Nose for news

Thursday 5 April '07

Reporting from a state capital can be, to borrow from Plato, thrice removed from reality. So when I heard of a dairy event in Palanpur

Modi leaves Cong behind in relief package politics

Wednesday 28 March '07

The Union Government’s relief package for the 2002 riot victims of Gujarat, announced last week, was almost a googly that caught both the BJP and Congress off-guard.

Gujarat shining, but only in parts

Thursday 8 March '07

The Gujarat government is flying high. Three industry-specific summits in the last two months and an investment of Rs 6.5 lakh crore in the pipeline have given both the ruling party and industrialists a reason to smile.

Flattened by nature’s fury, Kutch has changed for the better

Saturday 27 January '07

Six years after it was razed to debris, Kutch is back. And it is not only an industrial rebound that India’s second largest district is witnessing...

Gujarat denies it, but study digs up 12,000 manual scavengers

Tuesday 23 January '07

In Vibrant Gujarat, more than 12,000 people engaged in manual scavenging? The study by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences...

Enterprising Gujarat cuts poor figure

Tuesday 9 January '07

The enterprising spirit of Gujarat — a strength state government hard-sells — takes a beating on this front.

Public can access file notings, rules Gujarat CIC

Thursday 2 November '06

In a landmark judgment, Gujarat’s Chief Information Commissioner R N Das has ruled that ‘‘file-notings’’ are part of ‘‘information’’ under the Right to Information Act

India Inc tops charts with 53% of global carbon credits demand

Thursday 26 October '06

Having cornered more than half of the global total in tradable CERs this month, India’s dominance in carbon trading under the CDM of the UNFCCC is beginning to influence business dynamics in the country.

Green to black: India Inc tops carbon trading, firms cash in

Wednesday 25 October '06

Two Indian companies, one from Gujarat and the other from Haryana, both in the business of refrigerants, are leaders in the world of carbon trading that goes under the Clean Development Mechanism of United Nations Convention on Climate Change

Gujarat tops blood donation list

Saturday 23 September '06

Gujaratis, who top many indices, clinch the spot in blood donation too. In a list released in July, the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) put Gujarat as the top state in terms of blood donors per thousand of its population.

Rural Amreli redefines corporate farming

Monday 28 August '06

It was a simple boardroom resolution: The board resolves to set up a company owned by farmers that will generate income, earn profits and distribute dividends.