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Kapil Dave http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Gujarat-defreezes-land-of-52-Sikh-farmers/articleshow/27611790.cms GANDHINAGAR: In a bid to make life easy for a key NDA ally, Shiromani Akali Dal, the Modi government has decided to defreeze the land of 52 Sikh farmers in Kutch. The...

Suspended Gujarat police officer D.G. Vanzara has quit the IPS after alleging that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and former minister of state for home Amit Shah were also to blame for “encounter deaths” in Gujarat that have kept him and 31 other officers in jail for years. Vanzara said...

After Gujarat, Sikh farmers in Haryana face eviction threat Manjeet Sehgal After Gujarat, Sikh farmers in Haryana are now facing eviction threat. The Congress party, which raised a hue and cry against the Narendra Modi government's decision to evict Sikh farmers from Kutch, is now on the...

A proposal to construct a road through the Kutch Wildlife Sanctuary could destroy Asia’s only breeding ground for flamingos, endanger the sacred mangrove of Shravan Kavadia, damage geological fossils embedded in the regions Jurassic and cretaceous rocks and threaten the historical ruins of...

Images from Guru Nanak's travels in Gujarat at SPN link http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-gurus/28951-guru-nanaks-travels-gujarat-world-sikh.html For the first time in Gujarat, all gurudwaras across the state are coming under a single umbrella with an aim to spread values of Sikhism in...

Enterprising Gujarat says it for Punjab in London A magazine focussed on Punjab and Punjabis, published by a Gujarati at a launch function presided over by a Bihari. How much better can it get in terms of displaying unity in diversity? The making of modern India! On Thursday night, a...

In 1999, the state government began an initiative that has fuelled a lot of this change: It began to build check dams on rivers flowing through Gujarat. “A check dam is a small barrier built across the direction of water flow on shallow rivers and streams to harvest water,” explains Raval. These...

Guru Nanak’s Travels in Gujarat Balwant Singh Guru Nanak Sahib established ‘Sangats’ wherever he went. Historians say that there were Nanak Baris or...

In an article in Hindustan Times, Rajdeep Sardesai has compared 1984 anti Sikh pogrom with Gujarat. It is a fairly long article and can be read here. Dr Modi & Mr Hyde- Hindustan Times Titled Dr Modi and Mr Hyde On the very day that Lalu Yadav marched to the Prime Minister’s residence...

Ahmedabad, Nov 15 (UNI) Gujarat and Punjab were declared joint winners by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in the Vinoo Mankad all-India U-19 trophy today, being played at Agartala in Tripura. More...

In order to keep a strict vigil upon tax evasion in the state, the Punjab government is deliberating to adopt the Gujarat pattern to plug loopholes in the collection of road tax and entry tax. Transport Minister Master Mohan Lal, along with senior officers of the department, is on a special...

Manoranjan Kalia, local self-government and industries minister of Punjab, was deeply impressed by all round progress made by Gujarat and said that Punjab has to learn a lesson or two from Gujarat, said an official release here on Sunday. Kalia was leading a delegation here. During a...

Survivors of one of the worst massacres during the 2002 sectarian riots in Gujarat filed a compensation claim against the western Indian state's ruling Hindu nationalist BJP party...

http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=54581 Defamation complaint against Gujarat CM adjourned till Apr 30: New Kerala, India - 2 hours ago ... the recently made caste-related derogatory remarks against the Prime Minister by Modi had not only defamed...

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_890690,0008.htm Film revisits Sikh massacre, Gujarat riots Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, July 16 With empathy and sweeping camera flow, a new film has used the national ghosts of the 1984 massacre of Sikhs to reflect on the Gujarat riots of two...