
October 25, 2003 00:00 IST
Last week, as Alang celebrated the arrival of Hellespont Grand—the biggest vessel to arrive at the ship-breaking yard — the Suprem...
Sat, Oct 25, 2003
October 16, 2003 00:00 IST
By Rashtrapati Bhavan standards, it was no celebration at all. For, its incumbent had opted to attend a religious conclave in Surat instead ...
Thu, Oct 16, 2003
October 12, 2003 00:00 IST
The Sabarmati Express stops here for two minutes in the dead of night, but the attention this station gets at the mention of ‘‘S-6...
Sun, Oct 12, 2003
September 11, 2003 00:00 IST
‘‘I told them, ‘You are like my brothers and uncles, please leave me alone.’ They made me chant slogans. We did everythi...
Thu, Sep 11, 2003
September 08, 2003 00:00 IST
Godhra police yesterday said they had got hold of a videotape of Friday’s incident of loot and arson, which clearly identified the perp...
Mon, Sep 08, 2003
September 04, 2003 00:00 IST
The bridge that collapsed in Daman last week claiming the lives of 29 children and an adult could well be a symbol of the apathy with which ...
Thu, Sep 04, 2003
August 25, 2003 00:00 IST
Thirty feet long and 10 feet tall, the carnivorous Rajasaurus Narmadensis dinosaurs that trundled across Narmada valley millions of years ag...
Mon, Aug 25, 2003
August 12, 2003 00:00 IST
Mahatma Gandhi’s name still has an international appeal. Blended with khadi, it acquires an exotic flavour which the Gujarat government...
Tue, Aug 12, 2003
July 30, 2003 00:00 IST
For sale...the signboard may be missing but the signs are evident. The majestic hills of Idar in north Gujarat, which once inspired Jnanpith...
Wed, Jul 30, 2003
July 28, 2003 00:00 IST
It took Gujarat eight decades to set up a memorial to the hundreds of tribals killed by the British in a massacre said to be worse than Jall...
Mon, Jul 28, 2003
July 20, 2003 00:00 IST
Something is more than amiss behind the imposing, elaborately-carved gates of the Laxmi Vilas Palace. The 186-room palace, the seat of the e...
Sun, Jul 20, 2003
June 29, 2003 00:00 IST
To all intents and purposes, Sidhpur is just another dusty North Gujarat town. Its one lakh-odd population is dominated by Brahmins, thanks ...
Sun, Jun 29, 2003
June 12, 2003 00:00 IST
For NRIs who can’t make it to the cremation of their relatives back home, a Gujarat crematorium is offering live webcast of the last jo...
Thu, Jun 12, 2003
June 08, 2003 00:00 IST
It's a real-life love saga, unbelievable enough to inspire reel-life versions: love ke liye conversion, forced separation, abortion and, fin...
Sun, Jun 08, 2003
June 04, 2003 00:00 IST
The Gujarat government is in for a major embarrassment with the Vishwa Boudh Sangh (VBS) planning to organise a mass conversion on June 15, ...
Wed, Jun 04, 2003
May 26, 2003 00:00 IST
When the earth shook violently in Kutch in 1957, Pravinsinh Jadeja was one-year-and-a-half old. Trapped under the debris of his house in Bac...
Mon, May 26, 2003
May 25, 2003 00:00 IST
When the first of the Narmada waters flowed into Kutch, it called for a celebration. A region known for scanty rain, it organised a Kutchots...
Sun, May 25, 2003
May 19, 2003 00:00 IST
No one would have expected Liladhar Mistry — who lost the last Assembly poll from Anjar getting hardly 5,200 votes — to do this. B...
Mon, May 19, 2003
April 27, 2003 00:00 IST
First, farmers across Gujarat plumped for the illegal Navbharat Bt cotton seed, preferring it to the official Mahyco seed. Now, it turns out...
Sun, Apr 27, 2003
February 28, 2003 00:00 IST
The first anniversary of the Sabarmati Express carnage that set off communal reprisals in Gujarat passed off peacefully on Thursday in this ...
Fri, Feb 28, 2003
February 27, 2003 00:00 IST
Coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express, which went up in flames a year ago to put little Godhra on the world map, no longer draws inquisitive cr...
Thu, Feb 27, 2003
February 02, 2003 00:00 IST
On January 26, 2001, the quake that rocked Gujarat flattened the shop-cum-house of Dilip Thakkar, a cold drink vendor in Anjar town of Kutch...
Sun, Feb 02, 2003
January 26, 2003 00:00 IST
A team of Israeli rescuers had named her ‘‘earthquake baby’’. After all, the palm-sized baby was brought into this world...
Sun, Jan 26, 2003
December 15, 2002 00:00 IST
Amid the din of helicopters and the high-pitched political rhetoric in Gujarat, a subtle campaign went unnoticed. More than 500 NGOs and vol...
Sun, Dec 15, 2002
December 13, 2002 00:00 IST
For a town where it all started with an attack on a train, leading to communal polarisation and campaigning, Godhra showed remarkable restra...
Fri, Dec 13, 2002



