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: The combined onslaught of dengue and swine flu continued in the city on Monday. Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad cities each registered a swine flu case. No less than 85 cases of the flu were reported in the city during the last one and half weeks. Since January this year the …
AHMEDABAD: Of the 13 cities in the country whose air quality index (AQI) is measured daily by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), five— including Ahmedabad — face a severe problem of suspended particulate pollution. The problem is the increasing prevalence of particulate matter of 2.5 microns or less in …
In just seven days of September, the city has registered 41 new dengue cases while swine flu cases have gone up to 15. This happens to be the only year when both dengue and H1N1, since their outbreak, have started giving sleepless nights to health authorities in the past few …
AHMEDABAD: Sundarji Nandori, 70, of Chatroda in Maliya Hatina in Junagadh is a happy man these days as his daughter-in-law, Priyanka, does not have to go out to collect drinking water. All she has to do is pump it out from an underground water tank that has a capacity of …
AHMEDABAD: After the first bout in January which continued till early April, swine flu is back to haunt Ahmedabad. The city has reported three H1N1 cases from different hospitals over the past two days. While two male patients are at a private hospital in Sola, a 43-year-old man is on …
The sting of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the one responsible for spreading dengue is getting sharper by the day. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) hospitals and Health Centres have reported 115 dengue cases in July alone, the Civil Hospital in Asarwa, which treats patients from mostly surrounding vicinity of Ahmedabad …
AHMEDABAD: Amdavadis have developed high sensitivity to variations in climatic conditions and particulate matter of less than 10 micrometers in size (PM10) present in the city air. A new survey has found that 41.7% people suffer from some kind of allergy due to climate change and nitrates, sulfates, organic chemicals …
AHMEDABAD: In the first such survey of lifestyle diseases in major AMC-run general hospitals and public health centers in Ahmedabad, the civic body has come across hypertension and diabetes cases referred in their thousands in June alone. In fact, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) found there were more women with …
AHMEDABAD: Residents of Khodiyarnagar Gujarat Housing Board (GHB) colony in Chandkheda facing contaminated water woes for years have got a ray of hope after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and Gujarat Human Rights Commission (GHRC) directed the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to provide an immediate solution. Suryakant Jetasar, a …
Lung reactions to exposure to dust, gases, and fumes at work places have been studied in different populations. The emission level of pollutants that emit particulate matter less than 10 micrometers in size (PM 10) has been found very high in Ahmedabad. Hence, petrol pump workers in Ahmedabad are likely …
In a race between 100 cities picked up from states and union territories across the country, only 20 will start their 'smart' journey this financial year. The remaining 80, in the proposed 100 smart city plan, will join the club in two equal batches of 40 each in the following …
‘Use and get paid’ toilets in Ahmedabad In an innovative incentive to eradicate open defecation, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has announced a scheme under which people will be paid Re. 1 for using public toilets. The civic body has turned around its ‘pay and use’ public toilets to ‘use …
AHMEDABAD: Eighteen cases of high-grade fever were reported from various hospitals in the city even as the mercury dipped to 42.6 degrees celsius on Wednesday. This was a drop of 1.3 degrees from Tuesday, when Ahmedabad was the hottest place in Gujarat at 43.9 degrees. On Wednesday, the city was …
Soon your khadi kurta will be solar-powered.The traditional handloom technique is set for major makeover, with the Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association (Atira) developing solarpowered handloom which will not only put less strain on weavers but will also help in increasing the production manifold.The association is also developing solar electric …
This analytical investigation focuses on the quantification of odorant molecules in the headspace of latrines. Hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan were derivatized under a more stable N-ethyl maleimide conjugate. Since the amount of odorant molecules is very low in the gas phase, we developed a method that had two steps …
Sunday proved to be an exception, nationally, on the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) daily air quality index (AQI) list. Ahmedabad displaced Delhi in the rank to become the second city with a poor ambient air quality in the country. The AQI index defined the city's air quality to be …
The questions raised were the following: (a) whether it is a fact that the homes are responsible for the highest emission of greenhouse gases; and (b) whether it is also a fact that a study by the Centre for Ecological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science found that the …
If you are one of those whose pockets do not agree with the inflated price tags of a dream house, then this should be music to your ears. In the last one-and-half years the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has allowed 31,599 affordable housing units, to be constructed by private players. …
The increasing contamination of the city's sewerage and by injections of toxic chemicals into drains has led Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to invite Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to treat its sludge. A facility will be set up in Ahmedabad by BARC which will treat sludge with gamma radiation to …
A phenomenal Rs 43,600 crore have already been spent on the Sardar Sarovar Narmada project, the state government informed the Gujarat Assembly on Monday. “Till July 2014, a total of Rs 43,633.75 crore have been spent on the Narmada project,” the government stated in a written reply to a question …
