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Encyclopedia: Gujarat State, India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Gujarat was a major center of Indian Ocean trade, and their capital at Anhilwara (Patan) was one of the largest cities in India, with population estimated at 100,000 in the year 1000. Gujarat was constituted in 1960 from the Gujarati-speaking areas in the northern and western portions of the former state of Bombay. Gujarat is governed by a chief minister and cabinet responsible to a unicameral elected legislature and by a governor appointed by the president of India. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gujarat-State,-India   (1869 words)

Gujarat: Just the facts...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Gujarat was a major center of Indian Ocean trade, and their capital at Anhilwara (additional info and facts about Anhilwara) (Patan (additional info and facts about Patan)) was one of the largest cities in India, with population estimated at 100,000 in 1000. Gujarat was placed under the political authority of Bombay Presidency (additional info and facts about Bombay Presidency), with the exception of Baroda state, which had a direct relationship with the Governor-General of India (additional info and facts about Governor-General of India). Gujarat is home to an Indian Institute of Management (additional info and facts about Indian Institute of Management), located in the city of Ahmedabad (additional info and facts about Ahmedabad). www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/gujarat.htm   (2198 words)

Concerned Citizens Tribunal - Gujarat 2002: An inquiry into the carnage in Gujarat Gujarat VHP President, KK Shastri gave a widely publicised interview to rediff.com in which he stated that on the morning of February 28 itself, his organisation had prepared a list of the names of establishments and residences of Muslims of Gujarat, ready to be used in the violence. Lakdawala, whose roots are in Gujarat, having been brought up in Surat before moving to Ahmedabad, spoke of an experience he had regarding the admission of his elder daughter even earlier, in 1987-88, in CN School, a Gujarati medium school. The seriousness of the Gujarat carnage, said this witness, was evident from the shocking efforts to communalise public space especially hospitals, schools and courts. www.sabrang.com /tribunal/volI/expwitness.html   (14916 words)

cars - Patan, Gujarat Patan is a city in Gujarat state of western India. Known in the Middle Ages as Anhilwara, Patan served as the capital of the Hindu kingdom of Gujarat, which was ruled by the Solanki dynasty of Rajputs. Patan was part of the Maratha state of Baroda from the mid-eighteenth century until India's independence in 1947, when Baroda became part of Bombay state, which in 1960 was separated into Gujarat and Maharashtra. www.carluvers.com /cars/Patan,_Gujarat   (212 words)

Godhra panel seeks ATR from Gujarat govt - NDTV.com - News on Godhra panel seeks ATR from Gujarat govt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) The Godhra probe panel today ordered the Gujarat government to produce an action-taken report based on the recommendations made by the National Human Rights Commission. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has also been implicated in the riots. In a related development, the Commission has decided to write to the President's office seeking clarification on its stand on the communication exchanged between late President K R Narayanan to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the time of the riots. www.ndtv.com /template/template.asp?template=Gujaratviolence   (180 words)

The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Modera, Patan District, North Gujarat, Dec. 10: The dust whipped up by the chopper’s blades takes a long time to settle down in the dryness of north Gujarat. Gujarat, Modi says, has seen more development in 45 months under the BJP than in 45 years under the Congress. In the audience, district youth BJP leader Vinayshri Jhala whispers in anticipation: “Hindutva is a matter of the heart.” www.telegraphindia.com /1021211/asp/nation/story_1468562.asp   (1295 words)

SEEDS for Disaster resilient Communities Following the devastating earthquake in Gujarat in January 2001, a reconstruction initiative was launched by a consortium of 15 agencies in India and abroad for a model rehabilitation programme. Following the earthquake in District Chamoli, Uttaranchal (March, 1999), SEEDS team along with senior officials of the National Centre for Disaster Management, India visited the affected areas for a rapid assessment of damage, identification of needs for immediate relief and for medium and long term rehabilitation. Following the devastating cyclone in Gujarat (June,1998), SEEDS carried out an independent assessment of damage and identification of needs for immediate relief in the affected areas of Jamnagar District in Gujarat. www.seedsindia.org /Archive/arch.htm   (1867 words)

