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. …
Vasundhara Vyas Mehta | TNN Ahmedabad: Innovation is the only solution for the challenge of energy conservation and final year students of instrumentation department of Nirma University have proved this. A huge amount of electricity is wasted when the streetlights stay on during the day. In the computerised systems, the …
Ahmedabad: The scorching sun continued its tirade against the people of the state as heat wave conditions sent the temperature soaring three to four degrees above normal. In Ahmedabad, mercury continued to remain high at 44.5 degrees while Idar remained the hottest with the temperature rising to 46 degrees. Weather …
Surat: Surat is the second Asian city after Hong Kong to have environmentally-friendly power station, said chief minister Narendra Modi while dedicating India
Darshana Chaturvedi | TNN Vadodara: A group of five budding engineers from a city-based engineering college have successfully developed a hybrid car that can run on both fuel and battery. Unlike other car models that have engines, their car has a motor that doubles up as a generator. The motor …
Ahmedabad/ Vadodara: In a damning report, the central pollution control board (CPCB) proved that industries in and around Vadodara are dumping toxic chemicals into Mahi river and the Gulf of Cambay. The effluent being dumped are 15 times more polluted than the accepted norms. The report accuses the effluent treatment …
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 …
Ahmedabad: Thursday could be the hottest day of the season in the city with prevailing heat wave conditions making life even more difficult for denizens. Rising mercury levels in the state have already claimed two lives in Saurashtra region. In Ahmedabad, temperatures touched a record 44.5 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, …
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN The diamond city has stumbled and fallen from second place and has been ranked the third cleanest city of the country for 2009-10 with 69 points. Union ministry of urban development, as part of national urban sanitation policy, has been selecting top 25 cleanest cities. Chandigarh …
Mahuva: A leopard caused the death of over 30 sheep and injured 20 more in a village in Mahuva taluka of Bhavnagar district in the wee hours of Tuesday. While the big cat injured and killed 20 sheep, about 40 others reportedly jumped into a nearby well to save themselves. …
Ahmedabad: In a shocking development, no less than 11 blackbucks were found dead under mysterious circumstances in Nana Hadmatiya and Kana Vadla area in Junagadh district on Monday night. Officials said the possibility of poisoning through water or fodder cannot be ruled out as there were no external injury marks …
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL) is all set to kick-start Rs 7,500 crore worth of remaining canal networking works in Kutch, north Gujarat, Saurashtra and central Gujarat, already delayed by several years. In order to ensure that most of the work is over in …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: It was a PIL that freed Gandhinagar from the clutches of the babus in September last year. The Gujarat government displayed a haste and declared Gandhinagar a municipal corporation on May 1
Gandhinagar Turned Out Differently From What Was Conceived, But Not For The Better Paul John | TNN Very few people know that chief architect of Gandhinagar HK Mewada, and Prakash Apte, another town planner who assisted him, had first placed an abstract Gandhi memorial on banks of the Sabarmati. Drawing …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: For 15 long years, Gujarat Pollution Control Board sat over hundreds of environmental audit reports prepared by industries. It deliberately chose not to scrutinise them or take action against erring units which lied in these reports about their pollution control measures. In addition, Gujarat Pollution …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: This 60-year-old farmer used RTI to expose how Rakhial village administration clandestinely passed fake resolutions to allow illegal sand mining. The issue was an eye-opener for the state geology and mining department which is the regulatory body for sandmining activities in the state. The department …
Ahmedabad: The move to shift 100 Maldharis families outside the Gir sanctuary has again raised a debate on if the move was in the interest of the lion population. Local experts feel that shifting the Maldharis would indirectly affect the feeding pattern the lion, forcing them to move out of …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Gandhinagar: The volunteers who have been entrusted the responsibility of the vulture count in the state cried foul over the exclusion of the volunteers from the Girnar area. This has raised doubts on whether the census would cover the Girnar region at all. The area is …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Gandhinagar: Several volunteers and NGOs involved with vulture conservation in the state have decided to stay away from the official vulture count beginning May 29. The volunteers, who are associated with such government projects and refused to be identified, said that the government had done two …
