emergency ambulances from Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagadh Metropolitan Municipality and Morbi Municipality had been working right through the evening to convey the injured to the sanatorium right away. A number of personal ambulances had been additionally concerned within the rescue operation. Military group from Surendranagar joined with its 3 ambulances and kit, knowledgeable the officers. (ANI)

    MORBI (Gujarat): Gujarat executive on Monday introduced {that a} high-powered committee has been set as much as examine the incident of the cave in of the suspension bridge in Morbi district of Gujarat through which the loss of life toll has risen to 132.

    Briefing mediapersons right here, Gujarat House Minister Harsh Sanghavi mentioned, “The loss of life toll within the Morbi placing bridge cave in incident has long past as much as 132. The Leader Minister has constituted a excessive continual committee the day past itself whilst leaving Ahmedabad. All officials, posted at other places, had been requested to record at Morbi by way of 2 am. The investigation is happening.”

    The Gujarat House Minister additional knowledgeable {that a} legal case has been registered in reference to the incident.

    “An investigation has begun these days below the management of Vary IGP,” Sanghavi mentioned. Everybody labored all over the evening. The Military, NDRF (Nationwide Crisis Aid Drive), Air Drive and Military arrived on the spot briefly. Greater than 200 individuals have labored all of the evening for seek and rescue operations,” Sanghavi mentioned.

    Groups together with Military, Military, Air Drive, NDRF and Hearth Brigade carried out a seek operation right through the evening to seek out the sufferers who fell into the Macchu river after the bridge collapsed, as according to officers.

    Indian Military groups deployed in Morbi, Gujarat performed seek and rescue operations for survivors of the mishap. All 3 defence products and services have deployed their groups for seek operations. 3 Indian Coast Guard groups consisting of divers, apparatus, boats and different subject matter had been deployed on-site at Morbi since closing evening, mentioned Defence Ministry officers.

    After the incident, Leader Minister Bhupendrabhai Patel, Minister of State for House Affairs Harshbhai Sanghvi, Minister Brijeshbhai Merja, and Minister of State Shri Arvindbhai Raiyani reached the incident spot in the dead of night and for my part noticed the rescue operation and gave instructions.

    In keeping with the main points from the district management, after the mishap, the device was once right away activated and rescue operations began with the assistance of locals.

    But even so this, groups from different puts additionally began arriving on the spot. Round 40 medical doctors from more than a few well being centres, Rajkot PDU Clinic and Surendranagar Civil Clinic began emergency remedy of the injured on the Morbi Civil Clinic.

    After the cave in of the bridge, the Rajkot Municipal Company boat and rescue fabrics together with lifestyles jackets reached Morbi and began the rescue operation.

    Emergency ambulances from Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagadh Metropolitan Municipality and Morbi Municipality had been working right through the evening to convey the injured to the sanatorium right away. A number of personal ambulances had been additionally concerned within the rescue operation. Military group from Surendranagar joined with its 3 ambulances and kit, knowledgeable the officers. (ANI)

  • Forward of Gujarat polls, Kejriwal questions BJP’s unravel to enforce Uniform Civil Code

    By way of PTI

    BHAVNAGAR: Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday puzzled the purpose of the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration govt in poll-bound Gujarat at the back of its transfer to represent a committee to enforce the Uniform Civil Code and stated if the BJP needs to take action, it will have to do it around the nation.

    Kejriwal requested whether or not the BJP-led central govt was once looking ahead to the Lok Sabha elections to make a transfer on this route.

    The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration’s (AAP) nationwide convener was once addressing a press convention in Bhavnagar at the 3rd day of his discuss with to Gujarat the place the Meeting polls are due this year-end.

    The Election Fee is prone to announce time table for the Gujarat Meeting polls this week.

    The Gujarat govt on Saturday stated it has determined to shape a committee headed via a retired Prime Courtroom pass judgement on to enforce the Uniform Civil Code (UCC).

    Union minister Parshottam Rupala had stated the committee shall be shaped ahead of the fashion code of behavior for elections comes into pressure.

    Gujarat Minister of State for House Harsh Sanghavi had stated the verdict was once taken as in keeping with the provisions of Article 44 of Phase 4 of the Charter which expects the state govt to use commonplace regulation for all voters.

    To a query at the Gujarat govt’s choice, Kejriwal claimed “their purpose is unhealthy”.

    “In Article 44 of the Charter, it’s obviously written that it’s the duty of the federal government to border the Uniform Civil Code. So, the federal government will have to body a Uniform Civil Code with the consent of all communities and via taking them in combination,” he stated.

    Kejriwal stated the BJP had shaped a equivalent committee ahead of the Uttarakhand election.

    “After profitable the election, the committee went again house. Now, a couple of days ahead of the Gujarat election, they have got shaped some other committee. This committee (contributors) may also return house after the election,” he claimed.

    Kejriwal additionally sought to grasp why no such committee was once shaped within the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

    ALSO READ: Professionals warn towards rush for ‘complicated’ Uniform Civil Code

    “If their purpose is to enforce the Uniform Civil Code, then why do not they body it nationally and enforce it around the nation? Are they looking ahead to the Lok Sabha elections?” he requested.

