Saurashtra to attract big investments in spinning

With former Congressmen the Radadias in the BJP fold thanks to Narendra Modi’s deft coup, the latest bye-election result may create an energetic power balance within Saurashtra, reports Sheela Bhatt For Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the wonderful possibilities of 2014 cannot unfold in any better way than it happened today, with handsome wins in two Lok Sabha seats and four assembly seats. If a political party cannot make drought and serious water scarcity an election issue, it has ...

Ahmedabad, Mar 25: Ninety-two Asiatic lions have died, including 83 of natural death, in the past two years in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region while there has been no case of poaching.In a written reply to a question asked by Congress MLA from Lathi, Bavku ...

A deputy chief ticket inspector was assaulted by a group of sixteen youths from Chembur, all aged between 16 and 19 years.They were travelling on Porbander-bound Saurashtra Janta Express train on Saturday morning when Rajan K Nair, the ticket checker, demanded a fine for occupying a reserved coach. The group got into an altercation with him and assaulted him with cricket bats.“When I found that all of them had invalid tickets from Chembur to Saphale station, I asked them to pay a fine of ...

Senior Gujarat Congress leaders and party workers were detained in Gandhinagar on Monday when they tried to march towards the state assembly, while protesting against the Gujarat Irrigation and Drainage Bill 2013, which, they claimed, is ‘anti-farmer’. State Congress president Arjun Modhwadia, Leader of Opposition Shankarsinh Vaghela, central ministers Dinsha Patel and Tushar Chaudhary were among others who were detained by the police and released later. The police also detained a ...