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 …
Bangalore, The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has been spending about Rs 22 lakh a day to provide water to the City areas without Cauvery supply. According to sources, the Board has hired 86 private water tankers to meet the needs of KR Puram, Mahadevapura and Bommanahalli. The areas …
Panjim: In a sudden development, Taleigao Village Panchayat (TVP) has banned garbage from Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) from being dumped at its Taleigao site and reportedly posted security guards there, after conveying its decision to CCP on Monday. About 10 trucks of excess garbage which could not …
The pulse polio drive, held by the civic body on Sunday, saw a slide in turnout with only 57.58% of the city's children under five years taking the oral vaccine. The target this time was 9,44,661 children. However, only 5,43,936 children were brought for vaccination against polio, making the coverage …
The holy spot has turned a waste dump yard Sangam holy spot for people of Tamil Nadu and neighbouring states Devotees to the shrine are now greeted by foul smell emanating from the garbage ERODE: All spirituality lies buried in heaps of garbage that is being lavishly dumped at Kooduthurai …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is aiming to reduce the deaths by malaria in the metropolis to a two-digit number this monsoon. The toll was reduced from 198 in 2009 to 145 in 2010, said additional commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar yesterday. "We are aiming to bring the number of deaths to a …
Stumped by the declining child sex ratio in the city, the state government and the BMC have decided to strengthen the implementation of the Preconception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, in the state. While the BMC has decided to increase the frequency of its meetings …
Secunderabad Cantonment will stand to benefit the most from the ban on the use of plastic carry bags in Greater Hyderabad. This is because though the Cantonment Board had banned plastic carry bags from April 2010 in cantonment limits, it has not been able to enforce the ban successfully. SCB …
In an attempt to keep the city clean and beautiful, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has passed a proposal to revive the clean-up scheme, which will now see 25 marshals manning each ward with a maximum fine of Rs10,000 for littering and spitting. The BMC standing committee yesterday passed the …
New Delhi:Many auto unions decided to call off their plan to go on strike after a meeting with transport minister Arvinder Singh on Thursday evening. This comes after 14-odd auto unions of Delhi had threatened to go on strike over the installation of Global Positioning System (GPS) in autorickshaws. However, …
AHMEDABAD: Amdavadis should use water judiciously in the days ahead. With the ongoing repair works in Kadana dam, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) would get almost 150 million litres less for the next 15 days from May 25. Residents in the new west zone-Jodhpurgam, Vejalpur, Satellite, Thaltej, Bodakdev will not …
The latest Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011, announced by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) in February came under sharp focus at a meeting of plastic manufacturers, social activists and civic officials held in the city on Wednesday. The new rule states that plastic bags less than …
MARGAO, Pollution in the Cuncolim Industrial Estate has come back to haunt the citizens and the authorities once again. At a meeting called to discuss the recent incident of ammonia leakage in an industrial unit in the Cuncolim Municipal Council, citizens raised apprehensions over rampant pollution inside the Estate in …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is going to launch a month-long special sanitation and cleanliness drive beginning this Friday. While Delhi Mayor Rajni Abbi will launch the drive in Chandni Chowk from Gauri Shankar Mandir near Red Fort, all zonal chairpersons would launch the drive simultaneously in their zones. Dr. …
AHMEDABAD: The AMC have decided to procure 16,520 tree guards to protect existing plantations in the city. The guards have been procured to protect existing saplings and those which would be planted during June. Each of the tree guards cost the AMC Rs 555. A budget of Rs 92 lakh …
Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan announced the revival of the policy for the parking lots in Mumbai. Parking lots will now be allowed to be developed on public-private partnership basis. FSI incentives and concessions in the premium charges will also be offered on such lots to the developers. The only sore …
GUWAHATI, Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has come up with a new project called the Slum Housing Project with the objective of providing Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP). Talking to The Sentinel, a GMC official said,
MUMBAI: The state government and the municipal corporation have to join hands and ensure that the flood prevention work on the Mithi river is carried out fully if Mumbaikars are to be spared the same fate which overtook the city in 2005 resulting in chaos and deaths of almost 1,000 …
To take stock of water bodies in the city, including ponds that have been filled in and encroached upon, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is planning to map them.
