TOXIC TRAIL

A small area in northern Vadodara is cluttered with nearly 200 industries, most of them dealing in chemicals. This has created serious …

Private project in public park

Residents of Vadodara protest construction of a multimedia laser fountain in a heritage park

Stinking for two decades

Industrial effluent is contaminating Gujarat villages, but the authorities have not nailed the culprits

Checks on drug trials

Court intervention prompts guidelines for drug trials. Pharmaceutical companies lobby to dilute them

Eco-friendly last ride

What's happening inside disposal units?

Malaria menace

Health experts warn of an impending malaria epidemic in Vadodara. But government officials are silent over the issue

Coot falls prey

Healthy dining: Organic restaurant

Apna Dhaba in Vadodara promises sumptuous food, and all of it is homegrown and organic

Private venture in Vadodara's public park

Stiff opposition from residents to laser fountain and allied projects in Sayaji Baug forces Vadodara municipal corporation to announce scrapping …

Lakeside woes

Vadodara's lakes imperilled by reckless government decisions

Mahi in trouble

Sunny Gujarat builds solar plant atop Sardar Sarovar canal

Centre plans to promote similar solar projects in other states

Half a cervical cancer vaccine

Tests for early detection are more important in India

Pollution Pvt. Ltd.

A polluting industrial unit in Gujarat continues to operate, despite the state Pollution Control Board issuing notices to shut it down

Polluters get away by making ad hoc payment to farmers

No assessment yet of damage caused by industries to villages in Vadodara district

Urban renewal: more talk, less infrastructure

Gujarat pollution board washes hands of creating buffer zones around waste treatment facilities

Central Pollution Control Board guidelines, however, state that no construction activity can take place within 500 metre of treatment, storage …

Two buildings for housing the poor collapse in Vadorara, killing six

It was a mishap waiting to happen

Industrial units in Vapi continue to flout pollution norms

Union environment ministry had lifted moratorium in the area after state pollution control board promised to improve the situation

Reservoir overflow worsens flood in Vadodara

IMD forecasts more rainfall in Gujarat and Maharastra in the next 48 hours

The loss of wisdom

A survey says India has lost a fifth of its languages in the past five decades. With the death of these languages we have also lost the keys to …

NDMA vice-chairperson's post vacant for three months

Members of the apex disaster management body asked to leave after new government came to power at Centre

Mumbai BRTS: held up in transit

Bus transport project changes hands; planners say it’s sabotage

‘Such an ad-lib translocation would lead to human-mugger conflict’

As the Gujarat government sets about catching 500 crocodiles from two ponds near the Statue of Unity to make a seaplane lauchpad for ferrying …