

Sunday 15 March '09
For the first time in Gujarat, the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has put CCTV cameras, and Sewer Jetting machines from the UK into service to clear the city’s clogged drainage lines.Friday 13 March '09
The Surat police have launched an unprecedented hunt for a “mysterious woman SIMI operative” who they claim could be the pivot of a fresh conspiracy...Saturday
7 March '09Bhagwan Jha, the Surat-based brother-in-law of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, filed an application in a Mumbai court on Friday seeking permission to deliver home-cooked food to her in prison.Wednesday
4 March '09In a city which has around 4,500 doctors, only 2,000 of them have registered themselves for systematic disposal of biomedical waste at a treatment plant in the city.Monday
2 March '09The functioning of police in Surat, the economic capital of Gujarat, is very important in view of its high crime rate.Sunday
1 March '09Jaggidevi Jamnaprasad Nishad (68), lost her entire family in a railway mishap at Udhna in Surat on February 27, 2008.Friday
27 February '09The Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council, Mumbai has received over 30,000 forms from different parts of Gujarat for the education aid to the children of diamond polishers.Monday
23 February '09The jobless diamond polishers of Surat are waiting for the final school exams of their children to get over so that they can move to their native villages in north Gujarat and Saurashtra.Wednesday
11 February '09Tears streaming down his face, his hands trembling, the man who allegedly led the serial bombing of Ahmedabad that killed 58 and injured over 200....Tuesday
10 February '09The family members of Ehsan Jaffri are happy over the arrest of Valsad Deputy Superintendent of Police K G Erda.Monday
9 February '09The prevailing slump in the diamond industry may prove a blessing in disguise for the textile units in the city.Sunday
8 February '09The Indian Diamond Institute at Surat, which attracts students from as far as the US, Korea, Canada, and Mauritius, apart from Indian states, fear an exodus from the current batch.Saturday
7 February '09The money given to them was meant to secure their future. Instead, these children, differently-abled students of a welfare school, are now using it to help their fathers — all jobless diamond workers — to safeguard their present.Thursday
5 February '09Mohan Delkar, the six-time Member of Parliament from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, joined the Congress at a public rally addressed by the party president Sonia Gandhi at Silvassa on Wednesday.Thursday
5 February '09Congress president Sonia Gandhi, on Wednesday, vowed to fight terrorism and warned Pakistan in indirect words to stop spreading the menace or face a befitting reply.Thursday
5 February '09Congress president Sonia Gandhi vowed to tackle terror and warned Pakistan to lay off or face retaliation, at a public meeting to kick off her party’s campaign for the coming Lok Sabha poll....Wednesday
4 February '09Women in different villages of Surat district have taken up cudgels against liquor dens.Sunday
1 February '09The jobless diamond workers have now found new jobs. Some are selling vada-pao and other eatables on makeshift carts in the city, while many others are working as conductors on city buses.Thursday
29 January '09Deep-sea patrolling has been intensified in south Gujarat as well as neighbouring Maharashtra following a radio message intercept that hinted at the possibility of an attack akin to 26/11 in the region.Thursday
29 January '09Patrolling at land and sea has been stepped up at the Gujarat coast and neighbouring Maharashtra following a radio intercept that hints at the possibility of a 26/11-style attack in the region....Wednesday
28 January '09Patrolling at land and sea has been stepped up at the Gujarat coast and neighbouring Maharashtra following a radio intercept that hints at the possibility of a 26/11-style attack.Tuesday
20 January '09Obama Obama, tune kar diya duniya mein hungama, Obama Obama tune kar diya duniya mein hungama, ab to White House ke hakdar hain Obama...Friday
16 January '09Unable to cope with the continuing crisis in the diamond industry, a diamond firm owner has diversified from diamonds to real estate.Sunday
11 January '09As the truck operators continue with their nationwide strike, the textile industry in Surat is facing the brunt badly. Every day since the strike began, the industry has been suffering a loss of nearly Rs 90 crore.Friday
9 January '09She was always fond of motorbikes. When she could not buy one, she decided to steal. Once it started, there was no end. And 25-year-old Harsha Patel fell into the habit of stealing motorcycles...