Gujarat government yet to uncork water policy
GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat government’s proposed ‘State Draft Water Policy’ is stuck in bureaucratic red-tape for the past few years. The first draft of the policy was prepared in 2014-15 but it never made it
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
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Scientists warn of bad air quality across northwest India
New Delhi/Ahmedabad: Senior scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology have claimed that most of northwest India — including north Gujarat, Rajasthan, parts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and
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Welcome to the new waste zone!
Ahmedabad: While every urban local body seems to be in the race to claim a respectable position in cleanliness in the 150th birth anniversary year of Mahatma Gandhi, and swachhta occupies the imagination
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Ideas for tomorrow’s water woes
Ahmedabad: Water has remained a major issue for several parts of India with large agrarian community and erratic rains. Digging deeper and deeper for water has created dark zones in Gujarat and other parts
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Jungle king’s roll-call soars at 700 in Gujarat
AHMEDABAD: A video of a pride of 14 lions quenching their thirst from a mad-made water pond some 20 km away from Gir sanctuary in neighbouring Amreli district went viral on social media on Thursday. Once
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Dust raises pollution level in Ahmedabad
AHMEDABAD: The Tuesday dust storm raised the pollution level in the city. The city's PM10 reading of 517 on Tuesday was the highest in the country among the Safar-monitored cities. In Delhi and Mumbai,
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Green nod to HPCL Shapoorji's LNG terminal
AHMEDABAD: Setting the stage for building the fourth liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal in Gujarat, the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEF) has accorded environmental and CRZ (coastal
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Over 5L people in city fall prey to kidney diseases
Ahmedabad: A shocking revelation that came from city-based nephrologists says that rougly 5 lakh people in Ahmedabad are estimated to suffer from a kidney disorder. Further to this, roughly 8.9% of the
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Gujarat: After NGT crackdown, 450 ceramic units prepare to switch to gas
AHMEDABAD: After the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered closure of ceramic units that run on coal gasifiers, as many as 450 such units in Morbi, India’s largest ceramic cluster, have closed down to
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Pollution panel proposes compensation formula
AHMEDABAD: Giving more credence to the ‘Polluter Pays’ principle, the special committee for monitoring pollution, formed on the direction of National Green Tribunal (NGT), has now proposed a formula to