Published scoops - Ahmedabad

The Congress on Tuesday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for issuing notices to slum-dwellers in Bapunagar. The opposition party in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) also called the ruling BJP anti poor.

With India having taken an unbeatable 2-0 lead, Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag have been rested for the third and concluding match of the ODI series against South Africa at Ahmedabad on Saturday.

The national selection committee that met in Chennai on Thursday included Karnataka fast bowler Abhimanyu Mithun and middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma in the team led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Plans are being finalised for IIMA's annual cultural festival Chaos and for fans of Sonu Nigam there's some good news.

The versatile performer will be the star of the action. The annual event will bring on stage the celebrated singer who will render some of today's popular numbers at the institute's campus. The event will also feature a DJ night for the first time this year.

The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIMA) might have become a victim of a terror attack if the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the US had not arrested David Coleman Headley, alias Dawood Gilani, in time.

Intelligence sources said that Headley had carried out a reconnaissance of the IIM-A campus during his stay in Ahmedabad and had prepared a map of the campus too.

With three more cases reported in the country on Sunday, swine flu scare seems to be looming large. Taking the present
situation into account, over 37,000 passengers coming from abroad have been scanned for H1N1 virus at the Ahmedabad airport. And, there have been no suspected cases from Gujarat so far.

Fatima was a victim of domestic violence. However, she is now living separate from her husband, raising her daughter by herself and is
practising law.

This is one of the many stories in the book titled Ananya', written and designed by a team of National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. Ananya was initiated by the ministry of women and child development (MWCD), Government of India and was released on May 14 in New Delhi.

When contrived, the swanky bus service of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) may have seemed 'rapid', but the present snail-pace work for the Ahmedabad Janmarg Limited's (AJL) ambitious Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) signals towards a further delay in the launch of the much awaited intra-city transport service.

Tarpaulin sheets covering marketplaces and embankments built along the Sabarmati, hint at one thing: that Ahmedabad is gearing up for the monsoons. The weatherman has predicted timely arrival of rains and change of weather shortly.

According to the director in-charge at the city’s India Meteorological Department (IMD), Dr Kamaljit Ray, monsoons will arrive on June 15, as expected.

Adding another feather to its cap, Ahmedabad has bagged the honour of being the only city in the country to be selected for showcasing urban best practices at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. The six-month long event will be held in the Chinese city from May to October 2010. The city will get a 3 lakh dollar assistance from the Shanghai Bureau of World Expo for financing the pavilion, spread over 237 sq metres.

The underground economy, basically the informal sector in Ahmedabad, is essential to the city’s future, according to IP Gautam,
municipal commissioner, Ahmedabad.

”The city has lots of informal jobs but per capita income is less, and growth is slow, but one can earn bread and butter,” he says. This is part of the interview in the article The Rise of the Underground' published in the Wall Street Journal.