Indore cleanest city in India for the fourth time, five others rated 5-star

MP city is the cleanest for the fourth time in a row, according to government’s Swachhata Warrior ranking.

Indore, Ambikapur, Navi Mumbai, Surat, Rajkot and Mysuru have been rated as five-star cities, 86 cities as three-star and 64 cities as one-star as per the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs’ rating protocol for garbage-free cities. The announcement was made during the Swachh Survekshan awards declared by Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. It is meant to monitor the performance of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, launched in 2014.

The survey was conducted in 4,242 cities, 62 cantonment boards and 92 Ganga towns and was completed in 28 days. Indore city in Madhya Pradesh emerged as the cleanest city for the fourth time in a row, Surat and Navi Mumbai won the second and third position respectively in the more than 100,000 population category. Mysuru city in Karnataka had won the award for the cleanest city of India in the first edition of the survey in 2016, while Indore had retained the top position for three consecutive years.

Chhattisgarh won the prestigious title of the cleanest state in the more than hundred urban local bodies category, while Jharkhand was adjudged the winner in the less than hundred urban local bodies category. An additional 117 awards were also handed over by the Minister… 

Cyclone Vayu skirts Saurashtra coast, moves towards north-west Gujarat

According to Gujarat Chief Secretary J N Singh, the state government was prepared as it had consulted Odisha, which saw Cyclone Fani last month

As Cyclone Vayu progresses towards the Gujarat coast and is required to make landfall Thursday evening, the state government has moved around three lakh individuals from low-lying regions of Saurashtra and Kutch locales, authorities said Wednesday.

As indicated by the most recent meteorological forecast, the violent wind has strengthened into an “exceptionally extreme cyclonic tempest” and changed its course somewhat. Presently, it would hit the Gujarat coast anyplace between Veraval in the south and Dwarka in the west Thursday evening.

The twister is presently situated around 200 km south, south-west of Veraval and “is in all respects liable to move about northwards and hit the Gujarat coast with wind speed of 155 to 165 kmph blasting to 180 kmph around evening of June 13,” a discharge issued by the MeT office said.

The “extreme” cyclonic tempest, Vayu, moved north-westwards on Thursday in the wake of evading the Saurashtra coast in Gujarat. As indicated by Gujarat Chief Secretary J N Singh, the state government was set up as it had counseled Odisha, which saw Cyclone Fani a month ago. Showing uplifted readiness in front of the plausible landfall of Cyclone Vayu, the Gujarat government cleared in excess of 300,000 individuals from a few areas. Indeed, even as Vayu did not make a landfall in Gujarat on Thursday, it disregarded the Saurashtra area, influencing Amreli, Gir Somnath, Diu, Junagadh, Porbandar, Rajkot, Jamnagar, and Dwarka areas, carrying across the board precipitation with overwhelming to extremely substantial downpours.

The Western Railways dropped 70 trains from the Saurashtra and Kutch area, while 28 trains must be short ended. In any case, uncommon help trains were squeezed into administration for supply of basic items to influenced zones and clearing of individuals.

5 arrested for flogging dalit man to death in Gujarat as video goes viral

According to the complaint filed by the victim's wife, Jayaben Vaniya, her husband was beaten up by the five people as they suspected the couple of committing a theft

Police have arrested five people for allegedly thrashing to death a 35-year-old Dalit man suspecting him to be a thief in Gujarat's Rajkot district, an official said today.

A video of the incident -- purportedly showing two people taking turns to beat the man, identified as
Mukesh Vaniya, a ragpicker, with a stick while another person holding him by a rope tied to his waist -- has gone viral on the social media.

Based on the video, the police arrested the five people.

"A man who used to collect garbage was beaten up by some people at the Radadiya Industries compound near Shapar town yesterday. The factory owner accused him and his wife of theft," Rajkot (rural) in-charge superintendent of police Shruti S Mehta said.

The victim's wife lodged a complaint at the Shapar-Veraval police station in Rajkot last evening, accusing the five people of thrashing her husband following which he died, Mehta said.

"We have arrested the five people based on the video that purportedly showed the victim being beaten up. An investigation is underway," she said.

According to the complaint filed by the victim's wife, Jayaben Vaniya, her husband was beaten up by the five people as they suspected the couple of committing a theft.

The couple was picking garbage near the Radadiya Industries, located in the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) area, when they were held and then beaten up by the accused.

Mukesh died while being taken to the government hospital in Rajkot, an official at the Shapar-Veraval police station said.

An FIR was lodged under sections 302 (murder) and 308 (culpable homicide) of the IPC, he said.
Four of the arrested persons were identified as Chirag Patel, Divyesh Patel, Jaysukh Radadiya and Tejas Zala.

Jaysukh Radadiya is the owner of the factory where the incident allegedly took place while the others are his friends, according to the police.

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