Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
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 the urban areas in Ahmedabad and Kadi, the nesting sites were near the residential colonies. Kartik Shastri, trustee of Jivdaya …
Tree cover in the district has grown by 13% in the last decade. The number of trees in the district-58.52 lakh in 2003-has increased to 66.41 lakh according to the tree count taken up earlier this year. The district however, like Ahmedabad city, has a relatively low density of 8.3 …
The sudden spurt in cases of a viral fever that is resistant to treatment has flummoxed doctors in the city. Children are its easy prey. Constant high fever, body ache and -in some cases - declining blood platelet count, have made it difficult for doctors to diagnose the causative virus. …
The state government on Monday submitted the status report to the Gujarat high court on the action taken by authorities to prevent diseases during monsoon. The government has said that no death due to dengue and malaria has been reported this monsoon in public hospitals in the city. The state …
Despite The Expansion, User Numbers Not Increasing The BRTS has had a rather empty beginning in the walled city. The service is failing to draw large numbers of passengers. On the stretch from Ellisbridge to Sarangpur, an average of about 800 passengers board these buses every day. Even the Delhi …
The City’s hopes of getting a Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) may have floundered in red tape, but the State government has offered Bangaloreans a fresh ray of hope that BRTS can be made a reality. The government, recently started the process of preparing a detailed project report (DPR) on …
Around six lakh trees are thriving within the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) limits. The district, meanwhile, has 66.4 lakh trees, an increase of about 13% as compared to 2008-09 when there were only 58.5 lakh trees. According to officials, this increase is despite the several industrial projects coming up in …
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will conduct a thorough bio-remediation of the Sabarmati riverfront in the coming months. This process involves cleansing the river of biological and chemical wastes including that on the riverbed using environment friendly methods. The process has become necessary as the river will soon host an …
Heard of any municipal corporation operating a mineral water bottling plant before? The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) now plans to set up a mineral water plant near its Kotarpur sewage treatment facility that will treat water to high levels of purity and then bottle them in 200 ml and 1 …
Gujarat high court has turned down a PIL against the proposed plan on part of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to ply the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) on the Ashram Road of the city. The bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala commented that the court …
A PIL has come to be filed in the Gujarat high court against the proposed plan on part of the city body to ply BRTS on Ashram Road. Advocate Kiran Pandit has filed the petition, claiming that the idea of Bus Rapid Transit System has been a flop one in …
AHMEDABAD: After spending lakhs over cleaning the Sabarmati river bed in recent months, insensitive citizens continue to throw garbage into it in the name of religious paraphernalia. Plastic bags today can be seen strewn all over the river. This, even while special containers are being provided on every bridge for …
On Thursday, the Gujarat high court (HC) asked the state government and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to file a monthly report showing the number of people affected by malaria and dengue and the number of fatalities. The bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala issued instructions …
Ahmedabad Urban Development Association (Auda) has passed the first affordable housing scheme in the newly declared residential affordable housing (RAH) zone in Khodiyar area, which comes under Town Planning scheme - 60. The developers, Manubhai Patel Company, have been given permission to construct 53 housing units in the zone. Each …
Ahmedabad: This is the kind of news smokers want to hear on World No Tobacco Day. Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association (ATIRA) has developed a nano fibrebased filter disc, which, when attached to the butt of a cigarette, filters almost all deadly particles. Ordinary filters at the end of cigarettes …
Mumbai: Coca-Cola India has piloted an online store for home delivery of all its products in an attempt to tap the burgeoning e-commerce market — a first of its kind move by an FMCG company. Launched by Hindustan Coca-Cola, the company-owned bottling entity of the Atlanta-based beverage giant, Coke2Home.com went …
GANDHINAGAR: Prime hospitals in Ahmedabad, including Krishna Shalby Hospital and Sanjivani Hospital, have been issued a closure notice by Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) for their failure to properly dispose of the biomedical waste. Total 14 hospitals of the city have been served notice for the violation of the environment …
AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad Janmarg Limited (AJL) which operates Bus Rapid Transit System in the city received two awards on Monday at 60th L'Union internationale des transports publics (UITP) world Congress held in Geneva. UITP is the international association of public transport. AJL-AMC and Cept University jointly received an award in the …
For years more than 400 slum clusters of Ahmedabad have been plagued by problems of water contamination and diseases every summer. Periodic cases of jaundice and cholera have been often traced to mixing of sewage with drinking water. But now the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) health department is toying with …
Gujarat high court has issued a stern warning to authorities that officials would be personally held liable if unhygienic conditions at the Civil Hospital and across the city resulted in spread of malaria, dengue and falciparum next monsoon. The court has said that all officials concerned would be held guilty …
