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
Ahmedabad (T)
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City smells like toxic spirit, pollution scan reveals
The toxic cocktail of tiny particulate matter (PM) in Ahmedabad's air this winter may be invisible to our eyes, but these very particles — in copious amounts — seep deep into our lungs, our veins, and
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Stray dog menace- Implications and management
A study conducted among 10 Indian metro cities investigates the impact of municipal solid waste and animal birth control programme on stray dog population and its menaces. Its results show statistically
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City to get air action plan soon
Ahmedabad: The state government will give its final touches to a comprehensive air action plan for Ahmedabad city in the coming few days. This will be the second such action plan since 2002. The continuous
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Delhi temp rose faster than most cities' in last 40 years
9 Others Too Saw Similar Rise: Study Delhi is among 10 major cities in the country , which includes all big metros, where the annual mean temperature has risen significantly higher than other cities over
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IITM, Pune to monitor air quality of Ahmedabad
The stations are being set up as part of the nationwide System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) under the Union ministry of earth sciences.The stations are being set up as part
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Fogging requests flood Ahmedabad civic body
AHEMDABAD: In the last 14 days, the civic body's complaint cell received an overwhelming number of requests from citizens desperately seeking fogging and anti-vector activities in their housing societies.
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Malaria on the march in city
AHMEDABAD: In the past two months, there has been a marked increase in the number of patients of malaria and dengue streaming into government and private hospitals. This has made health officials press
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Monsoon petering out, pall of malaria remains
AHMEDABAD: The monsoon may be on its last leg in the city, but that hasn't kept mosquitoes from keeping on spreading in Ahmedabad. Doctors in municipal corporation hospitals and private general hospitals
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Poor air quality across 41 cities in 2015, says CPCB survey
CPCB monitored air quality at a total of 205 monitoring stations. While the worsening air pollution in the country's metro cities has been under scrutiny of courts and Centre, the air quality across
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Civic authorities worried about deadly dengue threat
Ahmedabad: With monsoon rains receding, civic health authorities are worried over the mosquitoe menace. Fresh showers make stagnant water run again, but lack of rains is leading to patches and pools of