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Plans for new Swaminarayan temple are taking shape in London which will be run by Shree Swaminarayan Gadi Sansthan, the organisation which has temples across the world, from its base in Ahmedabad. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Though many leading doctors of Bhuj escaped being duped by a racketeer posing as the district general manager of Bhuj telecom district, an opportunity to nab him was wasted by a CBI team. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Aged, infirm, sick and innocent Pakistani woman Husseinabibi, whose story of straying into Indian territory and languishing at the Joint Interrogation Centre (JIC) here for the past 19 months despite being found innocent by all security and intelligence agencies was highlighted by the DNA on July 29, will no longer be able to go back home alive, for she breathed her last in the district hospital here on Thursday night. The end came as she suffered cardiac arrest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Kutch district collector of Kutch, RR Varsani, during his review of 16 land sale cases in the district, has found that 12 sale cases were illegal and ordered impounding of land in these cases. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

They are the only two non-Indian kids in the state-run remand home here. They are waiting for the juvenile court to order their re-shifting to the Joint Interrogation Centre (JIC) to join their mother and aunt, who have already been re-shifted there from jail after completing their one-year jail sentence last month. Hajarabai (their mother) and Sharifabai, who are Pakistani nationals and had come with valid Pakistani passport and visa along with Tariq (16) and Shahrukh (13), were charged with overstaying in Kutch they originally hailed from. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Congress leader and former Union minister Shankarsinh Vaghela said here on Sunday that neither the central government nor his party wanted to disturb the BJP government in the state by using Article 356 of the constitution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In a rare display of courage, poor women of 24 Patel community-dominated villages of Bhuj taluka, supported and accompanied by the sadhvis of Swaminarayan sect, went in a procession on Friday and submitted to the Kutch DSP, Wabang Jamir, a list of the villages where flourishing hooch trade was being carried out by bootleggers without any fear of law. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The landless pastoral people of Banni, one of the biggest pastures in Asia, located north of here, have revived their demand for allotment of land as their forefathers had been living in the area for over 300 years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

She is aged, frail and sick and the only refrain on her lips is "mere bachche mera ghar. Mujhe wahan le chalo". But far away from her sweet home, this Pakistani woman is languishing in the Joint Interrogarion Centre (JIC) here for the past one-and-a-half years. Her only crime is that she strayed into Indian territory at pillar no 966 of the Indo-Pak Rann border near Sui village of Banaskantha bordering Sindh province of Pakistan on January 17, 2008. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Are fossils from the ancient land of Kutch smuggled out to be illegally sold in Mumbai to be decorative pieces in houses of the rich? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Kutch, which has a very long history, will have its first comprehensive, authentic and integrated history book by next year. This was indicated at a meeting of Kutch history writers held at the Shyamji Krishna Verma Kutch University on Sunday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Khadir island, located in midst of the Great Rann of Kutch and north-east of here, boasts of a 5,000-year-old Indus civilisation site at its Dholavira village. But these days, it also has an avian attraction: a large number of beautiful lesser flamingoes, camping in the rain-water filled vast area of the Rann, behind Henota island near Amarapar, one of the 10 villages of Khadir island. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Like every year, Kutch has received the least rain on the west coast this monsoon season. This has come as a boon for the two key ports of the state - Kandla and Mundra - as their operations have remained largely unaffected. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Pointing out that there has been no progress in work of the Kutch branch of Narmada canal in the past four years, Kutch Development Council, an umbrella organisation of Kutchis in Ahmedabad, has sought 'personal intervention of chief minister Narendra Modi' for expeditious completion of the canal work. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The bagpipe band of the Swaminarayan temple in London was once again a star attraction at the international cultural event held at Manchester International Festival 2009, in Manchester, the third largest city of England, in the first week of the current month. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Former chief minister Suresh Mehta has said that chief minister Narendra Modi should depose before the Nanavati-Mehta commission, which is probing the Godhra riots case of 2002. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With Kutch district experiencing good rainfall in the latest round of rains lashing parts of the state, the spectre of drought is now over. As eight out of ten talukas recorded rainfall exceeding 125 mm, there would no longer be a need for declaring the district scarcity-hit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Industrial units set up in Kutch district with an investment of about Rs50,000 crore after the quake of 2001 are sore at the government's failure to fulfil its promise to supply adequate quantity of water. