Gujarat riots accused jumps parole to get daughter married
Daily News & Analysis
After a few days, he went to Navsari. He had planned to go to Mumbai to earn some money to pay for dowry. He claims that he planned to surrender once he had earned enough money and married off his daughter. He had come to Ahmedabad on his way to Mumbai ...

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Fasts can help speed up work at VNSGU
Times of India
Bharat Desai, secretary of Dakshin Gujarat Mahila Kelavni Mandal, a retired principal of Navsari Mahila College, on Wednesday threatened to go on a hunger strike if the university failed to take action against its registrar, who the former alleged was ...

0.37 per cent of people in Gujarat have AIDS
Times of India
Surat, Navsari, Dahod, Banaskantha and Mehsana are the districts where the number of patients was very high. Moreover, there were high prevalence rate in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot and Bhavnagar also. The Gujarat State AIDS Control Society, ...

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Centre's panel approves new Bt Cotton seed
Times of India
... Committee (GEAC) of the Government of India has approved commercial distribution of a new variety of Bt Cotton seed, developed jointly by US multinational Monsanto, Gujarat Seed Supply Corporation (GSSC) and Navsari Agricultural University.

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Bumper mango crop likely this year
Times of India
If the conditions help from now on, we are in for a treat and I won't be surprised if our state production crosses 10 lakh tones," said NL Patel, dean, horticulture department at Navsari Agriculture University (NAU). In 2008-2009, there was severe heat ...

Retired principal, registrar wash dirty linen in public
Times of India
SURAT: A tussle between retired principal of Navsari Mahila College (NMC) and registrar of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU) JR Mehta has put top varsity authorities in a piquant situation. The principal Bharat Desai has accused ...

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Gujarat is home to 35 endangered bird species
Times of India
Thus it is important that researchers and ornithologists and people from all walks of life join hands in bird conservation, speakers said at a recently held seminar in Navsari on 'Birds of Gujarat: Present status and future scenario'.

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Mid-day meal: HC stays outsourcing to Mumbai NGO
Indian Express
The Gujarat High Court has stayed a state government resolution under which the latter had outsourced the task to run Mid-Day Meal scheme at schools in Navsari district to a Mumbai-based non-government organisation. A single judge bench of Justice SR ...

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PDS shops in south Gujarat to stay off stir
Indian Express
Owners of fair price shops in Surat, Tapi, Valsad, the Dangs and Navsari districts in south Gujarat have decided not to take part in the statewide agitation called for by the Fair Price Shopowners Association of Gujarat, which is led by Chief Minister ...

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Farmers may rake in big bucks with mango seeds
Times of India
The discarded mango seeds, widely used in cosmetics, are set to become money spinner for these farmers with Navsari Agriculture University devising a new technology to extract oil from them. Parag Pandit, professor of post-harvest technology at NAU is ...

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