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Mirror image: Surat employs cameras to know all about drain interiors

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.
Gujarat cops hunt for a ‘woman SIMI operative plotting serial blasts’

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...
Pragya Thakur’s family seeks court’s permission to send her homemade food

Saturday 7 March '09

Bhagwan 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.
Untreated bio-medical waste still finds its way to SMC garbage containers

Wednesday 4 March '09

In 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.
Surat police dept overhauled to put a check on terror

Monday 2 March '09

The functioning of police in Surat, the economic capital of Gujarat, is very important in view of its high crime rate.
No compensation yet for woman who lost four of family in rail mishap

Sunday 1 March '09

Jaggidevi Jamnaprasad Nishad (68), lost her entire family in a railway mishap at Udhna in Surat on February 27, 2008.
Mumbai jewellers flooded with aid pleas from Surat diamond workers

Friday 27 February '09

The 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.
Surat schools fear meltdown may be too hot to handle this summer

Monday 23 February '09

The 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.
‘Brainwashed with Iraq, Babri, Gujarat riots’

Wednesday 11 February '09

Tears streaming down his face, his hands trembling, the man who allegedly led the serial bombing of Ahmedabad that killed 58 and injured over 200....
Voice of victims: Dy SP’s arrest makes slain MP’s family happy

Tuesday 10 February '09

The family members of Ehsan Jaffri are happy over the arrest of Valsad Deputy Superintendent of Police K G Erda.
Diamond industry crisis may prove blessing in disguise for textile units

Monday 9 February '09

The prevailing slump in the diamond industry may prove a blessing in disguise for the textile units in the city.
No end to stark stories from diamond business

Sunday 8 February '09

The 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.
Differently-abled kids of diamond workers hand over grant money to jobless fathers

Saturday 7 February '09

The 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.
Silvassa MP Mohan Delkar joins Cong

Thursday 5 February '09

Mohan 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.
Sonia warns Pakistan of ‘befitting’ reply

Thursday 5 February '09

Congress 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.
Sonia warns Pak, says will give befitting reply

Thursday 5 February '09

Congress 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....
Village women in Surat team up to plug watering holes

Wednesday 4 February '09

Women in different villages of Surat district have taken up cudgels against liquor dens.
Jobless diamond workers take up jobs as waiters

Sunday 1 February '09

The 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.
State on high alert after terror intercept

Thursday 29 January '09

Deep-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.
Western states on alert after terror warning

Thursday 29 January '09

Patrolling 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....
Gujarat, Maha on high alert after terror intercept

Wednesday 28 January '09

Patrolling 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.
Surat musicians welcome Obama in their own way

Tuesday 20 January '09

Obama Obama, tune kar diya duniya mein hungama, Obama Obama tune kar diya duniya mein hungama, ab to White House ke hakdar hain Obama...
Crisis forces man to dump diamond industry, take up real estate

Friday 16 January '09

Unable to cope with the continuing crisis in the diamond industry, a diamond firm owner has diversified from diamonds to real estate.
Stir costs Surat textile industry Rs 90 crore a day

Sunday 11 January '09

As 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.
25-year-old girl arrested for lifting motorcycles

Friday 9 January '09

She 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...
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