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 …
Although summer is yet to set in, city's largest landfill site at Deonar has experienced its first fire incident of this summer on Thursday. This is just the beginning, fire episodes at the garbage yard may become frequent in the days to come as the days get warmer. Yet, the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Confederation of Trans Hindan RWA’s Ghaziabad Vs U. P. State Pollution Control Board & Others dated 28/05/2019 regarding inaction of the Municipal Corporation Ghaziabad in complying with the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, in not collecting garbage from Indirapuram, Vasundhara …
Panaji: Two years after former CM Manohar Parrikar laid out a roadmap to make Goa garbage-free by 2020, his successor Pramod Sawant pushed that target back by at least four years. “It is not possible to make Goa totally garbage-free,” he said on Wednesday. He said that with awareness and …
Madurai: Nearly 40 tonnes of garbage was removed from the Vaigai river in a mass cleaning programme organized by the Madurai Corporation between Kamarajar Bridge near Bethaniyapuram and Kuruvikkaran Salai. Corporation commissioner S Visakan who took part in the cleaning drive distributed dust bins and awareness pamphlets to those residing …
“Why do we need to repeatedly remind the world that we are not a garbage dump? Illegal waste dumping in developing countries should be stopped at all costs. We refuse to be treated as rich countries’ trash dumps,” said Abigail Aguilar, campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia, a green group. Inspected …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Arun Kumar Vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi dated 24/05/2019 regarding violation of norms by plastic industries making shoe soles and other plastic goods in Narela and Bawana in Delhi. Report submitted by a committee found open dumping of …
Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has ordered his government to hire a private shipping company to send 69 containers of garbage back to Canada and leave them within its territorial waters if it refuses to accept the rubbish. “The Philippines as an independent sovereign nation must not be treated as trash …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ram Kumar Panwar & Others Vs Government of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 17/05/2019 regarding illegal dumping of garbage at Neb Sarai, New Delhi in violation of Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. The NGT directs the South Delhi Municipal …
Why isn't environment becoming an election issue despite growing awareness among people about pollution and depleting natural resources? Ravish Kumar says that as he travelled across Delhi, Haryana, UP and Bihar during his road shows highlighting concerns of voters, one thing that was common was the scarcity of clean drinking …
The ground-plus-one storey slums next to Mahalaxmi carshed, where trains are cleaned and washed, have become a mini dumping ground. The Western Railway is unable to control garbage dumping inside its own premises. The ground-plus-one storey slums next to Mahalaxmi carshed, where trains are cleaned and washed, have become a …
Rotary Club of Jammu City installed garbage bins stations at 4 locations in Jammu City. These garbage bins stations were dedicated to the people by former Deputy Chief Minister, Kavinder Gupta. Speaking on the occasion, Kavinder Gupta said that Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is the most significant campaign by the Government …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sacred Heart Public School Chopra Education Society Vs Municipal Council & Others dated 07/05/2019 regarding remedial measures against illegal dumping and burning of garbage near a school by the Municipal Council, Kapurthala. A report received from the Municipal Council, Kapurthala …
BICHOLIM: Irked over the nuisance created by visitors and the garbage dumped near the bandhara, Sal residents have served an ultimatum on the government that by Saturday the problem is not solved, they would stop the pumping of water to Padosem water treatment plant. Sal residents and the panchayat held …
About 200 waste pickers marched from Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown to the offices of Pikitup and the City of Johannesburg on Thursday morning, GroundUp eported. The march was organised by African Reclaimers Organisation (ARO) - a group formed in 2017 to represent Johannesburg's street and landfill waste pickers. The …
MARGAO: Director of Panchayats Rajendra Satardekar on Monday visited Navelim panchayat to set in motion the process to make it one of the six villages in the State that will have a perfect garbage management system in place within the next six months. He disclosed that Navelim was one of …
Tribunal gives Ghaziabad civic body 2 months to take action Following a plea alleging noise pollution caused by “hooters” in garbage collection vehicles in Ghaziabad, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam to furnish an action taken report in the matter. A Bench headed by NGT …
Hardly 200 meters away from the courts, police station and the bus stand Basohli, there are heaps of garbage, organs of the slain animals, feathers and intestines of the butchered chickens littered all along the Basohli Bani Road, making mockery of Government’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ slogan. The place, where the heaps …
HYDERABAD: A cannon was found next to an abandoned car with garbage strewn over it in Aliabad close to a fortified wall built by former rulers. Some children, who were playing in a nearby garage, stumbled upon it. There are some more cannons lying in neglect in the area but …
Dehradun: Despite being relegated to 384th spot in the recently declared Swachh Survekshan 2019, the Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) seems to be paying no attention to the pressing problem of heaps of garbage being set on fire in many parts of the city. Be it at the heart of city …
“People do not just fight over garbage here, I have seen them fight to the death over garbage,” says Samaan Girgis. “There are no rules in this job.” Girgis is one of the Zabaleen (Arabic for “garbage people”), Cairo’s army of informal workers that collects refuse for conversion into valuable …