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After getting its first medical college, the border district has now got its first nursing college, which will start functioning from next month. The self-financed BMCB College of Nursing, to be run by a charitable trust formed by the Bhuj Mercantile Co-operative Bank, winner of an international award as best run co-operative in the country, has already received nod from the Indian Nursing Council. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Court martial proceedings have been ordered against a young army captain, Gautam Puri, after he was found selling liquor illegally in a sting operation carried out by a reporter of the leading Gujarati daily, Divya Bhaskar, here on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Trade and industry in and around Kandla, the only major port in the state, is not happy with the union budget for the year 2009-10, as it does not have any major proposal for the development of the port sector in general and enhancement of infrastructure at Kandla port in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Kandla port, which had handled the highest cargo traffic among all major ports in the country last fiscal, has maintained an upward trend in handling traffic in the first quarter ending June of the current year by handling 8.5 million tonnes of dry and liquid cargo against 7 million tonnes handled in the corresponding period of the previous year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Gujarat's first confirmed case of swine flu is a sailor who had come to Kandla to board a ship. The 30-year-old patient, Som Jai, is a Thai national who is now being treated for the viral disease in a special isolation ward at Kandla Port Trust (KPT) hospital in Gopalpuri, Gandhidham. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Except for VIPs in the chief minister's entourage, VIPs, government officers and mediapersons, who had gone to attend a function at the Jhara hills, some 180 km from Lakhapat taluka, had a nightmarish experience when they had to spend the whole night in their vehicles without food and drinking water on the foothills of Jhara on Wednesday night. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chief minister Narendra Modi plans to turn Kutch district into solar energy hub of the country as the area witnesses bright sunshine for the larger part of the year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The saffron party's call 'Hallo Jhara' (let us go to Jhara) to Kutchis across the world to mark the Kutchi New year on Ashadhi Beej on Wednesday failed to draw people to the event. Only five thousand people attended the event compared to the expected figure of 50,000. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BJP's plan to celebrate Kutchi New Year, called Ashadi Beej (second day of the month of Ashad), on Jhara hills on June 24 has sparked a row here. According to legends, the hill, overlooking the Great Rann of Kutch, was the scene of a war fought about 247 years ago, in which about a lakh of Sindhi and Kutchi warriors had lost their lives and the then Kutchi ruler was defeated. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Former chief minister Suresh Mehta has demanded that local interest be kept in mind both in GK general hospital and medical college to be run by Adani Group in Bhuj. Mehta, who hails from Mandvi in Kutch, said that poor patients should be provided specialist healthcare at affordable rates and reservation be made for local students at the upcoming medical college. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Even as the customs department at Mundra has held a container that landed at the new Mundra port from Dubai a fortnight ago, the consignee has threatened agitation in a peaceful manner. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The ruling BJP was reduced to a minority in the general board meeting of the Gandhidham municipality on Friday following revolt by a majority of BJP councillors against the civic body president, Bhavesh Acharya, earlier. Acharya is the husband of BJP's Anjar MLA, Neemaben Acharya. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Unhappy with the recent parliamentary poll results, CM Narendra Modi has asked all district collectors in the state to prepare action plans for all departments in their district to solve people's problems. The action plans will be reviewed by the chief minister during his visit of all districts this month. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Five recognised all-India federations of the workers of major ports have sought immediate intervention of the new Union shipping minister, GK Vasan, in resolving the sensitive issue of manning of workers' gangs at the major ports with a pragmatic approach rather than blindly implementing the award of a one-judge Kolkata tribunal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Close on the heels of former BJP MP Pushpadan Gadhavi raising a banner of revolt of sorts by resolving to launch a districtwide agitation against allotment of Gauchar land (common grazing land) for industrial use, as many as 22 out of 35 BJP members of the Gandhidham municipality's board have formed a separate group. These members are unhappy over the autocratic style of working of Dr Bhavesh Acharya, president of the civic body. