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 …
Action taken report of Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) in the matter of National Green Tribunal order in OA No. 616/2019 dated 06/12/2019 in respect of pollution of river Bhadar due to polluting industries in Jetpur area in Rajkot district. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and GPCB had jointly …
“The mining operations are normal and no filling up is being done. The claim that we are filling up our mine is completely baseless,” an official of the company told The Indian Express on the condition of anonymity. Around A month after the Gujarat High Court had set up an …
Swine flu death toll in the state rose to 31 in the current year with four more patients succumbing on Thursday, the state health department said. The deaths were reported from Banaskantha, Porbandar, Chhota Udepur, and Junagadh city, the health department said in a release. The health department said that …
AHMEDABAD: A three-member team of health experts from Delhi is on a three-day visit to Ahmedabad and Rajkot—the cities worst affected by the swine flu outbreak in the state. The team will submit a report on Thursday to the state government and the media, about their assessment of the preparedness …
The three-member team will be looking at preparedness, labs and their facilities, will carry out death analysis and look at availability of medicines in Ahmedabad and Rajkot which have reported the maximum cases and deaths in the state. A three-member team of senior doctors from Delhi arrived in Ahmedabad on …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated the first phase of the Saurashtra Narmada Avataran for Irrigation (SAUNI) Yojana, which will see Narmada waters fill nearly 10 dams and reservoirs in Rajkot, Jamnagar, Morbi and other parts of Gujarat’s Saurashtra region. The R12,000-crore scheme was first launched in 2012 when …
Their prime concern is that the mining will damage the natural barrier against salinity ingress. Six years after forcing a company to shelve its proposed cement plant, thousands of farmers of Mahuva and Talaja talukas of Bhavnagar lodged their protest against UltraTech Cement Ltd’s proposed limestone mining projects in their …
Ahmedabad: The number of days of moderate and severe heat waves engulfing Gujarat over more than a decade is steadily increasing. This has been revealed in a study on 'heat waves, temperature extremes and their impacts on monsoon and drought', spanning three decades (1981 to 2010), and representing nine agro-climatic …
Severe heat wave gripped most parts of Gujarat with temperatures in several parts of the state crossing 43 degrees Celsius prompting the city administration here to issue warning people to take precautionary measures while venturing out in the sun. Heat wave has gripped most of North Gujarat, Kutch and Rajkot, …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Conservation Action Trust Vs Union of India & Ors dated 17/10/2015 regarding gradual destruction of mangroves for non-forest use along the coastline of State of Gujarat.
Since the World Environment Day on June 5, Vijay Dobaria, a city-based industrialist has been spending most of his time in village of Padadhari taluka near the city. Dobariya, 32, has taken upon himself to increase the green cover in the region and plant one lakh saplings in 59 villages …
Thousands of people from 10 villages around Ugamedi village in Bhavnagar district were all smiles on Tuesday. The once parched Sonal river was flowing bank to bank. After almost two years of hard work, the project to link two rivers - Keri and Sonal - taken up by Surat-based diamond …
Directs GPCB to recover cost from GMB for improper handling of coal at port Environment watchdog National Green Tribunal (NGT) has pulled up Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) and Gujarat State Pollution Control Board (GPCB) for failing to perform their respective duties effectively, resulting in high levels of air and water …
Gulab Singh Budhel, a tribal living in Amreli's Luvava village, and his seven family members packed their bags on Wednesday to leave for Kutch in search for construction labour work. With a spectre of drought looming large over Saurashtra and crops having failed already , Budhel has no choice but …
The BJP may boast of the economic progress in Gujarat under its rule, but the party-led state government admits that it lags behind in fighting malnutrition, with urban areas surpassing those in rural hinterlands. By the Gujarat government’s admission during the ongoing Assembly session, Ahmedabad tops the list with 43,820 …
BOTAD: It has been a battle against anaemia that has been fought with handfuls of pulses. It took a couple of year for Dilip Bhalgamiya, principal of Taluka Kanya Shala (Girls School) in Botad, to reverse the depleting haemoglobin levels among his students. In 2011, the teachers at the school …
AHMEDABAD: With the maximum temperature at 44.4 degree celsius in the city, Ahmedabad witnessed three more heat-related deaths on Sunday. This took the death toll from the heatwave to 12. On Sunday, the city recorded the second highest temperature in the state after Surendranagar town which recorded a maximum temperature …
Not getting any respite from pollution emanating from unprocessed solid waste being dumped by Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) near Nakravadi village, residents of this village along with the adjoining ones have threatened to boycott the Lok Sabha polls. Besides Nakravadi, the residents of Pipaliya, Nagalpar, Khijadiya, Rajgadh, Sokhda and Hadmatiya …
Rajkot: Forest department has issued eviction notices to traditional saltpan workers in Little Rann of Kutch, asking them to vacate the wild ass sanctuary in the next seven days. Alleging that this will affect the voting by saltpan workers spread over the four districts of Rajkot, Surendranagar, Patan and Kutch, …
One spark is enough to engulf almost half of Saurashtra's commercial capital in flames. This is no exaggeration. Reason: Barely a few meters away from Indian Oil Corporation's (IOC) LPG bottling plant on the city's outskirts, 300 metric tonnes of solid waste is being dumped daily by Rajkot Municipal Corporation …
