1951 Asiad medallist and 1952 Olympics marathoner Surat Singh Mathur dies of COVID-19
Other Sports | June 12, 2021 20:18 ISTMathur is the first athlete from independent India to complete an Olympic marathon race, at the 1952 Helsinki Games.
Mathur is the first athlete from independent India to complete an Olympic marathon race, at the 1952 Helsinki Games.
There are very few selfless people whose will to help others never ends even when they themselves are in pain. One such example has been set by a Surat woman who was declared brain dead but donated her heart, lungs, kidneys, liver and eyes to those in need.
Kamini Patel, 46-year-old Surat who was declared brain dead donated her heart, lungs, kidneys, liver and eyes to those in need.
Just before midnight on Sunday their prayers were answered when the family of a 46-year-old brain-dead woman from a Surat village decided to donate her organs. Kamini Patel, a resident Timbarva (Sankli) in Bardoli taluka, gave a new lease of life not only to the 31-year-old woman Covid-19 survivor from Maharashtra but also to six others.
Actress Shubhangi Atre, who returned to Mumbai after wrapping up the first schedule of the sitcom "Bhabiji Ghar Par Hai" a while back, is now all set to resume shooting for its second schedule.
These categories, as they come in contact with a large number of people in their line of work, can be "potential super spreaders" and it is for this reason that the SMC introduced the coloured health card system, he added.
Actress Shubhangi Atre is happy to resume shoots for her television show, "Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain" in Surat after recovering from Covid-19.
A chimney at Kurukshetra Crematorium in Surat titled from overheating amid rush of bodies.
Panic aroused among people after the chimney of the crematorium collapsed in Surat. India’s daily COVID-19 cases retreated from record levels on Tuesday but stayed above the 200,000 mark for a sixth-straight day, with cases increasing by 259,170 over the last 24 hours.
A 15-day-old baby girl, who was born to a COVID-19 patient, succumbed to coronavirus at a hospital in Gujarat's Surat city
COVID-19 cases continued to rise in the country. The migrant workers began to return to their native places from Surat due to surge in COVID cases.
BJP's Surat unit distributed Remdesivir injections free of cost to relatives of needy COVID-19 patients on April 10. A long queue of people was seen outside the BJP office to get the injections.
More than 100 doctors in top hospitals of Delhi, Lucknow, Varanasi found Covid positive. Ambulance drivers fleece as Covid patients hunt for beds in Nagpur, Amravati hospitals. Bodies of Covid victims pile up at crematoriums in Surat, Ahmednagar, Aurangabad. Watch this and more on Aaj Ki Baat with Rajat Sharma.
As COVID infections across the country are on surge, a Surat-based company has launched free week-long COVID-19 vaccination drive for its employees.
If they prefer not to be vaccinated they will be required to take RTPCR tests every 3 days to prove that they are not COVID-19 infected.
Cruise service from Hazira Port of Surat to Diu was flagged off on March 31 via video conferencing. One side voyage time of the cruise service is approximately 13 to 14 hours. Cruise has the capacity of 300 passengers and has 16 cabins. This cruise will sail two round trips in a week. The Cruise has Gaming Lounge, VIP Lounge, Entertainment on Deck and other modern amenities. The success of the ferry service has opened the gates for more routes of water transportation in Gujarat.
Rising into the festive week, gold buyers in Surat rejoiced the fervour as the shining metal prices plunges to Rs 46,300 mark for 10 grams on March 13.
The fire broke out in the five-storey residential building in Surat's Sagrampura locality around noon, they said, adding that no casualty was reported. Following the blaze in an electric meter board on the ground floor of the building, smoke spread to its upper floors, causing panic among residents
In Surat, a massive fire broke out in a textile mill on sunday. The fire and emergency department had to work for hours in order to bring the situation under control.
Kejriwal, who arrived in Surat on Friday, said that AAP would seek votes from the people of the state in the next Assembly polls based on the performance of the party's 27 newly-elected corporators in the city.
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