The Midway Journey, an initiative which aims to create awareness on the hazards of municipal solid waste, is starting a five-month clean-up drive here from Wednesday.The six members of the organising ...

The National Green Tribunal on Monday fined the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation Rs 2 crore for failing to comply with its order to cordon off a dumping site near Sector V to prevent contamination of...

The local corporation will launch door-to-door garbage collection facilities, in 14 of 55 wards to begin with, from Thursday and introduce a toll-free number for registering complaints.The comprehensi...

Sector V offices will now have to segregate their waste before dumping. While some companies have already gone green vis-a-vis waste management, the authority has now assigned one agency to educate ot...

Dispur has set May 1, 2020, as the deadline for completion of solid waste management plant at Lekai, 5km from Dibrugarh town.On Tuesday, project director of the Assam Urban Infrastructure Investment P...

Sir — Switzerland might soon lose its tag of being heaven on earth. The country has announced plans to abolish its emergency stockpile of coffee — a measure taken between the two World Wars — as...

After its dismal performance in last year’s swachh survey, the civic body has initiated a host of steps to improve its ranking this year by ensuring on-site composting of trash and its segregation a...

Enforcement of a new set of regulations for better segregation and disposal of garbage in the city has been derailed with the cancellation of tender invited for execution of the Integrated Municipal S...

Alipurduar, the district headquarter, is in a mess, literally, with garbage strewn around in every nook and cranny.The civic authorities have not been able to clear garbage for fortnight for lack of d...