Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ramdevbhai Samatbhai Sanjva Vs State of Gujarat & Others dated 09/05/2025. The matter related to remedial actions to be taken for abatement of pollution of river Bhadar near Ahmedabad. Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has filed the response affidavit, March …
Ahmedabad: How noisy do we get when on our roads? A recent study by two engineering institutes showed how blaring horns break all sound limits set by law. Students of civil engineering department of Gujarat Technological University (GTU) had analysed noise levels in three major junctions of the city — …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sushant Tripathy, General Secretary, Dashin Gujarat Kamdar Parisad Vs Ambaji Dyeing & Printing Mills dated 19/11/2018 regarding Ambaji Dyeing & Printing Mills in Surat, Gujarat creating pollution through boiler and coal. Dirty polluted water is flowing in the slum areas. …
AHMEDABAD: Swine flu killed two more people on Monday in Gujarat, taking the death toll to 63 this year. Beginning September, the state government has recorded a spike in swine flu cases and the mortality rate has been high. Till October 22, according to the National Centre for Disease Control …
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is often thought of as the inspiration for the Sardar Sarovar dam which faced a lot of environmental and humanitarian protests India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today inaugurate the world’s largest statue, the Statue of Unity in Gujarat. At 182m tall (240m including the base), it …
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued notice to the central and state pollution control boards in response to a PIL complaining about pollution in the Morbi-Wankaner ceramic industrial cluster in Saurashtra. The petitioner, advocate K R Koshti, sought HC directions to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and …
AHMEDABAD: Even as the Gujarat government continues to maintain a studied silence on the status of Zika virus infection in Amraiwadi area, the state health department’s own surveillance notes suggest that some “10 pregnant women with symptoms consistent with Zika virus disease or fever” were zeroed in within “0 to …
AHMEDABAD: Our dependence on vehicles to travel even short distances leads to injecting of approximately 1,500 tons of carbon dioxide daily — or 1 ton every minute — into our respirable air! Our collective carbon footprint is the highest among tier-2 Indian cities and we share this honour with Pune. …
AHMEDABAD: The daily congestion on city roads and longer commuting hours for the city is thanks to ever-growing vehicular population — increasing by about 10% annually. Can a stronger public transport system be an answer? A report by New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment titled ‘The Urban Commute: And …
After Swine Flu fear, it's the dengue fever that has kick-started with whopping numbers. There are 110 cases in just a week. Interestingly, eight doctors at Civil Hospital Asarva and three doctors at VS Hospital have been diagnosed with dengue. In a weekly health bulletin issued by the health department …
The city reported 23 new fresh cases of swine flu on Sunday, taking total this year to 607 cases. Ahmedabad has also reported 28 swine flu deaths, of which 19 have occurred in the months of September and October. Figures released by the AMC and the state government have a …
AHMEDABAD: Jayesh Prajapati (name changed), 24, had been to a private hospital in Odhav after he was diagnosed with primary symptoms for flu. His family members said that there was no space for him in the ward due to which he was kept in a mixed ward - exposing him …
Vadodara: While concerns were being raised regarding dengue cases, more chikungunya cases have started surfacing since about a week now in the city. The number of chikungunya cases reported in the city has already crossed the 200-mark and is consistently increasing. The consistently increasing number has led to concern among …
The city on Tuesday recorded 26 new cases of Swine Flu, the highest to be recorded for a day in 2018. All the cases were recorded within the Ahmedabad Corporation limits. With this, the total number of swine flu cases within AMC limits has touched 348 for this month alone …
A study was conducted to identify the new invasive pest infesting maize in Gujarat, India. During the survey conducted in the month of September 2018, sweet corn field in the Anklav village of Anand district found infested with new invasive pest. Larvae were collected and brought to the laboratory of …
AHMEDABAD: Back in March 2016, the Unicef Rapid Survey on Children covering India had warned Gujarat that around 10.1% children in the state were grossly underweight and 41.6% showed stunted growth. In August 2017, the National Family Health Survey said that among children under the age of 5 in Gujarat, …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat is once again witnessing an alarming surge in the number of swine flu cases — an average 200 patients are waging a morbid fight with the viral fever admitted in hospitals spread across Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar and other districts. State has recorded 408 swine flu …
Rajkot: The reason for deaths of 11 lions in just eight days in Dalkhaniya Range of Gir (east) still remains a mystery. A day after forests minister Ganpat Vasava categorically stated that only three of the 11 lions found dead in Dalkhaniya Range of Gir (east) had died due to …
Ahmedabad: Over the last one and a half year doctors across major cities in Gujarat have been advising patients suffering from chikungunya and dengue to be careful of the after effects of the disease that affect the skin. Recently, doctors from VS hospital in Ahmedabad and PDU Medical College, Rajkot …
A year after the Gujarat government declared that the state has become open defecation-free (ODF), the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in its latest report has dismissed the claim, saying “it does not appear to be correct”. The CAG report, which was tabled in the state Assembly during …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat has equalled the record of fetching the lowest tariff for solar power in India. The reverse e-auction carried out on Monday by Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) for 500 MW solar power capacity saw two power developers quoting a tariff of Rs 2.44 per unit. This lowest …
