Minister's visit
Union Minister of State for Water Resources Bijoya Chakravarty will visit Gujarat on Tuesday. She will visit Vadodara and Orsang site near Bodeli. Later on, she will meet Sardar Sarovar project affected families at Vadali and Surya and in the afternoon visit the Narmada dam site, a release says.

Rathyatra
The rathyatra on the 200th birth anniversary of Saint Jalaram Bapa was flagged off by Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel on Monday. The rathyatra will have a rest day on Tuesday and will commence a State-wide yatra for the next 25 days. A host of MLAs and other government functionaries were present at the flagging off which took place at the Jalaram Bapa temple in Paldi.

CM, Consul meet
Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel held discussions on Monday with Japan Consul General Yazuki Kaku. They discussed the prospects of furthering commercial activity in industrially developed Gujarat.

Nurse assaulted
Rajkot: Nirmalaben Ratilal Gohel (47), a senior nurse in the burns ward at Civil Hospital, was allegedly attacked by an intern on Monday morning. Dharmesh, the intern in ward no 6 had asked a patient's relatives to come inside the ward. But, the nurse insisted they remove their footwear before going inside. The doctor lost his cool when the nurse stood her ground and allegedly assaulted her. The nurses appealed to the medical superintendent to take action against the doctor.