The forest department has counted 48 lesser floricans, the critically endangered smallest bustards of the world, in Velavadar Blackbuck National Park (BNP) in Bhavnagar district. The counting was done on Saturday and Sunday.
Expert Appraisal Committee defers EC, CRZ clearance till final decision by MoEF on allegations
While the Gujarat government seems optimistic on commencing operation of LNG terminal at Mundra by 2016, GSPC LNG Ltd, a joint venture between state-owned Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) Ltd and Adani Group, for setting of the LNG terminal, is facing hurdles to get necessary environment clearance (EC) and costal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance.
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Kachchh Jal Sankat Nivaran Samiti & Ors Vs State Of Gujarat & Anr regarding allocation of water from Sardar Sarovar Project to the District of Kutch dated 15/07/2013.
Have Asiatic lions found their own homes within the home around the Gir forest?
State forest department officials said over the last two decades, lions have dispersed from the Gir forest, which was a core area of Asiatic lions, and have settled down in respective areas and made their permanent 'homes'.
According to ONGC's proposal initially five exploratory wells will be drilled at the Kutch-Saurashtra offshore block
ONGC
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Ltd has got environment clearance (EC) for its Rs 580 crore project to drill seven exploratory wells in Kutch Saurashtra offshore block GK-OSN-2009/2 on west coast of Gujarat.
On World Population Day, Numbers Paint Grim Picture
It sounds like an old wives’ tale. Number of births had peaked during the two winter months of October and November in the year 2012, according to an annual statistical analysis of live births across Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot and Vadodara by the state health and family welfare department.
Judgement of the Gujarat High Court in the matter of Citizens Resource & Action Initiative (CRANTI) Vs State of Gujarat dated 10/07/2013 regarding farmer suicides in Gujarat. This Application in the nature of a Public Interest Litigation has been filed for financial compensation of Rs. 5 lac to be paid by Gujarat Government to the family of the deceased farmers who have committed suicide due to crop failure in the State as well as financial aid to farmers at the rate of Rs. 30,000 per hectare be paid to the farmers who have suffered crop failure.
