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 …
The coastal panchayats though generate garbage in large quantities, in fact, on par with cities, none have acquired a site for garbage treatment and disposal. Many of them are still at the stage of obtaining administrative approvals while others have not even progressed beyond sending proposals to the Goa State …
R. Sairam MADURAI: Huge mounds of garbage piled up in street corners have become an ubiquitous sight across the city, creating not just a sore sight but also a health hazard for people. Besides putting off foreign tourists, the piles of garbage have become a transit point for diseases from …
Chandigarh: The much-awaited new industrial policy is likely to be in place soon. Interacting with the representatives of the Chandigarh Industrial Association, UT Administrator General S F Rodrigues (Retd) said the new policy for the Industrial Area Phase I and II was being finalised. Noting that city has a business-friendly …
Thane residents say no to waste tax RESIDENTS of Thane city are not willing to pay tax for the garbage that goes out of their homes each day. The Thane Municipal Corporation in November 2008 had proposed a nominal solid waste tax for scientific disposal of garbage. The target was …
The tax structures devised by Thane Municipal Corporation: Slum dwellers: Rs 10 per month per family Flat owners: Rs 15 per month per flat Restaurants and pubs: Rs 120 a month Malls, wedding halls, cattle sheds and hotels: Rs 50-100 each day
CHENNAI: Visitors to Kilburn Nagar and its neighbouring colonies are often appalled by the thick clouds of acrid smoke enveloping the area. But for residents enduring the garbage dump it has been a daily ordeal for nearly a decade. Two years have gone by since the Madras High Court restrained …
New Delhi: At its new landfill sites, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi plans to generate electricity, cooking gas, organic manure and bricks from the waste generated in the city. To come up at Okhla and Timarpur, the landfill sites will have a waste treatment plant for which the corporation is …
In a non-descript slum in Jahangirpuri, the hair you throw into your bathroom bin transforms into wigs for idols, and the toys you dispose of make their way into second-hand markets. Even as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is set to privatise the door-to-door collection of garbage in the city, …
* Visitors, picnickers complain of crows descending on parks in droves * Ornithologists suggest reducing waste heaps could help control crow population * PU professor urges CDGL to take action By Ali Usman LAHORE: Ornithologists and environmentalists are of the view that the crow population has increased in the city …
Staff Reporter NEW DELHI: Concerned that the notification banning the use of plastic bags in Delhi that came into effect this past month would not be able to cover the entire gamut of plastic use in the city, environmentalists have now demanded that the Government also look
SALEM: The Jyothi Talkies East Street at Ammapet in the city has been stinking for a week now. The residents say that garbage mounts could be seen on this street and in many other areas at Ammapet since the Corporation rarely collects and dispose them off.
Date: 23-Jan-09 Country: NEPAL Author: Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU - Tons of garbage dumped on the streets in Kathmandu have left the Nepali capital choking in what is proving a new headache for the embattled government headed by the Maoist former rebels. Disposal of waste has been a chronic problem in …
Staff Reporter ERODE: Even as the Bhavani Municipality takes steps to implement the solid waste management system, the Consumer Protection Council has asked the civic body for safe disposal of garbage. At present the civic body dumps garbage at a 6.5-acre site near the Bhavani New Bus Stand and the …
PANJIM, JAN 16 In a sigh of relief, the rotting hotel waste will be cleared out from tomorrow (Saturday) as the three-day long impasse over the issue was finally resolved today following Government intervention. On Friday evening, the Goa Hotels and Restaurants Association unanimously agreed to the recommendations from the …
SALEM: Tirumanimutharu River that vivisects the city has become a major dump yard for garbage. Shops and business establishments on the banks of the river dump their waste including plastics and used leaves, into it. Project While the Government is undertaking its ambitious
