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Cong MLA defies party writ, appears before CM''s graft probe panel

Thursday 21 June '12

Even as the State Congress refused to appear before the Modi-appointed M B Shah Commission which is investigating 15 allegations of large-scale corruption within the State, one of its MLAs, Babu Meghj...
Men in border village on run after run-in with MLA''s man

Wednesday 20 June '12

An ostensible issue of alleged encroachment on grazing and village land of Sapreda, an interior village in the border district of Banaskantha, has culminated into a case of robbery and assault provoki...
Sabarmati jail officials tampered with inmate''s documents, IG promises no repeat of 'mischief''

Friday 25 May '12

Sabarmati Central Jail authorities were recently found doing "mischief" with an official document of a prisoner to show that a rightful copy of the document was provided to him.
In 'open'' NHRC meet, edgy govt orders media out

Wednesday 16 May '12

Rattled by questions over atrocities on Dalits, the state government on Tuesday ordered the mediapersons out of an "open" hearing of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) that began here yesterd...
In 'open'' NHRC meet, edgy govt orders media out

Wednesday 16 May '12

Rattled by questions over atrocities on Dalits, the state government on Tuesday ordered the mediapersons out of an "open" hearing of the National Human Rights Commission that began here yesterday.
'Delayed'' probe: Advocate General to defend cops in V-C caste slur case

Monday 7 May '12

Facing the possibility of being fined for its alleged dilly-dallying approach in completing probe against Gujarat University Vice-Chancellor Parimal Trivedi who is accused of making casteist remarks a...
2002 riots: Verdict in Ode case today, judge gets transfer orders

Friday 4 May '12

A day before he was expected to pronounce the verdict in a post-Godhra riot case in which three of a family in Malav Bhagol locality of Ode were killed on March 1, 2002, R M Sareen, the additional ses...
Day before verdict, judge shifted

Friday 4 May '12

Forty-one people are undergoing trial in Ode killings case, most from influential Patel community
The rioters next door

Sunday 15 April '12

A tobacco merchant, a landed farmer, an elected representative...those sentenced in the Ode massacre case of Gujarat 2002 defy the stereotypical image of a rioter.
One verdict, contrasting emotions

Friday 13 April '12

A son hails justice for Ode killings, a daughter worries for jailed father
4 of family found guilty, among them 2 brothers

Tuesday 10 April '12

Sandeep Dilip Patel, an engineering student, stood quietly outside the Anand district court complex along with his maternal uncle, also called Dilip Patel, till the names of convicts were declared on ...
Among the convicted, 4 of a family

Tuesday 10 April '12

Sandeep Dilip Patel, an engineering student, stood quietly outside the Anand district court complex along with his maternal uncle, also called Dilip Patel, till the names of convicts were declared
The Daughter of Kankot

Sunday 1 April '12

She is 19, Muslim, and the youngest sarpanch of a Gujarat village.
Give details to back charges against Modi: SC to Kuldip

Tuesday 27 March '12

A two-judge bench of Supreme Court on Monday sought "greater details" from senior Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Kuldip Sharma on his allegations that Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been acting against h...
'Can''t hold accused responsible for 'murder'' of missing persons''

Monday 26 March '12

More than 200 persons who went missing during the 2002 riots are now presumed dead and are commonly surmised as murdered.
In face-off with Modi, top cop moves SC

Friday 23 March '12

Senior Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Kuldip Sharma has approached the Supreme Court demanding that all matters relating his conduct as a civil servant, including his annual confidential ratings, be placed...
2002 riots: In this riot case, victims too are standing trial

Tuesday 20 March '12

Victims stood trial as they dug a suspected mass grave site looking for missing relatives.
Ode: Defence witness deals a blow to victims

Wednesday 14 March '12

In a significant development in one of the two massacre cases reported from Ode village in Anand district in suring the 2002 riots, a defence witness on Tuesday deposed before the special trial court ...
Ode village riots: Accused to lead witness

Monday 12 March '12

One of the two 2002 massacre cases reported from Ode village in Anand district, Malav Bhagol Massacre, is all set to be the first case among the 9 Godhra and Post-Godhra riots cases further investigat...
NRI man booked for cyber crime against wife

Thursday 8 March '12

A matrimonial dispute between a Non-Resident Indian from Ahmedabad and his wife, from Gurgaon in Haryana, hit cyberspace after the husband allegedly created a website by the name of his wife and poste...
A language in which H is for Haribhai and M is for Manibhai

Thursday 1 March '12

What "H" and M" mean is quite obvious when one is referring to communal riots. In Gujarat, these have since evolved into "Haribhai" and "Manibhai" in a vocabulary formed over the years
Four women judges hold promise of justice for 2002

Monday 27 February '12

The train fire and the violence that followed took hundreds of lives
Four women judges hold promise of justice for 2002

Monday 27 February '12

Tomorrow it will be 10 years since the Sabarmati Express burning at Godhra that set off the Gujarat riots.
Four families who survived Ode seek safety in familiarity of fields

Monday 27 February '12

Having lost 23 in riots of March 2002, they feel safe only in their fields outside Kanbhaipura village.
In Gujarat, women judges hold promise of justice for 2002

Sunday 26 February '12

It''s 10 years since the Sabarmati Express burning at Godhra that set off the Gujarat riots.