Fogging requests flood Ahmedabad civic body
AHEMDABAD: In the last 14 days, the civic body's complaint cell received an overwhelming number of requests from citizens desperately seeking fogging and anti-vector activities in their housing societies.
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Dengue cases double, posh localities hit hard
AHMEDABAD: The sting of the dengue carrier mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is getting sharper and deadlier, and more of its victims are dwellers of posh neighbourhoods than those living in slums. General physicians
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Malaria on the march in city
AHMEDABAD: In the past two months, there has been a marked increase in the number of patients of malaria and dengue streaming into government and private hospitals. This has made health officials press
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Ahmedabad tops list of malnutrition-hit cities
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
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City to get air action plan soon
Ahmedabad: The state government will give its final touches to a comprehensive air action plan for Ahmedabad city in the coming few days. This will be the second such action plan since 2002. The continuous
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Plan waste treatment in 180 days: Gujarat Pollution Control Board
Plastic manufacturers from state who got closure notice for violating plastic waste management rules get relief Close to 10,000 plastics manufacturing units in the state got relief on Wednesday, when
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Civic authorities worried about deadly dengue threat
Ahmedabad: With monsoon rains receding, civic health authorities are worried over the mosquitoe menace. Fresh showers make stagnant water run again, but lack of rains is leading to patches and pools of
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Heavy rains flood city areas
AHMEDABAD: Heavy rains lashed western parts of the city on Thursday. Though maximum temperature was higher than the past two days, it was two degrees below normal for this day of the year, and came
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Heat spikes high fever cases in Ahmedabad
AHMEDABAD: Eighteen cases of high-grade fever were reported from various hospitals in the city even as the mercury dipped to 42.6 degrees celsius on Wednesday. This was a drop of 1.3 degrees from Tuesday,
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All of Gujarat now under monsoon's reign: India Meteorological Department
Ahmedabad: The south-western monsoon has now spread across entire Gujarat, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday. This year, the arrival of monsoon was delayed by over a month.
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Mosquitoes killed 22 people in Ahmedabad since July
AHMEDABAD: Last year, the Gujarat government reported to the Union health ministry that just one person had died of malaria and nine of dengue in the entire state of 6.04 crore.This year, TOI's random
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Countdown timers to return after 8 years
Ahmedabad: Forget those restless seconds while waiting for a traffic light to turn green. Traffic Signal Countdown Timers (TSCT) will be back at 186 traffic junctions in the city. The countdown timers
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Illegal sand mining going on unchecked says SOG official
AHMEDABAD: A team of Ahmedabad rural police's special operations group (SOG) raided a mining site at Gyaspur near the Sabarmati river, late on Thursday night, after reports emerged of illegal sand mining.
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MoEF addnl secretary launces course in climate change at CEE
Ahmedabad: RR Rashmi, additional secretary of ministry of environment, forest and climate change, launched certificate course on climate change at Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Ahmedabad, on
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Extension to VECL against Supreme Court order: Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti
The extension was given to balance environmental protection as well as socio-economic well being. Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti has criticized Gujarat Pollution Control Board's (GPCB) move to extend closure
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Gujarat government yet to uncork water policy
GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat government’s proposed ‘State Draft Water Policy’ is stuck in bureaucratic red-tape for the past few years. The first draft of the policy was prepared in 2014-15 but it never made it
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Gujarat's potatoes most resilient to climate change
Spud Superiority: Out of 45 varieties studied from across India, 11 found to be strongest Eleven varieties of potatoes, natural and hybrid, grown in Gujarat have been found to be the most resilient
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Four succumb to swine flu, state death toll reaches 373
AHMEDABAD: Amid the state government's claim of producing good results in curbing swine flu, the deadly H1N1 virus on Monday took five lives across the state taking the death toll to 373 this year. Alarmingly,
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PM 2.5 pollution shortening lives by three years: Study
Ahmedabad: A new study has started ringing alarm bells for Gujarat cities. The uncontrolled exploitation of the air we breathe and lost green cover is reducing life expectancy in the state by between 2.9
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Eight held in Ahmedabad for dumping waste in manholes
Special Operation Group (SOG) of Ahmedabad district police on Sunday evening arrested eight persons for dumping suspected industrial waste into open manholes near Moraiya village of Ahmedabad district