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: With monsoon rains receding, civic health authorities are worried over the mosquitoe menace. Fresh showers make stagnant water run again, but lack of rains is leading to patches and pools of stagnant water that provides breeding habitats for mosquitoes. Health authorities are more worried about the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes …
AHMEDABAD: Heavy rains lashed western parts of the city on Thursday. Though maximum temperature was higher than the past two days, it was two degrees below normal for this day of the year, and came to rest at 34.2 degree celsius, two degrees below normal. The minimum temperature was 24 …
Gandhinagar: The government has cleared the long pending proposal of widening the busy four-lane Ahmedabad-Rajkot highway to six lanes in public private partnership (PPP) mode. Chief minister Anandiben Patel, in a high-level meeting with key senior ministers and secretaries on Wednesday, put the Rs 2,500 crore project of widening the …
Ahmedabad: The south-western monsoon has now spread across entire Gujarat, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday. This year, the arrival of monsoon was delayed by over a month. "The South-West monsoon has further advanced into remaining parts of Gujarat. Thus it has covered the entire state," reads a …
Ahmedabad: Forget those restless seconds while waiting for a traffic light to turn green. Traffic Signal Countdown Timers (TSCT) will be back at 186 traffic junctions in the city. The countdown timers are seen as a major initiative to reduce ambient air pollution-especially particulate matter pollution from vehicular emissions. These …
AHMEDABAD: Polluted air can be as dangerous as passive smoking warned medical experts at a public seminar held on Sunday at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA). Air heavy with particulate matter - PM10 and PM2.5 - can increase chances of heartstroke. Polluted water, contaminating fruits and vegetables, is already causing a …
Ahmedabad: It would require Ahmedabad to grow 1.81 crore trees to trap the tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and poisonous carbon monoxide (CO) gases we vent into Ahmedabad's air, according to the state forest department if the latest Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) study is taken seriously. Every year, Amdavadis pump …
Suzlon Group, one of the leading renewable energy solutions providers in the world, announced the completion and commissioning of the 4.20 MW maiden wind project for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). The wind energy project, located at Nakhatrana, Kutch comprises of two units of Suzlon's newest product variant, S97 120 meter …
Over the past six years, the city has been turning into a veritable gas chamber with particulate matter, noxious gases, and other impurities breaching permissible limits. During peak hour traffic of November 8 last year, a winter evening, one of the busiest traffic stretches in Kankaria experienced a sudden spike …
Nisha Agnihotri, resident architect for New Delhi-based architect firm Creative Group, said, "Right from the stage when the site was being prepared for construction to the completion stage, all GRIHA norms like cutting trees, planting new trees, recycling debris, using green rated materials, building design orientation according to climate have …
Ahmedabad: Several Ahmedabad apartments were casually tossing garbage in the open. Industrial units were dumping solid biodegradable waste, unmindful of the practice of converting it into vermicompost. Hundreds of schoolchildren were unaware of the importance of sanitation. Then Phani Trivedi stepped in and a green revolution of sorts bloomed among …
Ahmedabad: A new study has started ringing alarm bells for Gujarat cities. The uncontrolled exploitation of the air we breathe and lost green cover is reducing life expectancy in the state by between 2.9 and 3.2 years, the study 'Premature mortality in India due to PM2.5 and ozone exposure' has …
Ahmedabad: A comprehensive air action plan is being formulated by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, district collectorate and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) with the focus exclusively on reducing particulate matter pollution. The action plan actually follows the guidelines issued by the Union ministry of forest and environment (MoEF) in December …
Ahmedabad: The steady rise in particulate matter pollution over permissible limits has forced Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the district collectorate and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to formulate a new draft plan - a revision of the decade-old plan - to enforce air pollution control measures. This is the first …
Ahmedabad: Spare a thought for the traffic police personnel standing for hours in the sun, inhaling fumes, exposed to the dust and noise on Ahmedabad roads. In the first-of-its-kind study, a team of public health researchers from the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar (IIPH) and Sri Ramachandra University (SRU) …
Ahmedabad: In a unique experiment, the Indian Institute of public health (IIPH) Gandhinagar will now measure the amount of heat as well as pollution levels our traffic police personnel standing at major crossroads in the city are exposed to each day. This is the first time that both parameters are …
Our craze for diesel vehicles, especially in case of public transport, construction activities and unregulated fumes emanating from smouldering garbage sites and industrial clusters surrounding Gujarat cities is turning our air foul. With increasing concentration of particulate matter of size--2.5 (PM2.5) microns to (PM10) microns-- in size remaining suspended in …
Ahmedabad: Respiratory disease cases in Gujarat have been skyrocketing over the past few years. A recent report from the Union health ministry has shockingly revealed that in Gujarat, between 2013 and 2015, the number of patients of respiratory diseases grew by more than a lakh each year. While there were …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court on Monday asked the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to file an affidavit on its stand pertaining to the operation of jewellery manufacturing units in the walled city, particularly in the Manekchowk area. This was after the GBCB counsel submitted that these units do not fall …
AHMEDABAD: Despite speaking big about e-waste disposal for the past three years, little has been done on that front by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. It was in 2013 that the AMC had proposed an ambitious project of e-waste (electronic waste) collection and recycling. So, for citizens, the new rules announced …
