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  • Moving truck catches fire, goods worth fire, goods worth

       (Sunday, 20 May 2012 21:38)

    Goods worth Rs 10 lakh were gutted as a moving truck on which it was loaded caught fire on the National Highway 59 near Limkheda in Dahod district on Sunday.

  • CEPT finds place in Indo-US consortia on green energy

       (Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:49)

    Ahmedabad-based Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University has got a shot in the arm as the varsity has been included in as Indo-US consortia on clean energy by the US Department of Energy, Berkeley.

  • Govt mouthpiece bats for surrogacy tourism

       (Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:46)

    Branding surrogacy as “reproductive tourism”, the official mouthpiece of the Gujarat government has described the practice as a money-spinner for both the state and the surrogates.

  • Police escort team ‘caught consuming liquor’ at gangster’s house, booked

       (Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:40)

    The city police have booked three policemen and gangster Nazir Vora under Prohibition Act after the four were allegedly caught consuming liquor at the latter’s house here on Saturday night.

  • CM replays development tune, now for NRIs

       (Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:39)

    Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed to Non-Resident Indians from Gujarat based in North America to “learn” to “love” the state and to “teach others” to do so while inviting them to take advantage of Gujarat’s “development”.

  • After Amreli, Rann agariyas set to get CSIR’s tips

       (Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:07)

    After a successful maiden project in Amreli, a patented salt-making process that has more than tripled the income of agariyas (traditional salt workers) there is likely to be extended to salt works in the Little Rann of Kutch (LRK) near Patan this year.

  • New revenue code ready, may be tabled in House in Sept

       (Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:01)

    The state’s revenue department has come up with a draft of the proposed Gujarat Land Revenue Code (GLRC), which is intended to replace the 133-year-old Bombay Land Revenue Code (BLRC) that currently governs the revenue administration in the state.

  • Keen to sell power, state tells Centre to end supply blues

       (Saturday, 19 May 2012 22:53)

    The state government has asked the Union Ministry of Power to allow more inter-regional transmission links to enable power-surplus states like Gujarat to sell electricity to states facing a deficit.

  • HC orders status quo on land claimed by tribals

       (Saturday, 19 May 2012 22:48)

    The Gujarat High Court has ordered status quo on land claimed by tribals under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) after three tribal rights groups filed a civil application alleging the forest department has begun pre-monsoon work on some such land, which spreads across 13 districts.

  • Cop held during raid on booze party

       (Saturday, 19 May 2012 22:38)

    One police constable was arrested while two others managed to escape during a raid at the house of Nazir Vora, an aide of gangster Abdul Wahad, in Juhapura area here late on Saturday night.