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This was as part of confidence-building measures between the two countries and comes in the backdrop of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's three-day visit to India.
India's premier Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara will play for Team Zalawad Royals in the inaugural Saurashtra Premier League.
A contingent of over two dozen women, including border guarding 'mahila' troops of BSF, have embarked on a maiden 2,300 km camel safari along India's international border with Pakistan.
The tremor, whose epicentre was in the Kutch region of the state, struck at 11.51 pm, the Met office in Delhi said.
Police seized 100 fake notes of old Rs 500 denomination from Burhanuddin, who first claimed to be a Mumbai resident.
A minor girl was allegedly raped by two policemen in Bhuj town of Kutch district in Gujarat, police said in Ahmedabad on Sunday.\n\n
The Centre has delegated powers to Gujarat government to grant citizenship to nearly 900 migrants from Pakistan who have been residing in four districts of the state for the past several years.
Gyan Correa's National award-winning Gujarati film 'The Good Road', a lost-and-found story of a small boy, was today nominated to represent India in the Best Foreign Film category at next year's Oscars.
Indian Navy on Saturday commissioned a new base, INS Sardar Patel, in Porbandar, Gujarat.
Shamjibhai Ahir, a Kutchi truck driver by profession, can't understand such hullabaloo over India's official Oscar entry of the Gujarati film The Good Road in which he is playing an important role.
Gujarat agriculture department on Wednesday said that 89 farmers committed suicide in the state in the last four years, while claiming that crop failure was not the reason behind the extreme step in any of the cases.
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Kutch district, which was almost flattened by the quake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, is today self-sufficient and now boasts of an Rs 130 crore hospital.
The Indian delegation to the talks was led by Surveyor General of India Prithvish Nag and the Pakistan side was\n\nheaded by Rear Admiral Ahsan-ul-Haq Chaudhry.
Srini was at the IAF base in Andaman and Nicobar's Car Nicobar Island, when the killer waves struck.
Before Netanyahu, the PM has hosted Japanese premier Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Ahmedabad.
Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has been issued a notice to appear within 10 days at a local court in Kutch district, Gujarat for his alleged breach of model code of conduct during his fact finding tour of Gujarat last month.
Two more Gujarat Congress members of Legislative Assembly on Monday resigned from the party and extended their support to the Bharatiya Janata Party, taking the number of Congress MLAs who have quit to join the saffron party in the last one month to five.
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Sunday announced that her government will make the state slum-free in the next five years and is also aiming to provide pucca houses to the needy.
Gujarat state administration is preparing to face 'Cyclone Nilofar', which has developed in the Arabian Sea and is likely to move towards the state's coast, Gujarat meteorological department said.
Two PAAS members were given tickets in the released list, while the Hardik Patel-led organisation had demanded 20 seats.
French oil major TotalFinaElf is keen on taking stake in state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's deep-sea oil and gas blocks.\n\n\n\n
French oil giant TotalFinaElf has offered Oil and Natural Gas Corporation stake in its Azerbaijan and Barbados oil blocks in return of equity in the Indian oil firms' three offshore blocks.
'The first of the six helicopters will be delivered by September 16 and will be inducted into J&K and Northeast,' BSF Additional Director General A K Mitra said.
He said that as the previous government could not do it, he had to do it.
The CPWD has already completed 62kms of the border that passes through the dry terrain of Rann of Kutch, official sources said.
'Since last year, over 50,000 Sikh farmers have been evicted from Kutch district and Narendra Modi's government has done little other than giving assurances.' 'We are today at a point where Sikhs continue to move out of the country in large numbers and nobody is ready to address the real concerns of Sikhs.'
He urged Congress-run states to also help elevate the poor.
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