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: Roar of wind, swaying trees and huge billboards fluttering like kites caught in strong breeze brought last weekend to a close. If Friday night was cool with gusts of wind, Saturday night was a stormy affair with light drizzle in many parts of the city. For Amdavadis, Sunday morning …
Gives Nod To Raze Buildings On Narol-Naroda Stretch For Road Widening Kevin Antao Saeed Khan | TNN Ahmedabad: Finally, Gujarat High Court gave a green signal on Saturday for demolition drive in order to widen roads for the ongoing BRTS project in Naroda area. Earlier, acting on a PIL filed …
Ahmedabad: For a long time the city has been careless with potable water supply and the authorities, under political pressure, have been avoiding reforms leading to wastage and unaccountable use of water. If price-sensitive Amdavadis are known for judicious spending, they do not seem to respect water. No wonder JNNURM …
Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has added: another feather in its cap after the city emerged as the topper among 16 major cities of the country for taking lead in environmental awareness. This was announced during a two-day workshop on `Clean Technology and Efficiency Measures while Developing Infrastructure Projects …
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Hepatitis-B scare that swept city followed by anomalies in disposal of biomedical waste (BMW) seem to have finally prompted Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to plan its own BMW disposal site in a public-private partnership (PPP). Recently, raids by AMC and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) …
AMC serves losure noticesto' major companies Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) served closure notices to at least three major companies selling bottled water in residential and commercial neighbourhoods in the city after they failed tests for purity. These companies held licences issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). AMC …
Rahul Mangaonkar & Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: If racketeers bottling water containing harmful microbial organisms in appalling conditions and peddling it as an ISI marked product were posing a grave risk to public life, licensed '1ST manufacturers fare no better. "Getting licence for bottling and selling packaged drinking water …
Rahul Mangaonkar & Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: So you don't feel a threat from the needles which are causing a hepatitis epidemic? Listen, that 'trusted' ISI mark on your 20-litre jar of so-called "ozonised mineral drinking water" could be fake! This warning comes from Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) …
Ahmedabad: The deadly mutant strain of hepatitis-B has now got its first reported victim in Ahmedabad. But, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) seems to be hardly affected by it. Health committee of AMC will be holding an 'emergency' meeting, which has been scheduled only in the next week. The meeting will …
Ahmedabad : The city crime branch will now probe the racket of illegal trading and recycling of medical and hospital waste. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) authorities submitted a list of 28 suppliers found from a diary during a raid at Ambika Bottle godown in Asarwa, to the crime branch. Deputy …
Paul John & Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: For more than a decade, a deadly trade of pumping recycled infected vials, medicine bottles with high dozes, IV packs and syringes was being run right under the nose of the state authorities. These infected and hazardous medicine bottles and syringes were …
Ahmedabad: A three-day inspection of local clinics, pathological laboratories, children hospitals and maternity homes in city revealed a lurking danger, especially of doctors, not revealing their source for procuring their syringes and IV injectibles. What is shocking is that there is no law in Gujarat that makes it mandatory for …
Ahmedabad : The proprietors of death factories need not worry much even if images of contaminated syringes, needles and other bio-medical waste stored for recycling scared you to death. Even if the accused are found guilty, under IPC sections 269 and 278, they will be punished for six months of …
To boost public transport, Centre will help cities buy buses About 15,000 new buses are in the pipeline for 63 cities in the country. The Central urban development ministry launched a new scheme on January 12 to assist states and transport units buy buses for public transport under the Jawaharlal …
Several cities in India including Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, have begun to take steps to implement fiscal measures to address the problem of air pollution and congestion. The key focus of the fiscal measures are clean fuels and technologies including CNG, LPG and zero emissions technologies; disincentives for older …
Ahmedabad : For the last two days, primary schoolchildren in remote villages in Barvala taluka, Ahmedabad district, have been getting free typhoid vaccination. This is to ensure that the illness does not disrupt their studies as it does each year. The vaccination drive by Ahmedabad Red Cross Society has been …
The problem of water availability was a pivotal facet of daily life, particularly in urban areas, where it had to be made perennially obtainable in large quantities. Thus, apart from river water, artificial water reservoirs of massive proportions, and also step wells were constructed on a great scale in most …
If you honk in New York city, you will have to shell out Rs 17,000 as fine. If that were the law in Ahmedabad, the traffic police would easily be richer by a few crores. The psychological problems caused by honking led many countries across the globe to adopt stringent …
Ahmedabad: The cramped snake house at Kamla Nehru Zoo in Kankaria is set to get a new makeover. Soon, visitors will be able to view the unique collection of native and exotic snakes in their natural surroundings. For that, one has to first enter the giant belly of pre-historic dinosaur-shaped …
