Tag Gujarat
Reduction of Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates is one of the key goals of the Gujarat state population policy and also the national population policy, Reproductive and Child Health Programme, National Rural Health Mission and the Millennium Development Goals. The… Continue Reading →
Paul John & Radha Sharma, TNN | Jul 25, 2013, GANDHINAGAR: Infant girls in the 0-12 months age group are unsafe in urban Gujarat. The online data on infant deaths put out by Gujarat’s chief registrar of births and deaths for the last… Continue Reading →
Subodh Varma, TNN | Jul 22, 2013, There’s a new trend of chief ministers, particularly those with national ambitions, aggressively peddling their respective ‘development models’. Interestingly, CMs from the same party at times indulge in one-upmanship. The question is: How are… Continue Reading →
“At stake is the recovery of the idea of India—and the spirit of yaksha prashna.19 July 2013″ Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has plucked the notion of power-with-accountability out of the political domain and planted it in a personalised celebrity… Continue Reading →
Jul 21, 2013 – Rashme Sehgal | Asian Age The social indicators in a state of 60 million people tell a different tale from the Vibrant Gujarat story being pushed by Mr Narendra Modi. Economist Vidyut Joshi, former vice-chancellor of Bhavnagar University,… Continue Reading →
Sir, I hope you are fine. While talking to two Reuters journalists, Ross Colvin and Sruthi Gottipati, on July 12, 2013, you identified yourself as a ‘Hindu Nationalist’ and credited the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for instilling in you, spirit… Continue Reading →
Modi’s concern for puppies: With his inappropriate analogy, he has opened up the wounds of Gujarat afresh BRINDA KARAT | Jul 16, 2013, TNN In defence of the insulting and repugnant ‘puppy’ analogy he used when asked in an interview about the… Continue Reading →
Archana Prasad EVEN as Narendra Modi prepares to use the Gujarat model of ‘development’ to lure the Muslim minorities towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the hollowness of his claims has been exposed by the protest petition… Continue Reading →
Jul 9, 2013, 04.02 AM IST GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat Coastal Zone Management Authority has quietly given the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance to the controversial proposal for a nuclear power plant at Mithivirdi village in Bhavnagar district. The plant is to be built by Nuclear… Continue Reading →
Express news service : Ahmedabad July 13,2013 Evidence collected by CBI points at the forensic officials being in cahoots with the crime branch in proving the Ishrat Jahan killings to be genuine. Statements annexed to the chargesheet, filed on July 3,… Continue Reading →