Pulkit Vasudha , TNN
Wrapped in blankets, in Washington DC, almost two million people braved -13 degree celsius to be a part of a historic presidential inauguration.
In homes across the nation, people woke up as early as 4 am to catch the action live on TV. At breakfast meetings, viewing parties, and coffee houses, people pulled their [...]
Express News Services, Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, November 18 A snuffed-out candle, a half-eaten cake, a little girl’s frock, and a road roller. Strangely these are among the 69 symbols allotted to Independent candidates and unrecognised parties contesting the elections in the state by the returning officer. No wonder, the symbols have evoked murmurs of protest.
“Symbols should be [...]
Express News Services, Pulkit Vasudh
Ahmedabad, October 17 Several women organisations from across Gujarat joined hands and appealed to political parties to increase the candidature of women in the coming Assembly elections. They also requested that they promise to address issues concerning women in their manifestos. Over 150 NGOs working for women, represented by Ahmedabad Women [...]
Express News Services, Pulkit Vasudha
LAST year, several Muslim women’s organisations from across the country came together under an umbrella organisation, the Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan. The unique initiative demands equal status for Muslim women in society, rejects everything unconstitutional and forms a democratic, secular organisation for liberal and progressive thought and action. Zakia Jowher, the [...]
Express News Services, Pulkit Vasudha
Posted: Sep 20, 2007 at 0000 hrs IST
Patan/Kutch/Amreli, September 19 No one in Rafu village of Sami taluka in Patan district remembers when the building of the primary health centre (PHC) collapsed. The new set of buildings being financed by the European Union in the name of post-earthquake development programme, [...]
Express News Services, Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, August 23:THE traveller for whom the Ahmedabad International Airport is a gateway to the State — the concept of ‘Nirmal Gujarat’ has been reduced to an ugly joke. The airport’s infrastructure has barely kept pace with the ever-increasing number of airlines fighting for airspace over city skies.
The irony: [...]
Pulkit Vasudha , TNN
Wrapped in blankets, in Washington DC, almost two million people braved -13 degree celsius to be a part of a historic presidential inauguration.
In homes across the nation, people woke up as early as 4 am to catch the action live on TV. At breakfast meetings, viewing parties, and coffee houses, people pulled their [...]
Express News Services, Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, December 21 Sairaben Ahmed (name changed) glances furtively at the hosepipe snaking across the floor of the kitchen as she chops vegetables. In her ‘one room, kitchen, toilet’ tenement in Maqdum Nagar in Vatva, she is waiting for the evening supply of water. However, she is not the only person in [...]
Express News Services, Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, December 13 With barely two days left for the second and final phase of the Assembly elections, the fanfare of campaigning is at its peak in Maninagar. Both the Congress and BJP workers rallying strong and loud for their candidates—Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dinsha Patel and [...]
Express News Services, Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, December 9 One fine morning in November 2005, Pathan Shamshad was getting ready to go to work, when he suddenly heard bulldozers thundering through the narrow lanes outside his house.
Without any notice, the workforce of the Ahmedabad Urban Development Board (AUDA) had descended in the Bakra Mandi area of Ranip to [...]
Express News Services, Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, December 4 The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is providing a platform to entrepreneurs to market and sell their traditional delicacies, which are made using organic ingredients. Dilip Patel is one such person who has been in the business of manufacturing pure jaggery, without using chemicals or acid, for the [...]