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 …
KANPUR: The increase in humidity level has led to rise in mosquito menace, thereby giving sleepless nights to the locals. Leave people living in slum areas, even residents of posh localities are facing a tough time because of mosquitoes. With increase in cases of mosquito borne diseases such as malaria …
A US waste start-up has announced plans to launch an app that allows users to call for a rubbish collection, the same way they might schedule an Uber taxi. Atlanta-based Rubicon Global says its forthcoming app will be launched in several US cities by the end of the year and …
Researchers returned on Sunday from mapping and sampling a massive swirling cluster of trash floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, as the Dutch-borne crew works to refine a clean-up strategy it will roll out globally. The crew of the Ocean Cleanup, backed by volunteers in sailboats, ventured to …
Calling littering and people's non-cooperation major challenges to better sanitation, the NDMC on Sunday said it plans to construct garbage transfer stations here. The New Delhi Municipal Council will also build more public toilets and buy tri-cycle rickshaws and dustbins to better address the garbage dumping and collection issues, NDMC …
Rome's waste management Agency (AMA) is due to receive soon an exclusive Italian patent to turn garbage into eco-asphalt, with a new procedure that may allow the municipality to both save money and preserve the local environment. The AMA is expected to receive the patent in October, and open a …
SCB to roll out a plan where waste will be segregated and disposed of in an environment-friendly manner. o rid its streets and colonies of mounting garbage and generate additional revenue in the process, the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) has begun rolling out its Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSW) plan. …
They might not be eligible voters just yet, but they're legal minds in the making and have a fair idea of what they want from the city that is home or they've adopted as home for the next few years till they get their degrees. Students of the premier National …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has expressed its displeasure over the failure of the government and the civic agencies to clean the city where waste could be seen anywhere on the streets. In what started two months ago as a matter concerning contaminated water pumping out of supply lines and …
Waste dumped by locals has taken up the space created after removing concrete around tree trunks following another NGT order. The National Green Tribunal has taken cognisance of the growing dumping of garbage around trees and has asked the BMC to take action against those found dumping garbage at such …
DEHARDUN: Lakhs of Kanwarias -- the Uttrakhand government gave the figure of 3.19 crore -- who visited Haridwar in the last fortnight have left the city at the ghats of the Ganga to deal with a staggering 1400 extra tonnes of garbage. The Haridwar Municipal Corporation (HMC), grappling with mounds …
A 24-year-old man with dengue died in a private hospital in Wilson Garden in south Bengaluru in June. Doctors treated him for four days for dengue, the medical records have all the details and even the government-issued death certificate states the cause of death as dengue haemorrhagic fever. Yet, Bruhat …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Court on its own Motion Vs. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. And Abhimanyu Rathor Vs. State of H.P. & Ors. dated 13/08/2015. The Counsel appearing for the State has informed that trial of CNG Buses …
The Lagos State Chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) says it will set up a taskforce to monitor compliance on the provision of waste baskets in commercial vehicles. The chapter's Chairman, Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede, made the disclosure in interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) …
Survey commissioned by Ministry of Urban Development The slip in the city’s ranking from the top to 21 in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has raised question on the solid waste management system of the City Beautiful. The performance was judged 10 months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the …
LUCKNOW: Lack of waste management system and rampant open defecation are blots on the city's sanitation. Lucknow not qualifying in the top 100 Cleanest Cities of India in the recent survey released by Ministry of Urban Development comes as no surprise to Lucknow Municipal Corporation officials who were themselves not …
SHIMLA: While entire government machinery is busy in "saving' the ecology of 13050 feet high Rohtang pass especially after seeing the tough stand of National Green Tribunal (NGT), other ecological sensitive areas like 21000 feet Kinner-Kailash of Kinnaur district are lying neglected with no mechanism in place to stop the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Saloni Singh & Others Vs. Union of India & Others dated 04/08/2015 regarding littering of rail tracks. The counsel appearing for the Railway submits that the sector from New Delhi Station to Subzi Mandi has been …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Giriraj Parikrama Sanrakshan Sansthan & Ors. Vs. Department of Environment & Forests & Ors. dated 04/08/2015 regarding environment in or around the Shri Girirajji Parvat and Parikrama Marg, Goverdhan, District Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. Learned Counsel appearing …
DEHRAUN: The municipal corporation is all set to kick-start its integrated waste processing and disposal facility at Sheeshambara as the state government has given an in-principle approval to the detailed project report sent by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) two months ago. The integrated waste processing and disposal facility will …
BEIRUT, Lebanon — On a normal weekend night, the revelers at Floyd the Dog, a bar in one of this city’s rowdiest party neighborhoods, spill onto the sidewalk, drinks in hand, to smoke cigarettes in the warm Mediterranean air. But on Saturday night, the few patrons at the bar remained …
