Courtspeak: The Script
9 OCTOBER 2000 Gujarat High Court issues notice to state government and Ahmedabad's collector and executive engineer of irrigation department. Demands the state's water policy and a comparative
9 OCTOBER 2000 Gujarat High Court issues notice to state government and Ahmedabad's collector and executive engineer of irrigation department. Demands the state's water policy and a comparative
Workers often fail to get proper medical treatment because they are mostly ignorant of occupational diseases.
GANDHINAGAR: Vibrant Gujarat wants to dot some of state's major canal networks, including the Narmada main canal, with mini-micro-hydro power projects. And imagine whom does it propose to choose for this - a company called Krishna Kanhaiya Hydro Power Pvt Ltd, owned by a UK-based NRI Riyen Ramani. Already, it has earned a contract worth Rs 18 crore to start building mini-microhydro power projects on the canal coming out of Karjan dam, lying dormant for nearly three decades.
NHPC To Kick-Start Rs 600 Crore Project Soon Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has roped in National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) to kick-start 18 micro power plants on the Narmada canal all over Gujarat at the cost of Rs 600 crore.
Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies and the AMC will jointly host a green film festival from January 17-22. It will feature as many as 40 films on environment to be shown at different schools and colleges in the city.
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN Surat: Mahatma Gandhi turned his humble charkha into a weapon to take on the might of the British empire and give India freedom. And now, it is set to make a contribution in the fight against global warming as well.
Vadodara: Engineering major ABB will invest Rs 200 crore by the end of 2011 towards setting up new units and expansion of its existing facilities at Maneja.
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: Gujarat government is in talks with Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) to fund one of its most ambitious projects to promote solar energy
Gandhinagar: The state has sold 2,220 million units of power to other states during the last two years, the government told the assembly on Monday. In two different replies, the government said that the state was enjoying a surplus as far as power production was concerned.
Even small doses of paan masala, which mimics the taste of betel nut and leaf, taken for a long time can cause cancer, confirmed a team of researchers at the National Institute of Occupational Health
he International PLEA Conference Sustainable Habitat For Developing , organized by the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University will take place from 16th December to the 18th December
Poor rural women in India need easy access to and control over forests
The Uttar Pradesh government in 1996 (now Uttaranchal) started an ambitious tea plantation programme, which was to be spread across 12,000 hectares (ha). It included a series of tea estates to aid
In the past five years, when cotton farmers of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab were struggling, Gujarat farmers were making hay, to the tune of Rs 5,000 crore a year. The state’s total yield has increased by 5.6 million bales in the past five years.
In the 1996 ninth general elections in India, water as an issue figured prominently in at least nine states. Among them all, Nalgonda in the Telengana region in Andhra Pradesh takes the cake.
An 85-year-old lady was having problems getting her passport. She needed it to go and live with her children abroad. The status, the website showed, was delivered. Visits to the passport office
THE '80s and '90s have witnessed the globalisation and opening up of the Indian economy. The megacities of India have now become the' stage for the new political. and socio-economic
Waves of criticism against the newly proposed Kalpsar project wash away the Gujarat government's ambitious claims
The closure of 25 polluting units in Gujarat on the orders of the High Court in early May and its subsequent fallout has caught the state government on the wrong foot. The 50-page order castigated
It is time people established their relationship with water once again