Sonia reaches out to women to build a ‘fearless’ Gujarat

Sunday 4 November '07

Congress President Sonia Gandhi pulled no punches as the party began its official campaign for Gujarat Assembly polls on Saturday...

Champaner-Pavagadh heritage tag runs into protests

Monday 10 September '07

Champaner-Pavagadh — which made it to UNESCO’s World Heritage Site list two years ago...

Now, BSP woos tribals, Muslims in Gujarat

Friday 7 September '07

With the Bahujan Samaj Party Supremo Mayawati slated to address a public meeting in Vadodara as a run-up to the state Assembly polls on September 16...

Cablemen feel pinch as Modi showcases Vande Gujarat

Sunday 19 August '07

The media-savvy Narendra Modi Government has pulled out another ace ahead of the Assembly elections. Today, cable operators across the state were handed over the first DVDs...

Aleef to Zubair Aleef

Friday 20 July '07

Calendars had so far meant holidays and festivals encircled in red. But now the red is getting bloodier.

Neighbourhood store is revenue model for IIM soccer idea

Sunday 8 July '07

From a small city club run by a fan in Vadodara to standing tall for India at an international soccer festival in Australia this week, it would seem that Providence...

Pecking order

Friday 29 June '07

Several birds thronged the little bird bath. Not the crow

Student in jail, Chancellor is upset but the V-C rules

Sunday 13 May '07

Auniversity student at one of the most well-known art departments across the country, the Fine Arts Faculty at the Maharaja Sayajirao University here

State of slow simmer

Wednesday 2 May '07

The Sohrabuddin case is creating ripples in Gujarat. The silence seems to be cracking, in bits and pieces, this summer

Cops grill MP in his own constituency

Friday 27 April '07

Babubhai Katara, the local BJP MP, was brought here today by Delhi Crime Branch officials.

MP with humble beginnings shocks tribal followers

Thursday 19 April '07

In Jhalod, Babubhai Katara’s name is on everybody’s lips—from joyous Congress workers to people waiting at bus stand and even his own supporters—since his arrest in Delhi.

There’s a poet inside Mr Narendra Modi

Friday 6 April '07

This Saturday when ghazal singers and poets will gather at Bhaidas Hall in Mumbai and recite poetry from Aankh a Dhanya Chhe, Gujarat will discover that there’s another side to its Chief Minister — Narendra Modi, Hindutva’s poster-boy, is also a poet.

NREGA meet: MLA bothered about ‘disrespect’ to culture

Saturday 10 February '07

Dahod MP Babu Katara may have flagged off the Rozi Roti Lokjumbesh, the first such campaign...

A River Rubbished

Sunday 28 January '07

In the chemical heartland of Gujarat, Rohit Prajapati and the Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti both are not exactly popular. It’s not difficult to see why.

Weaker sections at risk in Gujarat: Sonia

Sunday 21 January '07

Setting the ball rolling for her party for Gujarat Assembly elections later this year...

Minus sugar, Amul pitches for the dessert

Friday 19 January '07

Milk cooperative ventures into sugar-free ice creams, probiotic desserts for the diet, diabetic sector

Lessons from the princely past

Sunday 14 January '07

Once it had got everything right. Now it’s the only city in Gujarat to have registered a decline in growth rates

Women do justice to grassroots courts

Thursday 28 December '06

Union Panchayat Minister Mani Shanker Aiyar may be mooting the Nyay Panchayat Bill for an inexpensive, self-financed local justice system. However, a similar experiment

Youngest in the family, came to Mumbai to become a CA

Monday 20 November '06

The room’s kept locked but cleaned everyday. Not even the bedspread has been changed. For, everything from the colours and the fans, from the chandeliers to the matching glass vase by his bedside were chosen by Zubair.

Setting farms free

Sunday 29 October '06

In a unique experiment, a women’s group in Gujarat has got 31 tribal families their mortgaged land back

A prayer a day keeps the mosquitoes away

Sunday 1 October '06

In the old quarter of Vadodara, the imam gives tips to his congregation on how to keep malaria at bay

Under scan, Gujarat madrasas to tell govt: let cops screen admissions

Friday 29 September '06

With madrasas under the scanner again after the arrest of two former students of a Bharuch seminary...

Bhatt resigns, blames Modi

Thursday 7 September '06

It was an emotional and occasionally tearful senior leader Nalin Bhatt who spelt out the reason for his resignation from the BJP — ‘Modi and Omji (Omprakash Mathur)’ — in Vadodara.

For these children in Gujarat, it’s safer to stay marooned at school

Wednesday 2 August '06

Since Sunday, 135 primary school students and 20 staff members of the Uttar Buniyadi Ashramshala, run by the Gujarat Vidyapeeth...

Faces of tragedy: an Armyman trying to get daughters admitted to school; a young groom to be

Wednesday 3 May '06

An Armyman on his way to get his children admitted to school, a brother taking the short-cut home from a shop he had newly opened, a young man about to get married, two men returning from work: the victims of yesterday’s Vadodara riots over the dargah demolition, Hindu and Muslim, were ordinary citizens not even aware of the controversy.