Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, June 27: RAINWATER harvesting wells recently constructed by the Space Applications Centre will finally provide relief to low-lying residential societies around the SAC which were flooded in the monsoon for years by water flowing out its 80-acre campus.
SAC has built two rainwater collection ponds, each of a capacity of five lakh litres, [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, June 27: Ahmedabad is a strictly weekend shopping city.
On Saturdays and Sundays, youngsters and families descend in full force and invade malls and multiplexes of the city. Along with them come their two wheelers and cars, which create major traffic crises in and around shopping malls.
Most shopping complexes and multiplexes make [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, July 25:UNTIL five years ago, the women of Juhapura had not ventured beyond the confines of their small neighbourhood. The riots of 2002, however, changed everything.
As the riots left most male members of the area jobless, 20 women began a savings group called Parwaaz. With children to feed and rents to pay, [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, June 23:Every inspection day, the same cycle repeats itself at Kesar SAL Medical College & Research Institute. Two years ago, just before the intake of second batch of students, the mandatory inspection by the Medical Council of India (MCI) led to a temporary derecognition of the college. The story was the same the [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, June 15: Posing as a relative of a patient urgently in need of blood, all that Ashwini Varma, a medical technician, had to do was approach the nearest tea stall vendor outside the civil hospital. The deal was struck with Kallubhai, the tea stall owner, for Rs 500 per unit of blood. He [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, June 12:AS the world readies to observe Blood Donor’s Day on June 14, blood banks in the city are crying themselves hoarse over shortage of blood in the city. They say that the difference between the amount of blood donated and the rising demand for blood in hospitals in the city, keeps patients, [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
Ahmedabad, June 10:With Ganesh festival just two months away, idol makers of Gulbai Tekra in Gujarat are busy catering to orders for idols from as far as Hyderabad and Pune.
The environmentalists, meanwhile, are crying hoarse over the violation of guidelines issued by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB).
This year too, the idol makers [...]
Pulkit Vasudha
HER wild, wild ways bedazzle her parents, she prefers animals to sedentary pursuits, crocs, snakes outshine Sallu miya who figures in her black(buck)list! For Janvi Karwal, this animal kingdom’s her oyster.
“I like working with the animals in the zoo, not looking at them from a distance,” says the 15-year-old. “Crocodiles and snakes are [...]