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 …
Under attack from various quarters on the issue of piling garbage in the city, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Monday promised a solution within a week to the waste disposal problem. “Garbage disposal is a challenge to the government and also officials. By this weekend, we should find a solution …
District Medical Officer warns of an epidemic outbreak Garbage disposal in the city has been hit for the last 10 days. The corporation had signed a contract with a Salem-based company for removing the city’s garbage. However, garbage removal from the city to Salem got disrupted after residents of Salem …
Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka laid the foundation stone for an integrated plant for garbage segregation and generating power from biogas, as part of efforts to address the garbage menace, in the City on Monday. The project will come up on the vacant site near the NMKRV College at a …
Northern Ireland's second largest shopping centre, which serves 14 million shoppers a year, has been recognised for achieving zero waste to landfill. CastleCourt teamed up with waste management company WasteSolve to convert its average annual 500 tonnes of waste, 86% of which went to landfill, into new energy and products. …
A Bench of the Lok Adalat has observed that the use of banned pesticides has led to cervical and breast cancer among female agriculture labourers in six districts which fall under the Gulbarga revenue division. The Bench comprising Justice D V Shylendra Kumar of the High Court and A N …
Chittagong city dwellers are under threat of catching different airborne and waterborne diseases as Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) is struggling to properly manage the huge amount of rubbish the dwellers churn out every day. Some 1,200 tonnes of garbage is produced by the city's approximate 50 lakh residents every day. …
Slams Palike for failing to resolve waste crisis The High Court on Friday warned the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) that the Palike Council would be superseded if politicians and corporators continue to interfere in the disposal of garbage. Hearing a batch of petitions seeking directions from the court to …
The Karnataka High Court on Friday warned the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) that it could issue orders for superseding the elected representatives on the city council if a dispute between councillors and the city corporation authorities over new garbage disposal contracts continues to hold garbage disposal in the city …
Bangalore’s unprecedented fall into the depths of waste management standards has triggered global attention, even a dramatic New York Times article. While many took offence at this inglorious attack on the city’s image, the civic agencies might have to depend on international help to arrest this dangerous slide into absolute …
Wages for sanitary workers increased, says Mayor Councillors, cutting across party lines, urged corporation officials to engage adequate number of personnel to clear roadside garbage getting piled up. At the council meeting held here on Wednesday, Chairman of Melapalayam Zone, Hyder Ali of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, …
SHILLONG: In a bid to avoid the direct discharge sewerage and solid waste into the river, the Government is likely to initiate the solid waste management (SWM) project by March next year. A presentation on the entire project was presented by Mott Macdonald, a noted consultancy firm, during a meeting …
Corporators on Wednesday raised the issue of BMC not being able to collect garbage regularly, which has apparently led to waste piling up in their wards. Shiv Sena corporator Krishna Vishwasrao raised the point of order at the standing committee meeting. “The additional municipal commissioner had visited the F-North ward …
Contractors held accountable for garbage segregation After coming under fire from all quarters for hitting the headlines in New York Times for poor garbage clearance in the City, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Council on Tuesday approved 80 municipal solid waste disposal contracts worth Rs 305 crore. The Council also …
Pune, the second-largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai, offers a shining example of what a city can do to manage the growing menace of garbage as it urbanises at a rapid pace. Widely known as the cultural capital of Maharashtra, Pune is also called Oxford of the East because of …
Basking in the glory of its “IT Capital” tag brandished globally, Bangalore has just had an inglorious wake-up call. The city’s notoriously ineffective, unscientific waste management has been laid bare by “The New York Times” in a strikingly incisive report titled “India’s plague, trash, drowns its Garden City during strike.” …
The city Corporation has initiated action against 37 persons for dumping garbage on roads in the past one week and collected a fine of Rs.22,040 from them. During checks carried out in 88 shops during the week, Corporation officials seized banned plastic weighing 4.5 kg from 10 shops and imposed …
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued a prosecution notice to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for violating solid waste rules and flouting environmental norms at its dumping grounds in the city. The notice was issued after a series of visits by MPCB officials to the Mulund and Deonar …
Study shows high leachate levels remain untreated The haphazard dumping of garbage at various landfills outside the City has taken a toll on the health of residents in surrounding villages. Leachate, a toxic fluid which is often discharged from decomposing urban organic waste has been responsible for the contamination of …
A study conducted by a Chennai-based environmental group has shown high levels of heavy metal-laden dust in air samples taken from around the Kodungaiyur dumpyard, exposing residents around the area to acute health hazards. The samples were taken from the house of Perambur MLA A Soundararajan in February 2012 and …
Proposes another study to manage city waste Just four years after setting up a solid waste management plant, which was touted as the solution for the city’s waste, the Municipal Corporation has once again proposed the hiring of a consultancy firm to prepare a report on managing solid waste. The …
