Correspondent of BBC News Gujarati. Ex Assistant editor @IndianExpress @dna @sandeshnews. Retweets are for information
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Apr 13
India accounts for 38% of global dates imports despite having date palm orchards in 22000 hectares. Every date produced in these orchards is consumed as fresh dates (kharek) & that crop also faces threats of rains. A farmer of Kutch has found solutions bbc.com/gujarati/articles/ck…
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Feb 17
વાવેતર વિસ્તારમાં ઘટાડો, રોગચાળાની ફરિયાદો વચ્ચે ગુજરાતમાં જીરાની નવી સીઝનની શરુઆતે જ જીરાના બજાર ભાવ ધટવા લાગ્યા છે. તેના શું કારણ છે, ખેડૂતોને આ વર્ષે કેવા ભાવ મળી શકે છે તે જાણવા વાંચો આ અહેવાલ @bbcnewsgujarati bbc.com/gujarati/articles/cq…
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A plant is swallowing up Gujarat's wetlands, threatening the rich biodiversity and birdlife of the state. Is there any cure? I explore in this article via @bbcnewsgujarati bbc.com/gujarati/articles/cw…
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28 Dec 2025
Quite unbelievable but a flock of more than 50 bar-headed goose landed on an open farm in my village in northern part of Rajkot district in the dying light of Dec 28, 2025. They've not been seen in these parts of the district.After a stopover of some 20 mins, they took off again
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26 Dec 2025
Market prices & yields of onion have been volatile of late.This season, onion is selling at Rs3-5 per kg in Gujarat's APMCs &many farmers have ploughed their crop back into soil instead of harvesting it. And yet,they keep growing onions.Why?Read my article bbc.com/gujarati/articles/cw…
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24 Dec 2025
What does Indian Supreme Court's judgement in a public interest litigation seeking restriction of solar-wind parks and powerlines in habitats of the critically endangered Great Indian Bustards mean? Why petitioners are concerned despite favourable ruling? bbc.com/gujarati/articles/cv…
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16 Dec 2025
Who are the Baluch people of Junagadh protesting against #DhurandharMovie? How did this community migrate from present-day Pakistan and settled in Junagadh? What are they protesting against? Read details in my ground report from Junagadh @bbcnewsgujarati bbc.com/gujarati/articles/cz…
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5 Dec 2025
At least 25 demoiselle cranes, the migratory birds that come from north and central Asia to Gujarat, found dead in Morbi district. Is it poaching bid or inadvertent poaching? Read details in this story @bbcnewsgujarati
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4 Dec 2025
A nurse at a clinic at Tata Power, Mundra,Kutch, &his wife had plans to celebrate their 2nd marriage anniversary in Mumbai on Apr22,2025. But wife died on Apr5 during an allegedly botched surgery. Now doctor has been booked by police. What went wrong? bbc.com/gujarati/articles/c5…
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3 Dec 2025
Even as work continues on a warfooting at Khavda Hybrid Renewable Energy Park,Kutch farmers are protesting against a transmission line being constructed to evacuate 7000MW of the 30000MW power to be generated at Khavda. Watch @bbcnewsgujarati ground report facebook.com/reel/1765448310…
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3 Dec 2025
કચ્છના પશ્ચિમમાં ખાવડા હાઈબ્રીડ રિન્યુએબલ એનર્જીપાર્કનું નિર્માણ યુદ્ધના ધોરણે ચાલું છે તો બીજી તરફ આ પાર્કમાં ઉત્પન્ન થનાર30000મેગાવોટ વીજળીમાંથી7000 મેગાવોટનું વહન કરવા ઊભી કરાઇ રહેલ વીજલાઈનનો ખેડૂતો વિરોધ કરીરહ્યા છે.જુઓ ગ્રાઉન્ડરિપોર્ટ @bbcnewsgujarati facebook.com/reel/1765448310…
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2 Dec 2025
In Gujarat, a video showing a herd of spotted deer scavenging in garbage dump littered with plastic bags on the outskirts of Junagadh has gone viral. What happened afterwards? To know details, read this story @bbcnewsgujarati bbc.com/gujarati/articles/cz…
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30 Nov 2025
Farmers of 2 villages in Kutch have been protesting against a power transmission line being constructed to evacuate power from Khavda Hybrid Renewable Energy Park, touted to be the largest of its kind in the world. Why? Read in this report @bbcnewsgujarati
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17 Nov 2025
ગુજરાત સહીત ચાર રાજ્યોમાં ફેલાયેલ સાઇબર ગુનોગારોએ કથિત રીતે હોસ્પિટલો,બેડરૂમ,ઓફિસો,જાહેર સ્થળો વગેરેના હજારો સીસીટીવી કેમરા કઈ રીતે હેક કર્યા?અમદાવાદ સાઇબર ક્રાઇમ પોલીસે નોંધેલ કેસ ક્યાં પહોંચ્યો છે?વાંચો @BBCWorld (ગુગલટ્રાન્સલેટથી ગુજરાતીમાંભાષાંતર થઇજશે)bbc.com/news/articles/cqjw2x…
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17 Nov 2025
CCTV cameras a boon or bane? How a group of individuals hacked into CCTV surveillance systems of maternity home, bedrooms, public places across India & streamed the footage live as sexually explicit content for a fee? Read details in our report @BBCWorld bbc.com/news/articles/cqjw2x…
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13 Nov 2025
નીચા બજારભાવના દિવસોમાં ગુજરાતમાં સરકારે ટેકાના ભાવે ખેડૂતો પાસેથી મગફળી ખરીદવાનું ચાલુ કરી દીધું છે ત્યારે ખેડૂતોને મૂંઝવતો પ્રશ્ન છે-માવઠામાં પલળી ગયેલ મગફળી સરકાર ખરીદશે? જવાબ છે હા,પરંતુ અમુક શરતોને આધીન.આ શરતો કઈ છે? જાણો મારા આ લેખમાં@bbcnewsgujarati bbc.com/gujarati/articles/c5…
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13 Nov 2025
As government starts procurement of groundnut at MSP in Gujarat, the biggest worry among farmers is whether govt will accept groundnut damaged by unseasonal rains late October. How much damage will be acceptable? I explain in this piece @bbcnewsgujarati bbc.com/gujarati/articles/c5…
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30 Oct 2025
With unseasonal rains lashing Gujarat since Oct 24 reportedly causing large-scale damage to groundnut&cotton crops,the biggest worry for farmers is the loss of groundnut stems,which,they say,was fodder for their livestock for entire year. youtu.be/NwjSjh4_L6c?si=cuYN… @bbcnewsgujarati
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30 Oct 2025
24 ઓક્ટોબરથી વરસી રહેલ કમોસમી વરસાદથી સૌરાષ્ટ્રમાં મગફળી અને કપાસના પાકોને વ્યાપક નુકશાનના સમાચાર વચ્ચે ખેડૂતો કહે છે કે મગફળીનો પાલો પલાળી જતા તેમણે પશુ માટેનો આખા વર્ષનો ચારો ગુમાવ્યો છે. જુઓ રાજકોટ-અમરેલીથી અમારા આ અહેવાલમાં @bbcnewsgujarati
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