2 more BLOs die, outrage over 'work load' intensifies

Two primary school teachers deployed as booth-level officers in the ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls died of cardiac arrest in West Bengal's Murshidabad and Gujarat's Mehsana,......

AI crash: Victims' kin file claims under multiple insurance categories

From hotel booking cancellations to loss of baggage, and from accidental death coverage to trip plan withdrawals, insurance companies have received a range of claims from the kin of the Ahmedabad......

Air India crash: Families endure painful wait for loved ones' bodies

While the families of the Ahmedabad plane crash victims are already finding it tough to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones, what is adding to their woes is the long wait they have to......

Gujarat bypolls: BJP fails to break 18-yr Visavadar jinx

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat was unable to end its 18-year jinx in Visavadar as it lost the bypolls to Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party despite a strong campaign. IMAGE: AAP......

Sintex to buy Zeppelin India

The Mehsana-based Sintex Industries Ltd, a leader in the field of plastics in the country, today signed a memorandum of understanding for acquiring a strategic majority stake in Zeppelin Mobile......

Land utilisation: Car firms in slow gear

Automobile companies in India may have many headaches, but land availability doesn't figure in that list. Consider this: land intensity, or the number of cars made per acre, by Indian companies......

Is Gujarat really a success story?

Data on growth in rural jobs and on progress in social indicators don’t bear out the story of uniform and high progressBusiness Standard reported last month about the farmers protest against......

In Modi's Gujarat, a Singur could be in the making

In what some see as a reminder of the bitter battle between land owners and the state government that forced Tata Motors out of West Bengal's Singur, discontent seems to be brewing over......

Illegal live streaming-betting racket with Pak link busted in Guj

IMAGE: People based out of Canada, Dubai, Pakistan and other countries are linked to the illegal streaming of cricket matches and further probe into the entire racket is underway, the police......

SEE: Villagers celebrate Bhavina's silver with 'garba'

IMAGE: Bhavinaben Patel's family broke into the traditional 'garba' dance, burst firecrackers and smeared each other with 'gulal' at her native Sundhiya village in Gujarat's Mehsana district to......

Bhavinaben scripts history, storms into Paralympics TT final

IMAGE: India's Bhavinaben Patel will take on world No. 1 Chinese Ying Zhou in the Class 4 Table Tennis final at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday. Photograph: Kind courtesy Table Tennis Federation......