“I submitted during the hearing that though river Saraswati is polluting the Hooghly river at Tribeni in Hooghly and Sankrail in Howrah, it has not been included under the Union government&rsquo...

Kolkata Municipal Corporation did not reserve funds for the boroughs in added areas, a term for places like Kasba, Jadavpur and Garden Reach, in this year’s budget presented on Wednesday. Inste...

These bins are being placed in phases. The first lot has already been placed in front of several parks and public spaces in New Town, another NKDA official said. According to the official, the smart ...

Darjeeling municipality has decided to revamp the garbage disposal system in the hill town and introduce door to door collection of waste in all the 32 wards. In various nationwide cleanliness survey...

Locals living near the stretch are happy that the park is finally open. “This place used to be a filthy spot. Most of the time people would just toss garbage in plastic bags here and drive away....

Roy Chowdhury felt that besides sensitising waste cleaners of the civic body, there was also a need to run sensitisation campaigns in the community. If the waste contains items such as cloth and plas...

A heap of garbage containing mostly dry leaves was found burning on the Rabindra Sarobar premises on Thursday morning, raising suspicion among regular visitors that it was intentionally set on fire by...

A senior official of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) visited Russell Street in Kolkata's central business district on Friday and asked hawkers and shop owners not to pay any money to anyone em...

A store official said that since the hawkers have to pay the waste collectors, they in turn do not allow the stores to put any waste in the bins. The waste collectors come in the morning, roughly aro...

The Alipurduar municipality is exploring new avenues to increase earnings of the civic body. While on one hand the authorities of the civic body have installed a processing unit and making manure fro...