AHMEDABAD: The diseases chart in the city had been soaring up during the last few months. The number of suspected malaria deaths in the city has gone up to 59 in the last one-and-half months according to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). There have been in all five dengue deaths till Friday in the city.
Scouting land for Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL)’s third manufacturing plant in the country, Suzuki Motor Corporation chairman Osamu Suzuki had a “cordial and positive” meeting with Gujarat chi
AHMEDABAD: A division bench of the Gujarat high court refused to direct the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to allow another environment impact and risk assessment study to develop
Sanand (Gujarat): Gujarat’s industrialisation story is well known, but what is less clear is how exactly the land to house these industries is being acquired.
The health department has asked the municipal corporations to ensure proper follow-up of individual malaria or dengue cases that are reported at its health centres. The department has also wanted that the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) ensure a double check of any mosquito control measures that are undertaken at the ward level. This includes fogging, spraying of insecticides, collecting smears and examinations and follow-up of fever cases that are reported at the urban health centres.
Ahmedabad: Lakes and small waterbodies are the next major concern for Ahmedabad’s mosquito control team. Over 20 water bodies — minor and major — dot the city. And health officials of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) believe that with the rains ebbing, the water bodies are turning into major breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
Ahmedabad PSA Peugeot Citroën, France’s largest carmaker and Europe’s second largest, will invest R4,000 crore to build a factory at Sanand near Ahmedabad for 1,65,000 cars yearly and creating 5,000 direct jobs. The integrated manufacturing plant, which will come up in 600 acre, will roll out its first Peugeot car in 2014, over a decade after the company left India following a bitter parting with its former partner Premier Automobiles.
Ahmedabad: The state government may be planning to move Maldharis out of Gir sanctuary, but a study has revealed that livestock contributed as a major food source for the lions.
AHMEDABAD: After the state lost the first round of chemical warfare against mosquitoes, the state health department has been advised to update its armoury. Initially, 'white' powder - chalk mixed with 5% of a substance called malathion - was used to arrest mosquito growth. But it proved to be ineffective.
