Avinash Nair

The newly built biogas plant, an initiative by the Banas Dairy, has a capacity to treat 40 tonnes of cow dung which is collected daily from 254 farmers of 12 villages in Dama which is near Deesa in Banaskantha district.

After a 15-year hiatus, the country's biggest milk cooperative, which is Amul’s parent company, has now acquired a closed edible oil plant at Palanpur in north Gujarat that will tap locally grown oilseeds.

In the last three months, about 300 of the total 500 crew members who came to Alang, riding on old ships meant to be broken and dismantled, are foreigners.

"We have a lot of oil jetties coming up at Kandla. We already have six. Two are under construction and tenders for three more have been floated," said Sanjay Mehta, chairman of DPT, which floated three tenders for constructing oil jetties number 9, 10 and 11 recently.

Union Shipping Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had earlier told this paper that the new terminal was to provide RO-RO ferry services between Hazira and Ghogha in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat.

India which formally joined the ITER project in 2005, is responsible for delivery of cryostat, in-wall shielding, cooling water system, cryogenic system, heating systems, Diagnostic Neutral Beam System, power supplies and some diagnostics.

The Ahmedabad Metro was on the drawing board since 2005 and was initially planned to connect Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar cities in Phase-I under Metrolink Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA), when retired IAS officer Sanjay Gupta was leading the project.

The two foreign nationals were among the 14 member crew who had beached a vessel "MV Jakarta" on Saturday at Alang and were immediately quarantined after disembarkation.

The workers who are “tunnelling experts” are among the 300-odd migrant workforce who will be brought back by second week of July from five states, officials working with the Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) said.

The scheme was launched on May 21 for small entrepreneurs and the self-employed whose incomes were adversely affected by the Covid-19 lockdown.

The biggest of the aftershocks was the one measuring 4.6 that occurred at 12.57 pm on Monday. The epicentre lay 15 kilometre north-northeast of Bhachau in Kutch district.

Of the total claims made during these three months, 25,061 claims have been made by employees who filled in Form-19. This form is used for withdrawal of PF when an employee retires or quits his job.

Compared to a normal rainfall of 17 mm, Gujarat has received 258 mm of rains in month of June so far, most of which were in Saurashtra and South Gujarat regions of the state, according to figures from the Indian Meteorological Department

At present, Dholka has 126 cases, while Daskroi 110 cases, Sanand 75 and Bavla 56, accounting for 84 per cent of the total Covid cases in rural Ahmedabad.

Data provided by the state government revealed that over 5.45 lakh farmers sold 91.67 lakh quintals of agricultural produce at APMCs and earned Rs 3,702 crore between March 24 and June 1.

According to a Majur Adhikar Manch, a labour union of construction workers, there are an estimated 100 labour markets or kadia nakas in Ahmedabad alone.

In this case, the district administration is bearing the cost of the rented bungalows. The youngest individual of this infected family is a 15-year-old girl, while the eldest member is a 50-year-old woman.

While the train to Howrah in West Bengal largely carried artisans who used to work in jewellery shops in Ahmedabad, the train to Dimapur in Nagaland will be stopping at Vadodara, Surat and Nagpur to pick up passengers.

Data provided by the state government revealed that over 5.45 lakh farmers sold 91.67 lakh quintals of agricultural produce at APMCs and earned Rs 3,702 crore between March 24 and June 1.

"Reverse quarantine is a practice of detaching the most vulnerable groups from the general public, to protect them from contracting the virus. Rural Ahmedabad will be the first to implement this process," said Arun Mahesh Babu, DDO of Ahmedabad.

Earnings from various taxes are down by over 50 per cent

The state government too has announced relief measures through over 16 different programmes, officials said. This includes Rs 688 crore that will be spent on giving Rs 1,000 to 68.80 lakh families of labourers in the state and the Rs 45 crore that has been spent on migrants housed in shelters.

Accused of irregularities in the polls, Dhaval Jani was posted with Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) before being deputed on Covid-19 duty.

On Wednesday, a video was widely shared showing a patient with blood draining out of the nasal tubes and purportedly dead.