    “So first ask them that Kejriwal is pronouncing you do not need to enforce the Uniform Civil Code, your purpose is unhealthy,” he stated.

    At the 3rd day of his discuss with to poll-bound Gujarat, Kejriwal welcomed native Koli group chief and social employee Raju Solanki into the AAP, who joined the celebration at the side of his son Brijrajsinh Solanki.

    Kejriwal claimed ever because the AAP has got to work in Gujarat, folks see a brand new ray of hope in his celebration.

    The Koli group comes below the Different Backward Categories (OBCs) class with numerically vital presence in numerous portions of Gujarat.

    Kejriwal described Raju Solanki as a outstanding social employee who had helped within the marriage of greater than 1,000 orphaned girls and labored within the spaces of prohibition and schooling.

    The social employee stated he was once happy to be part of the brand new politics of Kejriwal.

    BHAVNAGAR: Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday puzzled the purpose of the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration govt in poll-bound Gujarat at the back of its transfer to represent a committee to enforce the Uniform Civil Code and stated if the BJP needs to take action, it will have to do it around the nation.

    Kejriwal requested whether or not the BJP-led central govt was once looking ahead to the Lok Sabha elections to make a transfer on this route.

    The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration’s (AAP) nationwide convener was once addressing a press convention in Bhavnagar at the 3rd day of his discuss with to Gujarat the place the Meeting polls are due this year-end.

    The Election Fee is prone to announce time table for the Gujarat Meeting polls this week.

    The Gujarat govt on Saturday stated it has determined to shape a committee headed via a retired Prime Courtroom pass judgement on to enforce the Uniform Civil Code (UCC).

    Union minister Parshottam Rupala had stated the committee shall be shaped ahead of the fashion code of behavior for elections comes into pressure.

    Gujarat Minister of State for House Harsh Sanghavi had stated the verdict was once taken as in keeping with the provisions of Article 44 of Phase 4 of the Charter which expects the state govt to use commonplace regulation for all voters.

    To a query at the Gujarat govt’s choice, Kejriwal claimed “their purpose is unhealthy”.

    “In Article 44 of the Charter, it’s obviously written that it’s the duty of the federal government to border the Uniform Civil Code. So, the federal government will have to body a Uniform Civil Code with the consent of all communities and via taking them in combination,” he stated.

    Kejriwal stated the BJP had shaped a equivalent committee ahead of the Uttarakhand election.

    “After profitable the election, the committee went again house. Now, a couple of days ahead of the Gujarat election, they have got shaped some other committee. This committee (contributors) may also return house after the election,” he claimed.

    Kejriwal additionally sought to grasp why no such committee was once shaped within the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

    ALSO READ: Professionals warn towards rush for ‘complicated’ Uniform Civil Code

    “If their purpose is to enforce the Uniform Civil Code, then why do not they body it nationally and enforce it around the nation? Are they looking ahead to the Lok Sabha elections?” he requested.

    “So first ask them that Kejriwal is pronouncing you do not need to enforce the Uniform Civil Code, your purpose is unhealthy,” he stated.

    At the 3rd day of his discuss with to poll-bound Gujarat, Kejriwal welcomed native Koli group chief and social employee Raju Solanki into the AAP, who joined the celebration at the side of his son Brijrajsinh Solanki.

    Kejriwal claimed ever because the AAP has got to work in Gujarat, folks see a brand new ray of hope in his celebration.

    The Koli group comes below the Different Backward Categories (OBCs) class with numerically vital presence in numerous portions of Gujarat.

    Kejriwal described Raju Solanki as a outstanding social employee who had helped within the marriage of greater than 1,000 orphaned girls and labored within the spaces of prohibition and schooling.

    The social employee stated he was once happy to be part of the brand new politics of Kejriwal.

  • From the place has the cash come? asks Gujarat minister on AAP ‘deal’

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    AHMEDABAD: The record carried by way of this paper on AAP’s suspected hawala scandal is right, Gujarat House Minister Harsh Sanghvi stated on Saturday.“Black cash was once despatched by way of AAP to Gujarat via hawala & angadia from Delhi, Punjab and different way. This cash has been stuck in Bardoli, Ahmedabad, and different puts. Their (AAP) Bardoli candidate has authorized that this cash got here from Delhi AAP’s workplace,” Sanghvi stated.

    “He won the money via an angadia. From the place has this cash come? This query will have to be requested to AAP leaders,” Sanghavi stated. A remark despatched to this newspaper by way of AAP spokesman Pritam Singh stated: “AAP has not anything to do with this sort of cash. The AAP candidate has no longer given this sort of remark. It’s an strive by way of BJP to tarnish the AAP symbol because of the rising graph of the birthday celebration within the state. The BJP has develop into very determined and can lodge to an identical grimy tips within the subsequent one month.”

