The Vikram A SARABHAI COMMUNITY SCIENCE CENTRE, AHMEDABAD
WINS THE TOI SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD FOR ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD OF EDUCATION (NGO CATEGORY)

AHMEDABAD: During the last 50 days, the city has lost one life daily to deadly mosquitoes.

The Union Cabinet's Committee on infrastructure on Thursday gave its approval for Rs.6013.70-crore six-laning of the Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad section of the National Highway. Of the total cost, Rs.626.40 crore will be spent on land acquisition, rehabilitation and reconstruction purposes.

Sanand (Gujarat): Gujarat’s industrialisation story is well known, but what is less clear is how exactly the land to house these industries is being acquired.

Ahmedabad PSA Peugeot Citroën, France’s largest carmaker and Europe’s second largest, will invest R4,000 crore to build a factory at Sanand near Ahmedabad for 1,65,000 cars yearly and creating 5,000 direct jobs. The integrated manufacturing plant, which will come up in 600 acre, will roll out its first Peugeot car in 2014, over a decade after the company left India following a bitter parting with its former partner Premier Automobiles.

State government sources indicated that the stage is all set for clinching a deal with French car manufacturer PSA Peugeot for setting up R4,000-crore four-lakh-cars-a-year plant in the vicinity of the Ford and Nano facilities at Sanand. Sources said the four member team representing Europe’s second largest car maker comprising Gregoire Olivier, CEO of the Asian operations of PSA Peugeot Citreon and Frederic Fabre, MD of PSA Peugeot’s India project are visiting Ahmedabad on Thursday to sign an MOU for the project with the state government.

AHMEDABAD: The highest animal mortality in zoos of the country was reported from Gujarat. Of the 2,910 zoo animal deaths in a year across India, 380 were in Gujarat. In Kankaria zoo in Ahmedabad, 150 animals died in the last one year. This zoo has over 2,000 animals.

The company already has 200 MW of business in India since 2010 across all sectors from off grid, roof tops and utility scale power plants. SMA is the only inverter manufacturer offering modern system technology for grid-tied solar power plants as well as a stable solution for back-up and off-grid systems in India.

To support innovative and commercially viable ventures in clean energy, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) will launch the Indian Fund for Sustainable Energy with an estimated fu

The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIMA) will launch the Indian Fund for Sustainable Energy (INFUSE) with an estimated fund size of Rs 100 crores in collaboration with the Union Ministry

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