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 …
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Opposition Spokesperson on Local Government, Desmond McKenzie is calling on the Ministers of Local Government and Health to take immediate steps to deal with the pile up of garbage in the Corporate Area and other communities around the country especially in light of the heightened risk of an outbreak …
Citizens' group Nagrik Chetna Manch said on Sunday that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has neglected taking important measures, such as waste segregation at source, which could have averted the current garbage crisis. The Manch said that it had made repeated appeals to the corporation for the last three years …
The level of civic sanitation in Pauri town has continued to deteriorate with the municipal waste being dumped haphazardly in the open. More than a year after the formation of the new municipal board in Pauri, its chairman Yashpal Benam has failed to ensure scientific disposal of garbage as required …
RESIDENTS of Abuja on Tuesday decried the indiscriminate dumping of refuse on the city roads by motorists and other road users. Some of the residents, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), described the dumping of refuse such as wraps of snacks by road users in Abuja as …
KOLHAPUR: The western zone of National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Pune is going hear the Top quarry case on Tuesday. The case was filed by local residents against the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC), opposing the dumping of the garbage in a quarry located near the Top village, around 11 km …
The scientific closure of the garbage depot at Phursungi-Urali will now be delayed. According to a civic administration proposal, the deadline for the capping project will be extended to December 2015 instead of June 2014. The standing committee of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will take a call on the new …
Just a week before Janmashtami, the National Green Tribunal has indicted Mathura district administration for turning the Goverdhan Parikrama Marg into a garbage dumping ground causing hardships to pilgrims visiting the holy site. In a letter to the Mathura District Magistrate, B Chandrakala, the NGT has asked the administration to …
MATHURA: The National Green Tribunal has pulled up the Mathura district administration for not ensuring proper cleanliness on the Govardhan Parikrama Marg, causing hardships to pilgrims visiting the holy site. In a letter to the Mathura DM, B Chandrakala, the NGT has asked the administration to chalk out plans for …
Despite the recent orders by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the dumping of waste in Patiala Ki Rao river in Sector 74, Mohali, the Mohali Municipal Corporation (MMC) continues to dump garbage along the bank of the seasonal rivulet. In what could be termed as a clear violation of …
The city’s garbage has acquired political significance as a fight between Purandar Shiv Sena MLA Vijay Shivtare and NCP MP Supriya Sule hots up. The Shiv Sena has warned that the civic body’s garbage vehicles will not be allowed to enter the village after August 8 because the civic body …
An Austrian boat was damaged by garbage as it practiced for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, where a member of the sailing team said he saw a dead dog floating in the water. “We saw a dead dog and destroyed our center board because of …
The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to hand over two of the four earmarked landfill sites to the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) and the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) without any further delay. The Court asked the NDMC to take possession of the …
A total of 150 trash bins have been placed along a 200-meter street in Shenzhen, which local residents have labeled a waste. The street is in front of a factory in Baoan, Shenzhen. Manager of the factory said that they had renovated the street and installed the trash bins in …
Building an average new house generates about nine tonnes of waste. Across Australia one authority estimates 250,000 cubic metres of building waste are sent to landfill each year while another expresses the quantum as 8.5 million tonnes. Globally the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates that buildings account for …
Smart is as smart does. The government's proposal to build 100 "smart" cities will work only if it can reinvent the very idea of urban growth in a country such as India. Smart thinking will require the government to not only copy the model cities of the already developed Western …
LALITPUR: A walk in and around Patan Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is not so pleasant of late, with stench drifting across and piles of garbage creating an eyesore, all thanks to a halt in collection of waste by Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City Office for the last four days. …
Lahore—Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) launched a special cleanliness operation at fruit and vegetable market, Iqbal Town on the request of its administrator after reports of persistent issues of sanitations due to lack of any SWM services in the market. LWMC removed and transferred more than 150 tons of waste …
QUETTA: About 22,000 tons of garbage piled during the past 10 years in the provincial capital has been lifted under the ‘one-time cleaning activity project’ under way for a few days. Talking to reporters here on Wednesday, Administrator of the Quetta Metropolitan Corporation Arbab Jabbar Kasi said that no effort …
The Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) and Hasiru Sene have opposed the plans of the Palike to identify a site in Doddaballapur taluk for disposing garbage. Addressing a press meet on Monday, KRRS president Kodihalli Chandrashekhar said that garbage from the City was already being dumped at Cheerenahalli, Huskuru and …
A study conducted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has revealed that 10 to 15 per cent of the total three lakh tonnes of waste generated daily goes to illegal dumping sites on the outskirts of the City. Over 250 small illegal dumping sites have been identified by a …
