Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Bench, Pune) in the matter of Pathan Fuzailkhan Ashif Khan Vs Gujarat Pollution Control Board & Others dated 07/03/2025. The issue raised in the application pertains to Eco Waste Management (EWM) not operating its facility and conducting its operations without waste treatment, which …
Bharuch: The leaking oil from a breach in an Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) pipeline at Adol village of Ankleshwar taluka in Bharuch district on Thursday morning caught fire, but there were no casualties, police said. ONGC fire tenders reached the spot and brought the fire, which was major, …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: You may have visited Kabir Vad on the bank of Narmada in Bharuch, but could you imagine the vad is over 500 years old? Rana Pratap Vad in Vijaynagar is also about 550 years old. It is believed that after losing the battle of Haldighati, …
Two days after Chief Minister Narendra Modi embarrassed UPA chief Sonia Gandhi over the 1984 Union Carbide leak incident, the BJP and Opposition Congress here engaged in a slanging match over US company Dow Chemicals
Yoginder K Alagh : Controversies around the Sardar Sarovar Project have continued for decades. So, when I recently wrote a piece on the project for FE (April 19), I expected to start a debate. But being a lone ranger and a 71-year-young researcher working at home with a pencil, I …
DEEPAL TRIVEDI GANDHINAGAR JD(U) Gujarat unit chief and MLA from Jhagadia (south Gujarat) Chhotu Vasava has been charged with encroaching on 800 acres of land in Bharuch district given to people affected by the Narmada project, government officials have confirmed. The Bharuch district authorities, in a report to the state …
Gandhinagar, 21 March: Janata Dal(U) Gujarat unit chief Mr Chhotubhai Vasava has been charged with encroaching on 800 acres of land, given to the Narmada project affected people, in Bharuch district, government officials said. The Bharuch district authorities, in a report to the state authorities, have held that the land …
Gandhinagar: The World Bank (WB) has agreed to enhance total funds to be made available for development and modernization of urban infrastructure in selected towns from $162.5 million to a maximum of $300 million. WB is seeking to aid non-Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (non-JNNURM) cities, even as insisting …
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: An authoritative report put out by the Gujarat government has expressed serious concern over failure of the officialdom to fight increasing salinity ingress along the state
Harish Joshi | TNN Bharuch: The Bharuch Enviro Infrastructure Limited (BEIL) management on Wednesday said no solid waste from Bhopal will be incinerated in their facility at Bharuch. It stated in an official release,
Harish Joshi & Yogesh Pareek | TNN Bharuch: Setting traps for rare birds is turning out to be good business for poachers with customers lining up for the birds' meat every week in Hansot area of Bharuch district. While officials concerned are so far not aware of this, illegal trade …
With the second round of showers starting in almost all the districts of south Gujarat, the hope of crop revival has been rekindled. Farmer community across Valsad, Navsari, Surat, Bharuch and Narmada districts of the region are happy that their crops of paddy and sugarcane will get a new lease …
Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd on Tuesday inaugurated a water purification plant at Kadodara village near Dahej in Bharuch district of Gujarat, providing almost 3,000 people with a long-term sustainable clean drinking water solution. The inauguration is the fourth plant under Dow India
GANDHINAGAR: The plan to create a massive sweet water reservoir in the sea, by cutting off the Gulf of Khambhat by a massive dam, has been scaled down to increase its viability. The re-designed Kalpsar project will involve shifting the massive dam 15 km northwards. The decision to redesign the …
The factory inspector of the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation in Ankleshwar has filed 13 cases against beil under the Factories Act, 1948. One was filed before the fire regarding the tsdf having seven sheds while it had the permission for only six. Nobody knows why the inspector did not talk …
India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough?India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough? A fire at Ankleshwar forced India to rethink how it handles hazardous waste. Drums carrying dangerous industrial sludge flew amid leaping flames and …
groundwater in Ankleshwar Industrial Estate in Bharuch district in Gujarat is highly contaminated. The contamination is a result of more than 3,000 industrial units in the estate: around 270 million litres of liquid waste and 50,000 tonnes of solid waste is generated annually. This often becomes a problem for people …
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