Gujarat

So often we hear of news of how organ donation has helped the needy. Here is a story of a brain-dead youth's heart being transplanted in a 42-year old woman. Time we volunteer for organ donation. "The heart of a 20-year-old brain dead youth from Ahmedabad was transplanted on Tuesday in a 42-year-old

Not far from the densely packed industrial belt in Ahmedabad's Pirana Piplaj areas where 1,500 factories and warehouses jostle for space, a 29-acre green zone, packed with 47,000 trees, now brings a whiff of fresh air to the Sabarmati, named the third most polluted river in the country by the

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has said that under the Gyankunj Project, e-classes will be set up in 1,609 state government-run primary schools for students of class VII and VIII. These classes will be equipped with projectors, smart-boards, infrared cameras, laptops, speakers and wi-fi routers

The World Heritage Committer of UNESCO, in its meeting at Krakow, Poland, has announced on Twitter naming walled city of Ahmedabad as World Heritage City. With this announcement Ahmedabad gets the honour of becoming the first World Heritage City in India. Following matter has been taken from the

This is a story of Laxmiben Ajitsinh Dabhi, who has turned into an entrepreneur. This 48-year-old Class VIII pass and mother of three from Chhipiyal village in Kheda’s Kathlal taluka has no land. Her primary income is from three buffaloes — only one of which gives 5-10 litres milk daily at any given

Village Hadiyol, some 90 kms from Ahmedabad, in Gujarat can boast of having every fourth of its resident a teacher - present and past. When mostly one finds that the youth wants to become doctors or engineers, here teaching is what one looks for. Hadiyol has more than 700 active and 200 retired

We come across, almost daily, of some news related to the Aadhar card. Sometimes we hear of government announcing new services which will be linked to the Aadhar, sometimes on some order of Court on this, sometimes politicians talking about it and so on. And rightly so, as more than 105 cr Indians

This is the story of one Prachi Sukhwani which will be an inspiration for all youth. Prachi is 21, and her vision was steadily waning, but her sight was on getting admission to the prestigious IIM-Ahmedabad. A student at the Maharaja Sayajirao University's faculty of commerce in Vadodara, she

Ministry of Urban Development today approved development of 6 km long Bet Dwarka Darshan Circuit in Gujarat at a cost of Rs.16.27 cr under the Central Scheme ‘Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY)’. HRIDAY National Empowered Committee chaired by Shri Rajiv Gauba, Secretary (UD)

In urban area one can see small bill boards nailed on the trees almost on each one of them on the sides of main thoroughfares. This advertising space is free and so being misused by many. Tree lovers say that this harms the growth and the life of the tree as the nails get rusted and become poisonous

The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi distributed Aids and Assistive Devices to more than 11000 Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjans) at Samajik Adikarita Shivir organized by Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment in District-

U nder the Government of India’s UnnatJyoti by Affordable LEDs for all (UJALA) scheme, Gujarat has become the first state to distribute 2 crore LED bulbs. Gujarat has reached this milestone in just 96 days andover 42 lakh households have already benefited from the scheme. Energy Efficiency Services