The New Town authorities will fine builders and contractors who stack up construction materials blocking pavements or dump construction waste and slurry on the roads. Construction materials like sand...

Agnys Waste Management, incubated by the Start-up Incubation and Innovation Centre (SIIC) at IIT Kanpur, developed the automatic composting machine...

Many residents of Ballygunge Circular Road woke up on Monday to a strong smell caused by burning of fallen leaves by waste collectors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) along the thorough...

Cancelled ride Sir — Whether it is a film on Calcutta or a photograph of the city, one will be hard-pressed not to find a yellow taxi cruising down Howrah Bridge or speeding past Princep Ghat. ...

Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to roll out waste segregation at source across the city by October, an official of the civic body said on Sunday. The segregation at source will mean t...

The deteriorating quality of India’s rivers has been a long-standing concern. An estimated 40 million litres of wastewater enter rivers and other waterbodies every day of which only 37 per cent ...

The solid waste management department of the city civic body received the highest allocation in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s 2022-23 budget presented on Wednesday. The water supply and r...

A school has launched an e-waste collection centre on its campus to create awareness about proper disposal of electronic waste. Parents, students and teachers can drop their old phones, batteries, LE...

100% of the student housing and canteen waste is turned into manure that is used to grow more trees ...

The eastern zone bench of the National Green Tribunal has slammed the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) for not taking any actions against defaulting hospitals and healthcare facilities ...