Garbage

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding the deplorable condition of a water tank, Golconda Fort, Hyderabad, Telangana, 05/06/2025

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 …

Floods, landslides in Shillong

SHILLONG: Incessant rains that lashed Shillong since Tuesday night have flooded many areas in Shillong and its outskirts. Many people have been displaced as rain waters and waters of the Wahumkhrah river inundated their houses. Landslides have also been reported from different localities of Shillong and Ri-Bhoi district. The Wahumkhrah …

Action plan for waste treatment mooted

KOCHI: District panchayat president Eldhose Kunnappally has said that the issue of garbage management would be handled with people's participation. Mr. Kunnappally was inaugurating a workshop for district panchayat members on decentralised waste management at Cherai on Wednesday. District panchayat will take a lead role in instilling among the people …

Garbage disposal to cost City 350 crore

Garbage disposal will cost a fortune to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike in future. The local body will have to spend Rs 350 crore for collection, transportation and disposal of garbage in the next two years, Home Minister R?Ashoka said here on Monday. Ashoka, who is also district in charge …

Garbage mounts in waste treatment plants

KOCHI: The Kochi Corporation is playing hide and seek by announcing the launch of Brahmapuram Waste Treatment. Though they have announced the launch of a new plant, the authorities are mum about the functioning of the existing plant where tonnes of waste has accumulated. The initial plan was to produce …

Protest against waste dumping at Dadumajra

Irked over heaps of garbage piling up at the dumping ground in Dadumajra, the residents of the area held a protest demanding the dumping be stopped at the site. For around two hours in the morning the residents did not allow trucks of the Municipal Corporation to dump refuse at …

Garbage woes of city likely to pile up

Agency running Brahmapuram plant decides to opt out of responsibility Centre for Environment and Development has served the three-month notice period Plant site already overflowing with garbage collected from various parts of the city KOCHI: The Centre for Environment and Development (CED), the agency that has been running the solid …

Municipality plans to improve infrastructure at Pudhukulam

Shelters set up at tank spread over 32 acres lack maintenance PUDUKOTTAI: The municipality has drafted a proposal seeking an outlay of Rs. 75 lakh under the tourism development programme in the sprawling Pudhukulam area in the town. The Pudhukulam tank, spread over 32 acres, encompasses three wards of the …

Ruckus over garbage disposal

Residents' associations accuse Corporation of apathy

CCP vexed over garbage dumped in city

Panjim: Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) which has been desperately trying to sort out its garbage problem by streamlining garbage collection and disposal is confronted with a new problem

Toxic smoke from burning garbage puts Bhanpur people at risk

The people living nearby the landfill site at Bhanpur in the city are continuously facing problem due to the toxic smoke emanating from the burning garbage every day. The residents of the area are waiting for the shifting of dumping site, which will take place when new site would be …

Authority takes stock of sanitation, waste plant on cards

NOIDA: With garbage strewn on the roads, overflowing dhalaos (garbage dumps) and indiscriminate digging across the city becoming a common sight, residents in Noida are a worried lot, especially with the Met department announcing more rain in the next few days. However, the Noida Authority claims it is now reassessing …

Garbage plant: plea for Vigilance inquiry

PALAKKAD: The Jana Jagrath, a people's vigilance organisation, has called for a vigilance inquiry into the irregularities in the construction of solid waste management project of the Palakkad municipality. P.S. Panikkar, secretary of the organisation, in a statement here on Saturday said the capacity of the plant was only 10 …

10,286 tonnes garbage disposed of in first two days

  KARACHI: A total of 10,286 tonnes of garbage and waste was shifted to the city government landfill sites during the first two days of the current 15-day cleanliness campaign in city. This garbage was lifted from various towns and disposed of at Jam Chakro Landfill site in Surjani and Gondpass …

Thrikkakara municipality to buy land for waste treatment

Garbage management has been a long-pending issue It would be either a treatment plant or a landfill Councillors had blocked trucks with garbage KOCHI: Thrikkakara municipality is actively considering a proposal to purchase about 10 acres of land for the scientific disposal and treatment of waste. A decision to this …

Viveknagar wallows in apathy

Poor facilities, narrow roads choking with garbage haunt residents Traffic jams and accidents have become the bane of Viveknagar, courtesy pot-holed roads and

Plaints of garbage disposal to be probed

KOCHI: The Kochi Corporation has said that it will look into complaints of workers not clearing garbage timely, even as it called up councillors to be more responsive and alert the local body about to such issues.

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