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 central aspect of smart cities is to create value for any services by integrating different technological systems in a city-which may link payment, civic services and the service industry. Experts at National Conference on emerging research trends in engineering (NCERTE) at the Vishwakarma Engineering college said on Monday …
Ahmedabad: Swine flu has been killing one person every three days in the city. With seven deaths in March, the death toll has hit 33 here since January. The number of cases has reached 149. According to a statement from the health department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), seven deaths …
The 2016 Heat Action Plan is an updated version of the first comprehensive early warning system and preparedness plan for extreme heat events in India launched in Ahmedabad in 2013. The Plan creates immediate and longer-term actions to increase preparedness, information-sharing, and response coordination to reduce the health impacts of …
D Thara, AMC Commissioner, underlined need for ‘recycling’ the sewage and waste water and to make Ahmedabad an eco-friendly city. Water expert and advisor to the chief minister, B N Navalawala, Thursday said that there was need to ensure integrated waste water management and water audit should be made mandatory. …
Today if you dare to walk down Ahmedabad's busy IIM-Keshavbaugh or Mani nagar road stretches during peak hours you will be exposed to a level of pollution that is almost 10 to 12 times more toxic than what is acceptable under the current central pollution control board standards. What is …
Ahmedabad: Cyclists and pedestrians have always been given the short shrift in this city , even though the Rs 1,200 crore transport corridor, designed on the lines of world-class Brazilian Curitiba and Sao Paulo BRTS, had promised comfort and safety for this vulnerable sector of road users. Former deputy prime …
The chairman of Railway Board, secretary in the Department of Expenditure, Secretary DIPP & Foreign Secretary will be part of the committee The Prime Minister’s Office has constituted a committee under Arvind Panagariya, vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog, to hasten the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor, meant for bullet trains between …
Ahmedabad: Just two months ahead of the annual civic budget, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's (AMC) commissioner D Thara submitted a Rs 2,000 crore water supply augmentation plan for the city before the state government on Wednesday. The plan contains a proposal for water metering in the city, construction of four …
The Transport and Communications Bulletin for Asia and the Pacific is published once a year by the Transport Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). The main objectives of the Bulletin are to provide a medium for the sharing of knowledge, experience, ideas, policy …
The general prefernce for diesel vehicles is turning the air in Gujarat's cities toxic. In Gujarat today, around 1.21 crore vehicles, including two-wheelers, guzzle 18 crore litres of petrol a month. In stark contrast, just 24.06 lakh diesel vehicles burn a whopping 50 crore litres of the fuel which is …
An evaluation of the National Air Quality Index (NAQI) data maintained by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) released on Tuesday has revealed that as many as 15 out of the 17 cities that are being monitored fail to meet the ambient air quality standard by a considerable margin. The …
AHMEDABAD: The Indian Air Quality Index (AQI) launched earlier this year puts Ahmedabad right among the top five most polluted cities, frequently giving it 'Very Poor' and 'Severe' ratings. The scenario has not changed much for the city, ranked 9th among the most polluted cities in the world in WHO's …
Other than Delhi as many as fifteen of seventeen Indian cities showed levels of air pollution that far exceed the prescribed Indian standards, this as per a ranking of 17 cities covered by the National Air Quality Index (NAQI) which was released by Greenpeace (India) on Tuesday. “As the political …
Transport sector has always been a significant contributor in emission estimates of cities. The source apportionment studies conducted in the six major cities of the country have shown that transport has significant contributions in PM2.5 and NOx concentrations. Moreover, the lower height of release of vehicular emissions leads to higher …
AHMEDABAD: As the winter has not set in completely, the vector-borne diseases are on the rise in the city. Afternoon temperature remains high and even touches 33-34 degrees. According to health department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the city registered 85 cases of dengue in the first three weeks of …
AHMEDABAD: Dengue continues to grip the city , with 65 cases registered in the last 48 hours. So far, five people have succumbed to dengue in the city since July 1. Sola Civil Hospital alone has admitted 30 patients in two days, most of them aged between 25 and 40, …
To meet 80% of project cost if India buys 30% of equipment from Japanese firms Japan offers India soft loan for $15 bn bullet train in edge over China Japan has offered to finance India’s first bullet train, estimated to cost $15 billion, at an interest rate of less than …
AHMEDABAD: Green seems to be the new mantra for developers in Gujarat, especially in Ahmedabad. As many as 150 buildings across the state are in the process of getting green building certification and around 27 buildings have already received it from Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), a part of the …
AHMEDABAD: Dengue continues to hold the city in its grip, with 12 new cases being reported on Thursday. Civil Hospital in Asarwa admitted seven dengue patients, of which four were in the age-group of 10 and 16 years. So far, four people have died of dengue in the city since …
Gujarat high court on Monday directed the state government to fence water bodies to prevent them from becoming dumping grounds and, subsequently, natural breeding grounds for mosquitoes causing dengue. The direction comes at a time when the vector-borne disease has claimed four lives in the city and more than 700 …
