Brawl in Gujarat jail between prisoners leaves one deadAHMEDABAD - One person died when a fight broke out between three undertrails in the Sabarmati Jail here Sunday night, the police said. Modi to induct six parliamentary secretariesAHMEDABAD - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will Monday expand his cabinet Monday by inducting six parliamentary secretaries. Gujarat BJP unit discusses probable Lok Sabha candidatesAHMEDABAD - The Bharatiya Janata Party Sunday began discussing its probable candidates from Gujarat for the Lok Sabha elections. The process was launched with a three-day meeting of BJP’s Gujarat unit parliamentary board which opened here. ‘Treat diamond workers in Gujarat at par with Tatas’AHMEDABAD - The downturn-hit diamond workers in Gujarat should be given financial aid at par with the concessions offered to the Tata Group for its Nano car project, a breakaway faction of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Sunday. Gujarat aims to make Ahmedabad slum-freeAHMEDABAD - Gujarat has launched a massive urban development programme aimed at upgrading infrastructure and building houses for the poor in cities for which funds from a centrally-sponsored scheme will be utilised, officials said. Parents of children missing in Gujarat riots still hopefulAHMEDABAD - The parents of some children missing since the 2002 Gujarat riots refuse to give hope of their eventual return even as the government says it will now declare all the 228 people still untraced as ‘presumed dead’ as stipulated by the law. Godhra’s seventh anniversary a reality check for Modi governmentAHMEDABAD - Seven years on, it is still unclear how the Godhra train attack that killed 59 people on Feb 27, 2002 happened, but the anniversary comes in the backdrop of a revelation that destroys the claim of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s government that it was a terrorist conspiracy. Email campaign to boost Modi’s image on Godhra anniversaryAHMEDABAD - An email campaign to boost Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s image was launched across Gujarat Friday, seven years after the burning of a train in Godhra town killed 59 people and unleashed a communal frenzy that claimed more than 1,000 lives. 16 jailed for five years for poaching lions in GujaratAHMEDABAD - A Gujarat court Thursday sentenced seven women and nine men to five years in jail for poaching the rare Asiatic lion that has its last home in the state. Three labourers buried alive in GujaratAHMEDABAD - Three labourers were buried alive Thursday while digging a well in Gujarat’s Sabarkantha district, a police officials said. Christian forum challenges Gujarat freedom of religion actAHMEDABAD - The Gujarat High Court has admitted a petition filed by a Christian forum challenging the validity of state’s freedom of religion act. Appointing Muslim police chief won’t help Modi: ActivistsAHMEDABAD - Chief Minister Narendra Modi may be trying to soften his hardline Hindu image by appointing a Muslim police chief, but rights activists and victims of the 2002 Gujarat riots say it will not cut much ice during the upcoming general elections. We are still haunted by the terror: Riot victimsAHMEDABAD - Abdul Sattar Quereshi, 40, an iron fabricator in the Naroda Patiya area here, vividly remembers watching his shop being burnt by a group of sword-wielding men who went about killing passersby early Feb 28, 2002. Why shouldn’t bail be cancelled, court asks Kodnani and PatelAHMEDABAD - The Gujarat High Court Tuesday issued notices to state Minister for Women and Child Welfare Maya Kodnani and senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) functionary Jaideep Patel and asked why their anticipatory bail for involvement in cases of communal rioting should not be cancelled. ‘No chance’, Rahul Gandhi brushes away PM possibility queryAHMEDABAD - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi brushed off suggestions of his becoming prime minister after the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls with a ‘no chance’, and said he couldn’t hypothesize about the 2014 polls, which are ’so distant in the future’. He turns dry creek in Gujarat into nature parkAHMEDABAD - He is a man with a green thumb. Jitendra Patel, an environmentalist known for his penchant for planting trees, is now busy transforming a dry creek into a thickly wooded land replete with fruit and spice-bearing plants. Rahul woos Gujarat votersPATAN - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, on his third trip to Gujarat in less than a month, interacted with artisan women and people from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and sought their support in the Lok Sabha elections. Rahul Gandhi meets women artisans in GujaratAHMEDABAD - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi interacted with women artisans in a Kutch village Sunday as part of his two-day tour of the Kutch, Saurashtra and northern regions of Gujarat. Banaskantha district head chooses Modi over governorAHMEDABAD - Where should the head of a district remain when a constitutional head like Gujarat Governor Nawal Kishore Sharma and Chief Minister Narendra Modi come calling at the same time in the same district of Banaskantha? Displaced diamond workers reap rich farming harvestAHMEDABAD - Hit by recession, thousands of displaced diamond workers in Gujarat are returning home to rediscover their farming roots. And the cash crops they are growing in a matter of months is bringing some sparkle back to their lives. Woman burns self, three children in GujaratAHMEDABAD - A 28-year-old woman set herself and her three children ablaze in a Gujarat village, the police said Monday. Gujarat’s distressed diamond workers now mull selling organsAHMEDABAD - Hit hard by the economic meltdown, over 200,000 diamond workers in Gujrat’s Banaskantha district are living hand to mouth, having sold all their valuables and some are considering selling their organs in desperation, the head of the diamond workers union Monday said. Oh, where have all the sparrows gone? (Feature)AHMEDABAD - William Wordsworth’s ‘vision of delight’, in his poem ‘The Sparrow’s Nest’, has almost gone missing from our lives as sparrows have long since stopped building nests in our homes and neighbourhoods. Over 14 kg hashish seized in GujaratAHMEDABAD - As much as 14.5 kg of hashish, worth nearly Rs.1.47 million in international market, was recovered Sunday from an abandoned car in a Gujarat village, close to the Rajasthan border, the police said. Gujarat institute students accuse teacher of molestationAHMEDABAD - A group of students at the Mahila Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat are on warpath for the past four days, complaining of sexual harassment by a teacher. BJP, Congress should jointly form next government: GovindacharyaAHMEDABAD - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its archrival Congress should come together to form the next government after the general election, says Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue K.N. Govindacharya. Rahul Gandhi on 3-day trip to Gujarat from Feb 12AHMEDABAD - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will be on a three-day visit to Gujarat from Feb 12 in connection with the ongoing Youth Congress membership drive and poll preparations, party leaders said Tuesday. Indian armed forces conduct joint exercises off Gujarat coastAHMEDABAD - In the background of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attackers using the sea route to enter the country, the three wings of the Indian armed forces Monday jointly conducted one of their largest ever amphibious exercises - Tropez-2009 - at Madhavpur beach in Gujarat. Karnataka keen to replicate Gujarat’s rural electricity programmeAHMEDABAD - Karnataka is keen to replicate Gujarat’s unique ‘Jyotigram Yojana’ which provides 24 hour electrical supply to villages, the state’s Energy Minister K.S. Eshwarappa Monday said here. ONGC discovers new oil wells in GujaratAHMEDABAD - The state-run oil producer Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has discovered two new oil wells in Patan district in Gujarat, which have estimated oil reserves of over one million tonnes, an official said here Saturday. |
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