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 …
AHMEDABAD: Garbage collection is all set to go hi-tech. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) plans to install Global Positioning System (GPS) in at least 35 hydraulic dumper trucks to be bought at a price of Rs 4.67 crore from Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) funds. The GPS-installed trucks …
AHMEDABAD: If you had a drainage block, water logging problems, cave-ins or a storm water drain burst in your area this monsoon, just lodge your complaint to the SMS' complaint redressal Jansuvidha' system and expect a speedy response. The system was first introduced in the new west zone followed by …
AHMEDABAD: For the last two days, the Ahmedabad Janmarg Limited (AJL) is conducting trial runs for BRTS buses in three shifts. The trials will continue till July 9. The basic aim of these special trial runs is to give the bus drivers and the operators a feel of the system. …
AHMEDABAD: If you shared proximity with a suspected swine flu patient, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has a quarantine notice for you. The notice was brought out after a German national who had complained of tonsillitis was isolated in a ward in VS Hospital. The notice reads that if you …
AHMEDABAD: Torrential rains lashed Saurasthra and adjoining areas on the second consecutive day on Wednesday even as the Met department predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall over Saurashtra, Kutch and Diu by Thursday evening. However, rains continued to play hide and seek in Ahmedabad, showing up only in the form …
Ahmedabad : India Meteorological Department (IMD), Ahmedabad is set to procure a state-of-the-art Doppler Radar to track weather conditions more accurately in and around city. According to IMD officials, this sophisticated weather prediction system that can detect weather conditions within a radius of 500 km, will be in place by …
Ahmedabad : Delayed monsoon might have come as a blessing in disguise for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) authorities as they have managed to buy time from the 1,000-odd striking link workers who are responsible for carrying out door-to-door disease detection activities, primarily for anti-malaria drive. The workers had gone on …
Vadodara: No smoking area' if you see this board at government offices in Vadodara, Surat and Ahmedabad, thank the RTI applicant from a city-based NGO. His RTI seeking information from all government offices in 12 cities in the state on whether these offices have put up No smoking' in their …
AHMEDABAD: Imagine travelling by the Sabarmati riverfront in metro rail. This was to be a reality when the ambitious metro project was drawn up. It is not just the Vishala-Akshardham route and the Thaltej-Kalupur corridor that the project was all about. In fact, it had a second phase, which aimed …
AHMEDABAD: If the BRTS promised you a bus every 3 minutes during peak hours and every six minutes during off-peak hours, the metro rail frequency was designed for a metro every 5 minutes during the peak hours while it extended to 15 minutes during off-peak hours. Not only this, the …
AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad Janmarg Limited (AJL), the governing body for Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) operations, is wasting no time in purchasing 480 buses to run on feeder and main routes. The proposal for purchasing the buses has to be sent to the Union urban development ministry to avail the rolling …
AHMEDABAD: Some posh addresses in the city are reporting new claimants. Or maybe old claimants are returning to haunt the new ones! Suddenly, with monsoons getting closer, snakes are surfacing in these areas taking residents by surprise. On Tuesday five kraits, a rat snake and two kukris were found from …
AHMEDABAD: Florence Nightingale, whose caring hand during World War-I made her the famous nurse ever, was also an authority on sanitation. Florence never shared the British officials
AHMEDABAD: An Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) plan to build upto 20,000 houses for urban poor in the city is turning out to be a pilot project which will be replicated in other parts of the country as well. Central Bank of India (CBI) has cleared loan proposal worth Rs 120 …
AHMEDABAD: Housing societies who have deviated from their commitment of maintaining trees on their premises after obtaining Building Use' (BU) permission are in for a flak. For the first time in many years, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)'s town planning department will impose penalties on societies who have cut down …
AHMEDABAD: Four years after Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) submitted its feasibility report on Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro in June 2005, there seems to be a renewed buzz in the state urban development ministry. But, if one goes by the DMRC report, a cost of Rs 40 lakh for each day delayed …
AHMEDABAD: The ambitious Rs 7,000-crore Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro rail project has been put on the fast track. A team of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will meet Chief Minister Narendra Modi soon to chalk out a roadmap for the project, including discussions on land availability. The state government had roped in …
Ahmedabad : Reduce, reuse and recycle plastic a group of more than 15 youngsters armed with placards and posters, conducted a rally on CG road to promote this thought on Tuesday. With World Environment Day round the corner, the idea was to spread awareness about the use of plastic among …
Ahmedabad : Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is carrying out a drive to clean city ponds infested with vegetation located in different municipal zones. These ponds are potential mosquito breeding ground. Already, AMC has cleared Chandola lake in Danilimda and two other ponds in Ramol and Sarkhej. For the first time, …
