Watering holes: Lion's share for king
While the state's 523 lions have been provided around 500 cement-concrete watering troughs, the 5,000-odd blackbuck in and around Velavadar and the 4,451 wild asses in the Little Rann of Kutch (LRK) have
Rann Of Kutch
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Haryana law amended to allow farmers to keep possession of land
While amending the law to allow continued possession of farm land to about 3700 farmers who faced eviction, the Haryana Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution appealing to the Gujarat Government
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BSF proposal to divert Kutch forest land faces flak
A BSF proposal to divert forest land in wildlife sanctuaries in areas bordering Pakistan is facing stiff resistance from conservationists who feel that road construction in the protected site will destroy
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The search for a nuclear umbrella
Having decided against a nuclear bomb, Shastri embarked on a quest for nuclear guarantees from the US and the Soviet Union. HAVING stemmed the tide of popular demand for going nuclear to meet the Chinese
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Asia's largest solar park functional in Gujarat
A 600 MW solar power park, touted as Asia's first and largest, was on Thursday dedicated to the nation by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the state's Patan district, in a boost to India's efforts towards low carbon growth. The solar power park with a power generation capacity of 600 MW, covering approximately 3,000 acres of wasteland bordering the Rann of Kutch, will generate two-thirds of India's total 900 MW of solar power production.
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Narmada canal’s Kutch branch hits environmental roadblock
Gandhinagar: The Narmada canal’s movement towards Kutch has suddenly hit an environmental roadblock. Already under construction, the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL), which is Narmada project’s
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Poachers flock again to Little Rann, trap flamingos
Birds Continue To Fall Prey Despite Arrest Of 9 Men Ahmedabad: The forest department claimed to have cracked the case of the poaching of 64 lesser flamingos in Venasar village in the Little Rann of Kutch when its officials arrested nine people on January 4. They had even recovered the nets used to trap the birds, after TOI had reported the massacre.
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New Year party animals feasted on flamingo meat
Ahmedabad: The dead flamingos found in Venasar village were not the work of some desperately poor man’s attempt to feed his family. Given the fact that such a large number of birds were killed just before
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Barbecue SOS : Govt Officials Rush to Flamingo Graveyard in Kutch
Ahmedabad: Winged visitors from Siberia, the Greater Flamingos, will get warning signals in form of reflectors while flying at night through hightension power transmission lines in the Khadir region of
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Night flying costs flamingos their lives
AHMEDABAD: For some winged visitors a journey of over 2,000 km from Siberia comes to a deadly end just when they swoop in to land in the shallow waters of Kutch. Electric wires char their feathers and