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 …
Take afforestation fee and denotify our homes, forest land residents tell state governmentMumbai: Builders are systematically destroying mangroves in the Mira-Bhayander region, dumping debris and garbage on them and hacking and dredging the soil for illegal constructions, an NGO of environmentalists has alleged. A 2005 High Court ruling had banned …
Lucknow: The Lucknow University students did not shy away from donning an unusually different role on Tuesday. Just a handful of students, 15 of them to be precise, from different departments of the Lucknow University came together to clean the campus. The role was short-lived but the students are more …
The Margao Municipal Council appears literally struggling with the door-to-door garbage collection scheme for want of adequate manpower and machinery. First, the Civic body had announced plans to implement the scheme in six Municipal wards, but the scheme was restricted to only four wards. Now, if Civic officials are to …
Trickling of leachate - pollutant that seeps through garbage - into the Thane creek from the Mulund dumping ground has become a major cause of concern for fishermen as well as environmentalists. The leachate, say environmentalists, has affected marine life and the day is not far when the ground water …
As part of integrated solid waste management programme Photo: M. Periasamy PROMOTING CLEANLINESS: Mayor R. Venkatachalam (third right) hands over garbage bins to residents at Saibaba Colony in the city on Friday. Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra (right) is in the picture.
In Bangalore about 6.8 million people produce more than 3500 tonnes of waste in a single day. Despite the large infrastructure created for waste management, garbage is currently being disposed rather than managed. It continues to pollute the environment and poses a health risk to collectors as well as the …
A sparkling, clean Delhi and no bad smell either? This attractive picture seems a distinct possibility with the civic agency set to crack the whip from the new year on all those found littering and urinating in public places. With the 2010 Commonwealth Games barely two years away, the Municipal …
MISTAKEN IDENTITY The Centre has once again cleared the 141 hectares of land at Kanjurmarg for a dumping ground, lifting the forest tag that was mistakenly given to that plot. However, it will be a while before the BMC can use the place to dump debris as the state is …
While the Margao Municipal Council is bracing up to start door-to-door garbage collection in some wards, city hotel owners are finding it tough to dispose off its waste with citizens objecting to dumping of the waste in the Municipal bins. This hard reality was brought to the notice MMC Chairperson …
BY SHWETA SRINIVASAN, NEW DELHI A sparkling, clean Delhi and no bad smells either? This attractive picture seems a distinct possibility with the civic agency set to crack the whip from the new year on all those found littering and urinating in public places. With the 2010 Commonwealth Games barely …
K Jayaprakash KOCHI: The plastic mounts at Sabarimala have been a nagging problem for the Travancore Devaswom Board and the state government alike. But, this trash is an invaluable treasure. It can be converted into diesel in the next 5-10 years and till then the waste can be kept in …
Mounting garbage looks for a site in Srinagar as people oppose the existing landfill Srinagar is stinking again. The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (smc) estimates that over 4,000 tonnes of solid waste is lying undisposed in Srinagar. On October 10, people living around Achen
It is bad news for the residents of Bhanpur that they are under the grip of death. Hundreds of truck garbage dumped by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) spreading various diseases in the area, compelling them to die slowly. On the left side of Bhanpur bridge on vacant place the …
For society: Khadi Board Minister K. Ramachandran inaugurating a training programme on Municipal Solid Waste Management in Udhagamandalam on Friday. Udhagamandalam: Effective management of municipal solid waste will help the society in many ways, said Khadi Board Minister K.Ramachandran here on Friday. Inaugurating a training programme on Municipal Solid Waste …
Some startling revelations on the perceptions of Bangalore school students about the City have come to the fore in a unique survey carried out by the Children's Movement for Civic Awareness (CMCA), a forum for school children. A majority of government school students would prefer to leave the City and …
Margao Municipal Council much-hyped awareness drive on waste segregation at source in association with TERI on Monday turned out a damp squib, with the program evoking lukewarm response from the stake holders, including City Fathers. Even local MLA and Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat, who was scheduled to launch the intensive …
