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 …
Hyderabad: Municipal commissioners will be given magisterial powers to penalise those throwing garbage, plastic and construction waste on the roads, illegally installing posters, banners or flexis, scrawling graffiti in public spaces, defacing public property and defecating in the open. Cases will be booked against politicians, irrespective of the party they …
Plastic pollution threatens to wipe 7.4 per cent off the value of Sydney homes in areas where litter is apparent, a new report shows. The report, released by Boomerang Alliance, found that if just 5 per cent of 1.6 million homes in Sydney neighbourhoods are adversely affected by litter, the …
The Municipal Corporation’s decision to install a weighing bridge at the garbage dumping site in Sector 23 has not gone down well with Panchkula residents. Some residents said a garbage treatment plant must be set up first. The residents have time and again demanded that the corporation either shift the …
Districts have joined the government's efforts to improve waste management by incorporating environmental hazards management in their action plans. Ange Irutingabo, the district and community support officer at Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA), said that, so far, 19 districts had already planned for waste management and pollution control. "For 2014/2015 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Tribunal on its Motion Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 21/11/2016 regarding dumping of garbages at Rajiv Nagar, North 24 Parganas from South Dum Dum, Dum Dum, North Dum Dum and New Barrackpore Municipalities. …
LUCKNOW: A day after UP's environment minister met with the Union minister and officials to curb the growing air pollution, UP chief secretary Rahul Bhatnagar issued directions to senior officials to take "effective measures regularly" to control air pollution in different cities in UP. Asking the government departments to ensure …
The Delhi government will soon submit an action plan to tackle rising air pollution and garbage issues in the Supreme Court, with chief minister Arvind Kejriwal directing his ministers to treat the court's order on the matter as a "blessing in disguise" to solve the problem. Sources said the chief …
The Supreme Court Monday sought explanation from the Delhi government as well as the Centre over lack of landfill sites for garbage disposal in the national capital. “I have seen some TV reports in which it was pointed out that people are dying (due to lack of garbage disposal). What …
PANCHKULA: Burning of garbage on the roadside by sanitation workers is a common sight in Panchkula and residents continue to brace the stench that emanates from the dump. Residents and several welfare associations of Panchkula and NGOs have made complaints to officials of the municipal corporation about garbage being burnt …
BEIJING included garbage and sanitary management during the drafting of its 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020). Beijing Municipal Management Committee said Thursday that the capital city will roll out measures to make sorting garbage mandatory for households and kitchen waste disposal facilities with a daily capacity of 3,000 tonnes, more than …
A small sampan manoeuvres between the fishing boats moored in the Cheung Chau typhoon shelter, while a small shrimp net is dropped over the bows to retrieve a modest catch of floating refuse. It’s not exactly hi-tech, and nor does it appear to be very effective, because most of the …
Rubbish is again accumulating on some Beirut streets after protesters blocked access to a dump, raising fears that last summer's garbage crisis, which provoked unprecedented street protests, could return. The return of trash piles is among a number of signs of how dysfunctional Lebanon's paralysed political system has become, made …
Balkan countries once divided by war, nationalism and religion have been quietly uniting to confront a common foe: rubbish. Under the rubric of the Let’s Do It campaign, Albanian and Kosovar activists jointly cleared their border area and the polluted Lake Vermica last April, in a Wombles-style campaign that has …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Madhumangal Shukla Vs Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change & Others dated 23/08/2016 regarding Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh. It has been pointed out that Municipal Solid Waste of Vrindavan was being dumped on different …
LUDHIANA: The much hyped project of the municipal corporation (MC) to deal with solid waste with the help of three static compactors faces apathy of the authorities. The deadline of August 15 has almost arrived but the civic body authorities have failed to complete the civil work at Dugri garbage …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of M. Velusamy Vs Department of Environment and Forests - Government of Tamil Nadu & Others dated 11/08/2016 regarding subsidy for the construction of modern waste transfer station and compost plant for recycling garbage waste at Ward No.42, Chinnavedampatti, Coimbatore, Tamil …
BENGALURU: Karnataka State Pollution Control Board is now going to inspect all the 198 wards till August 6 to check whether garbage disposal and collection is happening as per the provisions of the Municipal Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2000 and Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. On Tuesday, some officials …
TRICHY: Aadi Perukku is an auspicious festival when people throng river banks wishing for prosperity, but not many realise the damage such congregations cause to the environment. Heaps of garbage in the form of garlands, used pieces of cloth and plastic bags were floating on the Cauvery river after they …
Solid Waste Management Corporation Bill has been put up for approval of cabinet, told minister for science and technology Alina Saldanha to Goa Legislative Assembly on Tuesday while replying to a question tabled by Calantuge MLA Micheal Lobo. Goa's first modern garbage treatment plant located at Saligao in North Goa …
Kampala — Environment minister says encroachers who have destroyed wetlands in Wakiso District will be evicted The Minister of Water and Environment has ordered Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to find an alternative garbage dumping ground to Kitezi because of pollution crisis in Wakiso District. Speaking at the Wampeewo playground …
