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 …
BMC will set up a committee to enable equitable distribution of water in the city. The committee will survey the distribution system to identify areas where supply is not equal. Additional municipal commissioner Rajeev Jalota told a standing committee meeting on Monday, “Through the committee headed by Mahadev Chitale, BMC …
Putting up cell sites, or mobile phone towers, as they are popularly known, atop residential buildings will now be a tall order. For, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to put a cap of two such base stations on buildings. The decision was taken at a general body meeting on …
GUWAHATI: Rutted streets, littered roadside and stink from the drains continue to give the residents of Guwahati a nightmare. A recent survey of the roads of Ward Number 15, which include prominent areas of the city like Fatasil, Cycle factory, Bhaskarnagar, Barshapara, Dhirenpara, Ganeshpara, Anandanagar have shown that the condition …
The BMC will set up a special cell to look into cell tower radiation violations in the city, said Additional Municipal Commissioner Aseem Gupta at the civic general body meeting on Friday. Municipal councillors also demanded that a survey of all mobile towers in the city be undertaken to see …
MUMBAI: The BMC will not allow more than two cellphone towers to be installed on rooftops. Currently, the civic body is finalizing a new policy after the Union department of telecommunication (DoT) issued guidelines on installation of the towers. While formulating the policy, the public concern over the health hazards …
Only multiple trips to dumps will rid city of waste, they say With continuing problems at landfill sites, the city’s garbage crisis seems to be getting messier. On Thursday, garbage contractors staged a protest in front of the office of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner Rajneesh Goel demanding security …
MARGAO: Margao Municipal Council’s action on the garbage management seems to be progressing at a snail’s pace. In fact, the civic body has shown no urgency in finalising an action plan on the door-to-door waste collection till date. While the door-to-door waste collection concept is yet to be tendered, the …
Dengue continued to spread in the Capital with 39 fresh cases being reported on Wednesday, taking the total number of people detected with the mosquito-borne disease this season to 1,288. While 37 cases were reported from three municipal corporations, two cases were reported from VVIP areas in the Capital. A …
Following the Bombay High Court’s stay on usage of the Kanjurmarg landfill for dumping municipal solid waste, the civic administration claimed wrong evidence was produced in court during the trials. According to Additional Municipal Commissioner Mohan Adtani, who gave the BMC’s explanation on the judgment on standing committee chairman Rahul …
AHMEDABAD: If you thought malaria and dengue affected only slums or lower-middle class localities, you are mistaken. Last month, consolidated data showed that western and posh new western parts of the city accounted for a large chunk of vector-borne diseases. The western and new western parts of the city reported …
New Delhi: Dengue cases in the capital rose to 1,288 on Wednesday, with 39 more people testing positive for the mosquito-borne disease, official data said. Of the new cases, 15 were reported from areas of North Delhi Municipal Corporation, 14 from South Delhi Municipal Corporation, eight from East Delhi Municipal …
A new species of dengue-causing mosquito — the Asian Tiger mosquito — has been spotted in Delhi and it is resistant to traditional control mechanism. The same mosquito variety is also responsible for the sudden rise in dengue cases in Delhi, said an MCD official. Municipal officials said Asian tiger …
Three senior Congress leaders have criticised the State government for not admonishing the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike for its failure to remove garbage across the city. Speaking to presspersons, the former Chairmen of the Legislative Council B.K. Chandrashekar and Veeranna Mathikatti said that even the Karnataka High Court had to …
Expressing concern over the Government’s negligence towards City’s garbage problem, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the State to identify five more landfill sites to manage the waste generated by Bangalore in the future. Accepting the BBMP’s submission that it was the State government which had to identify the …
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 …
GUWAHATI, Nov 2 – As many as 183 confirmed cases of dengue have been detected by the Health Department in the State till date, of which three of them had lost their lives. This was informed by Joint Director of Health Services Dr RH Hazarika while talking to this correspondent. …
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 …
Equipment to measure density of plastics yet to be procured Salem City Municipal Corporation’s ban on sale and use of plastics below 40 microns could not be implemented from November 1 as planned, since the digital micrometers to measure the density of plastics have not been procured. With plastic carry …
Subash Menon’s Kivar Environ bets big on municipal solid waste management and city sanitation After several ups and downs, Subash Menon transformed his company Subex from a systems integrator in telecom hardware to a leader in telecom software products with over $100 million in revenues. After two decades of being …
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 …
