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Gujarat Youth Cong set to weed out overage leaders

Sunday 1 February '09

After Rahul Gandhi recently fired the Bihar Youth Congress president for furnishing wrong information about his age, the party has begun the process of replacing all the overage leaders from the Gujarat Pradesh Yuva Congress with a younger lot.
Urdu, the language of choice for students at Gujarat Vidyapeeth

Wednesday 28 January '09

The maximum takers for free Indian language courses run by Gujarat Vidyapeeth is Urdu, followed by Sanskrit and South Indian languages.
Arts college to host Rahul’s first public meet in state

Sunday 25 January '09

After the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the Gujarat Vidyapeeth refused to allow their premises to be used for a public meeting to be addressed by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on January 30...
After 60 hearings in Patan rape case, public prosecutor yet to get payment

Saturday 24 January '09

As many as 60 hearings in different courts have been held in the Patan gangrape case and all the witnesses, barring a few from the Crime Branch...
State govt ‘fails’ to furnish evidence to prove Nano land allotment ‘legal’

Thursday 22 January '09

The state government, in its reply running into 166 pages submitted to the court, has claimed that the land allotted to Tata Motors for its Nano car project was legally acquired in 1911.
HC rules against transfer of debts between ICICI, Kotak Mahindra

Monday 19 January '09

In A setback to a deal between ICICI and Kotak Mahindra banks pertaining to sale and purchase of debts on payment of a nominal sum, the Gujarat High Court has ruled that the banks cannot engage in trading of debts.
Former BJP leader Mangrola to join SP at Ankleshwar meet

Saturday 17 January '09

Former BJP Rajya Sabha member Kanaksinh Mangrola, who is popular among tribals in Walia belt of Bharuch in the central Gujarat region, is all set to join the Samajwadi Party (SP).
Godhra to tread on development highway

Wednesday 14 January '09

Godhra, which caught global attention after burning of the Sabarmati train in 2002 and the state-wide communal riots in its aftermath, has finally snared the state government’s attention as far as development is concerned.
Trilingual edition of Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj to be released on Martyrs’ Day

Saturday 10 January '09

Mahatma Gandhi's concept of self-rule, as enunciated in his classic work, Hind Swaraj, which had stirred the young generation to plunge into the freedom movement, may have been somewhat lost in time.
Coming soon, Sanskrit edition of Gandhi’s autobiography

Saturday 10 January '09

City-based Navajivan Trust, which has been publishing books authored by Mahatma Gandhi as also the books on Gandhian ideology for the last 90 years...
No pension for former legislators

Thursday 8 January '09

Gujarat is the fastest growing state with its annual gross domestic product crossing 11 per cent and aiming to achieve 14 per cent in the next few years.
Some Gujarat ex-MLAs struggle to eke out a living

Thursday 8 January '09

As one of the fastest growing states with a Gross Domestic Product rate of above 11 per cent, there is one distinction Gujarat can do without.
Govt to act against Asaram Ashram to recover ‘grabbed’ land

Thursday 8 January '09

The state government is all set to initiate action to recover the agricultural land allegedly grabbed by the Asaram Bapu Ashram at Motera village, in the outskirts of Ahmedabad.
With polls round the corner, Cong steps out to strengthen its hold at grassroots level

Tuesday 6 January '09

With the Lok Sabha elections approaching fast, the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee has gone on an overdrive to strengthen the party at the grassroots.
Councillor moves High Court against disqualification

Sunday 4 January '09

A woman municipal councillor elected on a BJP ticket from Sidhpur in Patan district is confronting charges similar to the one faced by Surendranagar BJP parliamentarian Somabhai Patel.
Really care for animals? Pay for upkeep, HC tells activist

Friday 2 January '09

In a first judgement of its kind, Justice D H Waghela of the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday directed animal rights activist Bharat Kothari to return 1,325 sheep and goats to a Rajasthan-based trader within a month.
Dispute over Kutch grazing land reaches High Court

Sunday 28 December '08

A dispute over a grazing land at Mathak in Anjar taluka of Kutch district, arising out of its allotment to Rajkot-based Suzlon Wind Park Limited for setting up wind energy farm, has reached the Gujarat High Court.
Will BJP throw its weight behind Maya Kodnani?

Sunday 28 December '08

Will the Minister of State for Women, Child Development and Higher Education, Maya Kodnani, accused in the 2002 Naroda Gam riot case...
SIT chases elusive Maya

Saturday 27 December '08

Gujarat’s Minister of State for Women, Child Development and Higher Education Dr Maya Kodnani appears to be unfazed by the fact that she is supposed to depose before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) as a 2002 post-Godhra riots accused.
LS polls: Godhra may become battleground for Gujarat’s political Mahabharat

Saturday 27 December '08

Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s move to pump in Rs 1,400 crore in Panchmahals district and hold the state Republic Day function at Godhra, is being interpreted in the political circles as a ‘sop’ before the Lok Sabha elections.
High court bench and bar lock horns over transfer of 2002 riot case

Friday 26 December '08

What started as an appeal seeking transfer of a criminal case pertaining to the 2002 riots from the Nadiad fast track court to another has snowballed into a major debate.
With Lok Sabha polls round the corner, leaders start crossing over to rival parties

Wednesday 17 December '08

With the Lok Sabha elections drawing near, political parties have begun poaching from other parties. Sitting Congress MP from Jamnagar Vikram Madam is reported to be switching over to the BJP...
Molu murder case still haunts Babu Bokhiria

Sunday 14 December '08

More trouble seems to be awaiting former BJP minister and Porbandar mining mafia don Babu Bokhiria after the Gujarat High Court on Thursday upheld the fast track court order...
Suspended BJP MP criticises Advani, Modi; showers praise on Sonia, Rahul Gandhi

Saturday 13 December '08

After Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee rejected BJP’s plea to disqualify its Surendranagar MP under the Anti-Defection Act, Somabhai Patel on Friday launched a direct attack on senior party leaders L K Advani and Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Modasa blast victim’s family awaits compensation

Thursday 27 November '08

Ayub Gori, father of 16-year-old Zainuddin Gori who was killed in the September 29 bomb blast at Modasa, has not yet been paid the compensation amount that the state government had announced.
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