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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Low oxygen in Ghodasar water kills hundreds of fish
AHMEDABAD: A team of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's health department rushed to Ghodasar lake on Sunday after receiving reports of the death of a large quantity of fish because of depleted oxygen level
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PIL seeks inquiry into Zika cover-up
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government's hushing up the spread of the dreaded Zika virus has reached the Gujarat high court. A PIL has demanded a probe into who was responsible for purposely hiding information
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Waste segregation forgotten, even dustbins go saffron
Ahmedabad: With election to come this year, even the dustbins have taken a saffron hue even though municipal solid waste management rules advocate the use for blue and green colours for dustbins to enable
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Mathematical model joins Zika fight
Ahmedabad: Even as lack of drives for preventive measures or awareness activities in the wake of three Zika virus detections in Ahmedabad exists, three mathematicians from Gujarat University and LD College
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No Zika surveys in other Gujarat cities
AHMEDABAD/ SURAT/ VADODARA: Since January the presence of the deadly Zika virus in Ahmedabad first came to light, massive health surveys were undertaken in the city. Random blood samples that tested
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House was told about Zika cases in March: Health Ministry
The statement came almost a week after the WHO said that three Zika cases had been detected in Ahmedabad. Sources said the statement was issued after reports about “secrecy” around the issue. The Union
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Kashi takes on Zika, Ahmedabad still sleeps
AHMEDABAD: As you read this, there are some 90,746 expectant mothers in Ahmedabad, most of them poor and living in slums, chawls and low income localities of the city which are the most vulnerable to the
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India reported Zika outbreak late: WHO
The WHO India office today flagged to the Health Ministry the recent issue of late reporting of Zika virus to the world body. The WHO received outbreak information from India on May 15, nearly five-and-a-half
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Dengue, chikungunya soften city for Zika strike
Ahmedabad: The Aedes aegypti mosquito amid us is the sole propagator of the feared Zika virus. In all of 2016, this mosquito species had health officials in Ahmedabad on the edge, as it caused a sudden
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Zika threat: Chandigarh health department screens hotels, hospitals
CHANDIGARH: The UT health department is on high alert following Zika virus striking three people in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, screening all hotels and hospitals for such cases. The risk is more as the virus