Modi plans I-Day with a difference! Patan, situated about 135 kilometres northwest of Ahmedabad, was the capital of the Solanki dynasty, the last Hindu kings who ruled over much of present day Gujarat from 796 AD to the 13th century.  The beginning of Patan's decline is pegged at 1024 AD, the year Mahmud of Ghazni ransacked the city. Patan retains the heritage of its imperial past with stunning monuments dotting the city such as the Rani ki Vav (Queens well with steps descending into the well), a heritage structure built by Queen Udaymati in the 11th century, and the Sahastralinga Talav (Lake of a thousand Shiva shrines). On August 14, between 7.30 pm and 8.30 pm, the Patan district collector has asked the city's residents of Patan to light more than 1,000 lamps and take out a procession, to be called the Sahstra Jyot Yatra, up to the Rani ki Vav. inhome.rediff.com /news/2003/aug/08spec.htm   (1117 words)

Heavy rains bring respite In Junagadh district, Talala taluka recorded maximum rainfall of 202 mm on Wednesday followed by Bhesan with 149 mm, Junagadh with 139 mm and Malia and Veraval both with 110 mm rainfall on Wednesday. In Baroda district, Karjan received 119 mm rainfall while the district average was 28.67 mm. Godhra in Panchmahals district received heavy rainfall measuring 123 mm while the district average was 38.09 mm. www.ahmedabad.com /incity/2k3/june/19heavy.htm   (533 words)

aicc Charter PATAN: In total disregard of the Gujarat High Court's orders, the Patan district police have launched yet another "survey" of the Christians and the institutions run by the community even as the State authorities denied issuing any such instruction. On petitions filed by the AICC joint secretary, Samson Christian, the Gujarat High Court had at least thrice in the past issued directives to the State Government to refrain from undertaking such a community-based survey while allowing police to investigate complaints against individuals belonging to the community. The police inspector of the Patan taluk police station, A. Jardosh, who led the "survey" team to the "Catholic Ashram" and the "Daughters of Cross" institutions in Dungripur village, however, told Mr. www.aiccindia.org /ans39.htm   (633 words)

Development: Pooling their resources, May 11, 2003 The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) In Baap block of Jodhpur district in Rajasthan, a 22-year-old girl was raped while on her way to fetch water. In Gujarat's Patan district, Madvi Behn, 13, drowned in a well as she struggled to be the first to draw water. The people of Antarnesh in Patan district of Gujarat still remember the pitiful sight of an eight-year-old girl dying of thirst. www.the-week.com /23may11/events1.htm   (2816 words)

REYNARD THE FOX - LoveToKnow Article on REYNARD THE FOX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) He is Rajput of the Baghel~ branch of the Solanki race, and is descended from the founder of the Anhilwara Patan dynasty in Gujarat. The political agent, who is also collector of the British district of the Panch Mahals, resides at Godhra. It is an important centre of trade, being the junction for the Rewari-Bhatinda branch of the Rajputana railway. 32.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RE/REYNARD_THE_FOX.htm   (2770 words)

DRM Library Fibre-optic cables that gave connectivity to the district of Kutch were also broken, resulting in isolation of the district from the rest of the state. The Government of Gujarat's renaming of the Earthquake Rehabilitation Authority as the Disaster Management Authority is symbolic of the importance it attaches to the disaster management system in the state. In Gujarat, a large number of deaths took place in high-rise buildings where the proportion of people with insurance policies is quite high. www.drmonline.net /drmlibrary/gujarat.htm   (9468 words)

