Gujarat Current Affairs- January 3, 2023
1-Surat is the centre of India’s synthetic textile industry; the Surat sector, which is currently experiencing a historic recession, supplies 90% of the nation’s demand for synthetic cloth.
2-Around 485 processing (dyeing and printing) facilities were located in Surat city and its environs, according to data from Surat Textile Industries. 4 to 5 lakh individuals received direct job as a result.
- On Friday, students at a school in Gujarat gheraoed Panchmahal District Education Officer (DEO) Jignesh Patel and even shut the school’s main entrance in protest at the government’s failure to hire regular science and math instructors for Class IX and X.
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4-A criminal struck Navsari Additional District Judge R.R. Desai with a stone when he was hearing a case in the courtroom, and he narrowly escaped.
5-The Maharaja Sayajirao University campus was the scene of three youths being apprehended by the Vadodara police for stalking, eve taunting, and harassing female students.
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6-After failing to receive the required financing, the Gandhian Study Centre at the Samaldas Arts College in Bhavnagar is currently experiencing severe financial difficulties.
- Mahatma Gandhi attended Samaldas Arts College and graduated from there. Three years after the college’s founding in 1885, in January 1888, he enrolled there. It was the second college in the state and the first in the Saurashtra region.
7-The B.J. Medical College administration in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, suspended three senior resident doctors on Thursday for harassing less experienced doctors.
8- The M.V.M. Science and Home Science College board on Thursday suspended science professor Sanjay Taraiya for requesting sexual favours from female pupils.
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9-According to authorities, a family of three was electrocuted on Wednesday in Mordevi village in Gujarat’s Tapi district after coming into contact with an electrified fence around their land.
10-The Principal Secretary for Health in Gujarat has been served with a notice from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) asking for a response within four weeks over the state’s response to the unsuccessful cataract surgery in the Amreli area.
11-The Gujarat Director General of Police (DGP), Ashish Bhatia, disclosed that the cocaine smuggling was orchestrated by Pakistani drug kingpin Haji Saleem Baloch.
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12- On Tuesday, the trustees of a school for blind children in Bhavnagar suspended two students and demanded an apology from ten more for reportedly beating up two other kids from the same school on the suspicion that they had stolen money from their backpacks.
- The K.K. School and Home for the Blind is where the incident happened.
13- Ladhubhai Parghi, a BJP politician and contender for the Danta Assembly seat, and his son Rohit have been detained by Banaskantha police in connection with an extortion case.
14- A gurukul’s principal Piyush Savaliya has been arrested on grounds of physically and verbally harassing a student in the 12th grade named Uday Kalasiya for singing the Telugu song “Ramuloo” in class. On December 22, the tragedy took place at the Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul in Tarvada Amreli.
15- On Monday, a court in Gujarat’s Kheda sent seven suspects who attacked and killed BSF trooper Melaji Vaghela on Saturday night and injured his son to judicial prison.
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