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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...

Costs are up, profit margins down, says IIM-A survey of 1,600 companie...

CV News/ Friday, July 05, 2019 Costs are up, profit margins down, says IIM-A survey of 1,600 companiesCV News/ Friday, July 05, 2019Profit mrgins % responsesThe latest Business Inflation Expectations Survey (BIES), released by the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has revealed that 54% of responses obtained from 1,600 companies sa...

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 ...

CM dedicates developmental projects of Rs. 75- Cr to people in Ahmedab...

Ahmedabad: Chief Minister Mr. Vijaybhai Rupani, in the inspiring presences of Union Home Minister Mr. Amitbhai Shah and Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Nitinbhai Patel, today dedicated developmental projects worth of Rs. 75-Crore, including Income Tax Circle Flyover Bridge built at a cost of Rs. 58-Cr, to the people of Ahmedabad city. Speaking on th...

Gujarat meet to demand anti-lynching legislation: Budget ‘quiet&...

CV News/ Wednesday, July 03, 2019 The Minority Coordination Committee (MCC), a Gujarat-based civil rights organisation, will be holding a state-level conference to demand from the Gujarat government to come up with a separate legislation to prevent rising incidents of lynchings. Proposed to be called Minorities (Prevention of Atrocities) Bill, M...

JIO LAUNCHES A DIGITAL LITERACY PROGRAM

3rd July 2019: Jio today announced a digital literacy initiative in India. This new initiative named ‘Digital Udaan’, will empower first-time internet users with digital literacy and understanding of the Internet. Thanks to Jio, over 300 million users are riding the digital wave, many of whom are first time internet users.As a part of the Digital U...

‘Focused Budget’ to make Gujarat as ‘SustainableDevelopmental State’: ...

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Vijaybhai Rupani termed the state budget for year 2019-20, presented today in the state assembly in Gandhinagar by the Finance and Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Nitinbhai Patel, as a “focused budget” and giving directions for the development of Gujarat. In this reference, Mr. Rupani stated that this budget is b...

Justice for Sanjiv Bhatt? With ‘right’ political connectio...

By Fr Cedric Prakash sj  The controversial and self-proclaimed ‘godman’ Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan is currently serving a life-term in at the Sunaria jail in Rohtak after being convicted in two cases of rape and the murder of a journalist. Recently, he applied for parole asking for 42 days of parole to "look after his fields in Sirsa district"....

Gujarat CM lays stone of Rs. 39 cr APMC yard at Unjha in presence of D...

Gujarat Government set aside Rs. 500 cr Revolving Fund to advance loan to farmer at zero percent interest, pays Rs. 2,700 cr crop insurance; says Vijay Rupani APMC yards in cooperative sector area key link between farm and global market," says Nitinbhai Patel Ahmedabad, June 29, 2019: Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today laid the fou...

If pharmacists in abroad can get status like a doctor, then why not in...

400 pharmacists trained in a refresher course organized by Gujarat Pharmacy Council Ahmedabad: If pharmacists in abroad can get the status like a doctor, then why not in India? This question was raised by Dr. Pankaj Patel, Chairman of Zydus Group. Addressing 400 pharmacists in a refresher course organized by Gujarat Pharmacy Council, he advised ...

Narmada dam stands like statue, not satiating Kutch-Saurashtra thirst:...

Thursday, June 27, 2019 Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar Counterview Desk 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...

Limestone mining in Bhavnagar to ‘impact’ livelihood, wate...

The Khedut Ekta Manch – Gujarat (KEMG), a non-profit farmers’ organization based in Ahmedabad, in a representation to the High Court-appointed committee to study the impact of limestone mining in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, has that there are “very serious issues" would emerge in the wake of the decision to sanction of mining lease in the area "wi...

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 Counterview Desk 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 ...

How Gujarat govt imposed curbs on livestock export for ‘fearR...

Monday, June 24, 2019 By RK Misra* Insidious are the ways authorities function, preaching one thing, practicing quite another. Administrative muscle-flexing to suit political goals was on display when the BJP-led Vijay Rupani government in Gujarat banned the export of livestock days ahead of Eid. Even the Narendra Modi-led government expressed ...

Officers not supporting Sanjiv Bhatt working for extremist political r...

CV News/ Sunday, June 23, 2019 In an open Facebook post addressed to police officials, Shweta Bhatt, wife of former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment in a three decades old alleged custodial death by the Jamnagar sessions court, has warned that what has happened to her husband today may happen to them tomorrow...