
September 18, 2005 01:41 IST
An inter-state dispute of an unexpected kind has broken out after two passengers on a train passing through Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh...
Sun, Sep 18, 2005
July 02, 2005 00:00 IST
Ladakh’s stark terrain, windswept mountains and high passes all conspire to entice folks from the plains. But the most vivid memory fro...
Sat, Jul 02, 2005
March 25, 2005 02:02 IST
Pakistan is going to learn a few lessons from Gujarat. A team of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation , which owns Amul brand, will...
Fri, Mar 25, 2005
March 19, 2005 01:48 IST
The sympathy wave for Chief Minister Narendra Modi will not wash away the campaign within the BJP for his removal. As Modi whipped up sentim...
Sat, Mar 19, 2005
March 13, 2005 00:00 IST
THE Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh might have taken on the NDA government on several occasions before the change of guard at the Centre, but Gu...
Sun, Mar 13, 2005
March 11, 2005 02:12 IST
The distance between Dandi and Disneyland just got shorter.While the Congress wants to re-enact the Dandi march to revive its political fort...
Fri, Mar 11, 2005
March 07, 2005 01:47 IST
Hussain Kalumiyan will soon be part of a disturbing trend spreading across villages in Gujarat. When the Godhra riot victim moves into a on...
Mon, Mar 07, 2005
February 20, 2005 00:00 IST
A SERIES of attacks on Christian prayer halls before and after Christmas in 1998 fixed the spotlight on the Dangs district in the southern t...
Sun, Feb 20, 2005
January 27, 2005 01:33 IST
One business in Kutch that’s booming after the 2001 killer quake is that of life insurance. Kutch now has hundreds of LIC agents, some ...
Thu, Jan 27, 2005
January 20, 2005 00:00 IST
Uttarayan, Gujarat’s annual kite festival, has started attracting crowds from even abroad. Earlier, only NRIs and specifically NRGs (No...
Thu, Jan 20, 2005
November 28, 2004 00:00 IST
CREMATORIUMS in Gujarat are no longer cramped places that heighten the sense of loss. Gardens, fountains, libraries, prayer halls, eye donat...
Sun, Nov 28, 2004
May 27, 2004 00:00 IST
The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress in Gujarat are still coming to terms with the results of the elections. Neither chief minister N...
Thu, May 27, 2004
April 23, 2004 00:00 IST
When alive they work through the day while the men are content to be drunk and to lord over them in this tribal hinterland of Rajasthan, unt...
Fri, Apr 23, 2004
April 22, 2004 00:00 IST
Taxis registered outside Rajasthan don’t need to keep an eye on the milestone when they enter the lake city. They are swarmed on arriva...
Thu, Apr 22, 2004
April 20, 2004 00:00 IST
Mohammed Shaikh, 116, Modasa, Sabarkantha. That's what passes off for an address in this north Gujarat town where hundreds of riot-affected...
Tue, Apr 20, 2004
April 16, 2004 00:00 IST
Continuing his tirade against the Gandhi-Nehru clan, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today fired from behind Muslim women who, he said,...
Fri, Apr 16, 2004
April 14, 2004 00:00 IST
A few kilometres off the busy Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway, Kotharia, known for its weavers, lives life at its own pace. Groups of people loiter...
Wed, Apr 14, 2004
April 14, 2004 00:00 IST
At first it strikes you as strange that so many young men in this small town of Saurashtra walk around with their hands in their pockets. So...
Wed, Apr 14, 2004
April 04, 2004 00:00 IST
Two months ago, the formation of Shakti Dal cost Shankersinh Vaghela his Gujarat PCC president’s post. Now with elections less than a m...
Sun, Apr 04, 2004
April 01, 2004 00:00 IST
The BJP high command’s advice to partymen to refrain from personal attacks seems to have been lost on Narendra Modi. The Chief Minister...
Thu, Apr 01, 2004
March 31, 2004 00:00 IST
Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani kicked off the second leg of his Bharat Uday Yatra from the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi on Tuesday, appro...
Wed, Mar 31, 2004
March 26, 2004 00:00 IST
All Gujaratis relish the sight of the overflowing Sardar Sarovar dam at Kevadia. Touted as the lifeline of Gujarat, for years, the project f...
Fri, Mar 26, 2004
March 07, 2004 00:00 IST
AS the majestic Somnath temple glows in the setting sun, the Arabian Sea in the backdrop only heightens the sense of serenity that pervades ...
Sun, Mar 07, 2004
January 15, 2004 00:00 IST
There was plenty of poetry, tears and memories at the inauguration of an earthquake-resistant hospital as Chief Minister Narendra Modi playe...
Thu, Jan 15, 2004
November 17, 2003 00:00 IST
Coming from a state whose people have done well for themselves in politics everywhere in the world, it’s an ungracious proposal indeed....
Mon, Nov 17, 2003





