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
Ahmedabad: Zakia Jafri, the widow of slain Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri, and Teesta Setalvad-led Citizens for Justice and Peace filed an application in the Metropolitan Court in Ahmedabad on Thursday stating that they have an apprehension that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has not filed the complete report in the Gulbarg Society massacre case as directed by the Supreme Court. The petitions have been filed by Setalvad and lawyer Mukul...
11:30 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: Zakia Jafri, the widow of slain Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri, and Teesta Setalvad-led Citizens for Justice and Peace filed an application in the Metropolitan Court in Ahmedabad on Thursday stating that they have an apprehension that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has not filed the complete report in the Gulbarg Society massacre case as directed by the Supreme Court. The petitions have been filed by Setalvad and lawyer Mukul...
11:30 AM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: After reports suggesting that the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) has not found enough evidence against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the Ehsan Jafri killing case, the former Congress MP's wife Zakia Jafri has expressed her disappointment. Zakia said that she is really disappointed with the report and will not sit back with the report. Zakia added that she will consult the lawyers and then will...
10:20 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Ehsan Jafri killing in Gujarat on Wednesday filed a report in the case. While the contents of the report remain under wraps, crime branch sources have claimed that the committee appointed by the Supreme Court hasn't found enough evidence against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. However, the SIT officials haven't offered any confirmation on this. The final report was submitted in a...
06:35 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Ehsan Jafri killing in Gujarat has filed a report on the case. Crime branch sources claimed that the committee appointed by the Supreme Court hasn't found enough evidence against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, but the SIT officials haven't offered any confirmation on this. Sources in SIT refused to divulge the contents of the report. The SIT has filed its report in...
11:01 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Which metropolitan city would Indians prefer to settle down in, in the future? According to the 'State of the Nation' poll by CNN-IBN and GfK Mode, a majority of Indians want to live in Ahmedabad in the future. Research Organisation GfK Mode conducted the survey in eight cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh The survey was conducted between January 11 and January 14, 2012....
10:33 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Are Indian citizens willing to put up with bad infrastructure as long as they get a good job? According to the 'State of the Nation' poll by CNN-IBN and GfK Mode, most Indians choose to live in a city depending on the career opportunities available there. Research Organisation GfK Mode conducted the survey in eight cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh The survey was...
12:03 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Ahmedabad: In a veiled attack on Congress, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that those, "who have been looting the treasury for the last 40-50 years," are now opposing the development works. "Those, who have been looting the treasury for the last 40-50 years for vote bank politics, on what grounds, are now opposing the fund utilisation for development works in the public interest?" Modi asked. He was...
09:20 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Mumbai: Candidates, who cleared the CAT this year, would want to know which is the best B-School in India to apply to. CNBC-TV18 is out with its annual B-School rankings study. IIM Ahmedabad has again topped the list of CNBC-TV18's annual B-school rankings, but IIM-Bangalore is close on the heels. The fourth edition of the CNBC-TV18's 'India's Best B-Schools 2012' ranking covered 145 B-Schools and 235 recruiters, making it one...
07:47 AM, Jan 12, 2012
New Delhi: IIM-Ahmedabad has again topped the list of CNBC-TV18's annual B-school rankings, but IIM-Bangalore is close on the heels. The 4th edition of the annual ranking study, 'India's Best B-Schools 2012' covers 145 B-Schools, 235 recruiters and 217 faculty members, across a dual methodology, making it one of India's leading and most comprehensive rankings for management education. IIM Ahmedabad led the rankings and continues to be the benchmark for...
08:02 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Ahmedabad: Leading Economist Lord Meghnad Desai on Friday questioned the principles and beliefs of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. Speaking at an event in Ahmedabad, he said he was puzzled over why the apostle of ahimsa defended Adolf Hitler and endorsed the Bhagvad Gita, a text that Lord Desai believes condones violence. Desai was speaking on 'Gandhiji's views on violence', as a part of the 12th Prof Ramlal...
08:25 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Ahmedabad: Mumbai crime branch officials have questioned two police officials and a couple of journalists in the city in connection with the Mid Day tabloid journalist J Dey murder case, city police said on Thursday. The questioning took place in the last 3-4 days when the Mumbai police team came to city as mobile phone call records showed the one of the accused Jigna Vora, who was arrested last month,...
09:58 PM, Dec 08, 2011
Ahmedabad: Lesser costs, smoother drives and almost no traffic jams " these are some features of Ahmedabad's Bus Rapid Transit System or BRT, considered by many as the best rapid transport system. And it's no surprise then that many Ahmedabadis have traded their private transport for a hassle free BRTS drive. It has changed Ahmedabad's public transport so drastically that lakhs of people now prefer traveling by the city's Bus...
09:19 AM, Dec 07, 2011
Porsche India opened their 6th show room in India in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. This state of the art facility not only gets a display floor (4200 square feet) but also an attached after sales unit (30,000 square feet). On the occasion of inauguration of the facility, Porsche's Managing Director of Middle East and Africa, George Wills said that "We are excited about the inauguration of Porsche Centre Ahmedabad, our second showroom...
10:15 AM, Nov 09, 2011
