Urban India’s parking woes: an overview
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
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3 tankers carrying pollutants seized
Industrial Units Suspected To Be Pouring Poisonous Chemicals Into Drains, Rivers A Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) monitoring team caught three tankers carrying a hazardous chemical — Spent Acid — for illegal disposal near Gujcomasol on Vatva-Narol road. Even after strict directions from GPCB to not dispose more than 3,000MGL of the chemical without treatment, many units in Vatva seem to continue disposing of H acid, vinyl sulfone, NMJ acid, FC acid, MPDSA, D.A.S.A, D.A.S.D.A effluents in volumes of 25,000 to 50,000 MGL into drainage system and rivers without processing. This severely degrades the environmental conditions of the region.
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IIM-Ahmedabad professor to join Gujarat's battle for lions
AHMEDABAD: It will be wildlife experts versus a management guru from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, when it comes to countering the claims of Madhya Pradesh over the translocation of lions
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Ashiana Housing to expand affordable housing project in Gujarat
Company looking to either buy its own land or enter into joint venture with land owners in state Even as it nears the launch of its first affordable housing project in Gujarat at Halol near Vadodara, Kolkata-based real estate player Ashiana Housing Limited is already planning to expand its presence in the state. The company is already exploring and researching possibilities for similar project in other cities like Ahmedabad, Surat and Rajkot.
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E-Mamta: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to survey four lakh non-slum families
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will soon be starting the survey covering 4 lakh non-slum families of the city to include in the E-mamta scheme. The survey will begin in November and will be over by
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Gujarat Pollution Control Board takes civic bodies to task
Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has issued notices to eight municipal corporations and 159 municipalities for not following guidelines on solid waste disposal. The corporations given notices are
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Waste warriors make sweeping statement!
On Bapu’s B’day, Youth Brigade Makes Clean Sweep Of Gandhi Road It was halla bol on the dirt monster as nearly 250 waste warriors descended on Gandhi Road on Wednesday to observe Gandhi Jayanti. They joined hands with Ahmedabad’s Youth Brigade to make the city’s 600-year-old core garbage-free.
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Guj cities to get cheaper gas at Delhi, Mum rate
SC Upholds HC Order To Centre Gujarat’s cities will get cheaper gas. The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a Gujarat high court order passed last year directing the Centre to supply gas to Ahmedabad at the price it supplies to Delhi and Mumbai.
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New soldiers for war on waste
100 HL Students Join TOI’s Youth Brigade To Make Paper Bags The I Lead India campaign against litter and use of plastics got another fillip on Monday when TOI's Youth Brigade was joined by more than
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1 of 5 sewage treatment plants non-operational
Almost one-fifth of the centrally-funded sewage treatment plants in the country are “non-operational”, leading to millions of litres of untreated water either seeping into the ground as potential pollutant
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Saffolalife study reveals that 71% Delhites are at high cardiovascular disease risk
The Saffolalife Study 2013, India’s largest study on risk factors precipitating heart disease, found that more than 70% of 1.86 lakh urban Indian respondents are at cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. When