India says game plan didn’t work after Australia beat them in one-day thriller

VADODARA - World champions Australia kept their cool in the last over to beat India by four runs in a thrilling one-day international on Sunday.

Nobel for Ramakrishnan: Gujarat’s MSU celebrates

VADODARA - As Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with two others Wednesday, the Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) in this Gujarat city - where he did graduation in physics - reacted with pride and joy.

Shootout on train in Gujarat, one dead

VADODARA - A shootout on a packed running train in Gujarat following a tiff between a passenger and a rail staffer over bill payment left a youth dead and another injured, police said Sunday.

Guj students attempt world record with 4.2 km painting on Gandhi Jayanti

VADODARA - Around 7,500 students in Vadodara city of Gujarat, made a 4.2 kilometres long painting to enter the Guinness Book of World Records on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 140th birth anniversary on Friday.

Ten Gujarat policemen booked for BSF trooper’s death

VADODARA - Ten policemen have been booked on charges of having beaten to death a Border Security Force (BSF) trooper who was in custody over his scuffle with an assistant sub inspector in Gujarat’s Vadodara district, officials said Saturday.

Now, Jaitley supports Modi as PM

VADODARA - After Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Shourie, party general secretary Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that he would like to see Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to occupy the top post after Lal Krishna Advani.

Salman Khan bats for Manmohan Singh as PM

VADODARA - Bollywood actor Salman Khan batted for Manmohan Singh as Prime, saying Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi would be the next best bet.

Election sweets in Vadodara

VADODARA - With an eye on the upcoming general elections, a sweet shop in Vadodara has started producing sweets in the shape and colours of various political party symbols.

Irfan Pathan looking for bicycles in Vadodara

VADODARA - Cricketer Irfan Pathan was seen looking out for a sports bicycle in the market of Vadodara recently by contending he loves cycling.

Probe on in Varun Gandhi posters in Gujarat city

VADODARA - Civic officials in this Gujarat city are investigating reports of hundreds of posters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) debutant leader Varun Gandhi appearing in a neighbourhood since Saturday night.

Varun Gandhi is new poster boy of BJP: Amar Singh

VADODARA - Samajwadi Party national general secretary Amar Singh Friday said that Varun Gandhi has become the new poster boy of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and surpassed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in delivering ‘hate speeches’ directed against Muslims.

Minister keeps up spree of laying airport foundation stones

VADODARA - Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel Thursday laid the foundation of a new terminal here, the seventh since Feb 20, after inaugurating the departure terminal at the Delhi airport earlier in the day.

Dominance of one family creating evils: Narendra Modi

VADODARA - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said it was unfortunate that the country’s political system ‘fosters the dominance of one family’, and India needs to be free of ’such mindset’ so as to release ‘tremendous energy for a vibrant democracy’.