While buses and rickshaws were seen plying on the roads, the shopkeepers voluntarily participated in the bharat bandh by keeping their shops closed in Ahmedabad. ...
04:59 PM, May 31, 2012
Ahmedabad: Mild tremors measuring 3.2 on the Richter scale were felt this morning in Kutch district, officials said in Ahmedabad. The earthquake had its epicentre at 34 km northwest of Khavada village in Kutch, officials at the Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) said. Aftershocks measuring 2.3 on the Richter scale were felt in the afternoon around 3 pm, they said, adding that the aftershocks had the epicentre at 30 km...
06:45 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team, headed by former CBI director R K Raghavan, to probe the 2002 Gujarat riots has concluded in its 541-page closure report that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi took all possible steps to control the 2002 post-Godhra riots and questioned the motive behind filing a complaint against him by a riot victim four years after the communal violence. On Narendra Modi's role "Law...
12:26 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Intelligence Bureau has issued an alert of a possible terror strike in Gujarat. A specific input from the Intelligence Bureau indicated that six terrorists from the Lashkar-e-Taiba are likely to target Ahmedabad and Jamnagar. Police on Saturday searched residential areas around major petroleum refiners in the Jamnagar city, and released photographs of six suspected LeT terrorists. Coast Guard has beefed up the security along the Jamangar coast...
09:39 PM, May 05, 2012
Mumbai: Amid widespread protests by bullion traders, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has called a meeting with jewellers' associations on Friday to sort out the issue related to increase in taxes on gold and non-branded jewellery. Protests against the Budget proposal to impose excised duty on jewellery have turned violent in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Punjab and Delhi. The jewellers' associations which includes the Bullion Traders Association, Market Sarafa Association and diamond traders...
06:06 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Ahmedabad: A gang of thieves on Tuesday took away an ATM machine loaded with around Rs 20 lakh from Maninagar area, police said. "Instead of bothering to open the ATM machine and take away the cash, thieves decamped with the entire machine belonging to SBI," they said. The incident happened early on Tuesday morning, they said, adding that the ATM outlet had no security guard and the CCTV cameras installed...
12:24 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Ahmedabad: Four persons have been arrested for allegedly gangraping a 14-year-old girl in Viramgam town of the district, police said on Sunday. The incident came to light on Saturday, when the girl's parents filed an FIR and based on the information given by the girl, three persons were immediately arrested, they said. According to police, the fourth accused was arrested on Sunday and was taken to the city civil hospital...
08:26 PM, Apr 01, 2012
New Delhi: An Ahmedabad court is set to hear Zakia Jafri's new plea seeking access to the SIT report on the Gulbarg Society massacre case on Tuesday. Zakia is the wife of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri. The SIT may submit its reply on Tuesday. Zakia has accused 64 senior politicians, bureaucrats and police officers of committing crimes during the riots. Zakia has now asked the Supreme Court to order...
07:12 AM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: A suspect wanted in connection with the 2008 Ahmedabad blast case was killed in an encounter with the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in Aurangabad on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Mohammed Abrar, a resident of Gulmohar Colony in Ahmedabad, police said. Mohammad Abrar's name figured in the chargesheet of the Ahmedabad 2008 blast case and Gujarat Police say he was in touch with Indian Mujahideen operative...
03:02 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Mumbai: While high-speed trains have been zipping passengers across cities and continents in Western and Asian countries for years, the idea of introducing the bullet train is finally going to be a reality in India. Three days before the Rail Budget will be unveiled, there is good news for Mumbai's Gujarati businessmen and workers alike. In what could be a first for the Indian Railways, a high-speed corridor for long...
04:36 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Ahmedabad: Six persons accused in a 2002 riot case where a youth and his mother were allegedly burnt to death in Gomtipur area in Ahmedabad, were acquitted by a trial court for lack of evidence. Additional sessions Judge MP Sheth on Tuesday acquitted all six accused in the case on the grounds that the prosecution could not prove its case beyond reasonable doubt against those arrested and charge-sheeted by police....
07:41 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Ahmedabad: A magisterial court in Ahmedabad rejected Zakia Jafri's plea to open the Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on the Gulbarg Society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots in court. The court has said that the SIT will submit its final report on March 15 and Zakia Jafri can apply for a copy of the report after March 15. Zakia Jafri and Teesta Setalvad-led Citizens for Justice and Peace filed...
03:20 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Ahmedabad: The passengers of a Jaipur-Pune SpiceJet flight were deplaned at Ahmedabad and they were told that the plane had developed a technical snag. But the passengers cried foul as they later found out that the plane, that was meant to go to Pune, had in fact headed to Delhi. When the passengers confronted the officials of SpiceJet at the airport, they were told that the plane had been sent...
01:41 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Ten years can be a lifetime in today's here-and-now world. Ten years after the Gujarat violence, the state claims to have moved on. Relative peace and the engine of enterprise have taken the state into another orbit. Its Chief Minister Narendra Modi is being seen in some quarters as a potential Prime Minister, a role model of good governance. But what of those who were caught in the vortex of...
08:53 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi remains optimistic as the court of Metropolitan Magistrate MS Bhat in Ahmedabad is set to hear the Special Investigation Team's (SIT) closure report on the Gulbarg massacre during the 2002 riots. The court will also decide if activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha can get a copy of the SIT report. The Gujarat Chief Minister tweeted on Monday quoting Swami Vivekananda, "I stand for...
12:47 PM, Feb 13, 2012
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