AHMEDABAD: Kankaria Lake may add new joyrides to its repertoire, rides that have never been introduced in any of the amusement parks of the country.

Ahmedabad: City’s Kankaria Lakefront project will lend its design to the country’s oldest manmade lake in Bhopal. The Madhya Pradesh government has awarded Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (Cept) University the project of making a detailed concept plan for the lake.

After studying the present scenario of the lake, experts at Cept University have planned to divide the 25 kilometer-long periphery of the lake into five zones including an ‘active recreational zone,’ which will resemble the revenue generating model of the Kankaria Lake.

AHMEDABAD: The highest animal mortality in zoos of the country was reported from Gujarat. Of the 2,910 zoo animal deaths in a year across India, 380 were in Gujarat. In Kankaria zoo in Ahmedabad, 150 animals died in the last one year. This zoo has over 2,000 animals.

AHMEDABAD: Kankaria and Vastrapur lakes of the city will become exemplary in an international conference to be held in Sweden.

The stories of the development of both the lakes will be told in a workshop on urban ecology there.

A team of professionals from Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (Cept), representatives from Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Self Employed Women'

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AHMEDABAD: The exotic birds that were seized by government railway police officials on Sunday, will now finally find a home at Kankaria zoo. The decision was taken after the court intervened in the matter late on Monday evening.

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Ahmedabad: Finally, the new avatar of Kankaria lakefront is legal. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has given a letter of approval to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) for construction carried at Kankaria Lake Front Development Project (KLFD).

Ahmedabad: The beautiful bottle palm trees planted along the picturesque Kankaria Lake Front development (KLFD) during its inaugural year in 2008 are dying a slow death.

Ahmedabad: Seven people have approached Gujarat High Court, seeking to join the PIL filed over the issue of imposition of fee on Kankaria Lake, but AMC has raised objection for their impleading in the case.

Ahmedabad : There is an unusual void at Kamala Nehru zoo in Kankaria as teary eyed keepers bid adieu to their favourite zoo member forever, Raja the Royal Bengal tiger on Monday morning.