Sabar Kantha

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding authorization granted to a waste facility at village Juna Deesa, Banas Kantha District, Gujarat, 01/10/2019

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, …

Immunisation drive gets under way in Sabarkantha

30,000 hepatitis-B vaccinations done on day one; toll 43 Manas Dasgupta AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat government on Monday launched a massive immunisation programme to combat the spread of hepatitis-B epidemic in Modasa and neighbouring areas in Sabarkantha district. With fresh casualties reported from Dhansura and Malpur towns, the death toll has …

Two docs held for hepatitis outbreak

Modasa: A father and son, both doctors who ran a private clinic which recklessly used the same syringe to give injections to multiple patients, have been arrested for causing the tragic outbreak of Hepatitis-B in the north Gujarat town of Modasa. So far 38 people have died since the outbreak …

7 more die of hepatitis in Gujarat

Banaskantha, The death toll due to Hepatitis virus infection in Sabarkantha district has risen to 18, with seven fresh cases reported on Monday even as a five-member Central medical team reached the Modasa taluka to take stock of the situation.

Terror in the woods

The verdant Polo jungles of Vijaynagar in north Gujarat's Sabarkantha district have a substantial population of tribals, but unlike many other tribal areas in the country that reel under poverty, malnourishment, sickness and violence, there are signs of prosperity here. Medieval temples and buildings dot the reserve forests

Satellite can supervise Polo forest

Forest officials believe that satellite images may prove to be their saving grace from the precarious situation created by rebellious tribals, who have stormed the Polo forest, cut over 1,000 thousands and built bamboo huts to prove their ownership of forest land. "Tribals in Maharashtra had claimed ownership of forest …

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