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RTI reply reveals huge discrepancies in Modi’s VGGIS figures
CM claimed 63.5 per cent success rate, but RTI data brought it down to 25.25 per cent

Amid the pre-Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit (VGGIS) hype, did Chief Minister Narendra Modi get his investment sweepstakes math all wrong?

If figures, as of November 29, 2008, provided by the state government’s own Industries Commissioner in response to an RTI application are correct, Modi’s claims about committed investments that have come into Gujarat since the last two of these biennial investment melas, as well as the bu...

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Friday , 9 January '09

Kite festivals cancelled to ‘accommodate’ foreigners at VGGIS

With the government apparently bent on shoring up all its mela ammunition to showcase a good presence of foreigners at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit (VGGIS) next week...
Friday , 9 January '09

‘Satyam con will have a huge impact on India Inc’

The Satyam controversy has come as a rude shock and is going to have a larger impact on India Inc. The roles of independent directors, the external auditing agencies and the regulatory mechanisms will undergo major upheaval.
Friday , 9 January '09

25-year-old girl arrested for lifting motorcycles

She was always fond of motorbikes. When she could not buy one, she decided to steal. Once it started, there was no end. And 25-year-old Harsha Patel fell into the habit of stealing motorcycles...
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Friday , 9 January '09

Egyptian princess continues her battle for oxygen-free chamber

It was a decade ago when national and international experts, who had come to Vadodara, felt the need to keep the mummy at Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery (BMPG) in an oxygen-free glass chamber.
Friday , 9 January '09

Teenager stabbed for charging Rs 5 ‘extra’ on food

An eatery owner, Akhmal Sheikh (18), was stabbed in the stomach several times, reportedly due to a tiff over an ‘extra’ Rs 5 that he had charged for a plate of fried rice.
Friday , 9 January '09

ESMA invoked against striking officers of oil firms

The state government has invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act, thereby declaring the services of the officers of public sector undertakings of the oil companies as essential.
Friday , 9 January '09

Private buses to remain off roads today

Nine private bus operators in the city were arrested on Thursday in connection to the strike called by them to protest against the ‘increasing taxes’, diesel prices and restriction on their entry in the city.
Friday , 9 January '09

Rajkot petrol pumps run out of stock; no auction at marketing yards

Truckers’ strike coupled with the nationwide agitation by the Oil Sector Officers’ Association (OSOA) has left Saurashtra partly paralysed.
Friday , 9 January '09

‘Foreigners show more patience to understand our music’

When we talk about the Indian classical music, it is tough not to mention about the vocalists duo of Pandit Rajan Mishra and Pandit Sajan Mishra.
Friday , 9 January '09

Mobile phone buzzes in Vadodara Central Jail yet again

In an incident that has exposed the chinks in the security at the Vadodara Central Jail, an inmate was caught red-handed on Wednesday while talking on a mobile phone in his cell.
Friday , 9 January '09

Gandhian philosophy of non-violence is solution to all world problems

More than revolution it is an evolution. It was the vision of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to bring in the modern and genuine democratic system in Tibet.
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