Nation - Stage set for Gujarat polls tomorrow Amidst tight security with deployment of paramilitary forces in strength in the state still bearing scars of protracted communal riots, an estimated 3.38 crore voters are likely to exercise franchise at more than 37,000 polling stations to elect their representatives to the 182-member state assembly. The elections are crucial for BJP which had suffered a string of electoral defeats in a number of states in the last four years and in view of the assembly polls in ten states next year and the Lok Sabha polls in 2004. Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee President Shankersinh Vaghela has fielded his son Mahendrasingh from Sami constituency in Patan district of North Gujarat. www.mid-day.com /news/nation/2002/december/38675.htm   (463 words)

India - Timeline Year 2001 Intelligence Bureau (IB) alerts district police chiefs in Bihar on the activities of Islamist terrorist outfits——linked to Osama Bin Laden——along the Nepal border. A suspected ISI agent is arrested along with three members of his family in Baran, Kota district, on charges of smuggling drugs and fake currency. Gujarat Police arrest three persons and recover 43,000-kg of gelatin sticks from their possession at Walki village, in Gujarat’s Ahmednagar district. www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/india/timeline/2001.htm   (4957 words)

[No title] This finding led to the present study on the sustainability of some of the SHGs formed in Patan district where a variety of SHG based programmes are being simultaneously implemented. During the field visits to Patan District, workers agreed that such withdrawals are common during the second year in case of “micro finance only” SHGs.  Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Bhavnagar, Dahod, Gandhinagar, Kheda, Narmada and Valsad districts. www.wiego.org /ahmedabad/papers/Tiwari_Can_SHGs_remove_poverty.doc   (10671 words)

ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Gujarat earthquake: One year later The World Bank helped the government of Gujarat to develop a comprehensive strategy to rebuild the destroyed and damaged housing stock, the damaged infrastructure and services, provide livelihood to a large number of vulnerable households in a sustainable way, and to build an adequate disaster management capacity. Almost a year after the most destructive earthquake to hit India in 180 years, it appears that the village of Chhansara of Santalpur Taluka in Patan district of Gujarat has returned to "business as usual." There is no rubble on the streets, and life seems no different from that in any other village in India. The response of civil society within and outside Gujarat and of the international community was swift and generous. www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-64CR9E?OpenDocument   (1335 words)

Reuters AlertNet - Gujarat quake survivors get on with life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Neeta Patel, SEWA coordinator for Patan district in the arid north of the state, agreed. Meanwhile, Pradeep Sharma, the district collector in Bhuj and a civil servant in charge of the Kutch district, said while it was the state’s responsibility to provide for people’s needs, that was sometimes easier said than done. DMI, which contributed to the evaluation of British agencies that responded in Gujarat with funding from the Disasters Emergency Committee, is working on an assessment of post-earthquake reconstruction and rehabilitation, to be released in April. www.alertnet.org /thefacts/reliefresources/107850640458.htm   (1550 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) A similar survey of Christians in Gujarat was carried out by the state government in March, and Christians saw it as a build-up to an anti-conversion bill later introduced in the state assembly and passed on March 26, stirring controversy across India. As a result, the Gujarat High Court on May 29 issued a desist notice to the state government, the director general of police, the Patan district superintendent of police and the police inspector of the Taluk police station. This is the fourth attempt by the Gujarat government to gather information that is not even available to census officials or tax auditors from the Foreign Contribution Regulation Department of the Home Ministry. www.bpnews.net /storydownload.asp?ID=16014   (640 words)

Gujrat Earthquake Recovery Report on Education Sector   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) The assessment team's interactions with adults and children in the affected districts and preliminary report by a Government/DFID team indicate that there is an emerging demand and interest among communities to see their children attend primary school without delay[1]. Since teachers in these districts were initially reluctant or unable to attend school, officers from non-affected districts were deputed to these center to resume instruction in primary school centers. The assessment team suggested that the community mobilization component in the DPEP II(Banaskantha and Panchmahal) and in the new project Gujarat DPEP (in six districts including Kutch, Surendranagar and Jamnagar) be tailored to address community involvement in the education of children within the context of the earthquake. www.education.nic.in /htmlweb/gujrateartquakereport.htm   (1988 words)

