The bitter feud in the Rajasthan Cricket Association has prompted the Board of Control for Cricket in India to shift the opening One-Day International in the best-of-seven series between India and Australia, on October 25, from Jaipur to Vadodara.
The number of deaths due to swine flu in India rose to 25 on Saturday with a man succumbing presumably to the deadly virus in Vadodara, and another person dying in Karnataka, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised all possible steps to control the spread of the disease. A 52-year-old man, who had come from Pune today morning, died at the SSG Hospital in Vadodara, taking the number of deaths in Gujarat to three, Health Department officials said.
Australia's batting mainstay Michael Hussey believes Zaheer Khan's absence is a big blow for the Indian team in the seven-match ODI series, beginning in Vadodara, on Sunday.
The second and third positions in the category were grabbed by Surat and Navi Mumbai respectively.
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The number of hotspot districts comes down to 129 from 170 in a fortnight. But the number of infection-free districts or green zones too decreased from 325 to 307. During this time, the number of non-hotspot districts, also known as orange zones, increased from 207 to 297.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that the national highway between Vadodara and Mumbai will be converted into a six-lane highway at a total cost of Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion).
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"Jemmi (Jemimah Rodrigues) has shown talent at international level. Our fielding, in which over the last two three years we were lacking, has improved and that was the biggest take-away from the tour," she added.
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"We searched the warehouse on Tuesday night and found the bag which contained one pistol, two live bullets, one air pistol, a seven inch long pipe bomb and 19 compact discs and DVDs," Chudasama said.
'Being shut indoors with an abusive partner has made life a lot worse for women, and domestic violence helplines have reported a significant rise in distress calls at this time,' observes Shuma Raha.
Pathan brothers Irfan and Yusuf are the two most famous cricketers from Vadodara. The Pathans celebrated Eid on Thursday and wished their fans by posting pictures on social media. In the above picture the two brothers are seen with their father.
Two persons were on Wednesday killed and nine others injured when a chemical-laden tanker fell from the Mumbra bypass here over hutments in an adjoining slum area.
Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated as "martyrs".
Fourty-four people, 41 of them school children from classes 9 and 10, are feared killed as the Gujarat State Transport bus they were travelling in fell into the main Naramada canal near Vadodara on Wednesday morning. The bus, carrying 61 passengers, fell into the canal in Bodeli area after the driver lost control. Four passengers have been rescued after the mishap. The school children were on their way to school for their examinations when the accident occurred.
RailTel Corporation of India Ltd, a telecom and IT wing under the ministry, has selected the four railway stations for providing wi-fi connectivity. Within the next couple of weeks, passengers will be able to use their laptops at these stations, said senior officials of RailTel. The move is aimed at providing high-speed internet connectivity at railways stations. RailTel also plans to install wi-max facility to provide connectivity to remote railway stations at a later stage.
All the five passengers were safe.
BJP's choice of candidates seems to be dictating the Congress selection process, says Kavita Chowdhury
Stakes are high for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party against the backdrop of Patel quota agitation while Congress is pinning on hopes to make a comeback.
The critics of Prime Minister Modi's latest project are not looking at the future but living in the past, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
Orissa hit up a healthy 204 for three against Baroda on the second day of their four-day Elite Group B Ranji Trophy match.
Shubham Pundir top-scored with 42 to take J&K to 139 for eight in 20 overs.
Once again, it was the teacher's son from Vadodara, that mysterious practitioner of lethal magic at the death who ensured that Rohit Sharma's side ended the night an improbable fourth on the IPL points table.
There are almost 1 million people in India with a cleft palate or cleft lip who have not received any treatment to remedy their condition. Every year, almost 35,000 infants are born with cleft lip and palate, reports Geetanjali Krishna.
About 72 villages in Bharuch and Vadodara districts, located downstream near the banks of river Narmada have been alerted as water levels are expected to rise due to heavy inflow of water from Madhya Pradesh.
The train of writers returning government-conferred honours has now been joined by Vadodara-based author and poet Anil Joshi who announced that he will give up his Sahitya Akademi award over the recent killing of rationalist MM Kalburgi and a few others.
Much of this has been made possible by the owners's insistence on building a team, rather than banking on a collection of talented individuals not necessarily suited to play alongside one another.
Meanwhile, noted artists, including Padma Shree awardee Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh and Surendra Nair have criticised the police action.
Anustup Mazumdar (103) and Arindam Das (117 not out) scored chanceless centuries to propel Bengal to 262 for 2 against hosts Vadodara on the first day of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group 'B' match at the Matibaug Palace ground in Vadodara on Thursday.
L&T, Ircon International and Tata Projects have showed interest in a tender issued by the National High Speed Rail Corporation, implementing agency for the project. The tender is for construction of stations, bridges, viaducts, maintenance depots and tunnels.
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India will need to play out of their skin to stop the mighty Australians from clinching the series as they go into the must-win sixth one-dayer on Sunday.
The Bharartiya Janata Party's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi has for the first time declared himself as a married man by revealing his wife's name as Jashodaben in an affidavit filed before the Election Commission.
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On Friday, India gave its verdict and Narendra Modi it was. The prime minister-in-waiting addressed his first rally in Vadodara from where won by a whopping 5.7 lakh votes, a record margin, he claimed. Here are 10 takeaway quotes from the historic speech.
United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee started their one-day visit to the flood-affected regions of Gujarat on Thursday morning.
'We would do well to encourage all Indians to participate in democracy by contesting and laws that prevent or deter individuals and parties should be relooked at,' says Aakar Patel.
The US-based Dawn Alliance group is planning to set up a United States Food and Drug Administration-approved generic drug manufacturing facility in India.
The left-right combination of Sourav Ganguly and Robin Uthappa are expected to open for India in the fourth and final ODI against the West Indies.
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