June 2019

GUJARAT Western Railway runs trains on biodiesel across Gujarat   These ‘Green Trains’ create less pollution compared to conventional diesel. This year, the theme for the World Environment Day is ‘Beat Air Pollution’. The trains from Ahmedabad to Bhuj; Rajkot to Morbi and Bhavnagar to Surendranagar used biodiesel. Biodiesel is made from jatropha plant. The … Read more

GUJARAT No university, one college in Gujarat get 5 stars   No university in Gujarat has got a perfect score, revealed the newly introduced Gujarat State Institutional Rating Framework (GSIRF). To improve quality of higher education in the state, the government recently had launched its own state rating framework, on the lines of the National … Read more

GUJARAT Gujarat third in cases, second in no of deaths   Union health ministry data shows that Gujarat has reported the third highest number of cases in the country this year, while it is second in terms of deaths. The union health ministry’s Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) statistics showed that as of February 24, … Read more

GUJARAT Gujarat government mulls setting up its own insurance entity   The state government is looking at launching its own insurance company. The rationale is that the state government can build a big corpus in good crop years, which currently goes to private insurers in the form of massive profits. In 2018, farmers from the … Read more