Zakia Jafri, wife of 2002 post-Godhra riots victim Ehsan Jafri, is likely to file a protest petition in a trial court Ahmedabad today against the SIT's closure report giving clean chit to Gujarat chief ministerNarendra Modi and others in the Gulberg Society massacre case in Ahmedabad.
Twelve people, including three women and as many children, were killed when a luxury bus was hit by a truck coming from the opposite direction near Kosamba in Surat district, police said.

Narendra Modi may be on a campaign selling his model of governance but Gujarat is reeling under severe drought that has left Saurashtra and Kutch regions parched and people battling odds to get even a pot of drinking water.

Dismissing the talk of next general elections becoming a contest between personalities, possibly involving Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and Congress VP Rahul Gandhi, Union minister Jairam Ramesh today said polls were not 'a beauty contest'.
A three-member high-powered committee which probed a failed jail break bid in Sabarmati Central Jail by digging a tunnel, submitted its report to the Gujarat Home Department today, a top official said.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Thursday slammed Congress and its vice president Rahul Gandhi, while calling Narendra Modi the only "trustworthy" leader in the country.
Over 50 air passengers had a narrow escape when the wheel of a Mumbai-bound Air India aircraft in which they were travelling caught fire while taking off, sources at Rajkot airport said.

While Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is busy selling his development model across the country, at home, thousands are walking miles under the scorching sun to get water to drink.
Mahesh Langa reports
.Making a pitch for women’s empowerment before an audience of women entrepreneurs today, Narendra Modi tacitly employed some Hindutva themes and voiced social conservatism in an otherwise largely business-oriented speech.
BJP president Rajnath Singh today described Narendra Modi as the "most popular" leader and said his party has decided to leave it to the people to give befitting reply to Congress for comparing the Gujarat chief minister to `Yamaraj'.
The special CBI court in Ahmedabad today remanded suspended Gujarat police officer Narendra Amin to a six-day (till April 12) CBI custody in the fake encounter killing of college student Ishrat Jahan case.
Suspended Gujarat police officer NK Amin, arrested by CBI in the alleged fake encounter of Mumbai girl Ishrat Jahan and three others near Ahmedabad in 2004, told a court today that he was tortured by the investigation agency.
Saying that we must take care of our planet, Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams on Friday said it was only in the space shuttle that she realised how beautiful the Earth was.
CBI today arrested another officer of Gujarat police in connection with the 2004 alleged fake encounter of 19-year-old college girl Ishrat Jahan and three others, officials of the agency said.