| 31: A G Kalmankar takes over as managing director of State Bank of Saurashtra |
| FEBRUARY: 3: Centre asks the state co-operation department to extend the ambit of the Securitisation Act to co-operative banks in Gujarat |
| 4: Government of Gujarat cuts Rs 1600 crore in various development schemes because of a cash crisis |
| 10: Hitachi Home and Life Solutions announces its decision to go in for a rights issue of Rs 27.3 crore |
| 19: Squall plays havoc in Gujarat. Crops worth crores of rupees damaged, many people and cattle die |
| 19: A senior SEBI team initiates enquiry into alleged irregularities at the Saurashtra-Kutch Stock Exchange in Rajkot |
| 20: Karamsad Urban Co-operative Bank and Co-Operative Bank of Umreth plunge into a liquidity crisis. The banks are withdrawn from clearing houses |
| 21: Hutch and Idea, the cellular operators in Gujarat, announce free incoming calls |
| MARCH: 3: NDDB signs an agreement with the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad for development of vaccines |
| 12: Zydus Cadila Healthcare shareholders approve the amalgamation with Recon, Zydus Pathline and Zoom Properties |
| 26: Haren Pandya, former Gujarat revenue minister shot dead in Ahmedabad. |
| 27: SEBI supersedes the board of the Ahmedabad Stock Exchange. An administrator is appointed |
| APRIL 3: Essar Construction bags the order for a Rs 198-crore gas pipeline project from Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation |
| 12: Panic withdrawal of deposits from ICICI Bank branches across the state |
| 16: Transport strike sends prices of fruits, vegetables soaring ""pharmaceutical supplies badly hit in the state |
| 21: Violence hits Gandhidham as fights break out between salt manufacturers and transporters. Police opens fire |
| 23: Eight urban co-operative banks turn weak due to no-repayment of loans by farmers |
| MAY 2: Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI), Gandhinagar, appointed the nodal agency to promote food processing ventures |
| 5: Cadila Pharmaceuticals forays into asthma segment, launches new drugs |
| 11: Panchmahals District Co-operative Bank suspended from the clearing house |
| JUNE: 3: NDDB snatches the rights for marketing Dhara edible oil from the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF). A cold war begins between the two organisations |
| 13: JB Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals enters into a strategic alliance with the Arrow Group of Canada |
| JULY 3: Intas Pharmaceuticals forays into biotech product development |
| AUGUST 2: Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation ties up with a consortium of nationalised banks to raise Rs 300 crore. |
| 3: Blast rocks Surat city. 46 dead, diamond industry hit |
| 10: Two killed in bomb blast in Ahmedabad |
| 26: Vadodara-based Alembic Ltd decides to go for a rights issue |
| SEPTEMBER: 16: Torrent launches drugs for hypertension |
| 19: The first phase of Shell Hazira's multi-crore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project inaugurated in Hazira |
| 28: Global Investors' Summit, a mega event, gets underway in Ahmedabad |
| OCTOBER: 3: Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation ties up with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd for CNG distribution in Gujarat |
| 14: Blast at the nitrophosphate plant of Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers Ltd in Bharuch. Several workers killed, plant shut down. |
| 20: Gujarat plunges into milk crisis. NDDB seeks government nod to import skimmed milk powder (SMP) |
| NOVEMBER: 14: Billimora police arrests Sanjay Agarwal, CEO of Home Trade, for cheating co-operative banks in south Gujarat |
| 14: London-based Benson Overseas finalises a pact to takeover Baroda Rayon |
| 19: IIM-Ahmedabad's Confluence-2003, an annual international B-schools' meet, kicks off |
| 23: CBI informs IIM-A director about CAT paper leak. Examination cancelled |
| 25: The Indian Institutes of Managements announce that the CAT will be held on February 15, 2004 |
| 30: Sudhir Mehta, chairman of Torrent group, takes additional responsibility as chairman of Surat Electricity Company |
| DECEMBER: 10:The Gujarat Pollution Control Board issues closure order to Sachana ship-breaking yard in Jamnagar |
| 24: Gujarat High Court directs insurance companies to renew mediclaim policies on the existing terms and conditions |
| 29: Union Bank of India launches Union BillPay facility in Ahmedabad. |
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