GUJARAT State Petroleum Corporation has discovered another gas reserve in the hydrocarbon-rich Krishna Godavari (KG) basin, on the eastern coast. The company, however, is very tight lipped about the size of the discovery. The gas discovery was made in the new well of deepwater block of KG 22. The company recorded gas flow at the rate of 27.3 million cubic feet per day through a choke of 28/64 inches. GSPC managing director D J Pandian told ET, "We have again discovered gas. The flow rate is good. The size of the discovery could only be ascertained after the testing results.'

Cairn India on Wednesday said it will invest about $2 billion in the country over the next 18 months for developing oil fields and building a pipeline that will deliver oil from Barmer in Rajasthan to the coastal areas of Gujarat. "Out of the $2 billion investment, $1.8 billion will go in Rajasthan alone and the remaining will be used for other blocks in other parts of the country,' Cairn India chairman Bill Gammell said at the company's annual general meeting here. Cairn India is developing three fields in Rajasthan

Sharp interstate differences are starting to crop up between Gujarat and Rajasthan, one day ahead of the state government planned grand function in the border taluka of Tharad to supply Narmada canal

Amul, a major manufacturer of ice-creams in the country, has switched to natural vanilla flavour in its entire range of vanilla ice-creams, to save the farmers in Kerala.

A dispute over the rights of tribals to forestland in Gujarat took a violent turn on February 13 when two tribals were killed and three others injured in a police firing at Polo in Sabarkantha

The city-based Centre for Environment Education (CEE) was awarded the India NGO award for the western region in the large NGOs category in New Delhi recently.

Mild tremors continued to rattle Saurashtra and Kutch region on Monday, a day after a tremor measuring 4.5 on the Richter Scale shook many parts of the state.

Parts of north Gujarat, Saurashtra and Kutch here on Sunday afternoon received mild tremors with people in Saurashtra rushing out of their homes.

'Brand Gujarat' is on the roll and the state government is aiming to reach out globally this time.