January 06, 2009 02:08 IST
With the Lok Sabha elections approaching fast,the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee has gone on an overdrive to strengthen the party at the grassroots.
Tue, Jan 06, 2009
December 07, 2005 01:03 IST
Forty-year-old Raman Bhagwania Nayaka and his wife Devaliben, who worked in a stone-crushing factory at Godhra, are lying critically ill at ...
Wed, Dec 07, 2005
September 23, 2005 00:00 IST
Singla Hasukhbhai Rathwa (35) of Kotiya village had mortgaged his family’s silver ornaments with a moneylender for a loan Rs 2,700. Fou...
Fri, Sep 23, 2005
April 10, 2005 01:19 IST
As hundreds of villagers, BJP MP Jayaben Thakkar, local MLA Upendrasinh Gohil and VHP leaders watched, two Swaminarayan sadhus today unveile...
Sun, Apr 10, 2005
December 23, 2004 01:25 IST
BJP MLA Madhu Shrivastava’s cousin Chandrakant Bhattu Shrivastava has denied making any statement that he had paid Zaheera Sheikh and a...
Thu, Dec 23, 2004
November 07, 2004 01:16 IST
A Riot-affected person in Dahod district has alleged that his truck — stolen during the March 2002 riots from Ghoghamba — is being...
Sun, Nov 07, 2004
June 21, 2004 00:00 IST
Among the 21 accused in the Best Bakery case who were acquitted by a fast-track court but were arrested again for retrial is a Muslim —...
Mon, Jun 21, 2004
March 05, 2004 00:00 IST
After Burail, Tihar and Chapra, 10 undertrials from Borsad Subjail in Anand attacked two guards and walked out of prison last night. The und...
Fri, Mar 05, 2004
February 15, 2004 00:00 IST
For photographer R.K. Soni, it was a routine assignment from Limkheda police that took him to the jungles in March 2002. There were bodies t...
Sun, Feb 15, 2004
February 07, 2004 00:00 IST
His family and neighbours say he was under severe pressure because of his poverty, he was hounded by creditors. But even that can’t exp...
Sat, Feb 07, 2004
September 20, 2003 00:00 IST
On Dabhoi Road on Vadodara’s outskirts stands what was once the Best Bakery, home to the Sheikh family. But they have been gone 18 mont...
Sat, Sep 20, 2003
August 17, 2003 00:00 IST
THE Sansi community in Dahod’s Rariyati village has one thing in common—almost all its members have been booked on charges of boot...
Sun, Aug 17, 2003
July 09, 2003 00:00 IST
The state government today appointed as public pleader an advocate who wants the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman tried for ...
Wed, Jul 09, 2003
June 29, 2003 00:00 IST
The verdict in the Best Bakery massacre case was out on Friday and with it, many survivors gave up all hopes of justice. But the bakery itse...
Sun, Jun 29, 2003
June 28, 2003 00:00 IST
Missing for over 15 months now, possibly dead. That seems to sum up the story of 45-year-old Kausar Shahmohammed Shaikh and 18-year-old work...
Sat, Jun 28, 2003
June 21, 2003 00:00 IST
Most farmers till their land and look skywards, but these farmers of Chharia village in Panchmahals district have received four days of rain...
Sat, Jun 21, 2003
June 16, 2003 00:00 IST
In this semi-arid region where farming has been almost nil in the last three years, the Panchmahals District Co-operative Bank (PDCB) disbur...
Mon, Jun 16, 2003
April 20, 2003 00:00 IST
KUTARSINH Rathwa, Chhotaudepur taluka panchayat member from Dhadigam village who died six months ago at 65, has 16 children and 60 grandchil...
Sun, Apr 20, 2003
March 03, 2003 00:00 IST
Though Gujarat police submitted their report four months ago, declaring the two missing Best Bakery employees — Kausar and Lula — ...
Mon, Mar 03, 2003
February 15, 2003 00:00 IST
In Pandarwada, an obscure village deep inside the Panchmahals, at least 32 Muslims were killed and 500 had to run for their lives post-Godhr...
Sat, Feb 15, 2003
February 05, 2003 00:00 IST
In a curious case a 45-year-old man allegedly pledged his wife and son for a Rs 50,000 loan and even got the agreement attested on judicial ...
Wed, Feb 05, 2003
February 02, 2003 00:00 IST
On the day he was sworn in, Narendra Modi promised ‘‘five crore Gujaratis’’ justice for all. He might not have been awar...
Sun, Feb 02, 2003
January 20, 2003 00:00 IST
For the survivors of the Best Bakery massacre, where 12 persons were killed and two others burnt alive in March 2002, the incidents of the d...
Mon, Jan 20, 2003
January 01, 2003 00:00 IST
Ten months later, a question that is still left unanswered in the Best Bakery case is whether Kausar Ali and Lula, both employees of the bak...
Wed, Jan 01, 2003
December 20, 2002 00:00 IST
Election has come and gone, but the residents of the walled city areas of Vadodara haven’t slept a single night peacefully after the po...
Fri, Dec 20, 2002



