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
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Heavy rains flood city areas
AHMEDABAD: Heavy rains lashed western parts of the city on Thursday. Though maximum temperature was higher than the past two days, it was two degrees below normal for this day of the year, and came
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Rs 2,500 crore six-laning of Ahmedabad-Rajkot highway on fast track
Gandhinagar: The government has cleared the long pending proposal of widening the busy four-lane Ahmedabad-Rajkot highway to six lanes in public private partnership (PPP) mode. Chief minister Anandiben
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All of Gujarat now under monsoon's reign: India Meteorological Department
Ahmedabad: The south-western monsoon has now spread across entire Gujarat, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday. This year, the arrival of monsoon was delayed by over a month.
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Countdown timers to return after 8 years
Ahmedabad: Forget those restless seconds while waiting for a traffic light to turn green. Traffic Signal Countdown Timers (TSCT) will be back at 186 traffic junctions in the city. The countdown timers
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‘Breathing toxic air is akin to passive smoking’
AHMEDABAD: Polluted air can be as dangerous as passive smoking warned medical experts at a public seminar held on Sunday at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA). Air heavy with particulate matter - PM10
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City needs 1.81 crore trees to breathe easy
Ahmedabad: It would require Ahmedabad to grow 1.81 crore trees to trap the tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and poisonous carbon monoxide (CO) gases we vent into Ahmedabad's air, according to the state forest
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Suzlon powers Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s maiden wind project
Suzlon Group, one of the leading renewable energy solutions providers in the world, announced the completion and commissioning of the 4.20 MW maiden wind project for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC).
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Ahmedabad's breathtaking record! Pollution above limit all year
Over the past six years, the city has been turning into a veritable gas chamber with particulate matter, noxious gases, and other impurities breaching permissible limits. During peak hour traffic of
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New airport to harvest rain water
Nisha Agnihotri, resident architect for New Delhi-based architect firm Creative Group, said, "Right from the stage when the site was being prepared for construction to the completion stage, all GRIHA norms
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War against waste: She proposes, Ahmedabad disposes!
Ahmedabad: Several Ahmedabad apartments were casually tossing garbage in the open. Industrial units were dumping solid biodegradable waste, unmindful of the practice of converting it into vermicompost.