Ahmedabad: City’s Kankaria Lakefront project will lend its design to the country’s oldest manmade lake in Bhopal. The Madhya Pradesh government has awarded Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (Cept) University the project of making a detailed concept plan for the lake.

After studying the present scenario of the lake, experts at Cept University have planned to divide the 25 kilometer-long periphery of the lake into five zones including an ‘active recreational zone,’ which will resemble the revenue generating model of the Kankaria Lake.

AHMEDABAD: In an attempt to cut down on "soaring" electricity bills, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has decided to use green and energy-efficient techniques to reduce power consumption by almo

A HISTORY OF POLLUTION?
Threaten To Leave If Expansion Ban Is Not Revoked

Ahmedabad: The recent poaching of lesser flamingos and cranes in Gujarat could well be the worst of its kind globally.

AHMEDABAD: The state government's ambitious Kalpasar dam project, which is estimated to cost Rs 30,000 crore, could lead to earthquakes in the state.

Ahmedabad: Two cities of Gujarat, both industrial hubs, top the list of cities with lowest sex ratio in India.

Birds Continue To Fall Prey Despite Arrest Of 9 Men

Ahmedabad: The forest department claimed to have cracked the case of the poaching of 64 lesser flamingos in Venasar village in the Little Rann of Kutch when its officials arrested nine people on January 4. They had even recovered the nets used to trap the birds, after TOI had reported the massacre.

AHMEDABAD: Imagine sudden floods at Sabarmati River arising out of climate change and a loss of Rs1,200 crore for Gujarat's Sabarmati Riverfront project!

A prior understanding of the effects of climate change and including features to adapt to these effects of climate change in the project could avoid such loses.

Gandhinagar: Closely following the draft Gujarat Water Policy 2011 sent to the chief minister’s office (CMO) for finalization, a fresh high-level document, prepared for the Planning Commission of India, has proposed major water reforms in rural Gujarat.

This document proposes introducing availability of water 24x7 through water meters at the individual household level. Suggesting that this can be done on a pilot basis in 50 selected villages in the first year of the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17), the document says other villages can follow “based on results and response of the community towards water usage.”

Shell and Total, operators of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Hazira in Gujarat, have decided to take the terminal's annual capacity to 10 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).

The terminal at present operates at a capacity of 3.6 million tonne (mt). By 2013, this would be expanded to five mt. “With new gas pipelines being laid and LNG consumption in the country on an increase, more gas would be required. To meet the market requirement for future we intend to increase the terminal's capacity to 10 mtpa,” a senior company executive told Business Standard on condition of anonymity.