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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Fine for spreading death only Rs 500, 6 months jail
Ahmedabad : The proprietors of death factories need not worry much even if images of contaminated syringes, needles and other bio-medical waste stored for recycling scared you to death. Even if the accused are found guilty, under IPC sections 269 and 278, they will be punished for six months of prison with a measly Rs 500 as fine.
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Death factories by the dozens
AHMEDABAD: More death factories churning out tonnes of biomedical waste were unearthed from Ahmedabad
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More bus rides
To boost public transport, Centre will help cities buy buses About 15,000 new buses are in the pipeline for 63 cities in the country. The Central urban development ministry launched a new scheme on January 12 to assist states and transport units buy buses for public transport under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (jnnurm), which covers the 63 cities. States that have plans
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Learning from practice: examples of fiscal reform in cities to deal with pollution and congestion
Several cities in India including Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, have begun to take steps to implement fiscal measures to address the problem of air pollution and congestion. The key focus of the fiscal measures are clean fuels and technologies including CNG, LPG and zero emissions technologies;
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20,000 village kids get typhoid vaccine
Ahmedabad : For the last two days, primary schoolchildren in remote villages in Barvala taluka, Ahmedabad district, have been getting free typhoid vaccination. This is to ensure that the illness does not disrupt their studies as it does each year.
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The circuit of life: Water and water reservoirs in pre-modern India
The problem of water availability was a pivotal facet of daily life, particularly in urban areas, where it had to be made perennially obtainable in large quantities. Thus, apart from river water, artificial water reservoirs of massive proportions, and also step wells were constructed on a great scale in most parts of the country.
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Let there be light, not sound on roads
If you honk in New York city, you will have to shell out Rs 17,000 as fine. If that were the law in Ahmedabad, the traffic police would easily be richer by a few crores. The psychological problems caused by honking led many countries across the globe to adopt stringent anti-honking laws and heavy fines to deter motorists from honking at will.
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Zoo snake house to be revamped
Ahmedabad: The cramped snake house at Kamla Nehru Zoo in Kankaria is set to get a new makeover. Soon, visitors will be able to view the unique collection of native and exotic snakes in their natural surroundings. For that, one has to first enter the giant belly of pre-historic dinosaur-shaped dome.
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BRTS will make bus travel safer, easier
Ahmedabad: The ambitious BRTS project is the sole silver lining in the city's mass transport history. Not only will it drive some sense into the mass transport network, but would also make bus travel more respectable for commuters. One of the main features of the BRTS is that one could access the bus if you only stand within the bus shelter.
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Can we make less noise on the street?
AHMEDABAD: Silence Zone'. If this was a big signboard put up at hospitals, schools, old age homes etc in Ahmedabad, the Amdavadi would welcome it with a honk!