Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
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
Ahmedabad: The newly operationalised Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) run by Ahmedabad Janmarg Limited (AJL) at Danilimda and Narol stretch has turned into a freeway for some commuters. The dedicated bus corridor is exclusively meant for BRTS services, but commuters are now seen driving at breakneck speed on the stretch, …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is taking a step that would to some extent wash away the sins committed by civic planners leading to a disorderly growth. For the first time, the AMC would be practising, what they call, micro zoning in the area under Sabarmati riverfront …
Ahmedabad: Water contamination, eating in unhygienic surroundings and careless personal hygiene have spawned a host of bacterial diseases in the city. The health meter of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) strongly packs in a word of caution for denizens this monsoon. Cholera cases have doubled, gastroenteritis cases have climbed while typhoid …
Lab To Check Food Adulteration Will Come Up At Navrangpura Within 3 Months Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Lead in your chocolate, ammonia in your milk and arsenic in fruits
If the units do not comply with plan requirements, they may be in danger of forced closure Himanshu Bhatt | TNN Surat: In an attempt to bring Ankleshwar and Panoli industrial areas out of most critical industries list, a draft action plan has been drawn up by Gujarat Pollution Control …
Pramod Panwar | TNN Palanpur: At daybreak, this 45-year-old woman in Chhaniyan village in Vadgam taluka of Banaskantha gets ready for her morning walk. And, when she leaves, she has in tow a rather strange company. Held in her hands are ropes that are pulling along a buffalo. It is …
Number Of Households In State Up By 38% In 10 Yrs Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: The great Gujarati joint family may be ideal formula for K-soaps, but the state is going nuclear if preliminary figures available at Census of India office in Gandhinagar are any indication. The number of …
Four new swine flu cases reported in last two weeks Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: Temperature is dropping with rains and the state health department has pressed the alarm button anticipating a swine flu pile up like last year. The virus is now well-entrenched in cities and is indigenous unlike …
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Walking along the Sabarmati in the night will soon be a starry affair. This is because aesthetically-designed lamps will line up the walkway in future. Sabarmati Riverfront Development Corporation Limited (SRFDCL) plans to spend Rs 7.3 crore on installing lighting system at lower promenade of …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Gandhinagar: Union minister for environment and forest Jairam Ramesh unveiled an ambitious Rs 25-crore plan to develop Dandi as a green zone and ecofriendly tourist destination. But, the fact is that this town, which shot into limelight when the Congress celebrated 75 years of the Dandi …
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) bagged the national award for outstanding achievement in management of power by supplying uninterrupted power to all 18,000 villages under Jyotigram Yojna. Government
Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN Rajkot: In order to provide the fast-growing dairy industry in various districts of Saurashtra with more milk-yielding indigenous breed of cattle, Junagadh Agriculture University (JAU) in Junagadh will soon establish a Bull Mother Farm for indigenous Gir cattle and Jaffrabadi buffaloes at Amreli. According to JAU …
Pramod Panwar | TNN Palanpur: A massive afforestation drive under Border Area Development Programme (BADP) was launched on Sunday by the district administrations of Patan and Banaskantha in a grand way at Nadabet near the Indo-Pak international border. Thousands of saplings were planted by locals along Banaskantha and Patan stretch …
Ahmedabad: It is just the beginning of July and the Saurashtra-Kutch region has received 29.03 per cent of its annual rainfall. In the late 1990s, the situation was different. The region would hardly get rains. The Gujarat Agriculture University (GAU), Junagadh has studied 100-year rainfall data of Saurashtra region. Dr …
