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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War on malaria: AMC targets lakes to dilute mosquito terror
Ahmedabad: Lakes and small waterbodies are the next major concern for Ahmedabad’s mosquito control team. Over 20 water bodies — minor and major — dot the city. And health officials of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) believe that with the rains ebbing, the water bodies are turning into major breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
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Malaria menace: City to use special chemical sting to kill mosquitoes
AHMEDABAD: After the state lost the first round of chemical warfare against mosquitoes, the state health department has been advised to update its armoury. Initially, 'white' powder - chalk mixed with 5% of a substance called malathion - was used to arrest mosquito growth. But it proved to be ineffective.
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Urban air pollution analysis in India
Accelerating growth in the transport sector, a booming construction industry, and a growing industrial sector are responsible for worsening air pollution in Indian cities. While estimates of health impacts
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Ahmedabad losing fight against malaria
AHMEDABAD: The high rate of malaria cases in the state is a grim sign of the fight lost out to mosquitoes. Ahmedabad city has recorded 596 malaria cases in the latest weekly disease assessment of the state, the highest and has even overtaken Surat city which has recorded 543. Ahmedabad has the second highest number of falciparum cases in the state. A major reason, according to health practitioners is the relapse of malaria and falciparum cases in patients.
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No land acquisition needed for metro
Public Roads, Govt Land Will Suffice, Says Metrolink Ahmedabad: The fact that land acquisition has become a sensitive issue across India has apparently handed the state government a new tool to market its prized metro rail project linking Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. The Gujarat government is now touting it as ‘zero land acquisition project’.
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Mission to check malaria begins
The estate department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation carried out demolition and sealing drive in Thakkar Bapanagar, Madhavpura and Sarkhej areas of the city, to check mosquitoes and stop illegal constructions.
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Ahemedabad Municipal Corporation officials raid plastic bag units
<p> AHMEDABAD: A team of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) health officials raided shops of wholesale dealers of plastic bags near Kalupur market on Thursday and seized three tonnes of plastic bags
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Ford's Endeavour to wheel in $1bn next to Nano plant
<p> AHMEDABAD: The world's fourth largest car-maker Ford has decided to set up a three lakh-cars-per-annum manufacturing plant in Sanand. Joe Hinrichs, president, Ford Asia Pacific and Africa, is
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Night-time cleaning to end garbage nightmare
<p> AHMEDABAD: In the next three months, a small army of workers in uniforms will be spending the nights cleaning Ahmedabad's streets. But before you witness this 'Surat phenomenon', the
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3.94 cr sanctioned for walled city civic works
AHMEDABAD: The walled city has come to the notice of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) yet again. The central zone office of the AMC has sanctioned Rs 3.94 crore worth of civic works for the walled city area.