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Help line for herbal manufacturers
Ministry of AYUSH has recently changed some regulations for manufacturing of herbal medicines. New rules will be helpful in improving the Quality of herbal products to match Global standards. Executive committee members of Gujarat Ayurveda Aushadh Manufacturer Association (GAAMA) expressed this opinion at a meeting.
GAAMA executive committee mem...
1996 saw maximum number of 577 candidates, but lowest 35.92% of voting...
Ever since Gujarat was bifurcated from the bilingual state of Bombay in 1960, General Election to the Lok Sabha began in the state in 1962 for 22 seats, which was increased in 1967 to 24 and in 1977 to 26.
The elections to the 17 th Lok Sabha will now be held in Gujarat in single phase on April 23, 2019 at 51,709 booths.
As per the website of the...
PMO “tries to stop” in Gujarat Vidyapeeth to discuss erosi...
CV News/ Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Justice Kurian Joseph, Gagan Sethi
Did the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) try to stop a pre-arranged civil society meet at Gujarat University, founded by Mahatma Gandhi, held on the occasion of the 89th anniversary of Dandi march to highlight the importance of nonviolence at a time when the country is allegedly f...
Gujarat govt “not transparent” in appointing information c...
CV News/ Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Top Right to Information (RTI) activist Anjali Bharadwaj has accused the Gujarat government of failing to be transparent in the appointment of information commissioners, saying, despite clearcut Supreme Court order to fill up vacancies within a month transparently, things remain extremely secretive and nobody kno...
International experts in Gujarat to Save the world’s largest fish
andhinagar, 14 March 2019: Mahatma Mandir at Gandhinagar will see an aggregation of experts on science, conservation and law enforcement forums from countries along the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. International and national delegates have converged to the maritime state of Gujarat for the first regional conference on Whale Sharks on 14th and...
Salt farmers hit: Railways “uproots” track in Little Rann ...
Thursday, March 14, 2019
By Pankti Jog*
Agariyas from Dhangadhra and Patadi, the towns situated along the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, may not participate in voting on April 23, the day polling takes place in the state, as a mark of protest against an “insensitive step” that the Indian Railways has taken – to close down the Kuda-Dhangadhra ...
45,000 houses basic facilities made at a cost of Rs. 673-crore.
Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Vijaybhai Rupani expressed firm resolve to provide ‘Rotlo ne Otlo Bey’ (Bread and Shelter, both) to needy poor, rural, deprived people by building 25-lakh houses under the ‘Sheri-Gramin Awas Yojna by year 2022.
At the function organized to mark the event at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, Mr. Rupani had performed e-Gruh...
115 dams in the Saurashtra region would be filled with the Narmada wat...
Narmada canal waters from Bhimdad through pipeline to Shetrunji dam in Saurashtra region under Phase-2 of the Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI) Yojana – well in time before the difficult summer days. He also laid the foundation stone of extending the pipeline from Shetrunji to Raidi dam.
Speaking at the function, he said that 115 dams ...
ODF+ status? Ahmedabad’s 14% slumdwellers defecate in the open: ...
CV News/ Saturday, March 09, 2019
The Government of India may have “upgraded” Ahmedabad to “open defecation free (ODF) plus” status, following a third party audit “certifying” that the city has “hygienic and usable public toilets”. But a recent survey by the civil rights organization, Human Development and Research Centre (HDRC), has revealed th...
PDS biometric validation pushing Ahmedabad’s slumdwellers to sta...
CV News/ Saturday, March 09, 2019
Days are not far off when Gujarat’s business capital Ahmedabad would be added to the list of places, led by Jharkhand’s rural areas, where failure of aadhaar-based biometric authentication led to 25 of 45 starvation deaths across India since 2017.
Ahmedabad-based NGO Human Development and Research Centre (HDRC) s...
Top Gujarat PSU fails to find irregularities against “rough-and-...
CV News/ Sunday, March 10, 2019
The three-year old tug-of-war between AK Vijay Kumar, a non-IAS babu known for his rough-and-tough ways, and Atanu Chakraborty, a Gujarat cadre industry-friendly IAS bureaucrat, has come to an end following intervention by Gujarat chief secretary JN Singh and two other bureaucrats.
Kumar, who previously served th...
Hardik Patel will join Congress on 12 March
To Dear
To give shape to my intentions to serve the society and country at large, I have decided to join the Indian National Congress oldest political party of India on 12th March 2019 in presence of its National President Shri Rahul Gandhi and other seniors leaders.
I would also like to state that if there is no legal hindrance and party dec...
ODF+ status? Ahmedabad’s 14% slumdwellers defecate in the open: ...
CV News/ Saturday, March 09, 2019
The Government of India may have “upgraded” Ahmedabad to “open defecation free (ODF) plus” status, following a third party audit “certifying” that the city has “hygienic and usable public toilets”. But a recent survey by the civil rights organization, Human Development and Research Centre (HDRC), has revealed that...
Has proposed project to dump “treated” effluents into Arab...
CV News/ Friday, March 01, 2019
Top Ahmedabad-based environmental group Paryavaran Mitra has filed an application with the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, regarding the construction of a pipeline that would reportedly carry treated effluent from different cities of Gujarat and discharge it in Arabia...
NGT asks Gujarat govt to form committee to halt environmental damage o...
CV News/ Friday, March 01, 2019
Taking serious view of “illegal construction activities, dumping of waste, dredging, digging, illegal discharge of effluents and absence of demarcation of blue line and red line in the river bed by the Irrigation Department” in the area of Tapi river in Surat, Gujarat, the National Green Tribunal (NTG), New Delhi,...