Pulkit Vasudha
Thousands of fish have been swept up the shores of Gujarat in recent years. The incidents have become more common in the last few months. Here’s a quick recap at the latest incident of fish deaths along the shores of Nirmal Gujarat.
September 2005: Lakhs of fish die after immersion of Ganapati idols in Kankaria [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, September 25 Sunita Williams could not contain her emotions while speaking of her friend and fellow astronaut, the late Kalpana Chawla, at an event organised at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad on Tuesday. “Kalpana was a great friend and also my greatest role model,” said Sunita stifling sobs.
“I consider myself a citizen [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, September 25 Sunita Williams could not contain her emotions while speaking of her friend and fellow astronaut, the late Kalpana Chawla, at an event organised at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad on Tuesday. “Kalpana was a great friend and also my greatest role model,” said Sunita stifling sobs.
She recounted an incident when [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
Patan/Kutch/Amreli, September 19 No one in Rafu village of Sami taluka in Patan district remembers when the building of the primary health centre (PHC) collapsed. The new set of buildings being financed by the European Union in the name of post-earthquake development programme, are no where near completion.
Rafu PHC presently functions from the nurse’s [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
Fatehgarh (Rapar, Kutch), September 17:Fatehgarh village in Rapar taluka in Kutch district is on a fast-track to an environmental disaster. The frantic mining in the clay belt of Fatehgarh and adjoining villages in Rapar, has spelt disaster not just for land but also the livelihood in this region.
The agricultural productivity of the land has [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
Rapar (Kutch), September 9 Hazraben Khamisa Bhatti, of Taga village in Kutch, knew Roshan, just a year younger to her 22-year-old son, Faiz, would make for a perfect daughter-in-law. There was a small hitch, though. Faiz’s family did not have the amount of money that Roshan’s family demanded as “royalty” in exchange of their [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, September 2:The annual theatrical extravaganza– Sankalp-2007 –is all set to take the centrestage in Ahmedabad once again. On Saturday, with Mudra Institute of Communication-Ahmedabad (MICA) launching the first website solely dedicated to Sankalp, the annual festival also kicked off with the students’ adaptation of Ed Monk’s popular play, ‘Cut’, getting a standing [...]
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Ahmedabad, September 1: The findings of the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2005-06 has turned out to be an eye-opener for Community Food and Nutrition Extension Unit (CFNEU) of the Health and Family Welfare department of the state government.
The survey found that over 80 per cent children belonging to the age group of [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, August 31: The countdown to India’s first moon mission has begun, and the major part of the work is happening in our own backyard at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Ahmedabad. When Chandrayan-I soars into space in April 2008, India will become the fifth [...]