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 …
Work on the much-awaited Ahmedabad metro began on Saturday with Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel laying the foundation stone for the first phase of the Metro Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) project at Vastral here. Work on the initial 6 km of the Vastral-Thaltej route, costing Rs. 611 …
BENGALURU: The Solar Impulse aircraft will leave Abu Dhabi officially kick-starting the round-the-world tour. It will land in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. An official press note issued by the team read: "Ahead of the departure of the First Round-The-World Solar Flight, starting Monday, Solar Impulse launched the #FutureIsClean movement to gather …
Since its first outbreak in 2009, Ahmedabad city registered 61 new cases, the highest number of swine flu patients on a single day, in the state on Sunday. The state also registered 11 deaths as well as 117 new H1N1 positive cases — the highest till now. This has taken …
The AMC has decided to go green. Apart from adopting the rooftop solar power policy, the AMC has decided to set up a solar power station at Kankaria for the laser show which will now be a regular feature. AMC standing committee chairman Pravin Patel said that during the recent …
She has been an inexorable force in sustaining the battle against litter. From galvanizing the Walled City residents to give up plastic to turning Khanpur apartments into a near zero-waste zone, Phani Trivedi has been striving to make the society better. Now, the city-based entrepreneur is inspiring guests of Pravasi …
With the rising vehicular pollution across metros becoming a matter of concern, the National Green Tribunal earlier this week asked the Centre to place before it the Dr. Mashelkar Committee Report on auto fuel quality, vehicular emission norms and related issues. An NGT bench headed by Justice P. Jyothimani directed …
AHMEDABAD: With the burgeoning amount of medical waste generated from four municipal hospitals, two referral hospitals and 64 urban health centres, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has now given the work of treating the medical waste to a private waste disposal company. Every day these medical centres generate close to …
Hyderabad, Mumbai and Shimla spanning 2005 - 2012. We developed Poisson regression models to study ‘the main temperature effect’ as well as ‘additional impacts’ of sustained high and low temperatures (i.e. heat and cold waves) on all-cause mortality risk. Results: We find large heterogeneity among mortality risks across urban areas. …
The Odisha government will study the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) currently in use at Ahmedabad, ahead of adopting a similar project for its capital city Bhubaneswar. Next month, the state housing and urban development secretary, G Mathivathanan, will visit Gujarat for this purpose, according to officials. “The secretary to …
The health department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has filed 197 complaints of sanitation against various restaurants and eateries in concerned courts. The department has levied fines worth Rs 19.37 lakh for violation of health and sanitation rules at these places in the city. Through mobile courts alone the corporation has …
Our air is becoming dustier, infected and now threatens us to affect out respiratory systems. The latest suspended particulate matter pollution data in different areas of the city has clearly pointed fingers at Amdavadis. Traffic jams, construction work, unchecked diesel vehicles, loading rickshaws, fumes from neighboring industrial clusters, careless habits …
Factories In Vicinity Of City Polluting Water Table The state government is tightening the noose around industrial units in the vicinity of the city that are becoming a major source of pollution. For the first time a `rogues list' was prepared of 1,000-odd units located in areas such as Narol, …
The Climate and Development Outlook – India Special Edition shares news of CDKN’s projects across this diverse and climate-affected country. Many of the projects focus on building climate resilience, particularly among vulnerable populations: Leadership on climate compatible development is emerging in states, districts and cities across India, which is celebrated …
A recent World Health Organziation (WHO) report on ambient air quality has ranked Ahmedabad as the 10th most polluted in the world, in terms of annual mean concentrations of Particulate Matter (PM2.5). The study was released in May this year. The first on the list is Delhi. Along with Ahmedabad, …
A high level Pakistani delegation will visit the city on Monday morning to study whether the Sabarmati Rverfront Development Project could be replicated along Ravi river in Lahore. This four-member delegation from Pakistan will visit various projects initiated by prime minister Narendra Modi while he was chief minister of the …
A leading orthopaedic surgeon in city has launched one of country's largest biogas plant in Sundarpura, Anand — a mean waste guzzler that will digest 64 tonnes of domestic and farmland waste to produce 7,000 kg of biogas daily. Feeding of waste into the project set up at cost of …
GANDHINAGAR: As part of efforts to ensure a cleaner and greener environment, the Gujarat government will soon introduce a pilot project to run 'electric-buses' for public transport between state capital Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad. Moving ahead, the state-run Gujarat Power Corporation Limited (GPCL) has invited expression of interest from the potential …
Mumbai-Ahmedabad gets first bullet train; govt to launch diamond quadrilateral of high speed trains Railway minister Sadananda Gowda in his maiden rail budget today said the bulk of future railway projects will be financed through public-private partnerships besides announcing bullet trains and a diamond-quadilateral network. Here are the top 10 …
Among the three major cities of Gujarat — Ahmedabad, Rajkot and Vadodara — Ahmedabad is leading by a huge margin in terms of having maximum number of children suffering from malnutrition. As per the government records till May this year, the number of malnourished children in the city is 43,820. …
Human mobility is more to blame for the spread of dengue than mosquitoes, says a study conducted by IITGandhinagar (IIT-Gn) on the incidence of the disease in the city. The study titled, 'Modelling spread of dengue epidemic in urban areas from a spatial interacting networks perspective', was carried out by …
