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Satellite data ‘identify’ Gujarat’s Mundra among 6 o...
Friday, July 05, 2019 By Rajiv Shah
A fresh study, which analyzes data between February 2018 and May 2019, obtained from Tropomi, a satellite instrument on board the Dutch Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite, has warned that coal-fired power plants and industrial clusters are India’s “worst nitrogen oxides (NOx) hotspots” contributing hug...
Gujarat agate workers use potentially low preventive practice to ̵...
Thursday, July 04, 2019 By Rajiv Shah
A decade ago the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) may have come up with a Global Programme for the Elimination of Silicosis by 2030. However, a new research paper co-authored by Canada-based scholars in association with senior Gujarat activist Jagdish Patel of ...
Narmada dam stands like statue, not satiating Kutch-Saurashtra thirst:...
Thursday, June 27, 2019 Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar
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Commenting on the Prime Minister's recent speech in Parliament, top Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar and her colleagues* have said that Narendra Modi's statement on Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) on Narmada river is "rootless and proofless", insis...
Sabarmati river is a swimming pool
Untreated effluents discharged in river
Monday, June 24, 2019 Gujarat CM overseeing Sabarmati riverfront clean-up drive on June 5, 2019
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In a fresh letter to the secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India, senior Gujarat environmentalists Rohit Prajapati and Krishnakant of the ...
Gujarat Dalit teen’s murder: ‘Riddled’ with bureaucr...
Will the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) go in for a “thorough inquiry” into the recent murder of 19-year old Rajesh Sondharva a resident of Manekwada village in Rajkot district of Gujarat? As claimed by well-known right to information (RTI) activist Venkatesh Nayak of the Commonwealth Human Rights Commission (CHRI), following his complaint...
Gujarat’s minority Jain CM, “Cyclone moves towards Oman, thanks ...
Gujarat CM Mr. Vijay Rupani said the impending threat from the cyclone Vayu has moved away from the Gujarat coast towards Oman, thanks to invocation of divine blessings of Bhagwan Somnath, Dwarkadheesh Krishna and Harsiddha Mata. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani reviewed all aspects of impending cyclone Vayu in the Arabian Sea closing-in towa...
Vadodara ravines, wetlands being “systematically destroyed”...
Several prominent Vadodara citizens have in a letter to the city municipal commissioner expressed concern that ravines and wetlands in Gujarat's cultural capital "are being systematically destroyed and filled with debris and municipal solid waste in order to reclaim land for further 'development'." According to them, "This will further augment the ...
CM hold meeting to review preparedness of administration to face impen...
To meet the likely situation arising out of cyclone and to review
the preparedness of the state government to face it, Gujarat Chief Minister Mr.
Vijaybhai Rupani held a high-level meeting in Gandhinagar late this evening.
The meeting was also attended by Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Nitinbhai Patel
and Revenue Minister Mr. Kaushik Patel and Chief...
Aarti held to highlight Sabarmati pollution beyond Vasna barrage in Ah...
Taking strong exception to the cleaning-up drive of Sabarmati river passing through Ahmedabad on the occasion of the World Environment Day, senior activists Jatin Sheth and Santosh Singh have said that the move started by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is restricted not to the entire Sabarmati river but to the area of the riverfront in...
It’s now official: Akshay Kumar has not been conferred honorary ...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019 By Our Representative
It is now official. Super-star Akshay Kumar has not been conferred any honorary citizenship by Canadian authorities, as claimed by him ahead of the 2019 elections. In reply to a query by Roshan Shah, who is a Canadian citizen living in Waterloo, Ontario, and belongs to Ahmedabad, the country’s author...
CCMS project received the CSI Nihilent e-governance‘Award of Excellenc...
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today called for making the Computerized Case Monitoring System (CCMS) for reviewing and revising digitized land records more people-centric as part of the state government’s transparent policies under the Digital India Campaign.
The CCMS project received the Computer Society of India (CSI) Nihilent e-governance
‘Award...
Costs remain high amidst dormant sales, profits: IIM-A business expect...
CV News/ Monday, June 03, 2019 The latest round of Business Inflation Expectations Survey (BIES) for April 2019, released by the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A), based on the responses of over 1600 companies, has revealed that around 50% of the firms in April 2019 reported increase in costs has been more than 3% (sharply down fr...
Cleared 50 TP-DP Schemes in first five months
With a determination of seedy and well plan development of urban areas in the state, Gujarat Chief Minster Mr. Vijaybhai Rupani has cleared as many as 50 Town Planning Schemes (TP) – Development Plan (DP) in first five months of year-2019. The clearance of these 50 TPs have given developmental planning for over 5,000 hectares of land areas.
Since ...
AAI for expanding air-services facilities at Porbandar
In Gandhinagar Gujarat Chief Minister Vijaybhai Rupani held a fruitful deliberation meeting with chairman of Airport Authority of India (AAI) Mr. Guruprasad Mohapatra for expansion of existing airport and air-services at Mahatma Gandhi’s birth town, Porbandar to provide more facilities security agencies such as Navy, Coastguards and others. The ...
Surat fire tragedy: Gujarat govt hasn’t learned from past traged...
CV News/ Saturday, May 25, 2019 In a memorandum to Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani, the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), Gujarat, a political group, has said that the Takshshila fire tragedy in Surat, which has led to the death of 23 students, suggests that the Gujarat government has not learned any lesson over the last two years, dur...