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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Choti si asha' of medicos
When most of their fellow classmates are drowned in heavy books, this bunch of some 20 future medicos of BJ Medical college decided to get out their closet. Their aim was to make those spots and areas that they see every day more
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Ahmedabad to get new zoo & pandas
Breakfast with an orangutan. Close encounter with a panda. No, you aren't on a jungle safari. It could all happen in apnu Amdavad, with plans afoot for a new zoo that would have animals not bound in cramped enclosures. The Ahmedabd Municipal Corporation (AMC) has already begun frantic search for land for the new zoo in the city, to be spread over 100 acres. At present, the areas
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Singapore shows interest in A'bad metro rail
The metro rail dream was revived once again for Ahmedabad on Wednesday, when a high-level delegation, led by Singapore minister of state for foreign affairs Balaji Sadasivan, told top Gujarat officials that it was interested in investing in the project in a big way. A senior state official, who participated in the meeting, told TOI: "The metro rapid transport system (MRTS) in Singapore is perhaps the best in the world. There is a need to clinch the opportunity.'
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BRTS on 'tender' ground after oil price hike
Rising oil prices have raised several technical concerns for the tendering process of BRTS buses. The increase in CNG and diesel prices would mean a direct impact on Ahmedabad Janmarg Limited (AJL)'s revenue, the governing body of BRTS in the city. The tendering process has been postponed by a week. The operators have already sounded their concerns to the AJL board about a possible increase in operations cost. This cost is to be paid by the AJL to the BRTS operators per kilometre.
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In search of cheaper fuel
Skyrocketing Prices Have Driven Vehicle Owners To Look At Alternatives Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Car owners, who have felt the pinch of the fuel price hike the most, have started mulling options to switch over to cheaper fuel like compressed natural gas(CNG) or auto liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). With the price of petrol going up by Rs 5 and diesel by Rs 3, authorized CNG dealers in the city are flooded with inquires by four-wheeler owners regarding the pros and cons of CNG kits.
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How green was my Ahmedabad!
This is a poet's image of
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Better Late Than Never
Trying Hard: India's largest private sector company is making a late but concerted entry into CSR (Pic By Subhabrata Das)
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WOW! There is money in garbage now
WOW ! That is what you would probably say when someone pays you for your garbage. It is also a new system
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Facelift will unlock realty jackpot for east Ahmedabad
Four months ago, Dimple Gandhi booked a 2bhk flat at Ishwarnagar along the Kharicut canal for Rs 11 lakh. Today, the apartment costs nothing less than Rs 18 lakh. The reason: The flat now overlooks a small patch of garden developed on a slab over the canal by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. Soon, many like Gandhi will be grinning thanks thanks to the Gujarat government's plans to give a 20-km stretch along the canal, that's currently treated as an open sewerage, a green facelift.
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New animal helpline begins, will offer free services
See an injured animal or bird writhing in pain, just call up the newly launched Navkar Animal helpline and help will be on the way to treat them that too free of cost! On Sunday, Navkar Treatment Centre, in association with Mahendra Shrimali, an animal lover, launched a dedicated Navkar Animal Helpline in Ahmedabad for animals in distress.