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 …
Beaches that are supposed to be an attraction for visitors, tourists and other amusement activities but in many parts of Monrovia, they are being turned into defecation sites. A visitor walking through the densely and congested slump communities of West Point and New Kru Town, was in awe at how …
NOIDA: The Noida Authority on Monday issued notices to 15 companies located in the industrial belt of the city for littering the streets as part of its ongoing 15-day cleanliness drive. The move follows the Authority's action against a dozen sanitation contractors, who were fined Rs 5,000 each for disposing …
The government of The Gambia through its National Environment Agency (NEA) has warn against human activities posing a serious threat to the environment including pollution and unlawful littering.The NEA is the public agency responsible for the protection of the environment in The Gambia including her ecological system as well as …
AURANGABAD: The civic authorities' tall claims of keeping the city garbage-free were exposed on Thursday as heaps of solid waste were witnessed at various places in the city. Unattended garbage at many collection points in municipal zones C and A is giving a dirty look to the localities. Moreover, garbage …
The ongoing protests at the Terra Firma landfill site near Doddaballapur over the excess dumping of the City’s waste much beyond the permissible level have added to garbage woes here. With heaps of waste lying uncleared, many areas have started feeling the heat of the protest. Not only the slums, …
The proposed garbage treatment plant behind the Hira Petrol Pump has been objected to by several organisations and individuals in the past. A status quo order issued by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has temporarily stopped the work but the damage continues as a new report reveals the extent of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Saurabh Sharma Vs. Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Ors. dated 17/06/2015 regarding Piling of garbage on the streets within the limits of East Delhi Municipal Corporation.
The problems of managing solid waste in Maharashtra may soon be a thing of the past, as the state government grows intent on promoting generation of power from garbage. Electricity generated in this way will then be used to power streetlights and water and sewerage pumps through a distributed generation-based …
GURGAON: Home to more than 25 lakh residents and run by a multi-polar administration, the city is stumbling under a repulsive garbage condition in many sectors. Mounds of garbage have piled up in green belts, vacant plots, near schools in Sectors 15 (parts I and II), 14, 4-7, 27 and …
China has approached the government with a proposal to build waste-based power plants in order to utilise what was described as the potential of the renewable energy sector in Bangladesh. The proposal came at a conference on sustainable energy jointly organised by CMEC Renewable Energy and Solarland Bangladesh Co Ltd …
Health Crisis Looms As Delhi Reels Under 15k Tonnes Of Waste The strike by sanitation workers has turned east Delhi into a huge garbage dump over the past 10 days, posing a serious threat to people's health, but the squabbling men in authority can't smell the stink. About 15,000 tonnes …
Researchers are launching tests aimed at setting up a huge floating barrier off the Japanese coast, a project that could eventually help remove some of the 5.25 trillion pieces of rubbish polluting the world’s oceans, officials said Thursday. If the study is a success, the southern island of Tsushima could …
People changing mobile phone handsets every few months these days is creating a big problem for the environment ministry. The country is facing the issue of e-waste, with 30 crore mobile handsets getting dumped every year. Union Minister for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar revealed the staggering figure during a …
GHAZIABAD: Tonnes of garbage is regularly being carried to the banks of the Hindon river, near Nandi Park along Raj Nagar Extension Road, and dumped there, allegedly for land filling. A large part of the garbage is also being burned at the site on a daily basis, creating large-scale air …
Dehradun District Magistrate Ravinath Raman has broken the impasse between the Landour Cantonment Board and the Municipal Council (MC) of Mussoorie over garbage dumping in the cantonment area. Raman, who was briefed about the issue by Mussoorie SDM Shalini Negi yesterday, directed the Municipal Council to lift garbage from the …
Gurgaon is considered the growth engine for Haryana and one of the most rapidly urbanising cities in India. This brings with it the challenges associated with urbanisation, among which are generation of large quantities of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and its disposal. The problem is further compounded with multiple civic …
NASHIK: Awareness campaigns and fines have not been able to curb the roadside burning of waste despite the civic administration's claims that the number of incidents have reduced. Activists are now demanding that the fine should be increased exponentially. The administration charges a fine of Rs 50 for burning waste …
The Addu City Council has on Thursday said that they are preparing to sign a contract with a company that would collect waste from households in the city. Southern Maldives handled this task up until April 10th, when the company’s contract with the Council expired. However, the company had continued …
Naman Kashyap and Sagar R Nair, both Class VIII students from Silicon City Academy of Secondary Education, are now waste wise. On Tuesday, all classroom lessons finally appeared to make sense. These kids along with their 118 classmates visited Kasa Rasa, a BBMP garbage-segregation unit in Koramangala, to watch closely …
Ramban presents a dirty and stinking picture to every passerby as there are heaps of garbage beside the highway, link roads and lanes and in nullahs passing through the town. “The stink, dust and sight of garbage distracts any person from standing any longer in the picturesque hill town. The …
