Ahmedabad Green City

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday planted tree saplings in Ahmedabad and appealed to citizens to make it the city with the largest green cover not just in India, but in the world.

The nationwide coronavirus lockdown will be extended by two more weeks from May 4, the government said on Friday, noting significant gains from the six-week shutdown in India's fight to slow the spread of COVID-19. Extending the lockdown for the second time, the home ministry announced new guidelines based on the demarcation of the country into red...

The Indian Government has finally announced a policy for the rollout of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. In an official document that was sent out by the Ministry Of Power on December 14, 2018, the government has outlined several key facts, figures and a plan to support the expansion of electric vehicles in the country. The push for electr...

The European Union (EU) has agreed to pay 3.5 million Euros to help evolve a low-carbon urban transport system between Kochi, Ahmedabad and Nagpur, and help India improve its sustainable transport policy, the government said on Friday.

Aimed at providing much needed connectivity to the commuters in some of the densest and traffic congested areas of Ahmedabad, the Union Cabinet today approved Rs 10,773 crore for phase-1 of Ahmedabad Metro 1 covering 35.96 km.

The players, clad in green blazers, boarded the team buses and immediately drove down to a city hotel, escorted by pilot cars.

Chief minister Narendra Modi's book - 'Convenient Action - Gujarat's Response to Challenges of Climate Change'- will be launched in the city on Tuesday in the presence of former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, among others. The event, which will be held at Tagore Hall in Paldi at 5pm, will have RK Pachauri, director general of The Energy & Resour...

Soon, Gujarat University students will be able to drink water from the Narmada river. The University Grants Commission (UGC) today approved a loan of Rs20 lakh for the university. This grant by the UGC, also known as 'supplementary grant', will be used in developing key infrastructure facilities in the university's campus. GU will use this grant in...

At a time when global warming and the depleting green cover of the earth have become a matter of concern, the Ambaji temple trust has launched a unique movement to fight deforestation. The Arasuri Ambaji Mata Devasthan Trust (AAMDT) has been organizing, in association with Banaskantha district authorities, a religious 'Vrukshanarayan ni Katha' (Tal...

Vishal Kurani, a city-based teacher, has won the 'Clean and Green' Facebook photo contest, organised by the American Centre in Mumbai. A photo contest based on the themes of global climate change, greenhouse gases and deforestation, 'Clean and Green' was judged by eminent Vadodara-based photographer Rahul Gajjar. Gajjar used technical merit, themat...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday planted tree saplings in Ahmedabad and appealed to citizens to make it the city with the largest green cover not just in India, but in the world.

The nationwide coronavirus lockdown will be extended by two more weeks from May 4, the government said on Friday, noting significant gains from the six-week shutdown in India's fight to slow the spread of COVID-19. Extending the lockdown for the second time, the home ministry announced new guidelines based on the demarcation of the country into red...

The Indian Government has finally announced a policy for the rollout of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. In an official document that was sent out by the Ministry Of Power on December 14, 2018, the government has outlined several key facts, figures and a plan to support the expansion of electric vehicles in the country. The push for electr...

The European Union (EU) has agreed to pay 3.5 million Euros to help evolve a low-carbon urban transport system between Kochi, Ahmedabad and Nagpur, and help India improve its sustainable transport policy, the government said on Friday.

Aimed at providing much needed connectivity to the commuters in some of the densest and traffic congested areas of Ahmedabad, the Union Cabinet today approved Rs 10,773 crore for phase-1 of Ahmedabad Metro 1 covering 35.96 km.

The players, clad in green blazers, boarded the team buses and immediately drove down to a city hotel, escorted by pilot cars.

Chief minister Narendra Modi's book - 'Convenient Action - Gujarat's Response to Challenges of Climate Change'- will be launched in the city on Tuesday in the presence of former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, among others. The event, which will be held at Tagore Hall in Paldi at 5pm, will have RK Pachauri, director general of The Energy & Resour...

Soon, Gujarat University students will be able to drink water from the Narmada river. The University Grants Commission (UGC) today approved a loan of Rs20 lakh for the university. This grant by the UGC, also known as 'supplementary grant', will be used in developing key infrastructure facilities in the university's campus. GU will use this grant in...

At a time when global warming and the depleting green cover of the earth have become a matter of concern, the Ambaji temple trust has launched a unique movement to fight deforestation. The Arasuri Ambaji Mata Devasthan Trust (AAMDT) has been organizing, in association with Banaskantha district authorities, a religious 'Vrukshanarayan ni Katha' (Tal...

Vishal Kurani, a city-based teacher, has won the 'Clean and Green' Facebook photo contest, organised by the American Centre in Mumbai. A photo contest based on the themes of global climate change, greenhouse gases and deforestation, 'Clean and Green' was judged by eminent Vadodara-based photographer Rahul Gajjar. Gajjar used technical merit, themat...