Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Babubhai Keshabhai Rawal & Others Vs Gujarat Pollution Control Board & Others dated 01/10/2019. The authorization granted to a waste processing facility by the Gujarat State Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to operate at Survey No. 727/-P/1 of village Juna Deesa, …
Food and beverages giant PepsiCo on Friday offered to settle lawsuits against nine Gujarat-based farmers whom it had filed suits over the issue of growing and selling a particular variety of potato. During a hearing in the commercial court here on Friday, PepsiCo said either the farmers should give an …
According to locals, the success of the scheme depends on power supply, which in the region is erratic, besides maintenance of the machinery. Since she learnt to walk, Vinita Parmar’s first job was to tag along with her mother and siblings a couple of kilometres to fetch water. She grew …
Watershed morphometric analysis is important for controlling floods and planning restoration actions. The present study is focused on the identification of suitable sites for locating water harvesting structures using morphometric analysis and multi-criteria based decision support system. The Hathmati watershed of river Hathmati at Idar taluka, Sabarkantha district, Gujarat is …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat's child sex ratio (CSR) in the 0-6 age group has improved by seven points from 883 in 2001 to 890 in 2011. In last decade, Mehsana, the district with the lowest sex ratio of 801 girls per 1,000 boys in 2001- improved by 41 points and took its …
Four peahens and a peacock were found dead on the border of the fields in Merwada village near Shyamlaji in Sabarkantha district on Tuesday. Two peahens were also found struggling for life and were shifted to a veterinary clinic in Shyamlaji, officials said. According to range forest officer P K …
Beyond Jethiabhai Basawa’s mud house in the foothills of Aravali extends a 75-hectare patch of barren land. It was once lush bamboo forest worth Rs 9 lakh. After joining the JFM programme in 1996, his village Munkapada in Rajpipla district had nurtured it in the hope of making some money. …
Radha Sharma | TNN Ahmedabad: Man-made disaster sparked by blatant reuse of contaminated injections, syringes and needles was the prime reason for the high incidence of viral hepatitis-B recorded in 2009 which grew to 19 per 1 lakh population in the state from 17 per lakh population in 2008. The …
Palanpur: First class judicial magistrate of Vijaynagar,on Friday, granted six-day remand to four persons held with leopard skins on Wednesday night at Vijaynagar in Sabarkantha district. Four members of a gang trading in leopard skins were arrested in a joint operation by state Intelligence Bureau and forest department. One of …
Lassiben Somabhai Parmar, an illiterate lady is educated probably much more than those scientists and the extension workers who often advocate only chemical pesticide based solutions disregarding the health of environment, soil, animals, plants, humans etc. Originally hailing from Churu, Rajasthan, she learnt a lot of herbal healing practices and …
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: In an important decision of far-reaching consequences for investors wanting to set up shop in Ahmedabad and north Gujarat, the state government has decided to come up with a law that will go a long way in facilitating poor farmers to sell the land they …
Palanpur: A leopard, which was entangled in a bundle of loose telephone cables strewn across a field some 45 km from Himmatnagar in Vadali taluka, was set free by the forest department on Thursday evening. This is one of the first sighting of the spotted wild cat in the region. …
GANDHINAGAR: The government has admitted in state Assembly that 93 deaths have been reported because of hepatitis-B in Sabarkantha district. It also informed the House that the disease spread through multiple use of syringes. Over 500 cases of hepatitis-B were also reported from the district, said health and family welfare …
Ahmedabad : Exploitation by corrupt government officials can't get more sordid than this. Close to 1,000 workers, below poverty line, in Prantij taluka in Sabarkantha district, were given a minimum wage of Rs 1.50 paise and 150 grams wheat for a family of five for a day's labour for six …
Ahmedabad: The deadly mutant strain of hepatitis-B has now got its first reported victim in Ahmedabad. But, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) seems to be hardly affected by it. Health committee of AMC will be holding an 'emergency' meeting, which has been scheduled only in the next week. The meeting will …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has gathered first visible evidence against four pharma and packaging firms in Narol and Isanpur whose names figured in the list of 26 firms recycling medical waste. A raiding team found boxes containing used medicine bottles with their cartons that were supplied by a …
The Age debate March .5 : All of Gujarat has been rattled by the Modasa incident. In February more than 50 people died from a breakout of the Hepatitis-B virus, which is a killer. It appears that employing used syringes and needles by private clinics caused the virus to spread. …
Ahmedabad : Eleven new cases of Hepatitis-B have been reported in Sabarkantha district in North Gujarat on Sunday. The total number of cases reported has now reached to 184. According to health officials, the death toll is 56 as no deaths were reported on Sunday. In Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, four …
KUTCH: A suspected case of hepatitis-B the disease that has claimed 60 lives in Modasa taluka of Sabarkantha district and infected several more in several parts of Gujarat has now been reported from Adipur town. District health department officials have, however, denied any case in the area. Mahendrasinh Parmar, 55, …
