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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Saffolalife Study 2013
India’s largest study on risk factors precipitating heart disease conducted by Saffola found that more than 70% of 1.86 lakh urban Indian respondents are at cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.
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Rains stoke fresh fears of dengue
Experts Say Improvement Likely Only In December Disease specialists in the city are a worried lot, with the fresh spell of rains and so is the municipal health department. They expect that the fresh rain spell will lead to more number of cases of dengue, malaria and chikungunya — if preventive measures are not intensified. Experts fear that the mosquito-related illnesses will continue till December if anti-mosquito drives are not intensified.
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235 dengue cases detected in a fortnight
AHMEDABAD: The rise of mosquito-related illnesses has caused an alarm in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's (AMC) health department. In the last fortnight, the department has detected 235 cases of dengue.
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Upper Lake master plan may get ready by Oct
BHOPAL: The master plan for Upper Lake is likely to be out by October. The plan, prepared by Ahmedabad-based Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University, would be integrated into
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City reports 160 dengue cases
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has registered 160 cases of dengue, including a casualty, in the last 109 days. With greater surveillance, the civic body is detecting several mosquito-related
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AMC plans to build 10,000 additional houses
Urban local bodies across the state are now demanding faster turn-key systems and construction technologies to deliver affordable houses in bulk and in a time-bound manner over the next five years. A seminar
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Malaria becoming drug resistant
Experts trying to find reasons for the steep rise in illnesses spread by mosquitoes in the city over the last two years have squarely blamed patients who don't complete the prescribed course of medication
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Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation eyes wind energy to cut power bill
AHMEDABAD: After installing solar panels atop some of the main zonal offices of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the Sardar Patel Stadium in Navrangpura, the AMC is now turning to wind energy.
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Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation eyes wind energy to cut power bill
AHMEDABAD: After installing solar panels atop some of the main zonal offices of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the Sardar Patel Stadium in Navrangpura, the AMC is now turning to wind energy.
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Vulture nesting sites found in the heart of city
Cantonment, ATIRA campus, IIM-A campus, MG Science College, Shahibaugh, have the biggest vulture colony in the city. The monitoring under the provisional vulture safe zones (PVSZ) has revealed that in