Gujarat

Apart from uranium, the wells tested in Gujarat and Rajasthan also contained significant amounts of fluorides and nitrates. Representative image. Credit: Reuters/Amit Dave

Groundwater in Northwest India Has a Uranium Contamination Problem

Lakshmi Supriya 25/06/2018

Unlike the limits for arsenic and other toxic metals...

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111 Infants Dead in Past Five Months in Adani-Run Hospital, Probe Ordered

Adani Education and Research Foundation-run G.K. General Hospital in...

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State’s Tuberculosis Rampage Exemplifies the Failure of the ‘Gujarat Model’

Kiran Kumbhar 27/11/2017

Gujarat has so utterly failed in controlling TB that...

Workers wait for a cargo ship to beach at Mundra Port in Gujarat April 2, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Amit Dave

Supreme Court Orders Further Probe Into Environmental Violations at Adani’s Mundra Port and SEZ

The Wire Staff 01/11/2017

An environment ministry committee, which had earlier found large-scale...

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Gujarat Isn’t Doing Well on Bringing Down Its Infant Mortality Rate

Noor Mohammad 01/11/2017

While Gujarat's IMR reduction has been better than the...

ASHA workers protesting in Vadodara. Credit: Damayantee Dhar

Gujarat ASHA Workers’ Protest Ends, But Not Their Struggle for Better Conditions

Damayantee Dhar 31/10/2017

Close to 50 ASHA workers and two leaders of...

Congress party workers protest against the superintendent of the Civil Hospital after the death of nine newborn babies in its NICU, in Ahmedabad on Sunday. Credit: PTI

Gujarat Government Orders Probe After 18 Newborns Die Within Three Days in Ahmedabad Hospital

The Wire Staff 30/10/2017

The spate of deaths once again puts a question...