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 …
Gandhinagar: The 2010 census has found 74 lions in the revenue areas of Amreli, Bhavnagar and Junagadh. Forest department officials said that the figure could have gone up to about 85-90 as those in the revenue area around Sasan were included in the count for Gir National Park. They said …
It has to ensure that the check dam water is not polluted by the cement plant AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court on Monday permitted the Nirma group to go ahead with the construction of its proposed cement plant at Mahuva near Bhavnagar in the Saurashtra region, but laid down a …
Allows Company To Build The Cement Plant While Protecting The Reservoir TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ahmedabad: In a huge relief for Nirma Ltd, Gujarat High Court on Monday gave a green signal to the company for construction of its cement plant in Mahuva in Bhavnagar district on certain conditions. This has …
AUTO major General Motors is working towards developing frost tolerant varieties of jatropha for the US market. Having successfully tested bio-diesel made out of jatropha in India, GM has entered into a five-year partnership with Bhavnagar-based Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI) and the US Department of Energy …
A charred body found at spot Rajkot: The fire that blazed at Alang ship breaking yard in Bhavnagar district on Thursday took its toll with one person succumbing to his burns and a charred body being found from the spot. Alang police station officials confirmed the death of two people. …
ASHME SEHGAL Six workers were April 1: Six workers were killed in a major fire caused by an oil spill in the sea waters of Alang beach. The oil spill is reported to have been caused by a leak in a ship called Shantamani Enterprise which is docked on the …
Ahmedabad: To pacify agitating farmers in Mahuva against its cement plant, the Nirma Limited on Wednesday proposed before the Gujarat High Court that the company is ready to release 46 hectares of land for deepening catchment area of the reservoir. The petitioners, who are opposing setting up of cement plant …
Farmers of 15 villages in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat, went on relay fast from March 2 protesting land allotment to detergent manufacturer, Nirma, for a cement plant and a limestone mine near Mahuva
Is Mahyco-Monsanto trying to push its products too fast in the market? Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (MMB), a joint venture between Monsanto and Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds (Mahyco), issued a release on 5 March stating that its first generation Bt cotton known as Bollgard, was no longer resistant to an evolving pest (the …
The Gujarat high court on Tuesday ordered a stay on all construction activities at the Nirma Ltd's upcoming cement plant in Mahuva Taluka of Bhavnagar district while hearing a petition by farmers opposing it. A division bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Akil Kureshi further ordered that the …
SRIDHAR KUMARASWAMI India proposes to establish five nuclear "energy parks" in its coastal states and is in talks with the United States, France and Russia for technical collaboration, the chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission, Mr Srikumar Banerjee, said on Monday in Paris. The chairman and managing director of the …
In a setback for genetically engineered cotton, Monsanto, innovator of the strain, confirmed what sceptics had said might well happen, that the pests it was supposed to resist better than natural cotton would also innovate. The company confirmed today that the pink bollworm, the damaging pest against which the genetically …
Priscilla Jebaraj Firm asks farmers to switch to its second-generation product to delay resistance further Pink bollworm resistant to pest-killing protein of Bt cotton in four districts Monsanto's advice ridiculous, say scientists NEW DELHI: For the first time anywhere in the world, biotech agriculture giant Monsanto has admitted that insects …
Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN Wildlife lovers have a reason to cheer. For, a recent population count of blackbucks in Velavadar Black Buck National Park(BBNP) has reported a 10 per cent increase in its number, which was once down to as low as 200 in the region. The population estimation of …
Letter to Governor of Gujarat against Advocate General of the State of Gujarat for his continuous professional misconduct and immoral and unethical practices, including his relationship with Nirma Ltd.
Letter to MOEF by villagers against grant of environmental clearance to Cement Plant (Cement Plant 1.91 MTPA: 1.50 Clinkar), Coke Oven Plant (1.5 LTPA) and Captive Power Plant (50 MW) of M/s. Nirma Ltd, near Village Padhiyarka, Taluka Mahuva, District Bhavnagar, Gujarat.
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: The first lion census after the poaching incidents of 2007, will be held in the peak of summer in April this year and for the first time will cover at least four districts, the area estimated as the lion spread since the last census of …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Sasan (Gir): With the lion census due this year, the forest department in coordination with the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) will study the corridor movement of the lions. Earlier, the big cats were confined to the areas in and around Sasan and Dhari only, but …
