A total of nine people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in violence and stone-pelting during the procession.
One person was killed and another one injured in a communal clash in Khambhat city of Gujarat during a procession taken out on the occasion of Ram Navami on Sunday, while Himmatnagar city in the state also witnessed violence between members of two communities during a similar event, police said.
Australia's Oilex on Monday said it has made huge natural gas discovery in Gujarat that may hold over 1.5 Trillion cubic feet of recoverable reserves. Industry estimates put the total resource base or inplace reserves in the Cambay basin discoveries near the town of Khambat, 160-km south of Ahmedabad, at between 20-30 Trillion cubic feet, almost equivalent to inplace reserves of Reliance Industries' eastern offshore KG-D6 fields.
Gurajat is planning to build an over the sea dam in the northern portion of the Gulf of Khambat (Cambay).
The situation is likely to worsen due to high tide in the Gulf of Khambhat.
The nine-member crew cited 'unprecedented storm-like weather conditions' as the reason for the ship to capsize.
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