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 …
KSPCB approved operationalisation of dumping yard for only three months The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has allowed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to dump garbage at Mavallipura for three more months. Vaman Acharya, chairperson of the KSPCB told Deccan Herald on Thursday that the unprecedented garbage crisis …
VASCO: Barely days ahead of the October 31 deadline set by South Goa Collector N D Agarwal, all four panchayats in the area are still clueless on ways to clear garbage around Dabolim airport on a daily basis. With the Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) refusing to accept their garbage, the …
The Adachi Ward assembly has passed an ordinance to deal with the growing problem of “gomi yashiki” (houses that are filled with garbage or unused items), which are public eyesores and health menaces. The new regulation, the first of its kind in Japan, gives the municipal office the authority to …
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)’s garbage woes are now brimming with festival waste, virtually negating the three-month reprieve it got from the Mandur landfill. Stuck with 15,000 tonnes of uncleared garbage, the Palike is finding it tough to meet the mounting waste generated by the ongoing festival season. Despite …
Panaji: A Goa beach village now wants tourists to carry back the garbage they generate while having a ball on the beach. Betalbatim, a southern village 40 km from Panaji, this week passed a resolution saying tourists who picnic or party on its beach would be given plastic bags to …
Three arrested for alleged attempt to dump waste With the district administration and the local bodies yet to put in place a mechanism to manage waste, people have to bear the stench from garbage heaps dumped on the roadside and river banks, posing a health hazard. Waste from hotels, restaurants …
An all-party meeting held here on Monday resolved that the piled-up and decaying garbage mounds in various parts of the city be taken to sparsely populated areas on the outskirts of the city for proper disposal. Convened by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, the meeting also decided that the movement of …
Growth is happening faster than we ever imagined. Construction is booming and expansion is gobbling agricultural land I travelled to two different cities in two different states last fortnight — Indore and Guwahati. I came back with images identified by common distinctions: piles of garbage and glitzy new shopping malls. …
The grand plans of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike to set up garbage disposal plants may cost the civic agency a whopping Rs 300 crore. As an alternative to landfills that are facing opposition from the local residents, the Palike is exploring the possibility of decentralising garbage collection at the …
JAIPUR: The contract firm responsible for door-to-door garbage collection in the city is finding it difficult to implement the scheme due to the ongoing protest of Rajasthan Mehtar Mazdoor Sangh. After receiving notices twice to start the work in the respective wards, the firm under police protection started collecting garbage …
VASCO: With the October 31 deadline set by South Goa Collector to clear garbage within 10 kms of Dabolim airport to prevent bird-hits fast approaching, four South Goa panchayats on Friday requested Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) to pick up their garbage till they make alternate arrangements. At a meeting, the …
Impasse in Mandur; 5,000 tonnes of waste left uncleared in City At least 5,000 tonnes of garbage were lying uncleared in the City on Friday due to the unrest at the Mandur garbage dumping yard. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has been selling about 35 per cent of the …
No-entry The garbage problem in the City aggravated manifold on Thursday as the agitation at Mandur by local villagers against dumping of waste in the landfill entered third day. The village was on the boil on Thursday with villagers resorting to dharna on the road to prevent the entry of …
Environmental safeguards to be ensured: Manjalamkuzhi Ali The garbage issue in the capital city inched closer towards a temporary solution on Wednesday, with the government deciding to set up sanitary landfills in three abandoned quarries in the district. A consultation meeting convened by the government with scientists and technical experts …
11 acre-plot in Pazhavanthangal was used as a dumpyard for over three decades Over 11 acres of Defence Ministry land at Pazhavanthangal lies as an abandoned dumpyard. For more than three decades now, the ministry’s land maintained by the St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram Cantonment Board had been used for dumping garbage …
Garbage crisis has returned to haunt the Garden City as trucks transporting waste have been stuck at the landfills. Rain and protests have hampered unloading of garbage. “Trucks could not unload garbage due to rain. Protests too contributed to the trouble,”said a BBMP official requesting anonymity. He added that the …
The Municipal Corporation will start a pilot project of garbage collection from within the housing societies in the southern sectors in the coming days. For this purpose, bins will be purchased and kept in the societies. The decision was taken in the meeting of the Sanitation Committee held on Monday. …
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa unveils a package for about Rs. 880 crore Infrastructure development in the expanded Chennai city is all set to gain momentum with Chief Minister Jayalalithaa unveiling a package for about Rs. 880 crore on Sunday. To be taken up under the Mega City Development Mission, the package …
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday lashed out at the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) for the piling up of garbage in the City and directed the civic agency to file a status report on garbage segregation on November 6, 2012. Hearing two public interest litigations, by Kavitha Shankar, a …
Civil society urges govt, HC to check violation of environment rules by hotels. The state government and private hotels situated in the famous tourist resort of Pahalgam in South Kashmir have not been paying any heed to the Municipal Solid Waste (Handling and Management) Rules, 2000, under the Environment (Protection) …
