Yagnesh Bharat Mehta

Senior Assistant Editor, TOI

Yagnesh Mehta is a Senior Assistant Editor with The Times of India, based in Surat, where he primarily covers business, civic affairs and politics. With an experience spanning more than two decades, ...

Yagnesh Mehta is a Senior Assistant Editor with The Times of India, based in Surat, where he primarily covers business, civic affairs and politics. With an experience spanning more than two decades, he has reported extensively on migration, rural and tribal life, crime and the courts. He is passionate about data-driven journalism, particularly in analysing trends in the global diamond trade.

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Stories by the author

• Indian students being ‘forced’ to download banned Chinese apps

  
  21 Jul 2021 02:18 PM IST
• 5,000 Patels queue up for 42 Oriya brides in Gujarat

  
  11 Oct 2015 10:15 AM IST
• Olive Ridley Turtle rescued and rehabilitated in sea in Surat

  
  09 Jul 2015 01:03 PM IST
• Leopard found dead, another caged in south Gujarat

  
  08 Mar 2015 09:07 PM IST
• PM Narendra Modi upset, VHP puts ‘ghar wapsi’ events on hold

  
  22 Dec 2014 08:27 AM IST
• VHP holds ‘ghar wapsi’ for 500 tribal Christians

  
  21 Dec 2014 11:54 AM IST
• Vapi teen is world’s new mental math champion

  
  17 Oct 2014 11:58 AM IST
• Surat becomes first city in India with full real-time surveillance network

  
  11 Jun 2014 12:35 PM IST
• Narayan Sai works his charm on jail inmates

  
  05 Jan 2014 03:46 PM IST
• Another dolphin found dead near Surat in 3 months

  
  31 May 2013 05:24 AM IST
• Surat: Dolphin found dead in Tapi river

  
  03 Mar 2013 10:20 PM IST
• After skullcap, Narendra Modi refuses keffiyeh - a traditional Arab head-dress

  
  21 Oct 2011 09:08 AM IST
• In Gujarat, booze replaces spirit of Dandi march

  
  01 Aug 2011 10:20 AM IST
• In Gujarat, booze replaces spirit of Dandi march

  
  01 Aug 2011 06:46 AM IST
• Clerics must explain fatwas: Deoband chief

  
  20 Jan 2011 05:18 AM IST
• New Deoband chief lauds Modi's Gujarat

  
  19 Jan 2011 05:27 AM IST
• Deoband head has MBA, is pro-modern education

  
  18 Jan 2011 05:17 AM IST
• IIM-A grad launches subzi mandi on laptop

  
  30 Oct 2009 02:11 PM IST
• IIM-A grad launches subzi mandi on laptop

  
  30 Oct 2009 01:14 PM IST
• Race attack deals crushing blow to IT dream

  
  31 May 2009 05:27 AM IST
• Did Gujarati fishermen aid Mumbai strike?

  
  02 Dec 2008 09:01 AM IST
• Budding engineers want Nano to drive their career

  
  07 Oct 2008 01:36 PM IST
• Diamond industry faces heat as South Africa plans to restrict export

  
  02 Jan 2008 01:31 PM IST