Tag Archives: Gujarat

Indo-German joint research team has discovered a rare fossil of the limb of a dinosaur at Kas Hill in Lodai area of Kutch in Gujarat, joining Balasinor, the only other site where several such fossils were found earlier. The 10-meter-long herbivore became extinct millions of years ago and the fossil remains found on January 19 were about 130 million years ...

Just as in the film “Life of Pie”, a lion that jumped into the Arabian Sea was rescued by forest officials off the Jafrabad Port in Gujarat. The Asiatic lion from Gir National Park that is a sanctuary, was seen initially on a rock of the ocean and when onlookers were clicking it, it soon jumped into the waters. While ...

In West Bengal, 48 deaths have been reported and another 28 in Rajasthan following massive floods in the northern India including Gujarat, Manipur, West Bengal and Odisha. The rains remain heavy due to depression, warn Met department, especially in other regions too including Bihar, sikkim, MP, Chhatisgarh and Jharkhand. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to Chief Minister of Gujarat ...

The census of lions taken up last week registers a dramatic 130 percent more in numbers of the Asiatic lion population in Gujarat at 523, up from 411 in 2010 but environmentalists are up in arms that the Gir forest region is shrinking due to human encroachment. The census undertaken in 22,000 square km found merely 4.4% or 14 lions, ...

After a five-year gap, India has kicked off enumeration of lions in Gir Sanctuary of Gujarat, the last habitat for the endangered big cats. The census will reveal whether there is any growth or decline in the number of lions from the last recorded 411 in 2010. In 2005, there were only 359 lions in the sanctuary. Officials hope to ...

Ten people have tested positive for swine flu in Kolkata, with the dreaded virus disease fast spreading in all corners of the country, triggering the initial signs of an imminent outbreak. “So far there are 10 positive cases in Kolkata. The tests are being run at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) facility in Beleghata,” a Swasthya ...

Swine flu or the H1N1 virus is fast spreading in Gujarat with 10 more deaths reported on Sunday alone and the total swine flu deaths in the state reaching 81 this year, reports said. Swine flu director of Gujarat Dr Kamlesh Upadhyay has attributed the dramatic rise in deaths due to initial treatment with anti-biotics instead of anti-viral drugs. “There ...

With the swine flu scare reaching more states, the union health ministry has reviewed the swine flu situation in various states, including Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat recently. The meeting, chaired by additional secretary in the health ministry, A.K. Panda and attended by senior health officials of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Telangana, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry was unhurt on Monday afternoon after his motorcade was involved in road accident while on the way to the airport to fly to Pakistan. Gujarat Police officials said two cars in Kerry’s motorcade were involved in the accident as he left the Mahatma Mandir convention centre after attending the seventh Vibrant Gujarat summit. “It ...

The two-day global business summit, Vibrant Gujarat Summit, received huge investment and job creation plans from businessmen across the globe on Monday. The business summit is being held since Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, in 2003. Modi has presented India as a manufacturing hub to the gathering on Sunday and said that “My government is ...