Kirloskar to install solar pumps in rural Gujarat
Ahmadabad, Feb 9: Kirloskar Brothers Ltd., one of the largest pump manufacturers and turnkey contractors in India, has bagged an order from Gujarat Water Supply and Sewage Board (GWSSB) to install 10 solar pumping systems in 7 villages in Gujarat.

Did probe panel withhold Gujarat riots evidence: apex court
New Delhi, Feb 9 : The Supreme Court Tuesday asked a special panel probing the 2002 Gujarat riots to respond to allegations that it withheld crucial evidence on the role of senior politicians and police officers in fomenting violence.

Angadia firm employee robbed of valuables
Rajkot, Feb 9 : An employee of an angadia firm was allegedly robbed by three armed men at Gondal town, about 40 km from here.

Hundreds of youths duped in visa fraud
Gandhinagar, Feb 9 : A hundred-plus and still counting! The number of gullible students wishing to go abroad for further studies and who have been duped of sums ranging from Rupees two to six lakh is estimated to be many times more - or so the Gujarat police realized as it began unravelling the contours of a flourishing visa fraud.

Modi interacts with Gujarat MPs on pending projects
Gandhinagar, Feb 9 : Chief Minister Narendra Modi held a high- level meet with Members of Parliament from Gujarat to make them conversant with the Narmada dam and various other projects relating to the state pending for approval with the Centre, official sources said today.

Swine flu patient from MP dies
Ahmedabad, Feb 9 : A 25-year-old youth from Madhya Pradesh succumbed to H1N1 virus at a hospital in Vadodara, taking the total swine flu toll to 256 in Gujarat.

Why no compensation for damaged mosques? Gujarat asked
Gandhinagar, Feb 8: The Gujarat High Court Monday sought an explanation from the state government on its changed stand over paying compensation for mosques destroyed or demolished during the 2002 communal riots.

WR to run special train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad, Feb 8 : In order to clear the extra rush of passengers between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, the Western Railway (WR) has decided to run a special train from February nine to March 31.

Do not rely on others to book 26/11 criminals, Modi to Centre
New Delhi, Feb 7 : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today underlined the need to build inherent strength and institutional mechanisms so that India did not rely on external forces to "bring perpetrators of crime against our people and institutions within our territory to book".

Modi meets Vajpayee, terms it a "courtesy call "
New Delhi, Feb 7 : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today called on former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his residence here.

Swine flu toll reaches 254 in Gujarat
Ahmedabad, Feb 7 : The Swine flu toll in Gujarat rose to 254 with the death of two patients during the last 24 hours.

Modi compliments Chidambaram's fight against terror
New Delhi, Feb 7: In a first from Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sunday complimented Home Minister P. Chidambaram and his officials for their "swift and positive" approach to fighting terror.

Need stiff law to counter terrorism: Modi
New Delhi, Feb 7 : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Sunday said India needed stringent laws to counter cross-border terrorism and criticised the central government for not giving the nod to his state's proposed anti-terror act.

Strengthen laws dealing with internal security: Modi
New Delhi, Feb 7: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Sunday said there was need to strengthen laws dealing with the country's internal security.

Modi praises PC, PM on terror approach
New Delhi, Feb 7 : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is blowing hot and cold with the Congress-led government in New Delhi.

Modi praises Centre for improved handling of internal security
New Delhi, Feb. 7 : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram for their bold initiative in tackling terrorism and improving the security scenario in the country.

Pranab, Modi quarrel at Chief Ministers' meet
New Delhi, Feb 6: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today had an altercation at the Chief Ministers' meet on price rise.

Lion falls into trap meant for man-eater leopard in Gujarat village
By Suresh Soni, Junagadh (Gujarat), Feb.6 : A lion was trapped in a cage, which was intended to catch a suspected man-eater leopard in a village of Gujarat's Junagadh District on Friday.

Modi blames central government for price rise
New Delhi, Feb 6 : Blaming the central government for "lacking collective vision" to tackle price rise in the country, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) had not fulfilled its election promise to provide subsidised food grain to the poor.

Modi slams Centre on price rise
New Delhi, Feb 6: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said worst is over on food inflation but Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi slammed his government for not having any action plan to combat price rise.

4 women die of swine flu in Gujarat
Ahmedabad, Feb 6 : With the death of four women during the last 24 hours, death toll due to swine flu in Gujarat rose to 252, health officials said today.

Modi's aides file affidavits before Godhra probe panel
Gandhinagar, Feb 6 : Three personal secretaries to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Friday told the Nanavati-Mehta judicial enquiry commission, probing the 2002 Godhra train carnage and communal riots that followed it, that they had spoken many times to Vishwa Hindu Parishad state general secretary Jaideep Patel between Feb 27 and March 1, 2002.

Cong MP asks Modi to avoid making mockery at others
Palanpur, Feb 4 : Congress MP from Patan, Jagdish Thakore today said Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi should avoid making mockery at others indiscriminately.

