Gandhinagar | 5 hours ago
Rising sugar prices benefit sugarcane growers: Minister
Gandhinagar, Feb 13 - Rising sugar prices may have soured the morning cup of tea, but Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Tushar Chaudhary Saturday said that it was 'happy times' for sugarcane growers.'These are happy times for sugarcane growers as those who sweat and toil to grow it are getting better prices for their produce,' Chaudhary, elected from sugarcane belt Mandvi in south Gujarat ... read more

Gandhinagar | 9 hours ago
BJP names Rajya Sabha candidate for Gujarat seat
Gandhinagar, Feb 13 - The Bharatiya Janata Party - has named Pravin Naik, former Surat unit president, as its candidate for a Rajya Sabha seat from Gujarat. He will file his nomination papers here Monday.The seat fell vacant following the death of Suryakant Acharya in December. Naik, a 72-year-old engineer by education, is an old Jan Sangh hand with a long record of service to the party. If elect ... read more

Gandhinagar | 1 day ago
Gujarat golden jubilee rath yatra flagged off
Gandhinagar, Feb 12 - Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal Friday flagged off the Swarnim Gujarat Rathyatra that will criss-cross the state as part of the build-up to the golden jubilee celebrations of the state's formation that begins May 1.In the presence of Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Leader of Opposition Shaktisinh Gohil, the rathyatra moved on a journey set to connect 19,165 villages of the st ... read more

Gandhinagar | 2 days ago
Hindu rightwing groups to prevent MNIK's release in Gujarat
Gandhinagar, Feb 11 - The Bajrang Dal and the Mahagujarat Janata Party-, a breakaway group of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party -, Thursday announced they would protest, and even prevent the release of Shah Rukh Khan starrer 'My name Is Khan' in Gujarat.Bajrang Dal activists, who burned effigies of Shah Rukh, have even asked multiplex owners to desist from exhibiting the film. Bajrang Dal leader R ... read more

Gandhinagar | 2 days ago
Bomb hoax lands father-son in lock-up
Gandhinagar, Feb 11 - A father-son duo who triggered a bomb scare in a desperate bid to catch a flight to be on time for the funeral of a dear one in Germany have ended up in the police lock-up instead.In the early hours of Wednesday, the Ahmedabad city police control received a phone call warning of a bomb in Air India's Frankurt bound flight which was set to explode on take-off. The control room ... read more

Gandhinagar | 2 days ago
Aarushi's parents undergo narco-test
Gandhinagar, Feb 11 - The narco-analysis test of Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, the dentist parents of teenager Aarushi Talwar who was found murdered at her home, finished at the Forensic Science Laboratory -here Thursday, officials said.The couple, brought here by a team of the Central Bureau of Investigation - Feb 8, initially underwent a preliminary psychological test and subsequently a medical exam ... read more

Gandhinagar | 3 days ago
Modi criticizes centre on fund allotment
Gandhinagar, Feb 10 - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday criticized the central government and said it was giving back to states only a part of what it was taking from them by way of taxes.'My worthies in the opposition here should remember that the centre gets a chunk of its funds from the people of the states through various taxes and gives back a part of it under central schemes,' ... read more

Gandhinagar | 3 days ago
Congress accuses Gujarat government of Rs.14,296 cr scam
Gandhinagar, Feb 10 - The opposition Congress in Gujarat Wednesday accused the state government of a Rs.14,296 crore scam, claiming it had under-valued its stake while divesting state-run Gujarat Pipavav Power Company Ltd -.'The government, which sold its 49 percent stake in the GPCC, had valued its holding at just Rs.381 crore,' Leader of Opposition in the state assembly Shaktisinh Gohil told rep ... read more

Gandhinagar | 4 days ago
Congress leader charges Gujarat minister with graft
Gandhinagar, Feb 10 - A Congress leader Tuesday accused Gujarat's Minister of State for Home Amit Shah of accepting a Rs.2.5 crore bribe from Ketan Parekh, allegedly involved in the stock market and Madhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank scams.Demanding Shah be sacked and a Central Bureau of Investigation - inquiry be instituted against him, former leader of the opposition Arjun Modvadia released ... read more

Gandhinagar | 4 days ago
'Rath yatra' to herald Gujarat golden jubilee
Gandhinagar, Feb 9 - Celebrating the golden jubilee of Gujarat's formation, a state-wide 'Swarnim Gujarat Sankalp Rath Yatra' will be flagged off from here Feb 12. It will cover each one of the 19,165 villages of the state.The yatra would be preceded by village-level competitions and various programmes to make the rural masses aware of the progress the state has achieved over the years, governmen ... read more