Ahmedabad, Oct 8 : Slamming Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over the recent sops offered to state employees, veteran Congress leader Shankarsinh Vaghela has said the state government is fooling the employees over the hike in dearness allowances.

Modi had announced sops worth rupees 2,000 crores for state government employees on the occasion of completion of a decade in power

Ahmedabad, Sep 20 : Congress leaders led by former union minister Shankersinh Vaghela ended their 74-hour fast Tuesday, saying it had highlighted how the Narendra Modi government had betrayed the trust of the people of Gujarat.

Vaghela ended his fast on a pavement outside Sabarmati ashram here Tuesday by drinking lemon juice given by two Dalit girls.

Ahmedabad, Sep 19 : Lauding Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his three-day fast for promoting communal harmony, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Monday said he would support Modi's bid for becoming Prime Minister.

Taking to reporters here, Thackeray said: "I will support Narendra Modi for becoming Prime Minister. This country needs a good governance and a good leader."

Ahmedabad, Sep. 17 : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday that his state would be known worldwide for its model of inclusive growth.

Modi, a pro-business Hindu leader who some think could be India''s next prime minister began a "harmony" fast earlier in the day to soften his image that was hurt by religious riots that claimed hundreds of mostly Muslim victims nearly a decade ago.

Modi exalted his state as a model for inclusive growth and communal harmony.

Ahmedabad, Sep. 17 : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday began his three-day "Sadbhavna" fast with a call for "peace, unity and communal harmony".

The veteran BJP leader's 72-hour fast coincided with his 62nd birthday at the Gujarat University Convention Centre here.

A host of leaders from the BJP, the Shiromani Akali Dal and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam were present on the occasion.

Security was extremely tight at the venue.

Ahmedabad, July 8 : Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has for the first time spoken out about the controversy that arose after the shooting of Madhur Bhandarkar's "Heroine" was halted following the news of Aishwarya Rai's pregnancy. The actor says that the issues have been sorted out.

"It is the matter between Aishwarya and the producers of the film. I can't comment on it. They have sorted out the issues between them," Amitabh told reporters here Friday. He was here to promote his film "Bbuddah... Hoga Teraa Baap".

The officials have unveiled Gujarat's first green building, a 150-bed multi-super speciality hospital, on Thursday.

The multi-super speciality hospital has been built and equipped at a total cost of 150 crore, and it would necessitate a similar sum for further growth.

Mr. Keyur Parikh, chairman of the hospital and interventional cardiologist, stated that the Care Institute of Medical Sciences (CIMS) has forwarded growth plans to increase the bed capacity to 450 beds.

Mr. Parikh stated that the hospital was planned and developed in order to endorse the green building idea.

While similar is the scenario at their counterparts in most of the other major parts of the country, the Gujarat Police is also very much set to face any of the communal outbursts due to the Ayodhya verdict on the coming Friday.

The authorities have said that the cops will be all geared from Tuesday itself as additional forces have also been arranged for already. Joint commissioner of police for sector 1, Satish Sharma recently said that police will be on its toes to ensure that there is no communal riot in the state.

Technology multinational IBM has joined hands with the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and the Research Centre for Advanced Research and Technology of the Tokyo University to unveil a new plan to make cellular phones more approachable for older people, the uneducated and the semi-literate.

Today, the cell phone is the most innovatory communication medium, which influences life as well as living.

Firms that suspended recruitments last year have begun hiring this year in a reiteration that recession is over and that all is well, again.

At Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) Indian investment banks and global FMCG firms among others constituted the Cluster (week) Two of placements that started on Friday evening.

The placement season, which started last week, marked the return of names like Merill Lynch and Bank of America that suspended their recruitments last year, in the wake of the recession. A few new ones like Gaja Capital also made their presence.

Investment firms and strategic consultants - J P Morgan, HSBC, Bain, BCG, Mc Kinsey, AT Kearney – recruited several students.

The Ahmedabad based contract research and manufacturing services (CRAMS) company, Dishman Pharmaceuticals has entered into a strategic alliance with a California-based biotech company Codexis.

