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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 Sri Lankan cricket team and some members of the India team arrived in ahmedabad for the first Test starting November 16 at the Sardar Patel stadium here.

According to Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) sources the Indian team members including Sachin Tendulkar would be arriving separately and are likely to have a training session in the afternoon at Sardar Patel stadium, Motera.

City-based Cama Motors, oldest automobile company in the state, has diversified into selling of pre-owned luxurious cars and importing of luxurious cars.

"This is for the first time in Gujarat, a luxury car dealer has come up with a unique concept of providing new and pre-owned luxury cars, high-end refurbish and design studio with repair and maintenance centre to provide end to end solutions," Cama Motors CMD Jahangir Cama told reporters here.

The new bunch of wannabe corporate honchos has arrived on the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) campus. Students of
the post-graduate programme (PGP) 2009-11 are already exploring the place, with their seniors away on summer internships.

Over 80 students already on campus are part of the preparatory programme that the institute offers. The institute has made around 315 offers this year. The batch of 2009-11 will begin on June 20.

After having set up many reputed colleges and schools in Ahmedabad, the city’s leading industrialists have come together to gift the city one more institute of learning – Ahmedabad University.

The lead this time is taken by Sanjay S Lalbhai of Lalbhai Group, Sudhir Mehta of Torrent Group, Shrenik Kasturbhai and Naishad Parikh, all governing members of the Ahmedabad Education Society (AES). The city is home to the Gujarat University and Gujarat Vidyapeeth along with several other leading institutes.

Distribution of admission forms for Gujarat University-recognised 18 Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and Bachelor of
Computer Application (BCA) courses at various colleges will start from May 29. The last date of forms submission is June 3.

While the world is reeling under impact of recession, vehicle owners in the city don't turn a hair while spending a fortune for
getting a coveted registration number. Much to the delight of Regional Transport
Office (RTO) which has garnered a whopping Rs 16.38 crore by auctioning numbers in the state this year.

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) plans to come up with tax-free institutional municipal bonds worth Rs 150 crore
after the new UPA government places the budget in June this year.

This is the fifth municipal bond being issued by AMC. The civic body had pioneered this method of collecting funds from members of public and corporate houses in 1998.