Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
Signs MoU with the State in the presence of Narendra Modi After Tata Motors, American multi-nation company Ford Motors will set up a car manufacturing unit at Sanand near here at a cost of about Rs.4,000 crore. To be set up on 460 acres next to the Tatas' Nano plant, …
AHMEDABAD: If Ahmedabad has problems maintaining its trees, here is what it can learn from Gandhinagar city to save them. Hundreds of newly-planted saplings on some of the main roads of Gandhinagar are being nurtured by gravity based drip irrigation method. The forest department has selected a kilometer stretch between …
AHMEDABAD: The way is now being paved for the much awaited Rs 12,000 crore Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro project. The Gujarat Urban Development Corporation (GUDC) has directed the civic and urban development bodies of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar not to clear any new projects in the 150 meter radius along the Metro route …
Mahuva (Bhavnagar): As their pleas have gone unheard even after nearly two-and-a-half years, around 5,000 farmers protesting against the proposed cement plant by Nirma will march to Gandhinagar on March 3. Mahuva BJP MLA Kanu Kalsaria, who has been spearheading the agitation, says that farmers from the villages to be …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: If you have spent hours in front of National Geographic channel admiring wild animals living free in the most beautiful jungles around the world, here is your chance to get a small peek into that experience a stone
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: It was a PIL that freed Gandhinagar from the clutches of the babus in September last year. The Gujarat government displayed a haste and declared Gandhinagar a municipal corporation on May 1
Gandhinagar Turned Out Differently From What Was Conceived, But Not For The Better Paul John | TNN Very few people know that chief architect of Gandhinagar HK Mewada, and Prakash Apte, another town planner who assisted him, had first placed an abstract Gandhi memorial on banks of the Sabarmati. Drawing …
Paul John & Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: A paradigm shift has taken place in the latest Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro rail plans. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has submitted a detailed project report (DPR) to the state government which now wants a portion of the Thaltej- Kalupur metro line in …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: The metro rail project between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar has been put on the fast track with Gujarat Urban Development Corporation (GUDC) finally giving the go-ahead for appointing a managing director for Metro-link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA), the special purpose vehicle that would implement …
Paul John & Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: For once, the urban development department is talking of a unified metropolitan transport authority for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad. Principal secretary Gauri Kumar has conducted meetings to discuss the proposition. Officers of Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority and Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (Auda) who …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Gandhinagar: The state capital which is the highest per capita water consumer among 20 major cities of the country will now have to conserve rain water. The government, in the new master plan which is being prepared for Gandhinagar, has decided that it will be mandatory …
Manas Dasgupta GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged the Centre to provide necessary funds for the development of the State
AHMEDABAD: Imagine travelling by the Sabarmati riverfront in metro rail. This was to be a reality when the ambitious metro project was drawn up. It is not just the Vishala-Akshardham route and the Thaltej-Kalupur corridor that the project was all about. In fact, it had a second phase, which aimed …
Rajiv Shah ITNN Gandhlnagar: Despite claims that land acquisition for development is a smooth affair in Gujarat, a top-level policy document has described it as a major problem for developing infrastructure projects across the state and that opposition to the process has increased considerably. Prepared by Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board …
AHMEDABAD: Four years after Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) submitted its feasibility report on Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro in June 2005, there seems to be a renewed buzz in the state urban development ministry. But, if one goes by the DMRC report, a cost of Rs 40 lakh for each day delayed …
AHMEDABAD: The ambitious Rs 7,000-crore Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro rail project has been put on the fast track. A team of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will meet Chief Minister Narendra Modi soon to chalk out a roadmap for the project, including discussions on land availability. The state government had roped in …
GANDHINAGAR: Come summer, and officialdom here begins to grapple with water shortage all over Gujarat. But Gandhinagar's tag as the greenest capital of a water-starved state comes at a price. Huge quantities of water are used to keep numerous gardens green. The average per capita consumption of water in Gandhinagar, …
AHMEDBAD: The axe is ready to fall on builders, real-estate developers and mall owners who have till now flouted tree norms with impunity while constructing swanky malls, shopping arcades and multiplexes. One visit to any one of the malls on Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway or at Law Garden gives the real picture …
