Govt provides outdated maps at CZMP hearing
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC), Gujarat Pollution Control Board and the forests and environment department of the government of Gujarat jointly organized a public hearing on the state’s
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Ahmedabad: Greenery to curb greenhouse gases
AHMEDABAD: Trees have long served as the critical carbon sink, consuming carbon dioxide pollution produced by humans. They even clean up air by reducing particulate matter pollution (PM10, PM2.5). But
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Ahmedabad: Mahila Housing Trust gets MIT’s climate award
AHMEDABAD: Mahila Housing Trust (MHT), based in Ahmedabad, has been conferred the Climate Resilience Award by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the US, as part of the Climate CoLab Contest —
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Gujarat leads India in approved capacity at solar parks
AHEMEDABAD: Gujarat has emerged has as the top state in terms of approved power generation capacity in various solar parks. Out of the total 26,449MW capacity approved in 45 solar parks in 22 states, Gujarat
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Ahmedabad: Trees are our shield against pollutants
AHMEDABAD: What can cities do to guard themselves from harmful gases and smoke billowing out of factory exhausts. Today, each of the four major Gujarat cities — Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot —
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Heavy metal: In Gujarat, water uranium level highest in Ahmedabad
AHMEDABAD: Uranium — the heavy metal one usually associates with nuclear reactors — is contaminating Gujarat’s groundwater, finds an elaborate scientific study that covered 16 states. Uranium contamination
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Gujarat to pay farmers 25% extra for bullet train land
GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government, while nearing the November 2018 deadline for land acquisition for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, has decided to offer 25% more compensation, over the rates
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HC seeks govt affidavit on crop insurance policy
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court has asked the state government to file an affidavit in response to a PIL filed by the RSS-affiliated farmers' union Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, which has opposed the compulsory
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AMC's West Zone is flood-prone: Study
AHMEDABAD: For the last seven monsoons, the West Zone of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation — Navrangpura, Gandhigram, Naranpura, Wadaj, Sabarmati, Paldi, Stadium, Vasna wards — has been most prone to
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Gujarat govt announces hybrid power policy
AHMEDABAD: To boost solar and wind power generation in the state, the Gujarat government has announced a new Wind-Solar Hybrid Power Policy. Energy minister Saurabh Patel and minister of state for energy