Ahmedabad: Tribal districts, which were the torch-bearers for the girl child in Gujarat, boasting of a far healthier number of girls in 0-6 age group, too have shown a decline in the past decade. Sociologists see this trend as alarming as almost all non-tribal districts in Gujarat are already reeling under a skewed sex ratio.
All the tribal districts including Dang, Dahod, Panchmahals, Tapi, Valsad, Narmada and Bharuch, have posted a decline in the child sex ratio in 0-6 age group as per figures of Census 2011.

Contrary to apprehensions in Indian official circles, Pakistan still wants India to join the ambitious Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project.

India and Pakistan today agreed in-principle to have a uniform transit fee for ferrying natural gas through the proposed $7.6 billion pipeline from Turkmenistan.

India will pay a transit fee to Pakistan and Afghanistan for getting its share of 38 million standard cubic metres per day of gas through the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline, while Islamabad has to pay ferrying charges only to Afghanistan for allowing passage of the fuel.

Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Tapi district of Gujarat has come under the scanner of regulator Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) for a “minor incident” of radiation exposure to four w

Surat: Five daily wage workers, hired for cleaning and colouring a tunnel at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS), about 75km from the city, have alleged that they were exposed to radiation the

Ministerial discussions between the four countries to start tomorrow.
India is likely to extend the deadline for signing a gas sales and purchase agreement for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline.

Yagnesh Mehta | TNN

Surat: It is not known whether this was to take revenge on a man-eating leopard on prowl in Vadpada in Tapi district. Some villagers could not stop themselves from eating the bait of the leopard on Saturday while living under the fear of becoming a piece of meat for the maneater any day.

AHMEDABAD: Two IIM-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) students may have the solution to make the National River Linking Project (NRLP) viable.