Gandhinagar: In pictures - Gujarat Chief Minister, Chief Secretary, Ministers, State BJP chief among others worshiped Kumarikas (girl child) and offer them gifts marking Shakti Parva on the night day of Navratri in separate functions across Gujarat. DeshGujarat Read More

Gandhinagar: A meeting of Weather Watch Group was held here today. Following are the major points announced at the end of the meeting: - There's almost no possibility of rainfall in Gujarat upto 5 October: Jayant Sarkar, Director of IMD, Gujarat - Monsoon will leave Gujarat in coming days: Jayant Sarkar, Director of IMD, Gujarat - Gujarat has witnessed 147.36% rain in this monsoon. All districts have received over 107% rains while all talukas have received more than 12 inch rains. ...Read More

In picture (above): Police men at Sabarmati Riverfront Event Ground lower promenade in Gujarat rehearsing for bandobast of visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi here scheduled tomorrow In pictures(below): Students of HB Kapadiya school in Amdavad, Gujarat dressed as Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi Anniversary event a day before Gandhi Jayanti Several incidents of tree falling were noticed yesterday in the city of Amdavad due to strong wind and rain. A damaged car...Read More

Gandhinagar: Rain's interruption to Navratri, the most colourful and popular festival of Gujarat continued for the second day today with 31 of the 33 districts in the western state witnessing rain till 6 pm. Heavy rain in parts of North and East Central parts of the state has been predicted for tomorrow as well. However, rain is likely to subside from October 2. The met has not issued any heavy rain warning after tomorrow but the possibility of occasion interruption wit...Read More

Ahmedabad: Chief Minister Vijay Rupani inaugurated the grand Vibrant Navratri-2019 at a glittering function here this evening, as a socio-religious autumn festival with manifestation of Gujarat’s own folk dance form ‘Garba’ that goes through nine nights of musi...Read More

Haridwar (Uttarakhand): Pilgrim town Haridwar has presence of estimatedly 250 Non Resident Gujarati families, mainly in the areas of Sidkul, Shantikunj, Haripurkala and Sasara Road. Cultural garba event is organized here for last 14 years. This year, Navratri Garba event will begin from September 29 at Devpura chowk. Navratri event includes Ma Shakti's aarti, puja, Garba, Dandiya and Gujarati prashad distribution. The event is led by Haridwar Gujju Group president Rajeshbhai Pathak in cooper...Read More

New York: Rain played spoilsport even in Garba event organized in America, however the spirit of Garba playing Gujaratis won over rain. Pictures here are from New Britain Football Stadium in Connecticut near New York. Vadodara origin organizers Pinal Patel, Ketul Vyas, Luv Patel and Darshan Patel wanted to organize Garba event in America in Vadodara flavor. They had called singer Achal Mehta and orchestra to create Vadodara Navratri experience in the U.S. They had also made arrangements fo...Read More

Bharuch: Khelaiyas (participants in Garba dance of Gujarat during Navratri), eager to enjoy Navratri up to the hilt are doing whatever possible to stop rain from playing spoilsport to the most popular event of the state. Even as rain has forced many of the organizers to cancel Garba events due to water logging in the grounds and forecast of more spells of heavy rain during the first two days of Navratri beginning tomorrow, a group of people today performed havan to pacify the rain-god....Read More