Farmers from Surat district took out a rally here on Monday under the banner of Gujarat Khedut Samaj to demand cancellation of reservations in the town planning schemes (TP) for the proposed Outer
In what seems to be a contradiction of sorts, the municipal commissioner is keen on reducing groundwater usage, while the civic body has continued digging new borewells to quench the thirst of the
Gujarat high court on Wednesday asked the state government and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to inspect five units of zero discharge machines installed with gasifiers to reduce polluti
A study by Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has suggested that high-tension transmission cables should be laid underground in areas with a high concentration of birds vulnerable to collision.
This in turn is breeding insecurity among workers, hampering production, expansion of approved plants
Isolated from the mainland, units within the Adani Group-promoted, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) Ltd here are feeling the pinch of pending litigation against the developer, despite the interim relief to continue operations granted by the Supreme Court.
The fact that the Gujarat government has determined Rs 10.8 a day for rural areas as the cut-off for the poverty line in the state has raked up a controversy.
Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government for its “mockery” of poverty, the Congress reminded the Opposition party of how it had trashed the Planning Commission's poverty line cut-offs of Rs 32 and Rs 28 a day in urban and rural areas, respectively, as a “joke”.
Latching on to a December 2013 circular on the Gujarat government’s website which said only those with daily earning of less then Rs 10.80 would be eligible for a subsidized foodgrain scheme meant for the poor, Congress spokesperson Ajay Maken recalled that BJP’s PM candidate had made a huge hue and cry when Planning Commission pegged the poverty line at Rs 32 a day and had termed it a “joke”.
On the eve of World Cancer Day on Tuesday, experts warned that Gujarat has become the breeding ground for oral cancers as over 1.3 crore Gujaratis are addicted to tobacco consumption.
"National Cancer Registry Programme has indicated that Ahmedabad has the highest incidence of oral cancers in the country with 17.1 per 1 lakh population fresh cases of cancer registered every year", said leading oral cancer surgeon Dr Kaustubh Patel of HCG Cancer Center.
