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)
-
Solar Impulse launched the 'FutureIsClean movement'
BENGALURU: The Solar Impulse aircraft will leave Abu Dhabi officially kick-starting the round-the-world tour. It will land in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. An official press note issued by the team read: "Ahead
-
61 new H1N1 cases in Ahmedabad
Since its first outbreak in 2009, Ahmedabad city registered 61 new cases, the highest number of swine flu patients on a single day, in the state on Sunday. The state also registered 11 deaths as well
-
Solar power to cut energy bill
The AMC has decided to go green. Apart from adopting the rooftop solar power policy, the AMC has decided to set up a solar power station at Kankaria for the laser show which will now be a regular feature.
-
Litter blaster to press for zero-waste zone in old city
She has been an inexorable force in sustaining the battle against litter. From galvanizing the Walled City residents to give up plastic to turning Khanpur apartments into a near zero-waste zone, Phani
-
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
-
Private firm to treat bio-med wastes
AHMEDABAD: With the burgeoning amount of medical waste generated from four municipal hospitals, two referral hospitals and 64 urban health centres, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has now given
-
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.
-
Odisha to study Ahmedabad model for city BRTS project
The Odisha government will study the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) currently in use at Ahmedabad, ahead of adopting a similar project for its capital city Bhubaneswar. Next month, the state housing and
-
Rs 19.37 lakh collected in fines for breaking sanitation rules
The health department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has filed 197 complaints of sanitation against various restaurants and eateries in concerned courts. The department has levied fines worth Rs 19.37
-
GPCB finding: City air is dustier, more unsafe
Our air is becoming dustier, infected and now threatens us to affect out respiratory systems. The latest suspended particulate matter pollution data in different areas of the city has clearly pointed fingers