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As many as 11 Bangladeshi nationals who were living in the city illegally were detained here on Saturday, police said. The Special Operations Group of the Gujarat police said it detained 11 persons from a settlement near Chandola Lake in Ishanpur here. The police will now initiate the process to deport them to Bangladesh, SOG assistant commissioner of police B C Solanki said. The detainees had failed to provide any documents supporting their Indian nationality, he said, adding that the police are investigating if they were involved in any criminal activity. The men were detained after the SOG formed two teams to find them following instructions from the police commissioner, the official said. … [Read more...] about Gujarat: 11 ‘illegal’ Bangladeshi nationals detained

A report has been sought by education department authorities in Panchmahal district of Gujarat after a boy and girl of Class XII were found kissing in a classroom, an official said on Saturday. The video of the act, showing two students kissing in a classroom in Krushikar School in Morva Hadaf, some eight kilometres from here, has gone viral on social media. "We have sought a report from authorities of Krushikar Secondary School in Morva Hadaf after a girl and boy were seen kissing in the classroom in a video," said Panchmahal District Education Officer BS Panchal. School Principal Ashwin Patel said parents of the two students have been informed about the incident, and statements of the staff and supervisor have been recorded. "We will question students, staff on Monday, since Sunday is a holiday. We will get clarity on the incident after everyone is spoken to," Patel added. … [Read more...] about Viral video shows Class XII girl, boy kissing in Gujarat classroom

Mumbai: Chinese turbine manufacturer Envision Energy on Thursday said it has commissioned two wind projects with a total capacity of 232.5 MW in Gujarat. The contracts involved a 197.5 MW wind power project for Actis-backed Sprng Energy and a 35 MW project for ReNew Power which were awarded under tranche 1 of Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam's wind auctions. The projects were built on turnkey basis using state-of-the-art 2.5-MW turbines with 131 m rotor diameter and 120 m hub height, the company said in a statement. "It is the first time that a Chinese wind turbine company has built a large scale wind power project in India," Envision Energy India deputy MD Milind Kulkarni said. He further said the nacelles and hubs for the turbines were assembled at its facility in Pune, where it has already invested USD 25 million (about Rs 175 crore). "Soon we will commence manufacturing of steel tubular towers and rotor blades in the country, achieving complete indigenisation of major components," … [Read more...] about Envision Energy commissions 2 wind projects in Gujarat

In 2015, the same group of ZSI scientists with the support of the Gujarat forest department had successfully restored branching coral species (staghorn corals) belonging to the family Acroporidae (Acropora formosa, Acropora humilis, Montipora digitata) that had gone extinct about 10,000 years ago to the Gulf of Kachchh. The researchers claimed that the specimens for regenerating these corals were brought from the Gulf of Mannar with the help of Tamil Nadu’s Forest Department. … [Read more...] about India begins coral restoration in Gulf of Kachchh