The Hindu News Update Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Ahmedabad, Nov. 5 (PTI): A BJP MLA Shankar Chaudhary from Patan district in Gujarat, was arrested today in connection with his alleged role in a post-Godhra communal riots case, police sources said. Chaudhary, an MLA from Radhanpur town of the district was arrested on murder and rioting charges and is in custody of Patan local crime branch, a senior investigating official told PTI. The MLA was booked for leading a rioting mob and also allegedly shooting people of minority community in the village where two persons were killed on March 1, 2002. www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/holnus/002200511051222.htm   (111 words)

Asif Reza Commando Force The Asif Reza Commando Force (ARCF), representing the growing nexus between organised crime and Islamist terrorism, is one of the two outfits (along with Harkat-ul-Jehadi-e-Islami) that claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack on the American Centre in Kolkata on January 22, 2002. The ARCF is a marginal group that was raised sometime in the third week of December 2001, probably in an area populated by illegal migrants from Bangladesh near Habibpur, along the Indo-Bangladesh border in the Malda district of West Bengal. Ansari was the financier of a large consignment of arms and ammunition, including 14 kilograms of RDX, which was seized in Gujarat’s Patan district in November 2001, after the arrest of Asif Reza Khan and a Pakistani accomplice, Arshad Khan in New Delhi on October 29, 2001. www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/india/terroristoutfits/ARCF.htm   (741 words)

Background : First Quarterly Report Of WHO Activities Following The Earthquake The major damage was concentrated in Kutch District of Gujarat State. A cyclone hit Gujarat in 1998 and the drought which began in 1999 is expected to continue through 2001. Prior to the earthquake most of the districts in Gujarat were highly food insecure with a high percentage of the population living below the poverty line. w3.whosea.org /gujarat/reliefmission_backgr.htm   (744 words)

Monuments in Gujarat,Monuments of Gujrat,Historical Monuments of Gujrat, Architectural Monuments in Gujarat, Shaking ... The 'dargah', the largest of its kind in Gujarat, has a plinth area of 31.70 m, and is roofed by a large dome. Andhra Pradesh Bihar Chandigarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Karnataka Kerala Chandigarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Karnataka Kerala www.access-india.com /gujarat-monuments.htm   (1818 words)

CBI achieves breakthrough in arms seizure case- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) new delhi: cbi achieved a major breakthrough in the recovery of huge quantity of arms and explosives from a truck in gujarat last week when sleuths of the agency arrested the main kingpin who was supposed to receive the delivery of the arms consignment. on a specific information, the cbi seized a truck in north gujarat's patan district and recovered huge quantity of arms and ammunition from it which included 14 kgs of deadly rdx and four kgs of plastic explosives. this is the second incident of huge seizure of arms and ammunition in gujarat by cbi. timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-900983278,prtpage-1.cms   (357 words)

Court stays Patan panchayat election The Gujarat high court on Tuesday stayed the meeting of the Patan district panchayat for election of president and vice-president of the civic body, which was to be held on Wednesday. They alleged that under Gujarat District Panchayat President' and Vice-President Election Rules, the meeting for electing the president can be called only after six days of notifying all the members. They alleged that although the development commissioner, in a meeting on October 29, informed that the meeting will be held on November 9 at the Patan district panchayat office, the venue was later shifted to taluka panchayat office. www.ahmedabad.com /index/viewarticle/article/17982/section/14   (154 words)

Untitled Document The individuals affected with fluorosis were examined for apparent mottled teeth and skeletal complications samples of urine and blood of these individuals along with drinking water were collected and compared with samples obtained from Ahmedabad city population. Chinoy et al (1992b) have reported in their studies on effect of fluoride in 36 villages of Mehsana district, North Gujarat that, the concentration of sialic acid was decreased significantly (P<0.01) in the fluorotic population as compared to control population. The results from cultured human lymphocytes indicated a significant increase in the frequency of SCE in the fluoride afflicted populations compared to normal population. www.globenet.org /preceup/pages/ang/chapitre/capitali/cas/indme_f.htm   (1233 words)

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