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 stench of uncollected refuse in the streets of Beirut is a stark reminder of the crisis of government afflicting Lebanon, where politicians divided by local and regional conflicts have been unable to agree on where to dump the capital's rubbish. Mounting piles of garbage festering in the summer heat …
In a letter dated July 17, 2015, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked universities across India to furnish information on the status of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan on their campuses. Panjab University (PU) will soon list the details of the progress taken place since the launch of its cleanliness …
Cigarette butts and packets remain the most common type of litter found on Irish streets, according to the Department of the Environment’s annual litter survey. The 2014 National Litter Pollution Report found that “ cigarette-related litter” accounted for almost 55 per cent of litter, with butts constituting more than half …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday ordered a ban on burning of waste in this holy town in Uttar Pradesh. On a petition filed by activist Madhu Mangal Shukla, the tribunal asked the municipality to look for a land fill site and submit a report within four weeks. It …
The Cape Coast Metropolis has been overwhelmed with mountains of garbage. The piles of garbage have been left on the streets competing for space in the already choked central business district. Residents have expressed shock about the development which they fear can lead to a cholera epidemic. At the central …
Workers are cleaning up a layer of rubbish floating along the banks of the Yangtze River in Chongqing province. The river has suffered from waste pollution for many years, and household rubbish is often dumped directly into the river, the state-run China Central Television reported. But recent heavy rainfall upstream …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal's western region bench has passed an order restraining the Alandi municipal council from discharging municipal solid waste (MSW) and garbage in the Indrayani river bed in the pilgrim town of Alandi near Pune. The green tribunal bench of Justice V R Kingaonkar and Ajay A …
MARGAO: At a public meeting held at the Colva panchayat, the Colva sarpanch Snowkon Gonsavles said the garbage issue can be thoroughly solved only when the pancahyat manages to get suitable land in the village for the same. Given that the waste management issue was the predominant topic raised by …
For the first time in Vagurampatti village panchayat, workers called, ‘Thuimai Kavalargal’, visit each household and involve in door-to-door collection of garbage and segregate it and dump in yards. Inaugurated by Collector V. Dakshinamoorthy in the presence of District Rural Development Authority Project Director C. Malathi, the solid waste management …
It also directed the Railways to reveal the number of people who have been fined for throwing garbage on railway tracks earlier. Criticising the Indian Railways for its failure to prevent people from littering on its tracks, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday claimed that the railways, despite being …
Observing the failure to bring the Jalandhar cluster under the Solid Waste Management Project within the deadline as per the directions of National Green Tribunal, a Nakodar-based environmentalist, Gaurav Jain, who fought the case at NGT, is now panning to file a contempt case. The NGT on November 25, 2014 …
An anti-littering campaign headed up by former Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman is to use 'nudge theory' to cure Britain's littering bug. Littering cost councils £1bn to clear up in 2010, with 48% of Britains admitting they have littered. But the Clean Up Britain (CLUB) campaign and Warwick Business School have …
The winds are blowing in favour of a 50-acre forest land plot in Pimpri Sandas, located about 40 km from the city off the Pune-Ahmednagar highway, for a new garbage dump for the city. Union minister for environment, forest and climate change Prakash Javadekar on Sunday said his ministry was …
NAGPUR: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has faced severe criticism and also incurred huge financial losses due to failure of Hanjer Biotech Energies Private Ltd in operating and maintaining the solid waste treatment plant, which also led to environment pollution. Still, the civic body passed on various emoluments to the …
CO lodges police complaint against unknown persons for dumping placenta in a public bin VASCO: The Mormugao Municipal Council has decided to start a crackdown on reckless dumping of biomedical waste in public places. The decision was taken as hazardous biomedical waste was found dumped in a bin meant only …
Mr. Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, has hinted that Parliament would soon pass the National Sanitation Bill into Law. He said the Bill when passed into Law, would make it compulsory to punish offenders who refused to participate in the National Sanitation Day …
Maputo — The Mozambican government has passed a decree regulating the use of plastic bags, in order to reduce the environmental problems associated with the proliferation of plastic bags. Explaining the measure to reporters on Tuesday, after the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers (Cabinet), the government spokesperson, Deputy …
NAGPUR: For the last one year, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has faced the ire of National Green Tribunal (NGT) and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for its failure to treat all the garbage collected from the city. Now, its garbage treatment plant has been shut for the last one …
The national parks are pristine emblems of the American wilderness, attracting millions of visitors from around the world. But there’s an unintended consequence of their popularity: those visitors generate more than 100 million pounds of garbage a year, most of which ends up in landfills. Now, as the National Park …
Government is of the view that self-regulation is not sufficient and a law to enforce the cleanliness drive will help the purpose Seeking to provide legal backing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’, the government is drafting a law under which municipalities can punish those found spitting, …
