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 …
JAIPUR: The state cabinet on Wednesday cleared the proposal for allotting solid waste management contracts to private firms in eight cities. However, this will come with a price as the government has decided to levy user charges on the consumers for door to door garbage collection and disposal depending on …
Jalpaiguri, July 4: Residents of a Jalpaiguri hamlet clashed with police over dumping of garbage on a government plot this morning, claiming it is a wetland. Tempers had been running high in the area over the dumping ground for the last few days. In today’s clash, two police personnel and …
Killer landfill: Large-scale contamination leads to health hazards Feasting dogs, scavenging crows and kites dot the three-kilometre dirt trail that leads to the settlement in Mavallipura, Bangalore’s official dump yard, a sea of plastic bags, batteries, shoes, tyres, discarded clothes and rotting food that decays in the sun and floats …
Chandigarh: A total of 11 patients, including five children, suffering from diarrhoea were referred to hospitals in the city on Tuesday. As many as 269 patients were examined today by a team of doctors. A team from the Municipal Corporation conducted a house-to-house check of the water supply in Mauli …
The South Municipal Corporation has decided to shelve a pilot project in which garbage disposal in Dwarka colonies were outsourced to a private company. Rajesh Gehlot, North Standing Committee Chairperson, said the decision was taken following complaints the private agency hasn’t been collecting and disposing of houshold garbage over the …
After copping criticism and concern by wildlife enthusiasts over plastic and paper littering the tiger reserves, the State forest department has now woken up to the problem. It has now decided to make the entire Bandipur Tiger Reserve a plastic-free zone by imposing a fine of Rs 1,000 on offenders …
Wales is now recovering 48% of its muncipal waste putting it firmly on track to reach its 2012-13 statutory recycling target of 52%. Official figures released by the Welsh Assembly show that during 2011-12, 48% of municipal waste was recycled or composted in the country, a 4% increase compared to …
Samithi says Suchitwa Mission is trying to set up plant The Lalur Malineekarana Viruddha Samara Samithi has protested against the alleged move to install a centralised waste management plant at Lalur. In a memorandum to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Thursday, the Samara Samithi alleged that the Suchitwa Mission had …
PANJIM: The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) which is reeling under the pressure of disposing garbage that has accumulated at Patto area for the past six-seven months has another pressing problem staring in its face. The government has issued an ultimatum to CCP to immediately remove redundant bio …
Waste policy needs to modernise the terminology it uses as it is still "caught up in the old language of disposal", leading waste contractor SITA UK has claimed. SITA's external affairs director Gev Eduljee has called for policy-makers to "look afresh" at the Government's vision for the industry, which he …
102 tonnes of garbage generated in Srirangam, Tiruvanaikovil Garbage removal is a daunting task for Tiruchi Corporation, especially with regard to the temple town of Srirangam. Despite being one of the biggest pilgrim centres in the country and the constituency of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa with the earnest attempt of the …
Algae and larva seen floating in the drainage; plastic bags strewn around A drain that flows close to the pipeline supplying drinking water to the manufacturing units in SIDCO Industrial Estate in Thuvakudi poses a health hazard for industrial workers. Algae and larva could be seen floating in the drainages …
The talks held here on Wednesday between the Thrissur Corporation and the Lalur Malineekarana Viruddha Samara Samithi to solve garbage issue in the city failed to yield any result. The garbage disposal from the city had been hit since last January after residents of Lalur, the garbage disposal site of …
MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) standing committee is set to approve a Rs 117-crore proposal for garbage collection after rejecting it thrice. The members' delay in approving the contracts, which expired on May 31, led to a garbage pile-up in N (Ghatkopar), S (Bhandup) and T (Mulund) wards. Rahul …
Veteran water conservationist Rajinder Singh, better known as Waterman, on Monday called upon the Union Government to put a ban on building of dams across the Ganga and take effective steps to restore its sanctity. Addressing spiritual leaders and civil society members at Raj Ghat here, Mr. Singh, who heads …
Levels of Carbon dioxide (CO2) recorded recently, caused by the burning of garbage at the Pallikaranai dump yard ranged between 515- 399 ppm (parts per million). CO2 is a major greenhouse gas. Last Saturday, a major fire broke out at the dumping yard. Smoke from it posed both a health …
Bench gave the orders on a PIL initiated by S. Viswanathan, an advocate, against the authorities. Burning of garbage in Pallikaranai should be stopped immediately, the Madras High Court ordered on Friday. A major fire broke out in the garbage dumping yard in Pallikaranai last Saturday, and thick smoke emanating …
Four lakh carrybags are used in Thrissur every day It took school children to show what the elders failed to do in the city. Alarmed by the increasing environmental threat posed by plastic, students of Devamatha CMI Public School in the city launched an anti-plastic drive by distributing 1,700 paper …
Bhubaneswar: The National Sample Survey (NSS) set up in 1950 by the Centre to collect socio-economic data employing scientific sampling methods, will start its 69th round from July 1. The survey will continue up to December 31 covering 9, 428 villages and 7, 684 urban blocks in the country. In …
Reckless behaviour of devotees at Kooduthurai is one reason; HR & CE Department workers too responsible The River Cauvery is fast turning into a garbage dump at Kooduthurai, a famous religious spot located in Bhavani. Huge amount of discarded cloths, garlands, pooja materials, polythene bags and other waste end up …
