On eve of World Cancer Day on Friday, there were a number of young men who were battling for life in hospitals because they could not kick the addiction of tobacco.

In Ahmedabad as well as in Gujarat, spread of oral cancer is alarming. “Oral cancer accounts for 40 per cent cancers in men in the state. This is because of high addiction to gutkha,” said noted head and neck cancer surgeon of HCG Medisurge, Dr Kaustubh Patel.

Distribution reforms in power sector should be accelerated for capacity addition to yield results. At a time when India has staked its claim to a seat at the high table alongside world powers, around 57% of rural households and 12% of urban households have no access to electricity. That partly explains why India’s per capita consumption of power of around 717 units a year is way below the world average of 2,600 units and developed countries’ average of 8,000 units.

More Than Half The Users Of Green Products Unhappy With Available Options: Survey

Ahmedabad: Use of CFL and LED bulbs in households may generally be linked to increased awareness amongst citizens about environmentfriendly and energy-efficient (EE) products. But a recent study points towards the fact that such usage may be closely linked with its cost-efficient quotient as well. The study also highlighted the fact that more than half the users of EE products are not happy with them due to various factors.

New Delhi Close to five crore farmers have availed of the benefits under the national crop insurance scheme, which aims at protecting farming communities against crop failures due to vagaries of weather, pest attacks and diseases.

According to the latest data released on Wednesday by ministry of agriculture, crop insurance claims worth of R22, 135 crore have been settled till now for 4.86 crore farmers mostly from Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Bihar and Karntaka.

Gandhinagar: The Narmada canal’s movement towards Kutch has suddenly hit an environmental roadblock. Already under construction, the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL), which is Narmada project’s implementing agency, has now found to its utter bewilderment that it had never taken a crucial forest conservation Act clearance from the Government of India for Kutch branch canal’s 13 kilometre stretch falling outside the Wild Ass Sanctuary.

It Will Also Introduce Hand Held Ticketing Machines

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Services (AMTS) is going in for a makeover. No more a city bus service, the AMTS is being groomed to play a larger role — feeder bus service for the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) and also a means to encourage more passengers to choose public transport over personal vehicles.

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat's dream of becoming the 'gas gateway' to North India received strong financial backing worth Rs 4,500 crore from a dozen-odd nationalized banks on Monday, when state-sector company, Gujarat State Petronet Ltd (GSPL), signed up an agreement with the consortium led by Bank of India to fund the 2,200-km-long gas pipeline project from Mehsana to Jammu, via Bathinda in Punjab. The project will take three years to complete.

Concern over decline of Rajasthan's State bird population

The critically-endangered grassland species, the Great Indian Bustard, will be counted in the desert terrain of Rajasthan in the second week of February. Rajasthan, specially its desert region, accounts for maximum population of the bird which is globally threatened and listed in the Red Book of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).