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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Applewoods gets Auda permission
AHMEDABAD: The Sandesh Group-promoted Rs 3,000-crore integrated township project, Applewoods got a nod from Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (Auda) to commence construction work. Located near Shela on SP Ring Road, Applewoods is the first integrated township in Gujarat to receive this clearance. "Properties worth 90 lakh sq ft would be built on 128 acres of land.
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Gujarat Housing Board plans affordable schemes
AHMEDABAD: The state-owned Gujarat Housing Board (GHB) plans to launch housing schemes in Ahmedabad, Rajkot and Vadodara for lower income group (LIG) and middle income group (MIG) in the next one year.
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City's lakes to figure in Sweden meet
AHMEDABAD: Kankaria and Vastrapur lakes of the city will become exemplary in an international conference to be held in Sweden. The stories of the development of both the lakes will be told in a workshop on urban ecology there. A team of professionals from Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (Cept), representatives from Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Self Employed Women'
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Ahmedabad to get less water from May 25
AHMEDABAD: Amdavadis should use water judiciously in the days ahead.
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AMC to buy 16K tree guards to protect plantations
AHMEDABAD: The AMC have decided to procure 16,520 tree guards to protect existing plantations in the city. The guards have been procured to protect existing saplings and those which would be planted during June. Each of the tree guards cost the AMC Rs 555. A budget of Rs 92 lakh has been allotted by the committee for the purpose.
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A tree plantation drive conducted 500 years ago
AHMEDABAD: Five hundred years ago Sultan Mehmud Begda encouraged people of Ahmedabad to plant trees by giving prizes to those agreeing to go the green way. Ahmedabad had many trees and gardens during the sultanate period. Many travellers sang praises on the green beauty of this city. Maverick Sultan Begda had a deep interest in planting trees.
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Ahmedabad one step closer to World Heritage City status
AHMEDABAD: Amdavadis have a reason to rejoice. The city has been officially included in Unesco`s World Heritage City tentative list. Ahmedabad is the only city from India vying for the coveted status. There are over 250 World Heritage Cities across the globe, but none in India. Ahmedabad`s proposal was sent by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to Unesco in March this year.
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City eating away vulture habitat
AHMEDABAD: The population of vultures in the city may not have shown a decline in the 2010 census, but the scavenging bird is quickly losing its habitat.
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Indian cities, sanitation and the state: the politics of the failure to provide
The environmental problems confronting Indian cities today have arisen because millions of people have been forced to live in illegal settlements that lack adequate sanitation and other basic urban services.
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Initial signs of virus bear resemblance to dengue
<p> The National Institute of Virology (NIV) has alerted medical establishments in Maharashtra to keep an eye on any patients of dengue showing Congo virus-like symptoms. This move is aimed at ruling out the presence of the newly-identified virus, initial infection signs of which bear resemblance to dengue haemorrhagic fever.</p>