240 chemical units flouting norms
Ahmedabad: The state government has admitted that 240 complaints of irregularities have been reported about chemical units in Ahmedabad city and district. The state government was replying to the question
Ahmedabad: The state government has admitted that 240 complaints of irregularities have been reported about chemical units in Ahmedabad city and district. The state government was replying to the question
Surat: Of the 145 endangered bird species in India, Gujarat is home to at least 35 of them. Thus it is important that researchers and ornithologists and people from all walks of life join hands in bird
On eve of World Cancer Day on Friday, there were a number of young men who were battling for life in hospitals because they could not kick the addiction of tobacco. In Ahmedabad as well as in Gujarat, spread of oral cancer is alarming. “Oral cancer accounts for 40 per cent cancers in men in the state. This is because of high addiction to gutkha,” said noted head and neck cancer surgeon of HCG Medisurge, Dr Kaustubh Patel.
More Than Half The Users Of Green Products Unhappy With Available Options: Survey Ahmedabad: Use of CFL and LED bulbs in households may generally be linked to increased awareness amongst citizens about
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
GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat's dream of becoming the 'gas gateway' to North India received strong financial backing worth Rs 4,500 crore from a dozen-odd nationalized banks on Monday, when state-sector company,
It Will Also Introduce Hand Held Ticketing Machines Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Services (AMTS) is going in for a makeover. No more a city bus service, the AMTS is being groomed to
Ahmedabad: City’s Kankaria Lakefront project will lend its design to the country’s oldest manmade lake in Bhopal. The Madhya Pradesh government has awarded Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (Cept) University the project of making a detailed concept plan for the lake. After studying the present scenario of the lake, experts at Cept University have planned to divide the 25 kilometer-long periphery of the lake into five zones including an ‘active recreational zone,’ which will resemble the revenue generating model of the Kankaria Lake.
Surat: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) chairman Dr KU Mistry said more development means more responsibilities for the industries, adding that growth at the cost of environment can’t take place. He said pollution level has to be monitored and accountability of the industries fixed. “We are not against industries, but they can’t grow at the cost of environment. Both must survive.” Mistry promised cooperation towards speedy approval for a new site for solid waste disposal and final effluent treatment plant for the chemical and textile industries of the city.
Ahmedabad: The recent poaching of lesser flamingos and cranes in Gujarat could well be the worst of its kind globally. Experts from different parts of the world, who have congregated at the second global
A HISTORY OF POLLUTION? Threaten To Leave If Expansion Ban Is Not Revoked Bharuch:Industrialists and officials of the Ankleshwar Industrial Association say the industrial belt is still listed among