SUNITA WILLIAMS RETURNS TO EARTH AFTER 9 MONTHS!

For NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, an eight-day mission to the International Space Station turned out to be a challenge of a lifetime as problems cropped up on their Boeing space flight that......

Sunita's village plans Diwali-like festivities for astronaut's return

With prayers on their lips, residents of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams' ancestral village in Gujarat are waiting for her safe return to Earth with bated breath and planned Diwali-like festivities......

Woman tests HMPV positive after Gujarat rules out active cases

A woman was found infected with human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in Ahmedabad on Monday, the development coming just hours after health authorities announced there were no active cases of the infection......

Hard Choice Modi Must Make

Modi can abandon the path of Hindutva only at risk to his position within his own fraternity.But if he pursues a hard line, he faces the risk of being hauled up by his coalition partners.For the......

Is Gujarat really a success story?

Data on growth in rural jobs and on progress in social indicators don’t bear out the story of uniform and high progressBusiness Standard reported last month about the farmers protest against......

Farmers plan to serve 'stop work' notice to Maruti

In what could be the first signs of troubles for the country's largest car maker, villagers now plan to send a notice to Maruti Suzuki India Ltd to stop work at its site at Hansalpur, Gujarat,......

In Modi's Gujarat, a Singur could be in the making

In what some see as a reminder of the bitter battle between land owners and the state government that forced Tata Motors out of West Bengal's Singur, discontent seems to be brewing over......

Gujarat gets world's first canal-top solar plant

The world's first 1 MW canal-top solar power plant in Gujarat's Mehsana district has generated 200,000 units of clean energy since it was commissioned two months back, a top official said on Monday......

Illegal live streaming-betting racket with Pak link busted in Guj

IMAGE: People based out of Canada, Dubai, Pakistan and other countries are linked to the illegal streaming of cricket matches and further probe into the entire racket is underway, the police......

SEE: Villagers celebrate Bhavina's silver with 'garba'

IMAGE: Bhavinaben Patel's family broke into the traditional 'garba' dance, burst firecrackers and smeared each other with 'gulal' at her native Sundhiya village in Gujarat's Mehsana district to......

Bhavinaben scripts history, storms into Paralympics TT final

IMAGE: India's Bhavinaben Patel will take on world No. 1 Chinese Ying Zhou in the Class 4 Table Tennis final at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday. Photograph: Kind courtesy Table Tennis Federation......