Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Malaria, a disease of antiquity, has proved to be a formidable deterrent to the cultural and socioeconomic progress of man in tropical, subtropical and monsoon prone zones if world. The aim of the study was to highlight that the incidence of malaria is static throughout the year in India.
Plastic waste generation is no longer a problem confined to metro cities. Even tier two cities like Indore and Bhopal are generating mounds of plastic in industrial, residential and even slum areas. This is a rather common sight in Indore. As a result, the city has achieved the distinction of …
AHMEDABAD: Seemingly unimpressed with the state government's measures to curb swine flu menace, justice A S Dave of Gujarat high court on Tuesday commented, "Everything is perfect on paper, the difficulty comes at the time of implementation." In response to various queries posed by the high court to meet the …
Citizens Must Not Lower Guard Yet, Maintain Caution: Experts Ahmedabad: The death toll due to swine flu in the state reached a staggering 180 on Tuesday, with the maximum casualties recorded in Rajkot, Ahmedabad, Kutch, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar. Officials claimed the deaths and number of swineflucaseshave gradually gone down in …
Probe panel hears cases of 27 mines The Justice MB Shah commission enquiring into illegal mining issues in Odisha on Wednesday will hear on violation of Rule-37 of Mineral Concession Rules (MCR)-1960, an exercise that remained incomplete in its last hearing. The probe panel on Tuesday heard cases of 27 …
Rajkot: A number of eligible bachelors in the drought-struck Dedan village near Amreli are ruing their luck. The acute water crisis here has cast a dark cloud over their chances of getting married. Parents of many brides-to-be have broken off their daughters’ engagement with at least four young men in …
Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA)- Ahmedabad, an arm of union ministry of petroleum & natural gas (MoPNG) will sensitize industries about the energy efficiency and climate change across industrial clusters in Gujarat. Under the objective of the National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency, the ministry of power has made it …
New Delhi: Union agriculture ministry has declared 17 districts of Gujarat consisting 132 talukas as drought-affected. In a reply to Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani, union minister of water resources Harish Ravat stated that the districts include Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Amreli, Anand, Banaskantha, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Kheda, Kutch, Mehsana, Patan, …
The Union Government has declared 17 districts in Gujarat as drought-affected, Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani has said. These districts are Vadodara, Bharuch, Anand, Kheda, Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Amreli, Banashkantha, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Kutchh, Mehsana, Patan, Porbandar, Rajkot and Surendranagar, Nathwani said in a statement issued here quoting Harish Ravat, Union …
Honda may soon follow erstwhile JV partner Hero MotoCorp into Gujarat, with plans to set up its fourth two-wheeler plant in the state, sources told FE. The Japanese company is believed to have scouted for land near Sanand, where both Tata Motors and Ford have set up their manufacturing units. …
Ahmedabad: The widening work on an important stretch of the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar highway (NH 8-C), which connects the western part of Ahmedabad to the state capital, has finally taken off after a delay of over six months. The Rs 55-crore project has, however, hit a roadblock with the compound wall and …
NEW DELHI: Diabetes and hypertension, traditionally seen as a rich man's disease, has made its way to the slums. Health ministry's fresh data shows one out of every four persons living in the urban slums of Chennai suffer from diabetes — which is three times higher than the national average …
Ahmedabad: Ram Singh Ranawat, 40, a resident of Gordhannagar near Narol, and his 19-year-old son bid final farewells to their family members on Thursday evening. Earlier in the day, Ranawat’s wife Sugan, 38, and their two teenaged sons — Sharvan, 17 and Surendra, 14 were asphixiated by a mysterious gas …
Delhi-Ludhiana expressway talks begin, states express in-principle approval With the Prime Minister’s Office stepping in to resolve the row between the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) over forest clearances to highway projects, the former has communicated the ball is now in …
Stepping in to resolve the row between the National Highways Authority of India and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) over forest clearance to linear projects, the Prime Minister’s Office Tuesday worked out a formula to end the embarrassing stand-off between two arms of the central government. A meeting …
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court on Thursday directed the Centre to file an affidavit in a week’s time explaining why the court should not take punitive action against responsible persons for noncompliance of its order to supply CNG to Ahmedabad at a rate supplied to Mumbai and Delhi. On July …
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) may black list GMR Infrastructure from bidding for highways projects on the grounds that the company allegedly terminated a contract unilaterally without giving a mandatory 90-day notice period to the highways authority. “A concession agreement was signed between NHAI and GMR. It was …
The decision by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to move the Supreme Court seeking exemption for delinking environment and forest approvals for road projects had the approval of the Prime Ministers Office (PMO), it has emerged. Government sources in the know say that the PMO’s approval came in …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court sought an explanation from AMC, the Centre and Gujarat Pollution Control Board on the sale of plastic bags in malls and supermarkets. This is regarding a PIL questioning the malls charging for plastic bags. The petitioner, Consumer Education Research Society ( CERS), questioning the way malls …
Chief minister Narendra Modi's Rs 10,000 crore Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI) scheme for water-starved Saurashtra is facing serious challenge from BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh (MP). In September, Modi had announced this scheme, which envisages filling up 115 dams of seven districts, with surplus water from Narmada. However, MP, which is …
