Ahmedabad: Here’s one more reason for Amdavadis to feel proud of their city. After the TOIIMRB survey ranked Ahmedabad as the most liveable city in the country recently, it has now got special mention at the recently concluded Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize (WCP).

Instituted by the Singapore Redevelopment Authority, WCP is a biennial international award recognizing individuals and organizations for outstanding contribution to creating vibrant, liveable and sustainable urban communities. The awards will be given away in the upcoming

A tree census being conducted by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has come up with this stark data. The city with its population of 55.71 lakh has a meager tree count of 4.40 lakh. That means 0.08 tree per head and just 9.45 trees per hectare. To provide a clearer picture, if Amdavadis were to hunt for natural shade, each tree - big or small - will have 12 to 13 persons vying for a small piece shade.

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has directed the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to formulate a policy for regulation of quarry business and crushing of stones with observation that the state government cannot control the activity.

Acting on a PIL filed by farmers from Sabarkantha district of north Gujarat, a bench of acting Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala ruled that stone crushers should not be allowed to operate within one kilometre radius from a residential colony.

Government Tells Assembly That Birds’ Numbers Dropped By 25%

Ahmedabad: Vulture population in Gujarat has dropped to a new low of 1,065 during the last five years. The count recorded in 2007 was 2,539 and ever since then, a sharp decline is seen. The count further dropped to 1,431 in 2008 and the May 2010 count showed that there are just 1,065 vultures in the state. The state government in a reply to a question posed by Karjan MLA Chandu Dabhi said that the vulture count in May 2010 was 1,065,

Ahmedabad: For almost six years commercial buildings in the newly acquired areas in the new west zone of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) have been denied water connections. These areas include Bodakdev, Thaltej, Vejalpur, Jodhpur gam, Ghatlodiya, Chandlodiya, Ranip and Kali. The issue had been in the backburner for long and has often led to brawls between the political and executive wings of the AMC. This time, some members of the standing committee are planning to take this issue up with the municipal commissioner.

AHMEDABAD: Gujaratis have high hopes from the Railway Budget to be announced on Wednesday given that perhaps for the first time both Union railway ministers are Gujaratis.

Dinesh Trivedi is originally from Kutch and now lives in West Bengal, while Bharat Solanki is the Anand MP. But sources say there is no point in expecting a bonanza as only a few of the requests are likely to be considered in the end

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government on Tuesday admitted in the state assembly that a sharp rise in the price of coal and gas, made available to the state’s power companies, is a major reason for increase in the price of electricity to the various categories of consumers – residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural.

GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government on Tuesday admitted in the state assembly that power companies in the state are unable to produce 1,000 MW of electricity on account of lack of availability of gas at a reasonable price.

Answering to a written question by BJP legislator Govindbhai Prajapati, state energy minister Saurabh Patel told the House that as a result of this "the state has to suffer a loss of Rs 1,500 crore",

Essar Oil, on Tuesday, said it has commissioned a unit that would produce Euro-V grade diesel at its Vadinar refinery in Gujarat.

The 4-million tonnes a year diesel hydrotreater unit-I (DHDT-I) “will upgrade diesel quality by treating the sour diesel streams and achieving reduction in sulphur as well as an improvement in the cetane index,” the company said in a statement.

GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government wants the price of Bt cotton seed to be regulated and put under its control despite opposition to it from the country's top seed producing companies.

Intervening in a debate in the state assembly, state agriculture minister Dilip Sanghani blamed the Centre for "supporting the seed companies", who are part of the National Seed Association of India (NSAI), the apex organization representing the Indian seed industry with more than 250 companies as its members.