Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Trade clean air for green-house gases. What do you get? Pollution? Not necessarily. Money? Almost certainly. Under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, most developed countries agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average 5.20 per cent between 2008 and 2012. The European Union, which is one of its signatories, is …
Though solid waste management and municipal finances may not sound too exciting, they have created quite a buzz. Last September, credit rating firm Crisil instituted an award for 'Excellence in Municipal Initiatives'. It invited entries in areas like financial management, internal systems, and e-governance. Crisil received a whopping 90 entries …
• In the name of development and progress, The Everglades, the home of the Miccosukee India tribe of North America, has turned into a wasteland. A pump owned by The South Florida Water Management District is dumping as much as 16 litres a minute of pollutants from farms and industries …
At one point in the epic Mahabharata, the pandavs and kauravs go to warfare school. Amid thick forests, they train hard. Then, the time comes when they must leave. Yudhister, the eldest pandav, gifts the space as guru dakshina to his guru, Dronacharya. In time, there came up a town …
Le Corbusier's city is getting a face-lift. A unique programme of the Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh (mcc), is ridding the city of the most difficult component of waste
The humble plastic tiffin box and food container were under threat, if plastics goods manufacturs were to be believed. High rates of taxes would make them unaffordable and force consumers to buy identical products made with alternative commodities like stainless steel.
The incinerator at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital lies cold, being out of order for over a year now, with no reliable prospect of repair or revival.Considering this, the Delhi government has recently served in notice to the hospital for not, disposing of its bio-medical waste properly. The incinerator, established …
The Delhi government has decided to initiate action against three major hospital in the city for non-compliance of bio-medical waste (management and handling) rules.These include Deen Dayal Upadhay, Sucheta Kriplani and Bara Hindu Rao hospitals.
Amid the dry slopes and ancient olive trees of the Sabine hills north of Rome, the fierce August heat makes it hard to believe that more rain falls on Italy each year than on Germany or the Nethelands. Yet this summer, as every summer, tales of water shortages are leaking …
The much talked-about Rs 435.57 lakh solid waste management scheme (SWMS) launched in the city following Supreme Court directives has failed to make any headway due to lack of coordination among various departments responsible for executing it. Though the Haryana Urban Development Department has taken some steps to implement this …
Don't throw away plastic carry bags, bottles footwear or even broken toys and furniture, We'll buy them at Rs 4 a Kg. That was the message from mayor Subrata Mukerjee, who went door to door in south Calcutta on Sunday collecting or buying household plastic trash.
The Congress led Municipal Corporation of Delhi has postponed the MCD commissioner proposal to privatise segregation transportaion and disposal of garbage. for the time being. On Monday, MCD chairman Mukesh Goel said, "the proposal to private segregation of garbage at MCD dhalos, its transportation and disposal to sanitary landfill sites …
In December, it will be five years since the World Bank (wb) formally adopted its Operational Policy on pest management (op 4.09). However, two recently released reports of the Pesticide Action Network North America (panna) clearly show "widespread violations of the wb's pest management policy'. op 4.09 requires World Bank …
The mounting problem of non-biodegradable plastic waste seems to have caught the Sri Lankan government's attention. The country's cabinet has given its nod to a series of proposals put forward by the country's environment and natural resources minister, Rukman Senanayake, to tackle the pollution problem arising from the improper disposal …
Exactly what is the new millenium all about? Some call it the time of the information technology (it) revolution. Some say it is globalisation turning mature. But, as one looks for ways to name the present, there pops up a phrase with a murky neologism in it: the new millenium …
