

Wednesday 27 May '09
The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board met on Tuesday to decide on the applications from 522 schools to start Class VIII and from 351 schools to start Class XI.Monday 25 May '09
The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), which had wound up 20 per cent of its projects for single migrant workers in Gujarat nearly a year ago, now plans to restructure and revive them.Saturday
23 May '09The 10 incidents of suicide by HIV positive people in Gujarat in the last two months, as against five-odd such cases across the state in the last five years, have caught the authorities by surprise.Saturday
23 May '09Despite a host of health schemes in place for the rural population, the government health machinery in Gujarat has to do with less than 30 percent of the sanctioned strength of specialists in the Community Health Centres (CHCs).Friday
22 May '09Corporate-funded commercial old age homes may soon be a reality in Gujarat. The first of these will soon come up in the city, courtesy the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS).Friday
22 May '09The change in eligibility criteria for admission to professional courses like engineering and pharmacy has now started taking its toll on the colleges offering bachelor’s degree in science.Wednesday
20 May '09Despite the introduction of the rule by which only B group students will be eligible for admission in pharmacy colleges this year...Tuesday
19 May '09For the first time, Hindi medium students will be allotted books under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan.Tuesday
19 May '09The Kutchi weavers, Jamnagar bandhini artisans and Ajrak printing craftsmen will soon join the league of the traditional embroiders of Kutch, who got their traditional craft patented last year.Monday
18 May '09The government-aided FD Higher Secondary School here will become the first school in the state to introduce the subject of ‘school safety’ in its curriculum from the new academic session onwards.Monday
18 May '09With English language being made compulsory in Class XI and XII from this academic year, a shift in the pattern of choice of subjects might be in the offing.Tuesday
12 May '09It will soon be possible to get details of the availability of specific blood groups in blood banks in and around your area through SMS.Monday
11 May '09The Indian Red Cross Society-run blood banks across Gujarat have registered a drop in the replacement figures to 30 per cent in the last two years.Wednesday
6 May '09India is an important market for Nepal and accounts for 27 per cent of the tourist traffic, according to members of the Nepal Tourism Board, who were in Gujarat to announce the relaunch of ‘Nepal Tourism’ in India.Saturday
2 May '09Under the World Bank-sponsored Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) project, which is meant for integration of sustainable livelihood and protection of environment in coastal areas...Saturday
2 May '09The tri-party Contract Labour Regulation and Abolition Board set up under the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 in Gujarat has had no representative member from the employers’ union in the last 15 months.Tuesday
28 April '09Travelling on the main road just outside the inter-state bus terminus is proving to be a traffic nightmare and a major cause of harassment for commuters.Saturday
25 April '09Puzzled over orders of election duty at more than one constituency concurrently, over 100 primary teachers in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation run schools have shot off letters to the corporation’s education officer.Friday
24 April '09The number of students appearing for examinations at Gujarat University and its 300 affiliated colleges has decreased by 11,000 in the last three academic years, but the examination expenses by the university have shot up by a whopping Rs 2 crore.Wednesday
22 April '09The Sixth Pay Commission’s circular announcing the extension of benefits to the non-government grant-in-aid schools comes within 15 days as compared to a five to six months wait earlier.Wednesday
22 April '09While work on the stormwater drainage pipelines project at Hiravadi area in Ahmedabad has damaged underground sewage pipeline and the Town Planning 12 bore water pipelines...Tuesday
14 April '09Even as the January 26, 2001 earthquake gave birth to a new subject, ‘earthquake engineering’, which was introduced in various engineering colleges across the state in 2005...Sunday
12 April '09Gujarat has failed to grab an opportunity provided by the Union government’s Tuition Fee Waiver (TFW) scheme, which targets the economically backward classes...Saturday
11 April '09The state health department has decided to come up with an umbrella committee of all ‘Human Research Ethics Committees’ operating at individual colleges at present.Monday
6 April '09WHO guidelines for the treatment of CNS tuberculosis have turned out to be a complete failure in the Indian context.