Following an order of the Supreme Court on a petition on Monday, the green nod given to nine government and private projects in Gujarat by the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has been kept in ab
The state government’s much-hyped solar policy has come in for sharp criticism by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), who has rapped the state for awarding solar projects to “inelig
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday ordered Kutch District Collector to appear in-person before it in connection with a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleging Adani group of destroying sand dunes
In probably the first application of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation, Re-settlement Act, 2013, enacted by the Congress-led UPA-II Government, the
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on Wednesday granted environment and Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance for the 8,481 hectares of Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Kutch district t
More than 34 square kms of forest cover in the state has increased in the two-year period between 2011-13, reveals the latest biannual report from Forest Survey of India (FSI), a body under the Min
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment and Forest Prakash Javadekar on Sunday said the Ministry will take a decision within two weeks on whether or not to lift the moratorium
Among the three major cities of Gujarat — Ahmedabad, Rajkot and Vadodara — Ahmedabad is leading by a huge margin in terms of having maximum number of children suffering from malnutrition.
Thousands of villagers from Palsana taluka in Surat district took out a rally on Thursday and later handed over a memorandum to Surat district Collector Jayprakash Shivhare, requesting him to shut