Tuesday 11 August '09
The sea is in their backyard, and yet the fishermen from south Gujarat have to go miles away to the shores of Saurashtra for fishing.Wednesday 5 August '09
A TINY seaside village in Valsad in south Gujarat seems to have stolen a march over the Government in putting in place an identification mechanism....Wednesday
5 August '09It is not a part of Jammu and Kashmir or even the North East, but if an outsider is visiting Nargol, a seaside village in Valsad in south Gujarat, about 150 kms from Mumbai, he or she will need to get a background check and a permission letter.Wednesday
22 July '09She is an unlikely kingpin or rather the ‘queen’ — of an unlikely crime — specialising in the theft of copper wires.Monday
20 July '09Having a rock band is one thing while selling the music and sticking to the kind of music one wants to play is another.Sunday
19 July '09Noora Rathwa (42), from the Border Security Force (BSF), was at Lalgarh, Nandigram, in Malda district, West Bengal, on patrol duty.Tuesday
14 July '09It is not difficult to fathom why women’s groups have largely taken up arms against liquor dens in the state when one looks at the recent findings of the Gujarat Police...Wednesday
8 July '09Hero Honda motorcycles are known for their sturdy fuel-efficient engines, but the company may soon have to highlight other positive aspects of its engines-in advertisements-courtesy a group of bike thieves in Dahod, who are putting it to use as irrigation pumps.Monday
6 July '09Gangs of robbers of yore are slowly are disappearing in central Gujarat, with increasing reports of brazen acts of looting where everything from a nail to a vehicle are robbed, say the police.Sunday
5 July '09Unlike other artists who use galleries to exhibit their works, Vadodara-based painter Chinnam uses tables in the post office to display his work.Sunday
5 July '09Officials surveying and implementing the Artificial Groundwater Recharge Project for 5,500 wells in the tribal-dominated talukas of Devgadh Baria and Dhanpur taluka of Dahod district are increasingly falling prey to mismanagement of funds.Saturday
4 July '09Anil Bansal has plenty to do on his priority list. Playing Sherlock Holmes is not what he wants or has the time for. However, he had to do just that, play the role of a private investigator, when a Delhi-based hacker carried out transactions worth Rs 68,000 from his wife’s ICICI bank account in two instalments on June 21 and 22.Wednesday
1 July '09Pop icon Michael Jackson’s sudden demise has left millions across the globe heartbroken.Tuesday
30 June '09Asmita Solanki (18) from Saliya village in Devgadh Baria aspires to buy a jeep someday.Monday
29 June '09When Vithal Mangu Parmar, son of a brick kiln worker, Mangu Dada, from Mahudi Faliya on the outskirts of Rampur and Sant...Sunday
28 June '09Since June 19, every morning at 5.30, Sambhaben Solanki, a 60-year-old widow, waits for a bus or chhakda near Vyara village in Baria taluka so that she can reach Devgadh Baria on time and get fodder for her five buffaloes.Thursday
25 June '09Ten days ago, the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) detained at least six buses of the Madhya Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (MPSRTC) for not having the requisite interstate permit to ply on Gujarat roads and operate out of bus terminals in the state.Monday
22 June '09Gujarat boasts of some of the finest laboratories in the country, including the Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad.Wednesday
17 June '09But finds few takers as people from interior areas also have cellphonesTuesday
16 June '09Acute shortage of CNG filling stations across cities in central Gujarat is causing delays in the travel timings of passengers relying on the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation buses.Tuesday
16 June '09There were no celebrations of ‘World Day Against Child Labour’ on Friday at Bal Shramik Shala in Signal Faliya at Godhra in Panchmahals district.Saturday
13 June '09They might be paramedics, but the stain of social stigma binds them to silence. The highway town of Godhra, infamous as the epicentre of the 2002 riots, chooses silence when it comes to HIV/AIDS scare.Thursday
11 June '09With just eight police points to check vehicles’ entry, on an average 50 heavy vehicles enter the city every day. And of these 50, at least eight to ten vehicles violate the Police Commissioner’s orders.Tuesday
9 June '09Ashok Vasava would rather have his son work in the fields than walk the four-km stretch to the primary school in Virod village on the city outskirts.Monday
8 June '09Halol town in Panchmahals district has never had a gutter or a drainage system since Independence, save the ones constructed by the citizens themselves.
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