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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Ahmedabad heat action plan 2018
This Heat Action Plan aims to provide a framework for the implementation, coordination, and evaluation of extreme heat response activities in Ahmedabad that reduce the negative health impacts of exposure
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Gujarat's rural tree count grows to 34 crore
AHMEDABAD: Rural Gujarat now has 34.35 crore trees outside forest and urban areas, 14% higher than the 30.14 crore trees counted in 2013. The rural tree count figures released on Wednesday reveals that
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Try to change your honking habit
AHMEDABAD: Satish Shah, a provision store owner near Ankur Crossroads flinches every time a car blares its horn. His shop is located just in front of an intersection where every light commercial vehicle
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ATIRA, NID make anti-pollution mask
AHMEDABAD: Efforts to check air pollution may have proved ineffective in the city but Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association (ATIRA) has developed a nano fibre-based virus protective face mask
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Civic body shows the way, makes 500 kg compost from flower waste
All's well that ends well. The adage goes well with the Ahmedabad civic body, AMC, at this moment. After the just-concluded hit flower show organised by AMC, the civic body has now set an example by showing
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Ahmedabad is called honk kong!
AHMEDABAD: If a big signboard is put up outside a hospital, school, or old age home that reads 'Silence Zone', Amdavadis will welcome it with a honk! Who says 'Horn is a safety device'? It's the language
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AMC's new sensors to keep track of Ozone layer, oxygen concentration
Taking a small step towards creating a Smart City, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is all set to gain and give information on real-time noise pollution, the ozone layer, oxygen concentration and
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Heat action plans: scaling up India’s ambition to protect the climate-vulnerable
This guide describes how a heatwave action research initiative in Ahmedabad, India has evolved into policy action in 17 cities and 11 states, with interest from national leadership. By starting small and
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More than 1,000 cases of vector-borne infections in October
AHMEDABAD: Even as the temperatures have begun to fall, more than 1,000 cases of vector-borne infections in October were reported in Ahmedabad, says the data provided by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation
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Many people now want curbs on firecrackers in their cities, says Assocham
Welcoming the Supreme Court ban on sale of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR, many people in other urban centres have sought similar curbs to be imposed to bring down air pollution levels in their cities, a quick