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State Forest dept bags national environment award

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

The state Forest department has bagged the Indira Priyadarshini Vrikshamitra Award for 2006, 2007 and 2008 for outstanding performance in social forestry and reclamation of wastelands in Gujarat.
Animal welfare board issues notice to city firm over missing stray dog

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

The Animal Welfare Board of India has issued a notice to city-based Devidayal Agrochemicals, which is accused of displacing a stray dog, asking it to find the same.
Vadodara Marathon: Gill fires salvo at organisers, meeting on Friday t...

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

Following the chaos towards the end of the Vadodara Marathon on Sunday, the organisers have decided to have different venues for the beginning and the end of the run for the next year’s edition.
552 Vadodara schools to be covered in three-day drive

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

Primary schools across the district geared up for surprise visits of officials under Gunotsav that began on Monday.
Many students fail to read words

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

Footwear neatly placed outside the classrooms, sparkling clean premises, classrooms full of children, and teachers at their attentive best as government official breathed down their necks; this marked the first day of the Gunotsav drive in the city schools.
‘Model school’ of 2003 lags behind in fulfilling needs of special chil...

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

In 2003, the Vadagas Prathmik Shala in Viramgam taluka of Ahmedabad district was distinguished as the ‘adarsh shala’ or model school.
Gunotsav: Day 1 marksheet has many red marks

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

Nooruddin, a Class VI student of Millatnagar School, who is battling renal failure, has been spending a fortune to reach his make-shift school near Kankaria everyday from his home in Millatnagar for the last 18 months.
GSRTC bus rams into motorbike, one dead

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

One person died and two others were injured when a speeding Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation bus hit a motorcycle at Danilimda on Sunday.
Bt brinjal: State awaits Centre’s decision on commercial cultivation

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

Though the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has cleared the commercial cultivation of genetically modified brinjal...
Headley effect: Surat police start checks on hotels, tenants

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

In the wake of reports that David Headley had visited Gujarat, the state police has now begun checking hotels, tenants and the factory workers.
Mobile outlet theft: Essar asked to give details of employees

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

The Ellisbridge police investigating the mobile theft case at the The MobileStore outlet in Paldi has asked Essar Company to produce the details of their employees.
Gulberg riot case: Court turns down witness’ request

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

The Special Court hearing the 2002 Gulberg Society Massacre case, on Monday, turned down a witness’ request to allow him to go to the enclosure of the accused to identify them.
The Forensic Science Laboratory
For outsiders, services at Gujarat FSL costlier by Rs 20,000

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

The Forensic Science Laboratory in Gandhinagar, the only such laboratory in the country that conducts psychological tests on crime accused and suspects from other states as well, has recently tripled its service fee.
Sabarmati basin workshop: Over 100 attend first phase

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

Over 100 students and professors at the Centre for Environment Planning and Technology University attended Phase I of the six-week workshop on the Sabarmati River Basin, on Monday.
Minister stalls relocation of girls’ residential schools

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

After villagers of four trial blocks in central Gujarat protested against the closure of 12 residential schools for girls and moving them to an Ashram at Kwant, the state tribal affairs minister finally ordered to stall the move.
Unmanned rly crossings to be mapped

Tuesday 24 November, 2009

Less than a week after 11 people were killed in an autorickshaw-train collision at an unmanned railway crossing in Jamnagar district, the Home Department has ordered a detailed survey of all such crossings in the state.
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