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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Heat kills 3 more in Ahmedabad, toll touches 12
AHMEDABAD: With the maximum temperature at 44.4 degree celsius in the city, Ahmedabad witnessed three more heat-related deaths on Sunday. This took the death toll from the heatwave to 12. On Sunday, the
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21% rise in fatal accidents in Ahmedabad this year
AHMEDABAD: Union minister and BJP leader Gopinath Munde's death in a road accident in New Delhi on Tuesday morning has brought the issue of vehicular accidents and subsequent fatalities to focus in the
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Metabolized-water breeding diseases in urban India: socio-spatiality of water problems and health burden in Ahmedabad
Studies on urban metabolism have provided important insights in the material and socio political issues associated with the flow. However, there is dearth of studies that reveal how infrastructure as a
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Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation body for sanitation regulation
Following the Supreme Court judgment on manual scavenging in December last year as well as the enactment of the new Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, Ahmedabad
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Addressing heat-related health risks in urban India: Ahmedabad’s heat action plan
This report, one of CDKN’s Inside stories on climate compatible development, looks at how the city of Ahmedabad in Western India is preparing for the increasingly extreme heat of the city, through an early
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Judgement of the Supreme Court of India regarding the action of the Municipal Corporations of Ahmedabad & Surat to take away land of the tenure-holders to the extent of 50% without paying any compensation, 09/05/2014
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation & Others Versus Ahmedabad Green Belt Khedut Mandal & Others dated 09/05/2014 regarding Section 40(3)(jj)(a) of the
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Only 12 per cent of city-dwellers breathe safe air, says WHO
Only 12 per cent of the people living in cities for which air quality data is available, are breathing “safe” air, reveals World Health Organization’s Urban Air Quality database. About half the urban population being monitored is exposed to air pollution that is at least 2.5 times higher than the levels recommended by the WHO, putting those people at additional risk of serious, long-term health problems.
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Over 60% of crop is ripened using chemicals
If the coveted alphonso mango you bought recently has failed to tickle your taste buds, it is because it has been artificially ripened by calcium carbide. In fact, market sources reveal that an alarming
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Your mango may be ripe with cancer threat
AHMEDABAD: In the last few days, the health department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has seized large stocks of mangoes artificially ripened using cancer-causing calcium carbide. On Wednesday,
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Children handle e-waste in City: Report
Bangalore generates 57,000 MT of electronic waste a year, reveals Assocham study. The report, Electronic Waste Management in India, released as part of World Earth Day on April 22, said India generates