Aditi Raja

The train-burning incident, in which 59 passengers, mostly kar sevaks, died, led to communal riots across Gujarat, in which nearly 1,200 people, mostly Muslims, were killed.

On Friday, a group of staff members of the designated crematoriums in the city staged a protest and submitted a memorandum to the VMC to make PPE kits available for each cremation.

Standing on 55 acres of land, the palace was constructed by Maharaja Sayajirao III to serve as a private residence for his son Lt Col Yuvraj Fatesinghrao Gaekwad and his wife Yuvrani Padmavatidevi, parents of Pratapsinhrao. Samarjitsinh is Pratapsinhrao’s grandson.

Recently, a racket, involving a medical representative of Abbott Pharmaceuticals, was busted which allegedly sourced 209 Remdesivir injections from Bangladesh and sold 110 of them to patients in Surat and Ahmedabad at rates higher than the MRP.

For close to six years, 38-year-old Leela Madi and her family have been raising a dozen goats in their home in a clustered settlement on the banks of Vishwamitri river in Vadodara.

On July 4, residents of the colonies near the designated Covid-19 crematorium, Shantidham in Ankleshwar — a gas crematorium — had protested against cremating the body of a retired police personnel, who had succumbed to the infection.

Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) issued whip to party's two MLAs in Rajasthan to abstain from voting in the event of a floor test of the Ashok Gehlot government in the Rajasthan assembly.

Bookings are open for customised wedding packages in the Statue of Unity complex, with the Gujarat government planning to open up tourist destinations after the three-month Covid lockdown.

A resident from the group of people who protested in Vadodara last week, said, "The amount in the first bill was much higher than usual for those months (in previous years). We did not receive any reply from Madhya Gujarat Vij Company Ltd (MGVCL, owned by GUVNL) officials and so we staged a protest.

Residents of colonies located around two crematoriums in Ankleshwar and Bharuch towns held aggressive protests on Friday and Saturday, holding up the cremation for over 24 hours -- this was the district's second case requiring a cremation, the earlier ones having been burial rites.

Residents of colonies located around two crematoriums in Ankleshwar and Bharuch towns held aggressive protests on Friday and Saturday, holding up the cremation for over 24 hours -- this was the district's second case requiring a cremation, the earlier ones having been burial rites.

Villagers have been clashing with the authorities in the area for over two months. What is the reason behind the unrest?

This is not how crocodiles are usually fed, whether in captivity or not. However, for the Sayajibaug zoo, hand feeding this mugger has been the only way to ensure that he survived after having lost his upper jaw in a territorial fight, over a decade ago

Authorities say that the analysis is ongoing as is the drive, in accordance with the ICMR recommendation for prophylactic use of HCQ. VMC Health Officer Dr Devesh Patel says, “The debate around HCQ is founded in the side effects of long term use of the drug for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other illnesses.

The dashboard, which aims to make access for citizens easy with regard to the number of vacant beds in various government and private hospitals empanelled to offer Covid treatment, indicates that as many as 196 of the total 267 ICU Covid-19 beds are occupied in the city.

As many as 250 original landholders and their heirs are yet to accept the compensation offered by the SSNNL.

The BJP has been in a comfortable position with 103 MLAs and the backing from NCP's lone MLA Kandhal Jadeja, who had earlier announced his support to the BJP despite the NCP whip for Congress.

On Monday, the administration filed a police complaint against two villagers from Gora for allegedly trespassing a land acquired when they began ploughing the field like every year.

Close to 170 madrasa students, including about 23 from Darul Uloom Baroda, were left waiting at the station when the special train to Manipur chugged out of the platform carrying only half its capacity

While several parents are confused whether to allow children together in playgrounds, experts recommend that interactions for elder children, who grasp the meaning of social distancing, could be fine but for the younger ones, the playground should be off limits for now.

Vadodara resident Vrunda Patel, 23, landed in Ahmedabad from Ukraine on May 30. Vrunda, a medical student in the Chernivtsi University, said she was not given an option to opt for the free government quarantine.

Ahead of the vote, political activity has picked up pace in Gujarat, and three Congress MLAs have resigned in the past few days, adding to the desertions seen earlier in March.

Ahead of the vote, political activity has picked up pace in Gujarat, and three Congress MLAs have resigned in the past few days, adding to the desertions seen earlier in March.

In view of the restrictions pertaining to gatherings in the time of the Covid-19 outbreak, the Congress has divided its legislators in three groups confining them locally at resorts in Ambaji, Rajkot and Vadodara.