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 …
Corporators on Wednesday raised the issue of BMC not being able to collect garbage regularly, which has apparently led to waste piling up in their wards. Shiv Sena corporator Krishna Vishwasrao raised the point of order at the standing committee meeting. “The additional municipal commissioner had visited the F-North ward …
Contractors held accountable for garbage segregation After coming under fire from all quarters for hitting the headlines in New York Times for poor garbage clearance in the City, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Council on Tuesday approved 80 municipal solid waste disposal contracts worth Rs 305 crore. The Council also …
The Centre was asked on WEdnesday by the Delhi High Court to submit to it a report on implementation of the government’s long-term action plan to control the outbreak of dangerous diseases like dengue in the city. A division bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw …
Pune, the second-largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai, offers a shining example of what a city can do to manage the growing menace of garbage as it urbanises at a rapid pace. Widely known as the cultural capital of Maharashtra, Pune is also called Oxford of the East because of …
Basking in the glory of its “IT Capital” tag brandished globally, Bangalore has just had an inglorious wake-up call. The city’s notoriously ineffective, unscientific waste management has been laid bare by “The New York Times” in a strikingly incisive report titled “India’s plague, trash, drowns its Garden City during strike.” …
Women will not be charged for using public toilets, the BMC has decided. Like men they too can pee for free. While there isn’t a single separate toilet for women, for men there are 2,849 toilets, according to the BMC’s solid waste management department. Now, women can use these toilets …
The stench and squalor in public toilets seem to have prompted the South Municipal Corporation’s commissioner to propose a public-private partnership model to keep these conveniences, especially in marketplaces, clean and “usable”. As part of the proposal, commissioner Manish Gupta has planned to rope in market unions and residents’ welfare …
New Delhi: Rs 4,439 crore has literally gone down the drain called the Yamuna. Delhi and Uttar Pradesh have told the Supreme Court that they have spent Rs 4,124 crore on making the river’s water potable, but the Central Pollution Control Board’s latest report shows that Yamuna’s water still resembles …
New Delhi: Despite a fall in temperature, dengue cases continue to be reported in the city. The municipal corporations said 75 confirmed cases of the vector-borne infection have been identified over the weekend taking the tally to 910. South Delhi remains the worst hit with 335 case followed by north …
Hyderabad: The growing vehicular population and the resultant pollution levels in Hyderabad, the fifth largest metropolitan city in the country, are playing havoc with the health of the traffic police. A whopping 32 per cent of the traffic police personnel in the city were found to be suffering from lung-related …
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued a prosecution notice to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for violating solid waste rules and flouting environmental norms at its dumping grounds in the city. The notice was issued after a series of visits by MPCB officials to the Mulund and Deonar …
Proposes another study to manage city waste Just four years after setting up a solid waste management plant, which was touted as the solution for the city’s waste, the Municipal Corporation has once again proposed the hiring of a consultancy firm to prepare a report on managing solid waste. The …
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 …
In early 2010, two-and-a-half-year-old Mohammed Qasim Ahmed of Malegaon was detected with the P-1 strain of the polio virus. He was among the many Malegaon families who have consistently refused to get their children vaccinated against polio. The refusal stems from a number of myths, such as children being at …
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 …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) tree authority on Monday approved cutting/trimming/transplantation of 632 trees. The proposalhas been pending for over a month. The authority also nominated 26panel members for a period of five years after elections which were held in February. Out of the 632 trees, proposals for 551 were …
There was no let up in dengue cases in the capital with 33 patients testing positive on Tuesday, taking the total to 685. Two children have so far succumbed to dengue ever since the disease began spreading in the capital early this month. Thirty cases were reported from three municipal …
This was discovered during an awareness drive in two Jaipur slums recently The daily struggle of slum dwellers for getting basic amenities and the glaring deficiency in the reach of the much-touted urban poverty alleviation schemes as well as other programmes for welfare of widows, disabled people and destitute children …
35 cases reported on Sunday; Shahdara (South) tops the list Thirty-five fresh cases of dengue were reported in the Capital on Sunday, taking the total number of such cases this season to 652. Two people have succumbed to dengue ever since the disease began spreading in the Capital early this …
