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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Temperature down, but death toll rises
Ahmedabad: Though there was some respite from heat on Monday, five more people died, taking the death toll in the city due to heat, to 34. When temperature subsided, the winds kicked up a dust storm engulfing the city in a haze on Monday afternoon, making it difficult for commuters on the main roads.
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Traffic islands, road dividers to go green
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: The civic body is all set to give the city a chic look with certain traffic islands and dividers to be ornamented with ficus varieties, mehendi and rain umbrella trees. SK Langa, deputy municipal commissioner and in-charge of parks and gardens, said,
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2 more die of heat, toll reaches 29
Ahmedabad: As the mercury continued to hover around 45 degrees celsius in city, many more fell prey to the heat. The rising mercury killed two more persons on Sunday, taking the total death toll due to heat in the city in last four days to 29.
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Stinking sewer? no, model garden
By End Of June, One Stretch Of Kharicut Canal Will Turn Into A Green Zone Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Come June and you shall have the pleasure of taking a stroll on a huge stretch of green with clean, flowing water amid designer fountains. This will be Amdavadis
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BRTS project shortlisted for intl award
Ahmedabad: The nine-monthold Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), popularly known as Janmarg in the city, has added one more feather in its cap.
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Buildings that control their climate, NATURALLY
Some offices and institutions have managed to cut temperature purely by architechtural feat Paul John | TNN The city may feel like insides of a furnace these days, baking denizens ruthlessly as the mercury continues on its relentless climb, but then there are some cool spaces too. Mostly unnoticed, these
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Abad down in the dumps
City Rated 19th Among 25 Cities Surveyed For Cleanliness Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad may have been declared a mega city, but it
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Riverfront displaced get houses
Ahmedabad: The slumdwellers, displaced due to the Sabarmati riverfront project, were allotted houses under economically weaker section (EWS) scheme in the city on Monday. In the first draw, 2,371 houses were allocated under the rehabilitation scheme, out of which 271 slum-dwellers living on the eastern bank, on the stretch between Subhash bridge-Dudheshwar bridge, were given new EWS houses.
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AMCs final Pirana project in 3 months
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Pirana garbage dump is awaiting its revival. The municipal corporation authorities are now toying with three options --making money through carbon credits, generating a fuel that can be used to run vehicles or producing electricity.
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Low revenue leading to poor water supply
Ahmedabad: An Asian Development Bank (ADB) survey for 2007-08 indicates that each Amdavadi consumes 171 to 200 litres of water a day. This is in stark contrast with the official 143 litres per person per day supplied everyday. The fault lies in mindless use of precious resource like washing vehicles with potable water, leaking toilet valves and leakage in water supply liness.