Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Now, Shoppers Forced To Shell Out Up To 100, Official Rate 10 Per Hour New Delhi: The spirit of Delhiites might be soaring with the ongoing festive season but extra parking fees are playing spoilsport. With Diwali just a week away, shoppers also have to budget in for the exorbitant …
16 bio methane-based plants to help slash garbage disposal and power bills The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike has finally decided to act on the long-pending idea of generating power using wet garbage. It plans to set up 16 bio methane-based power plants in the City to run streetlights. The plants, …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will soon conduct a noise mapping analysis of the city to identify noise pollution at various locations and instal sound barriers. This decision comes after a high-level delegation, including Municipal Commissioner Subodh Kumar, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) Commissioner Rahul Asthana, Principal Secretary T …
Enough is enough, civic bodies should not have unbridled power, the Bombay High Court said on Wednesday. Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) on noise pollution in the city, the court said people are inconvenienced during festivals because of rising noise levels and pandals springing up in the middle of …
In a bid to woo voters before the upcoming civic polls, the Congress party wants to make Mumbai’s slums self-contained. Vinod Shekhar, a Congress corporator from Colaba, demanded that the municipality must allow slum dwellers to construct toilets in their homes. Mumbai Congress President Kripashankar Singh has also supported the …
Project to lay second water pipeline yet to be implemented Inaccessibility to drinking water is a cause for serious concern among people of Kayalpatnam, a Second Grade Municipality, which houses an eighty percent of Muslim populace. People are getting drinking water only once in five days or seven days.. Though …
Parks were supposed to add beauty to the city, but most have now become dumping grounds of waste products. Many small parks, not frequented by people, have turned into huge litter bins by daily markets, shops and households. Swahid Udyan, near Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC) office in Paltan Bazar, …
Bhopal : State Government has refused to give grants to Municipal Corporation to carry out the additional expenditures of Narmada Project. In such situation, Corporation is making preparations to hike water prizes in next budget. The Corporation is facing extra 28 crores electricity charges to pump Narmada water, to pay …
No water treatment plant in Mavelikara, says activist A severe shortage of pure drinking water, coupled with the callousness of the authorities in supplying untreated water taken from the endpoint of a garbage canal to households, has prompted a citizen to launch a hunger strike in Mavelikara. According to Ani …
GUWAHATI: It has become literally impossible for people to walk along the road near Dona Planet in Guwahati that leads to the Regional Dental College because of the stench from the garbage dump just 10 metres from the entrance gate of the dental college. The open space just a few …
With another person testing positive for Japanese Encephalitis, the number of people affected by the virus rose to five in the city. 30-year-old Ram Swarth, a resident of Inderpuri in southwest Delhi, is the fifth victim in the city to be diagnosed with the disease that primarily affects the central …
KOLKATA, 10 OCT: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will give subsidy for buying cycle-rickshaws powered by solar energy. A senior official of KMC said a large number of economically-challenged people from backward classes and minority community are earning their livelihood by driving cycle rickshaws. The erstwhile Left Front government took …
New Delhi: MCD was jolted from slumber. A team assembled at Janakpuri on Monday morning to clear the stinking block that was not just an eyesore, but also choked traffic. In one sweep, the filth pot was removed: something that didn’t happen for a very long time despite a lot …
Cases of dengue, even deaths have been reported in the state, while health officials say that things are under control. An official in the health department, requesting anonymity, said, “Due to the ongoing T-strike, work in a number of T-districts has been hampered as health department staff has not been …
Coming as a big relief to the city’s problem of dumping garbage, which is nothing less than 8,000 tonnes of solid waste daily, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has finally started using its new landfill site at Narela-Bawana in northwest Delhi. “We have started using the new landfill site …
SHILLONG: Meghalaya is all to replace plastic bags with eco-friendly hand-woven bags called “Pla Iew” and “Sla” or leaves. The unrestraint use of plastic bags has created a havoc in the State creating all sorts of environment pollution. Food items are being packed in leaves called “Sla” as they are …
The much-hyped 24-hour drinking water supply programme, as announced by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), appears to be a distant dream. Recently the civic body had tried to supply water for 12 hours in the western suburbs on a trial basis, but the move failed due to inadequate technical preparations …
Waterless Urinals No Prime Space For Ads, So View Is Clear New Delhi: As you drive towards MCD headquarters on the Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, it’s hard to miss the newly constructed waterless urinals, most of which do not have frontal cover. Most of the 603 such urinals in the city …
Large parts of Andheri and Jogeshwari West will have improved water supply starting Tuesday after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioned the six-km underground tunnel from Verawli to Yari Road. In a bid to replace age-old fragile steel pipelines, the civic body is gradually shifting supply to underground concrete tunnels. …
Ahmedabad: Finally, some relief is at hand for those fed up with slum pockets near their residential areas. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has taken the first step towards rehabilitating slum-dwellers. The civic body has initiated a socio-economic slum survey (SESS) in the newly merged areas that include the western part …
