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 - A plan to combat extreme heat in India's Ahmedabad city has been so effective in raising awareness and bringing down fatalities that city officials are rolling out a similar programme to fight another environmental risk: air pollution. Ahmedabad, in the western state of Gujarat, has among the worst …
AHMEDABAD: A team of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's health department rushed to Ghodasar lake on Sunday after receiving reports of the death of a large quantity of fish because of depleted oxygen level in the water. This was creating a health hazard for those living nearby. The AMC team removed the …
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government's hushing up the spread of the dreaded Zika virus has reached the Gujarat high court. A PIL has demanded a probe into who was responsible for purposely hiding information about the deadly disease in the city and why did they did so. The PIL has been …
Ahmedabad: With election to come this year, even the dustbins have taken a saffron hue even though municipal solid waste management rules advocate the use for blue and green colours for dustbins to enable waste segregation — blue for dry waste, green for wet. BJP councillors of the Ahmedabad Municipal …
Ahmedabad: Even as lack of drives for preventive measures or awareness activities in the wake of three Zika virus detections in Ahmedabad exists, three mathematicians from Gujarat University and LD College of Engineering have through mathematical models tried to explain various scenarios in case of a Zika virus outbreak. The …
AHMEDABAD/ SURAT/ VADODARA: Since January the presence of the deadly Zika virus in Ahmedabad first came to light, massive health surveys were undertaken in the city. Random blood samples that tested negative for chikungunya and dengue were sent to the BJ Medical College laboratory in Asarwa for confirmation. However, Gujarat's …
The statement came almost a week after the WHO said that three Zika cases had been detected in Ahmedabad. Sources said the statement was issued after reports about “secrecy” around the issue. The Union Health Ministry on Thursday said that Parliament had been informed about Zika cases in India in …
AHMEDABAD: As you read this, there are some 90,746 expectant mothers in Ahmedabad, most of them poor and living in slums, chawls and low income localities of the city which are the most vulnerable to the deadly Zika virus tranmitted by the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito. None …
The WHO India office today flagged to the Health Ministry the recent issue of late reporting of Zika virus to the world body. The WHO received outbreak information from India on May 15, nearly five-and-a-half months after the first confirmed Zika case in Ahmedabad’s Bapunagar in November 2016. WHO India …
Ahmedabad: The Aedes aegypti mosquito amid us is the sole propagator of the feared Zika virus. In all of 2016, this mosquito species had health officials in Ahmedabad on the edge, as it caused a sudden spike in the number of dengue and chikungunya cases. In 2016, Ahmedabad registered 2,852 …
CHANDIGARH: The UT health department is on high alert following Zika virus striking three people in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, screening all hotels and hospitals for such cases. The risk is more as the virus is caused by the same vector that causes chikungunya and dengue and already the city has seen …
Ahmedabad: Zika virus (ZiV) has already hitched a ride on Ahmedabad's local pest population, and its rate of transmission among the female Aedes Aegypti mosquito will decide its future spread. Two cases in Bapunagar and one in Gopalnagar in the SP Stadium area, 11.7km away, is enough to indicate the …
AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Wednesday launched its drive under the state government's campaign to make Gujarat malaria-free by 2022. At the launch ceremony of the campaign, state health minister, Shankar Chaudhary, recommended that AMC should deploy drones to check for mosquito breeding sites in backyards and terraces of …
AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has decided to seriously consider waste segregation at the doorstep, and is thinking of not collecting waste from societies unless it is segregated. The AMC is now creating a plan for doorstep waste segregation across the city. Director of solid waste management of AMC, Harshad …
AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Railway station which ranked below 25 in terms of cleanliness in 2016 has now been ranked as the seventh cleanest station in the A1 category. Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Beas in Punjab are the cleanest stations in A1. In A category stations, Bhuj was ranked 10th …
AHMEDABAD: Vector-borne infections are on the rise despite the rising temperatures, with the number of cases of malaria being particularly high. According to the weekly health report of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), 299 cases of vector-borne infections were reported in the city this month till Saturday. Of these, 290 …
City’s first comprehensive air pollution alert system will focus on health risk communication To effectively battle increasing air pollution, the Ahmedabad civic body is launching a comprehensive Air Quality Index (AQI) and Air Information and Response (AIR) plan that includes an air pollution alert system and health risk communication, based …
Ahmedabad: Gujarat high court on Monday directed the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to integrate poor waste pickers in its solid waste collection process, and to form a policy of solid waste management within six months. AMC's e-tender notice issued in December 2016 was challenged by two petitioners - Om Sai …
Ahmedabad: Cases of waterborne diseases appear to be on the rise in Ahmedabad. The weekly health report by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), revealed that till Saturday this April, 514 cases of waterborne diseases were reported in city. Of these, around 334 cases were that of vomiting and diarrhoea, 89 cases …
The 2017 Heat Action Plan is a comprehensive early warning system and preparedness plan for extreme heat events in Ahmedabad. The Plan presents immediate and longer-term actions to increase preparedness, information-sharing, and response coordination to reduce the health impacts of extreme heat on vulnerable populations. Higher daily peak temperatures and …
