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Indore adjudged cleanest city for 6th consecutive time, Surat on 2nd

Indore was adjudged India's cleanest city for the sixth time in a row, while Surat and Navi Mumbai followed it on the next two spots in the Central government's annual cleanliness survey, the results of which were announced Saturday. In the category of best performing states in 'Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022', Madhya Pradesh has secured the first position, followed by Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra. Indore and Surat retained their top positions in the big cities category this year, while Vijaywada lost its third spot to Navi Mumbai. Among the states having fewer than 100 urban local bodies, Tripura has bagged the top rank, according to the survey results. President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday gave away the awards to the winners at an event here also attended by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and others. In the category of cities having population fewer than one lakh, Maharashtra's Panchgani was ranked number one, followed by Chhattisgarh's Patan (NP) and

DREAM city project will help Surat emerge as safest diamond trading hub: PM

Ahead of the Gujarat Assembly polls due later this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a roadshow in Surat and said the city will emerge as the safest and convenient diamond trading hub in the world once the Diamond Research and Mercantile (DREAM) City project is completed. The PM later also held a roadshow in Bhavnagar city where women showered rose petals on his car and artistes performed folk dances on stages erected by local administration at several places along the route. In Surat, Modi addressed a rally in Limbayat area after laying the foundation stone and inaugurating a host of projects worth Rs 3,400 crore, including inauguration of the main entrance gate and phase-1 works of DREAM City, an ambitious project coming up on 700 hectares of land near Khajod village on the outer Ring Road of Surat. He also said the Indian Railways has come up with a plan to run a special train between Surat and his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi for convenient transportation of

PM Modi holds roadshow in Surat; set to launch projects worth Rs 29,000 cr

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a roadshow here on Thursday as part of his two-day Gujarat visit and waved to people standing on road sides since early morning to greet him. PM Modi will inaugurate or lay foundation stones for various projects worth Rs 29,000 crore during the two-day visit to his home state, where the Assembly elections are due in December this year. After landing at the Surat airport in the morning, Modi led a 2.5 kilometre roadshow from Ghodadara to Limbayat area of the city. The prime minister, while sitting inside his car, waved to people who were standing on both sides of the road since early morning to greet him. Gujarat is slated for the Assembly elections later this year and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is making all out efforts to retain power in the state. From Surat, PM Modi will go to Bhavnagar to launch various projects, including the stone laying of the world's first CNG terminal and a brownfield port in Bhavnagar, a state government rel

DREAM city project to help Surat become safest diamond trading hub: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said once the Diamond Research and Mercantile (DREAM) city project is completed, Surat will emerge as the safest and convenient diamond trading hub in the world. Addressing a rally after laying the foundation stone and inaugurating a host of projects here in Gujarat, Modi said in the last 20 years Surat has progressed by leaps and bounds. Remembering the struggle to get an airport in Surat city, Modi said they (when he was the chief minister of Gujarat) got tired in explaining the need for an airport here to the then UPA government. Now, many people come and go from the airport here and it has helped in the city's development. This is the benefit of the double engine government, he said. Modi said many families are dependent on the diamond and textile industries of Surat. "Surat will emerge as the safest and convenient diamond trading hub in the world once the DREAM city project is completed," Modi said. He also said that more than four cr

Gujarat gears up for 36th National Games with 36 sporting events

Beginning on Sept 27, the 14-day event will see over 7,000 sportspersons

Worker killed, 20 injured, 3 missing after fire in Surat chemical factory

A worker was killed, 20 others were injured and three went missing after a major fire broke out in a chemical factory in Gujarat's Surat city, officials said on Sunday. The blaze erupted around 10.30 pm on Saturday in the Anupam Rasayan India Limited factory located in Sachin Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) area with a massive blast in a container storing hazardous chemicals, Surat in-charge Chief Fire Officer Basant Pareek said. The fire soon spread across the factory in which one worker was charred to death, he said. The body was recovered late night, Sachin GIDC police inspector DV Baldaniya said, adding that 20 workers were injured in the fire and they were undergoing treatment at different hospitals in the city. Three other workers were missing, he said. "We are searching the factory premises for the missing workers," the police official said. Fifteen fire tenders were rushed to the spot and it took nearly two hours to bring the blaze under control, Pareek

Surat's polishing industry in for a treat as lab-grown diamonds find favour

Of the roughly 8,000 polishing units in Gujarat city, 15% polish lab-grown diamonds exclusively

After slow start to 2022, Surat textile industry looks for festive cheer

However, orders have been lower 30% compared with normal between mid-July and early August

Double the pain for Surat diamond industry as demand falls, costs rise

Western markets fear recession and domestic business is uncertain ahead of festival season later this year

Ahead of Gujarat polls, Kejriwal to hold town hall meeting in Surat

Aam Aadmi Party head Arvind Kejriwal is scheduled to hold a town hall meeting and a press conference on Thursday in Surat city of Gujarat where the Assembly polls are due this year

Kejriwal to visit Surat to announce AAP's first pre-poll 'guarantee'

The AAP has made free electricity a key poll plank in Gujarat, where the party has positioned itself as a major contender for power.

Surat's textile hub consolidated as small players failed to survive GST

This ground report from the diamond city captures the travails of small-scale units

Surat diamond industry pins hope on new mines amid staggered work

With some mines in Botswana being put to work, rough diamond trade could ease by 10% amid US sanctions on Russia's Alrosa which commands 27% global supply

As US buyers check for source, Surat diamond industry changes sales plan

Polishing units shift focus to domestic business as American clients shun Russian stones and company partly owned by the Kremlin comes under sanctions.

Russia impact: Surat diamond industry stares at massive job losses in June

The month of May offers some respite with 25 per cent workers sent on leave till June

Surat's looming crisis: Workers, industries pay the price of power cuts

The second part of a series on power crisis takes you to Surat, a commercial textiles hub. This ground report looks at the impact on weaves and knit

Polishing industry faces production cut amid delay in rough diamond imports

The industry is facing a hit of at least 30-40 per cent to its production capacity, due to delayed diamond imports.

Cyclical downturns lead Surat textile industry to stitch export dreams

The largest cluster of man-made fibre (MMF) textiles in the country, Surat was largely domestic market-focused with over 90 per cent sales.

Rahul Gandhi seeks proper investigation into Surat gas leak incident

He also sent his condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the incident

Six killed in gas leak in Gujarat's Surat, 20 others hospitalised

Six people have died and 20 others have been hospitalised in an incident of a gas leak at a company in Sachin GIDC area of Gujarat's Surat on Thursday."Six people died and 20 others were admitted to the civil hospital after gas leakage at a company in Sachin GIDC area of Surat early morning today," the In-Charge Superintendent of the hospital, Dr Omkar Chaudhary informed.Further details are awaited.