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Dinesh Hiralal Trivedi, newly inducted union minister of state for health and family welfare, who originally belongs to Kutch, will visit his native village Bidada in coastal Mandvi taluka on June 7. Trivedi is a close confidant of Mamata Banerji and has been elected to the Lok Sabha on Trinamool Congress ticket from Barrackpore constituency of West Bengal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Top BJP leader LK Advani will continue as the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha 'temporarily', according to sources closes to him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Former MP and BJP leader Pushpadan Gadhavi has announced that he will devote himself to prevent the use of gauchar (common village pasture for cattle) for non-grazing purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Ratanal, a rich Ahir village which is the native place of a minister in Narendra Modi's council of ministers, Vasan Ahir, will witness the community's biggest mass marriage of minor boys and girls on Friday, the thirteen day of the month of Vaishakh of the indigenous calendar. According to sources in the community, about 235 child couples would tie the nuptial knot on the occasion. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

They had come all the way from Qatar to Kutch for buying camels, but landed in jail here following their arrest from Khavada, a notified area, abutting the Great Rann of Kutch, north of here. Entry to the area without prior permission is prohibited even for non-resident local people, leave alone foreigners. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Connoisseurs of Kutchi Kesar mangoes in Gulf countries and the UK will be hard put to get this exotic variety of mangoes this summer due to a drastic fall in production following adverse weather conditions. The production this year is estimated to be only 15 to 20 per cent of the last season. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A unique hill garden spread on 22 acres of land on way to the airport, which was set up in 2004, has become a big draw here. On Sunday and holidays, on an average, 800 to 1,000 people visit the garden. In the past five years, about 25 lakh people from Bhuj and outside have visited it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two workers were injured on Thursday when the Mundra police opened fire on agitating workers at the Adani Power's 4,620 MW power project under construction at Siracha village under Mundra taluka. The workers were protesting against a worker's accidental death on Wednesday night, demanding adequate compensation for the victim. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Though Mundra has two world-class international container terminals, it is yet to be visited by any high official of the health department to provide guidance to stop spread of the Mexico flu. Port sources said that the chief district health officer who had met a port official here on Monday simply handed over the WHO guidelines on precautionary measures, which were already available with the Mundra port authority.  [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Members of the London-based Swaminarayan Temple, run by the Maninagar Swaminarayan Gadi Sansthan, helped raise money for charity by taking part in the London Marathon, held on April 26. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The security agencies have taken seriously the recovery of an abandoned Pakistani boat by the BSF from the mouth of Pir Sinai creek which is about three miles away from the mouth of the controversial Sir creek. The fishing boat has now been brought to the headquarters of the water wing of the BSF at Koteshwar. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With polling only 24 hours away, Congress is hopeful of winning the Kutch Lok Sabha seat, reserved for the scheduled castes this time, despite its organisational weaknesses. It expects to get the backing of Muslims and Dalits who have traditionally been committed supporters of the party. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Both the managements of the country's major ports including Kandla in Kutch and the port workers working there are in a dilemma over disbanding the age-old gang system at the ports as per the 2006 award of the Kolkata Tribunal. For, they find it a millstone round their neck as they cannot avoid its implementation as both the parties had chosen arbitration of the tribunal [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With the D-day only four days away, the emerging picture in Kutch Lok Sabha constituency, reserved for SCs for the first time, is that the Congress is once more time fighting a losing battle. This is the case even though Muslims and Dalits, traditionally committed votebank of the Congress, account for five lakh votes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With the water wing of the BSF beginning to pull out from Gujarat's creek areas bordering Pakistan and inadequate deployment of BSF in the Great Rann of Kutch, the threat of infiltration from across the border has suddenly increased. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The management of the Union government-controlled Kandla Port Trust (KPT) is in the soup. For, it has been asked to reverse some of its decisions related to construction of four dry cargo jetties under public-private partnership. To comply with the instructions of the Union shipping ministry, a special board meeting has been convened on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In what is one more 'first' from Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (MPSEZL), the port on Saturday loaded the country's first consignment of Nissan Motor's Pixo model on a special car carrier, 'Euro Sprit', for several European countries. The countries where this consignment would reach by early next month include the UK, the Netherlands and Denmark. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]