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Chastened, parties lick their wounds

Thursday 4 June '09

The state seems to have gone into political hibernation after the BJP’s poor performance...
Minority voices lost in Gujarat’s political babble

Friday 24 April '09

In February 2008, Sanjay Botad, a tribal, was killed in police firing in Sabarkantha’s Polo forest reserve area....
Why Gujarat BJP picked Cong ‘rejects’

Friday 27 March '09

While the rest of the country discusses and debates seat sharing-agreements and coalition arrangements, the poll scene in Gujarat...
The curious case of the killer virus

Sunday 1 March '09

With an unusual strain of the Hepatitis B virus claiming over 50 lives in Modasa, Gujarat, the sleepy town is reeling under the most perplexing epidemic in recent history
Family chitchat forewarns doctor of Hepatitis B outbreak

Thursday 19 February '09

An Informal discussion between a block health officer and another doctor’s relatives seems to have alerted the state health machinery that a full blown...
For a change, they will cheer a harvest of runs

Thursday 20 November '08

It is not lush green sugarcane crop in the fields that is keeping farmer Atul Patel cheerful, but a cricket tournament that is going to be organised in his village soon.
Rough patches galore on Nano’s track

Saturday 11 October '08

The government’s decision to transfer 1,100-acres of land to the Tatas for the Nano car project from an area, the Anand Agriculture University...
Dispute over another agri varsity land

Saturday 11 October '08

The Gujarat Government's transfer of 1,100 acres - carved from land that was originally meant for research by the Anand Agriculture University...
Post-arrests, state ‘high’ but alert

Friday 5 September '08

In something of a welcome change, Gujarat has been more or less absent from national headlines this week...
Just let me be

Friday 29 August '08

Continual celebration of victimhood isn’t helping Gujarat. NGOs need to understand this
The baby boom

Friday 8 August '08

The primordial urge to have a biological child of one’s own flesh, blood and DNA, combined with science and money power...
A leaky situation

Monday 16 June '08

Last week, while everyone in Gandhinagar was busy trying to plug two different kinds of leaks, nobody would say why the leaks occurred in the first place.
A search for answers

Friday 23 May '08

Two events concerning the police, one unusual and the other on expected lines, have marked Gujarat’s news calendar in recent days.
Away from the headlines

Saturday 26 April '08

With political activity taking a summer slumber after the BJP’s victory in the assembly election, campaigns and committees dominate Gujarat’s power corridors.
Money for justice, cash for free?

Friday 8 February '08

Compensation is bordering on a syndrome. There are cash doles for the accident victim...
Cloud over Cong has a silver lining, in tribal areas

Monday 24 December '07

While the Congress could only improve its tally marginally, there is a silver lining for the party on three fronts...
Poster war

Thursday 13 December '07

Irfan Pathan may be revelling in his maiden Test century in Bangalore but back home in Vadodara, he and his brother Yusuf Pathan have been unwittingly drawn into a smear campaign.
The centre of action

Thursday 13 December '07

In Central Gujarat, the fight is getting dirty and desperate. Till recently, this was called the state’s silent poll zone, but the label is now lost in the sound and colour of campaigning.
Surat Bajrang Dal chief, who took on missionaries in Dangs, is now Gujarat Youth Congress gen secy

Tuesday 11 December '07

If Vithalbhai Togadia, younger brother of VHP international general secretary Pravin Togadia...
The Congress has their blessings

Monday 10 December '07

In 2002 their aggressive campaigning got the BJP large votes. But now angry with the party, the sadhus are lending support to the Congress...
Campaign goes shrill but EC

Saturday 8 December '07

With Chief Minister Narendra Modi hogging all the attention during the Assembly election campaign in Gujarat...
Progress? What’s that?

Saturday 8 December '07

Modi is wooing the tribal belt with his projects but this is one of the most underdeveloped areas in Gujarat.
Tracking Modi-speak

Saturday 8 December '07

Gujarat goes to polls yet again with divisions, but of different kinds.
Commission Card

Tuesday 4 December '07

Their appearance before the Nanavati Shah Commission and their relief work is what activists-turned-candidates are wooing Muslim voters with.
Burnt Bakery a BJP bastion

Friday 23 November '07

Vadodara city constituency is better known by a landmark it finds hard to live down, the Best Bakery.
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