The Rs. 1000 crore company announced on Thursday that the 5 year alliance would let the Ahmedabad based company use Codexis' proprietary enzymatic bio-catalysis technology in order to manufacture building blocks and intermediates. Reduction of chiral compounds in the APIs and the provision of low-cost, cleaner and greener processes of manufacturing is what the company is looking forward to with this alliance.

Introduced from the current academic year, the new placement system for the final year post-graduate programme students of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad

(IIM-A) has received an enthusiastic response as it began on Sunday.

The placement process will be conducted over continuous weekends in "cohorts" with each cohort hosting firms offering similar roles, opportunities, offers, profiles,

salaries, locations etc. Several cohorts comprise a cluster.

Ahmedabad, Feb 12 - The morning shows of Shah Rukh Khan's "My Name Is Khan" were cancelled in multiplexes here Friday due to protests by right-wing groups. But by noon, the theatres started screening the film while cities like Vadodara and Surat went ahead with the first day first show itself.

There was confusion about the film's release in the morning as activists of the Bajrang Dal and Mahagujarat Janata Party (MJP) mounted pressure on multiplex owners in Gujarat to desist from screening the much-awaited film.

Ahmedabad, Feb 12 : Multiplexes in Gujarat have decided not to screen the Shahrukh Khan starrer ''My Name is Khan'' following protests by Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal activists, who burnt the posters of the movie.

Gujarat Multiplex Owners Association President Ashok Purohit said, "Multiplexes have decided not to screen the film for the first couple of shows which have been cancelled. But if the situation improves they will be screening the film later."

Ahmedabad, Jan 11 - Varied colours symbolic of 34 countries, including Britain, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Singapore and Malaysia, dotted the clear blue skies in Ahmedabad as the 20th International Kite festival 'Uttarayan' was formally inaugurated by Chief Minister Narendra Modi Monday.

Cheered on by eager kite enthusiasts, kitists - some professionals and others who take it up as a passion - took to the skies with their unique creations.

Ahmedabad, Jan 9 : A case was filed against the owner and other employees of a hotel here where terror suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana and a woman posing as his wife had stayed for two days in November 2008, prior to the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.

The First Information Report (FIR), reportedly lodged at the behest of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), against hotel owner Patanjali Keshvani, Prashant Malhotra - the manager when Rana stayed - and present manager Subhash Sharma is for violating rules under the Registration of Foreigners Act and beginning the hotel's operations even before it obtained a license.

Ahmedabad, Jan. 2 :Kite-makers in Gujarat are elated as their business has got a boost ahead of the festival of Uttarayan or Makar Sankranti.

The colourful kites are a result of much hard work on part of the kite-makers but some of them have got a raw deal.

"Popularity of kites among people has increased. But this has not brought any substantial change in our income. Our condition remains more or less the same," said Murtaza Rahman Patangwala, a kite-maker in Ahmedabad, on Saturday.

Ahmedabad, Jan 1 : Surviving victims of the 2002 Gujarat Riots on Friday showcased their artistry in cinematography by becoming amateur documentary filmmakers.

A voluntary forum named Saath has helped these victims to fulfill their celluloid dreams by associating them with a local film production unit, Samvad Video.

Working under the banner of Samvad Video, most of these filmmakers are uneducated who even find it difficult to make both ends meet.

Ahmedabad, Dec 28 : Barring a small incident of stone pelting on a procession, immersion of "tazias" (replicas of the shrine of prophet Mohammad's martyred grandson Hussain) on the occasion of Muharram passed off peacefully in Ahmedabad and other parts of Gujarat Monday.

Police said some stones were thrown towards the fag end of the tazia procession in Retiavadi area under the Mirzapur police station here Monday evening. Police quickly swung into action and dispersed the miscreants by firing half a dozen teargas shells after which the procession continued undisturbed to immerse the tazias in the Sabarmati river.

Ahmedabad, Dec 23 : As many as 100 child scientists from various SAARC countries will attend the 17th National Children Science Congress (NCSC), a prestigious national academic event, to be held here Dec 27-31, a Gujarat minister said Wednesday.

Women and Child Welfare Minister Anandiben Patel told reporters the child congress would stimulate scientific temperament among the children.