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 …
93 per cent flats in city lack waste management system The Corporation of Thrissur has given an ultimatum to the 200-odd flats in the city to have their own waste management system soon. By June-end, apartment complexes in the city will have to choose a suitable waste treatment system to …
There may be relief soon for residents near Perungudi and Kodungaiyur dumping yards. A team of Chennai Corporation officials has completed a survey of four villages where new solid waste management facilities have been proposed. Around 55 acres in Malaipattu, 40 acres in Kuthambakkam, 100 acres in Vadamadurai, and 71 …
MUMBAI: Confirming the worst fears of residents and activists, the BMC has started dumping municipal waste on wetlands in the new landfill site at Kanjurmarg. The site had been cleared for a sanitary landfill after the civic body assured the Supreme Court that the land was free from the Coastal …
The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board is vexed over the rampant burning of household trash in personal backyards in complete violation of instructions from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. Pollution control experts say that when household garbage is burnt, Dioxins, a known carcinogen, associated also with birth defects, are released …
With piles of waste mounting in Alappuzha town, the municipality has decided to act tough by imposing a fine on those found throwing waste in public places. Waste dumps have been mounting in the town for the last few days following suspension of transportation of waste to the waste processing …
A fire in the dumping yard behind Sainik School on Thursday morning triggered a series of protests from the slum-dwellers adjacent to it, to get their long standing demands fulfilled. A fire broke out in the temporary dumping yard that the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) uses to dump garbage. The …
Waste accumulated in different parts of Kannur town As the monsoon showers have gathered momentum, piles of waste accumulated in different parts of the town have raised serious health concerns. The municipal authorities have demanded the government's intervention to ensure uninterrupted dumping of waste at the municipality's waste dump at …
SILCHAR: Arunodoy Sangha, NGO, and the forest department of Cachar, on Tuesday launched save nature campaign on the occasion of the World Environment Day at Udharband, 13 km from here. The campaign began with the conveyance of the message of the day and through mass plantations of trees, both general …
THE Yamuna River is one of the holiest waterways in India. The ghats - the pilgrim-built stone steps at the water's edge - are reminders of the multitudes of worshippers who once came here to pray. But few come to the Yamuna River in Delhi now to bathe in the …
Waste continues to be dumped into the River Buriganga despite a June 2011 High Court order which prohibited the dumping of waste in the river or on its banks as well as ordering the sealing of sewerage outlets and industrial wastes lines within a year. The High Court directed the …
Civic body remains mute spectator to wanton pollution at tollgate junction The tollgate junction near the Coleroon river, the gateway to the city from the northern side, is fast turning into an eyesore owing to indiscriminate dumping of garbage by commercial establishments on the roadsides. With the banks of the …
ISLAMABAD: Rising environmental pollution in the federal capital is posing a grave threat to the health of its residents, besides impacting adjoining areas of the city. The residents have expressed their concern and asked the authorities concerned to check the rising level of pollution, which is having hazardous effects on …
Corporation team to study Chinese waste management methods. The solution to the city's garbage problem may come all the way from Shanghai with a team of Chennai Corporation officials visiting China this week. The nine-day mission to hunt for suitable technology will cover visits to solid waste management facilities of …
GUWAHATI: A workshop on ‘National Environment Awareness Campaign, 2011-2012’ on the theme ‘Forests for sustainable livelihood’ was organized by Environmental Watch and Management Institute (EWMI) very recently with support from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. The workshop stressed the need of proper management of waste disposal near the …
Residents oppose use of garbage as filler material for platform With the proposal for using garbage as filler material for platform construction at the Kochu Veli railway station also hitting the roadblock, the State government is now bringing the focus back on source-level waste treatment projects. The government is now …
CHENNAI : Corporation wards which fall under Saidapet and Theyagaraya Nagar constituencies in South Chennai have been chosen by the civic body for a pilot project to cover dustbins. The project envisions a better garbage disposal system for households in Chennai, by having garbage collected directly from the residents and …
Executive District Officer (EDO) Imtiaz Ahmed Malik has said that the grand cleanliness campaign launched on April 26 to clean all Union Councils of Rawalpindi has concluded under which Municipal Services Department of City District Government cleaned 46 Union Councils. Nearly 2800 tonnes garbage was lifted from all UCs of …
JAIPUR: When the state government is gearing up to promote the technology to produce fuel out of wastes, a similar arrangement in the city is failing due to alleged sapathy of Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) in providing solid waste to one of the private companies which has set up its …
Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Ltd. to help in choosing right technology A total of 31 multi-national companies on Thursday expressed interest in supplying suitable technology to the Chennai Corporation for its massive solid waste management initiative that includes remediation and scientific closure of the Perungudi and Kodungaiyur dumpyards. …
Residents of this colony are forced to defecate on railway tracks, open ground or among bushes, because there are only 40 toilets for 500 houses here! This is the pitiful state of the residents of the locality on the HMT Watch Factory-Jalahalli Road. What may seem like sheer incivility of …
