Gujarat

Jagrutiben Samanthbhai, a dairy farmer from Mujkuva village in Anklav taluka of Gujarat’s Anand district, put up a bio-gas plant at a cost of Rs 24,000 two years ago. She was till then finding it difficult to dispose of the dung from her four buffaloes; each of them produced 15-20 kg on an average

Young boys in tee shirts, shorts and chappals, their hands adorned with long floral garlands, are a sight one cannot miss on 31-km main road connecting Limkheda with Dahod. Their presence also marks the entry into Rozam, a village in Dahod district and taluka, where there are marigold fields of both

The shaded net house over a one-acre area stands out in Bhadarpada, against the lush green vegetation and densely forested background surrounding this village of Dang district’s Waghai taluka. Inside the greenhouse are bright red, heart-shaped anthuriums with their white and yellow tipped spadices

The Special Protection Group (SPG) has installed bee-boxes with live bee-colonies provided by the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) in its headquarter premises at Dwarka here yesterday. The advice for this was given by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi during his recent visit to the SPG

Seventeen-year-old Aviraj Chaudhary, one of 11 children of poor, illiterate tribal farmers, has become the first person from Dang district to have secured an admission in IIT-Delhi. Chaudhary will soon be joining the Textile Technology Engineering course at the premier technological institute

Shakira Gariya, 17, is all set to be the first girl from her village of Bodhan in Surat to become a doctor, having cleared the recent NEET exam with 570 marks. Her father, a daily wage labourer who fends for the family by pulling handcarts, is over the moon. Shakira is among the 30 students from

The Gujarat government has started a novel emissions trading programme aimed to cut particulate air pollution and facilitate robust economic growth. Chief minister Vijay Rupani launched the pilot programme on Wednesday in Surat, a densely populated industrial centre with a significant number of

President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated the Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Gandhinagar, Gujarat today. He also presented the 10th Biennial National Grassroots Innovation Awards. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that as we seek to meet important developmental goals

A National Conference on “Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme (DDRS)”was inaugurated today by the Union Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment ThaawarchandGehlot here today. He delivered the key note address on the detailed account of the scheme. The Conference was organised by the Department

Railways Ministry will develop a world class station at Kevadiya near the site of the Statue of Unity in Gujarat. The world's tallest statue (182 meters) dedicated to India's first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 31st October last year. Kevadiya

Cardiac surgeon Dr Tejas Patel performed what doctors claimed to be the “world’s first ever in-human telerobotic coronary intervention procedure” here on Wednesday. The procedure took barely 20 minutes at the Apex Heart Institute with Dr Patel supervising it from the Akshardham Swaminarayan Temple

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) plans to offer free haircuts to 1.24 lakh students enrolled in its 372 primary schools across the city as part of a “swachhata campaign”. Under the initiative, once a month, students will be offered free haircuts at schools irrespective of gender, caste or