    Alternatively, this newspaper stood by way of its tale and took AAP candidate Rajendra Solanki’s remark given to the police on October 17. Within the remark, he authorized in writing: “He (Saurabh) stated that the cash was once won by way of him from an angadia (hawala operator). The cash was once supposed for the bills of the birthday celebration tournament.”

    Police resources stated the Anti-Terrorism Squad, the Source of revenue Tax and the state’s Particular Operation Team are investigating the folks in more than a few towns of Gujarat through which transactions price crores of rupees have reportedly surfaced. An legitimate stated: “We’ve got detected some extra circumstances of hawala via angadia in Ahmedabad as smartly. The investigation is occurring, he added.

    “To this point now we have come to grasp that Saini, a Punjab resident, and someone else, Rudra Pratap, a resident of Bihar, a resident of Madhya Pradesh, an individual named Kumar from Haryana, and Sehjad from Delhi had been interrogated in reference to hawala hyperlinks,” he stated.

    AHMEDABAD: The record carried by way of this paper on AAP’s suspected hawala scandal is right, Gujarat House Minister Harsh Sanghvi stated on Saturday.“Black cash was once despatched by way of AAP to Gujarat via hawala & angadia from Delhi, Punjab and different way. This cash has been stuck in Bardoli, Ahmedabad, and different puts. Their (AAP) Bardoli candidate has authorized that this cash got here from Delhi AAP’s workplace,” Sanghvi stated.

    “He won the money via an angadia. From the place has this cash come? This query will have to be requested to AAP leaders,” Sanghavi stated. A remark despatched to this newspaper by way of AAP spokesman Pritam Singh stated: “AAP has not anything to do with this sort of cash. The AAP candidate has no longer given this sort of remark. It’s an strive by way of BJP to tarnish the AAP symbol because of the rising graph of the birthday celebration within the state. The BJP has develop into very determined and can lodge to an identical grimy tips within the subsequent one month.”

    Alternatively, this newspaper stood by way of its tale and took AAP candidate Rajendra Solanki’s remark given to the police on October 17. Within the remark, he authorized in writing: “He (Saurabh) stated that the cash was once won by way of him from an angadia (hawala operator). The cash was once supposed for the bills of the birthday celebration tournament.”

    Police resources stated the Anti-Terrorism Squad, the Source of revenue Tax and the state’s Particular Operation Team are investigating the folks in more than a few towns of Gujarat through which transactions price crores of rupees have reportedly surfaced. An legitimate stated: “We’ve got detected some extra circumstances of hawala via angadia in Ahmedabad as smartly. The investigation is occurring, he added.

    “To this point now we have come to grasp that Saini, a Punjab resident, and someone else, Rudra Pratap, a resident of Bihar, a resident of Madhya Pradesh, an individual named Kumar from Haryana, and Sehjad from Delhi had been interrogated in reference to hawala hyperlinks,” he stated.

  • Union govt is operating on offering ten lakh jobs: PM Modi 

    In a video message to a `Rozgar Mela' (employment honest) organised by means of the Gujarat govt right here, he additionally mentioned that the selection of govt jobs for the adolescence will upward thrust.

  • Communal conflict over bursting of firecrackers on Diwali in Vadodara; 19 folks detained 

    By way of PTI

    VADODARA: Individuals of 2 communities clashed over the bursting of firecrackers in a locality in Gujarat’s Vadodara town on Diwali following which police detained 19 folks from the 2 aspects, an respectable stated on Tuesday.

    The conflict broke out at round 12.45 am on Tuesday within the communally delicate Panigate locality.

    The ones detained incorporated an individual who allegedly hurled a petroleum bomb at policemen from the 3rd ground of this area within the locality just about an hour after the conflict broke out, Vadodara Deputy Commissioner of Police Yashpal Jaganiya informed PTI.

    No person used to be injured within the conflict, he stated, including {that a} bike parked within the space stuck hearth after a rocket firecracker fell on it.

    “Following a topic over the bursting of firecrackers and hurling rocket bombs at each and every different, folks from two communities pelted stones at each and every different,” the respectable stated.

    After the incident, safety used to be deployed within the space and the placement used to be beneath regulate, he stated.

    Suspects from each the communities had been being rounded up, he added.

    VADODARA: Individuals of 2 communities clashed over the bursting of firecrackers in a locality in Gujarat’s Vadodara town on Diwali following which police detained 19 folks from the 2 aspects, an respectable stated on Tuesday.

    The conflict broke out at round 12.45 am on Tuesday within the communally delicate Panigate locality.

    The ones detained incorporated an individual who allegedly hurled a petroleum bomb at policemen from the 3rd ground of this area within the locality just about an hour after the conflict broke out, Vadodara Deputy Commissioner of Police Yashpal Jaganiya informed PTI.

    No person used to be injured within the conflict, he stated, including {that a} bike parked within the space stuck hearth after a rocket firecracker fell on it.

    “Following a topic over the bursting of firecrackers and hurling rocket bombs at each and every different, folks from two communities pelted stones at each and every different,” the respectable stated.

    After the incident, safety used to be deployed within the space and the placement used to be beneath regulate, he stated.

    Suspects from each the communities had been being rounded up, he added.