Two Congress leaders arrested in Gujarat
Gandhinagar, Feb 4 : Two Congress legislators were detained in Santrampur here Thursday to prevent them from attending a welfare meeting for the poor being addressed by Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Farmers protest Nirma's cement plant in Saurashtra
Gandhinagar, Feb 4 : Farmers from Gujarat's Saurashtra region, led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Kanu Kalsaria, Thursday courted arrests in Ahmedabad to protest the state government's land allotment to Nirma for setting up a cement plant.

Gujarat budget will be tabled on Feb 25
Gandhinagar, Feb 4 : Finance Minister Vajubhai Vala will present the annual budget for 2010-11 in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly on February 25.

Autorickshaw fare hiked in Gujarat
Ahmedabad, Feb 4 : The Gujarat government has raised the autorickshaw fare in the state from today, following the threat by the Ahmedabad Autorickshaw Drivers Association to go on three-day strike from February 8.

North Gujarat emerging as Mecca of medical facilities
Palanpur, Feb 4 : North Gujarat is turning out to be a Mecca of cheaper medical facilities not only for local patients but even to those at far off places like southern Rajasthan, bordering Banaskantha and Sabarkantha districts.

Tribal students block highway in Gujarat
Palanpur, Feb 4 : Hundreds of light and heavy vehicles were stranded since past 72 hours at the National Highway (NH) No 8, stretching 13 km from Vinchivada in Dungarpur district of Rajasthan to Ratanpur in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat following tribal student unrest.

Tea doesn't taste sweet anymore in Gujarat
By Suresh Soni, Rajkot (Gujarat), Feb3 : With an increase in the price of milk and sugar in Gujarat state, even an ordinary cup of tea appears to have gone beyond the reach of common man here.

CBI team arrives in Gujarat to take over Sohrabuddin probe
Gandhinagar, Feb 3 : A day after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a fresh First Information Report in the staged police killing of Sohrabuddin, a team of CBI sleuths arrived here Wednesday to take charge of documents related to the four-year-old case.

CBI team arrives at Gandhinagar to investigate Sohrabuddin encounter
Gandhinagar, Feb 3 : A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrived here on Wednesday to probe into the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and disappearance of his wife Kausarbi.

Two Jain Sadhvis killed, three injured in road accident
Rajkot, Feb 3 : Two Jain Sadhvis were killed and three others seriously injured when a speeding truck mowed down them near Limbdi about 120 km from here on Rajkot-Ahmedabad Highway today.

DSO opposes medical course for rural areas
Ahmedabad, Feb 1 : The All India Democratic Students Organisation has expressed its strong protest over the Central Government's move to introduce three-and-a-half year Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery (BRMS) course due to non-availability of doctors in rural areas following refusal by MBBS doctors to work in interiors.

Truck smuggling liquor to Gujarat seized with 7000 lt IMFL
Kurukshetra, Feb 1 : Kurukshetra police today seized about 7,000 bottles of India Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) from a truck which was being smuggled from Chandigarh to Surat in Gujarat.

BJP Corporator shot dead in Junagadh
Ahmedabad, Feb 2 : Junagadh's prominent BJP Corporator Karman Katara was shot dead here last night apparently due to an old enemity and a youth had been detained on suspicion, police said.

Big B agrees to become brand ambassador of Gujarat
Ahmedabad, Feb 2 : Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan has agreed to become brand ambassador of Gujarat to promote its tourism potentital and other development works.

Amitabh Bachchan to be brand ambassador for Gujarat
Gandhinagar, Feb 1 : Film icon Amitabh Bachchan will be the new brand ambassador for Gujarat.

Five Blackbucks found dead at Rajkot zoo
Rajkot, Feb.1 : Authorities at the Pradyuman Park Zoo in Rajkot found five Black Bucks dead in their enclosures under mysterious circumstances on Monday.

Gujarat NRE authorizes redemption of 2006 FCCBs
Kolkata, Feb 1 : Gujarat NRE Coke Ltd has authorized its Chairman and Managing Director, if deemed fit, to initiate appropriate action for redemption of its all outstanding Bonds under the Zero Coupon Unsecured Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB) issued in 2006.

Faldu named new Gujarat BJP chief
Gandhinagar, Feb 1: R.C. Faldu, a three-time legislator, was Monday named the next chief of Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Gujarat unit.

Modi flays PM for price rise
Gandhinagar, Feb 1: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Monday accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of transferring responsibility for rising prices of essential goods from the central government to states.

Man looted of Rupees 3.5 lakh, killed in Gujarat
Ahmedabad, Feb 1 : A petrol pump cashier was looted and shot dead by motorcycle-borne assailants in Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's constituency of Maninagar here Monday.

Advani calls for corruption-free judiciary
Surat, Feb 1 : Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K Advani today expressed his concern over rampant corruption in society, particularly in judiciary.