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 government approved on Sunday an additional budget of NIS 42 million for environmental improvements in Beduin communities, to supplement the existing NIS 40m. budget already allocated for this purpose in July. Environmental Protection Minister Amir Peretz requested the funds in order to advanced waste treatment systems for the Beduin …
Kathmandu Metropolitan City’s campaign focused on community cleaning has gathered over 100 tonnes of waste in three days. With the success, KMC has planned to run the campaign every 15 days. The campaign saw a huge public participation, especially on Wednesday which coincided with Siti Nakha, a Newari tradition of …
More than 300 primary school students and soldiers cleared up trash around the Lhalu Wetland Conservation area in Lhasa, the Tibet autonomous region, on June 5 to mark the 43rd World Environment Day. The wetland area, the largest near a city in China, is vital in keeping Lhasa in its …
The unsafe disposal of medical waste in city’s hospitals is posing serious threat to patients, attendants, medical fraternity and environment.A senior officer of Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) Sindh on condition of anonymity told PPI here that incinerator of the hospital has been out of order since long and administration was …
The people of Kishoreganj municipality have been suffering for a long time due to serious environmental pollution as the municipal authorities cannot clean the town regularly in the absence of necessary manpower and equipment. According to sources, the dustbins along the roadsides of the town are full of garbage as …
The garbage crisis in the City has deepened further with protests spreading to the villages near other landfills at Terra Firma in Doddaballapur and the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) unit at Kudlu, off Hosur Road, Bommanahalli. The garbage crisis in the City has deepened further with protests spreading to …
The Tibet autonomous region will take effective measures to dispose of solid waste, as 41 landfills were put into use to take care of the waste last year, local officials said on June 4. In 2013, the region discharged 3.61 million metric tons of solid waste, and 244,000 tons of …
Navi Mumbai: The hill reservoir site in Nerul that boasted of beautiful trees, birds and wildlife species has become a dumping ground of waste products. Activists alleged that the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) is behind this dumping of debris. They said though they had complained repeatedly to the authorities, …
Minister Ramalinga Reddy and officials assured the protesters they would sort out the garbage issue, but sped away when the situation threatened to turn hostile The protest intensified after Ravikrishna Reddy of the Aam Aadmi Party intervened. He said, “Some of you enter into an agreement with elected representatives and …
TAXILA: The Punjab chief minister’s inspection team has initiated an investigation into the alleged mismanagement, embezzlement and violation of construction plan in the multimillion solid waste management project of Hassanabdal. The World Bank had provided Rs31.3 million for the project, work on which was initiated in 2009. About 10 months …
With just days left for the onset of monsoon, the district is staring at the prospects of an outbreak of waterborne diseases as the authorities are yet to put in place an effective mechanism to manage heaps of garbage dumped in public places. The busy locations in the district such …
‘Tourists coming with cooking accessories make public areas filthy’. With the season in this hill station now in its final phase, a view gaining ground, particularly among green activists, is that the district and civic authorities should put in place a stocktaking exercise to assess the impact of the heavy …
BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will sign an agreement with a Mumbai-based company on Thursday to set up a solid waste treatment plant at the designated regional waste dumping site at Bhuasuni here. Official sources said the agreement will be signed three years after the project was mooted in …
The garbage management service of the two city corporations has reached such a pitiable state that many of the city streets are found with heaps of waste in the open, emitting foul odour and causing public nuisance till late every day. The city service managers, however, blame mainly the shortage …
An accord will be signed between the Rawalpindi Waste Management Company and ByaYark for the cleanliness of Rawalpindi and dumping of garbage tomorrow (May 27). Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif and representatives of the Turkish company would participate in the ceremony. The Turkish company has given a bid of Rs 8 …
The first time Yan heard authorities planned a waste incinerator near her home in eastern China was when a petitioner gave her a leaflet warning of the pollutants it might spew into the environment. Fearing that the burner might hurt her toddler’s health, the technology worker in Hangzhou petitioned the …
CORTALIM: Seeking a holistic approach to the garbage menace plaguing their villages, the Cortalim-Quelossim Panchayat organised a special gram sabha to discuss ways and means to rid the villages of garbage. Sarpanch Illario Figueiredo who chaired the meeting informed the villagers that at a meeting with the Chief Secretary of …
One of the major water bodies in Ranchi —Kanke Dam — that hitherto supplied water to thousands of houses settled around its periphery has been obliged with waste emanating from human activities concentrated around it and has put the reservoir under serious threat of extinction in the days to come. …
The city is sitting on the edge of another garbage crisis as BBMP's agreement with Mandur villagers on dumping waste there is coming to an end on June 1. While the villagers have threatened to block throwing of garbage in the landfill, the civic agency is struggling to find either …
UDUPI: Buoyant by the success of the Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) initiative in creating awareness on the importance of voting among public, the district administration is planning such programme to curb vector-borne diseases too. Rain water often gets stagnated in various areas during rainy season making it …
