

Saturday 18 April '09
Kamal Desai is not your average political worker. He cheers at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a rally, distributes posters for the Congress and sits at a trade union dharna on the same day. Kamal Topiwalla...Thursday 16 April '09
The arrest of 10 persons by Dahod Special Operation Group over the past two months, for illegally selling explosives, has revealed how they had taken desperate farmers...Tuesday
14 April '09In Possibly the biggest seizure of illegal explosive in Gujarat, the Dahod Special Operations Group and the Local Crime Branch...Monday
13 April '09Rabiabibi Buni did not know that her decision to move out of Godhra to Vadodara along with her son in 1980 after her husband’s death will turn the land she owned into a disputed territory bearing the testimony of the Partition in 1947.Sunday
12 April '09Even though Vadodara is the first city in the state to be constantly under CCTV surveillance, there are kinks in the armour of these wireless and all-weather cameras.Wednesday
8 April '09Even as a threat of violence looms large over regions bordering Madhya Pradesh with an upward looking crime graph...Tuesday
7 April '09After the seizure of 39 lakh pouches of gutkha from a clandestine manufacturing unit in north Gujarat, the Central Excise is now looking for buyers to dispose the stock.Tuesday
7 April '09Over 70 per cent of the population in Dahod work as farm labourers in districts such as Mehsana, Saurashtra and other parts of Gujarat. And with the harvest season having set in...Monday
6 April '09Foresters and villagers in central Gujarat have reached a unique understanding on preserving animal fodder, leading to a participatory movement among the farmers of Chhota Udepur.Saturday
4 April '09The Faculty of Fine Arts of the M S University has not been able to give rectified marksheets to the students of master’ programme in Art History nine months after the errors were noticed.Monday
30 March '09Besides political affiliations, family members of the contestants are believed to have influenced the elections and their outcomes greatly.Sunday
29 March '09Following the Election Commission’s directive to prevent the flow of free liquor ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the police have arrested 10 bootleggers...Wednesday
25 March '09Danseuse Mallika Sarabhai, who is contesting the elections from Gandhinagar against BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani, is fundraising for her electoral debut.Monday
23 February '09It is not just environmentalists and activists who think that the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) is understaffed to tackle a huge amount of paper work...Wednesday
18 February '09The 1098 service, also called Childline, is a round-the-clock hotline for children in distress.Tuesday
17 February '09The recovery of mobile phones and sim cards has almost become the norm in the Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad, the state's largest prison.Tuesday
17 February '09The Centre had declared the 2002 post-Godhra riots at par with the Sikh riots of 1984 and had announced an additional Rs 50-crore relief package for the affected families.Monday
16 February '09The recently inaugurated fast track court in Dahod has become a battleground for two lawyers of the town.Monday
9 February '09Navin Rajwadi, a skilled coffin-maker of Vadodara, surprises all with his cheerful disposition as he shuttles between the morgue of Sir Sayaji Rao General Hospital...Saturday
10 January '09Despite repeated assurances by the authorities in the Panchmahals District Education Department to provide security to a school teacher after she was repeatedly harassed by the school principal over the last four years...Saturday
10 January '09Untimely rainfall and pests have led to the rise in sale prices of cotton crops across the country.Monday
5 January '09Even as the Polan Bazar pipe-bomb case in Godhra is yet to be solved, the residents of the area have entrusted a small-time steel owner and president of Muslim Ghanchee Samaj Panch to provide security cover to the area during festivals.Sunday
4 January '09A Lady teacher and a clerk of a Panchmahals school have been sitting on a dharna for the last three days to protest against the alleged sexual harassment of the teacher by the principal.Tuesday
30 December '08It is the awareness of the people rather than the sorting machine that is helping bring more and more fake notes to the Reserve Bank of India counters from across Gujarat.Monday
29 December '08While the state government has put a freeze on issuance of caste certificates, political experts feel the tribal votebank in constituencies like Santrampur, Navsari will play a decisive role in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.