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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PM 2.5 pollution shortening lives by three years: Study
Ahmedabad: A new study has started ringing alarm bells for Gujarat cities. The uncontrolled exploitation of the air we breathe and lost green cover is reducing life expectancy in the state by between 2.9
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PUC norms to be revised
Ahmedabad: A comprehensive air action plan is being formulated by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, district collectorate and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) with the focus exclusively on reducing
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Drafts of pollution, greening plans to be released by AMC and GPCB
Ahmedabad: The steady rise in particulate matter pollution over permissible limits has forced Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the district collectorate and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB)
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Ahmedabad traffic cops to log pollution data
Ahmedabad: Spare a thought for the traffic police personnel standing for hours in the sun, inhaling fumes, exposed to the dust and noise on Ahmedabad roads. In the first-of-its-kind study, a team of
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Traffic cops to carry heat and pollution monitors
Ahmedabad: In a unique experiment, the Indian Institute of public health (IIPH) Gandhinagar will now measure the amount of heat as well as pollution levels our traffic police personnel standing at major
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4 major cities in list of most polluted
Our craze for diesel vehicles, especially in case of public transport, construction activities and unregulated fumes emanating from smouldering garbage sites and industrial clusters surrounding Gujarat
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Lung diseases rise on toxic air
Ahmedabad: Respiratory disease cases in Gujarat have been skyrocketing over the past few years. A recent report from the Union health ministry has shockingly revealed that in Gujarat, between 2013 and
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HC tells GPCB to file affidavit on jewellery units
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court on Monday asked the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to file an affidavit on its stand pertaining to the operation of jewellery manufacturing units in the walled city,
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E-waste now to be removed by companies
AHMEDABAD: Despite speaking big about e-waste disposal for the past three years, little has been done on that front by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. It was in 2013 that the AMC had proposed an ambitious
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Smart city technology should be simple: Experts
Ahmedabad: A central aspect of smart cities is to create value for any services by integrating different technological systems in a city-which may link payment, civic services and the service industry.