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 …
AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) aims to ready the master plan to combat the outbreak of diseases three months in advance. Talking to reporters, AMC commissioner Guruprasad Mohapatra admitted that the corporation has learnt its lessons and has decided that master plan will be readied three months in advance. …
City Has Reported 375 Cases Since January Gandhinagar: Ahmedabad has recorded the highest number of dengue cases in the state since January this year. Till October 2, dengue cases in the city were 34 times more than what were recorded in Vadodara, 20 times more than in Rajkot and 112 …
AHMEDABAD: Scanty rainfall has reduced the water stock in dams which have 255 million cubic metre (mcm) less water compared to last year. Officials said that less rains in the past fortnight completely changed the water levels in the dams. On July 20, the state had 12% more water compared …
GANDHINAGAR: In a major SOP to Gujarat farmers, the state government on Wednesday announced that it will give a much higher compensation to 86,000 cultivators whose land is being acquired for Narmada canal network. This is based on the new jantri rate plus 30 per cent solatium. Talking to media …
RESIDENTS of a village in Wankaner taluka of Rajkot district in Gujarat are celebrating a March 16 high court order directing release of water into a canal, that is their sole source of irrigation. The canal had dried up two years ago when Ajanta Infrastructure of Orpat group of companies …
AHMEDABAD: The green quotient of your surroundings might grow. The forest department, which is conducting a tree census in various cities of Gujarat, is all set to form a policy to decide the minimum number of trees in the cities corresponding to the levels of pollution. Social forestry department officials …
Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN Rajkot: Word is spreading about the watershed development projects in the villages of Rajkot district carried out by Vruksh Prem Seva Trust, an NGO, run by Premji Patel, 80. A team of 25 senior government officials from Maharashtra would visit watershed development-related works in the villages …
Mr Narendrabhai N. Limbasaya of Kotada Nayan village in Gujarat's Rajkot district has been growing cotton on 15 acres of land he owns for the last 7-8 years. Unlike in the previous years, he had to face problems this year due to unseasonal rain.
Rajkot: Residents of the stretch between Nanamava chokadi and Nanamava Gam on 150-feet Ring Road were panic stricken as the main pipeline of Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) carrying LPG developed a leak on Monday. Though no casualty or damage to property was reported, fumes could be seen emanating out …
Swiss Agency for ent and Cooperation (SDC) and Action for Food Production (AFPRO) have tied up for promoting sustainable approaches for improving rural livelihoods through socio-technical interventions. To commemorate the SDC-AFPRO partnership, Philippe Welti, ambassador of Switzerland to India, released a document
Rajkot: On the second consecutive day since the Gujarat coast was warned of an approaching cyclonic system, people and administration across Saurashtra and Kutch were on standby. However, the fear had subsided among locals substantially as after the stormy wind and heavy rain in parts of Saurashtra and Kutch region …
Wankaner (Rajkot): Eleven decomposed carcasses of Nil Gai (blue bulls) were found from the outskirts of Waghasiya village near Wankaner town of Rajkot district late on Monday night. According to Wankaner police station officials, they received the information from passers-by who got the whiff of stink emanating from the area …
Rajkot/Ahmedabad: Two persons have died due to severe heat in Saurashtra in past 48 hours . On Wednesday, when the entire state of Gujarat experienced the worst heat conditions, a woman died in Rajkot as she was going to fetch water. A man was reportedly killed under similar circumstances in …
Denied use of water from the Und dam for irrigation, farmers of 10 villages in Rajkot district in Gujarat have approached Gujarat high court against a government engineer who they allege was not allowing them to draw water despite they having paid the charges. The court on Thursday directed proceedings …
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 …
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 …
Five blackbucks, two male and three female, have died at the Rajkot zoo due to internal injury and brain haemorrhage, zoo officials admitted on Monday. According to Zoo Superintendent M.G. Maradia, "On Sunday night, two stray dogs from the nearby locality entered the blackbuck enclosure which frightened the animals." The …
