Urban India’s parking woes: an overview
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Bangalore
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution by dyeing units, Bangalore, Karnataka, 05/02/2015
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of M/s. Sri Guru Krupa Dyeing Unit & Others Vs Karnataka State Pollution Control Board & Others dated 05/02/2015 regarding pollution
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Finally, some serious thought to protecting water bodies
The Forest and Revenue departments will soon embark on a joint survey of lakes and tanks in urban areas of the State. The drive, with its focus on the water bodies of Bengaluru, involves identifying their
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Noise pollution level shoots up in Bangalore
Complaints increase from 88 to 122 in four months. Construction activity in various parts of the city seems to be taking a toll on the residents. The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has
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What Cabinet decision has been taken on Mashelkar report, NGT asks Centre
With the rising vehicular pollution across metros becoming a matter of concern, the National Green Tribunal earlier this week asked the Centre to place before it the Dr. Mashelkar Committee Report on auto
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Future proofing Indian cities
The Future Proofing Indian Cities project represents the first time that evidence on the holistic set of risks and possible solutions to target specific vulnerabilities to risks has been explored for Bangalore
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'Congenital hypothyroidism test should be made mandatory'
With a sudden rise in the number congenital hypothyroidism (CH) cases among infants, the lack of testing centres for the same is making matters worse. Not only that. Most government and private hospitals
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Future proofing Indian cities: Bangalore action plan for water and sanitation infrastructure
The purpose of the action plan is to provide the tools to plan Bangalore’s resilience, as well as the capacity to act among city leaders, infrastructure and service providers and amongst the community.
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Real time ambient noise levels in 7 Metro cities during Deepawali 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014
Real Time Continuous Ambient Noise Monitoring has been conducted at 35 locations in seven cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Bangalore and Hyderabad) since 2011. Ambient Noise Level Trend
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A Tale of Five Cities: Heat Waves, Cold Spells and Mortality Risk in Urban India
Hyderabad, Mumbai and Shimla spanning 2005 - 2012. We developed Poisson regression models to study ‘the main temperature effect’ as well as ‘additional impacts’ of sustained high and low temperatures (i.e.
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Urban metabolism of six Asian cities
The urban metabolism framework maps the activities of cities from their consumption of materials, the different activities associated with those processes, and the wastes produced. Information generated