The Kathmandu Municipal Corporation (KMC) has begun monitoring of the waste management in hospitals and hotels in the capital, state-owned news agency RSS reports.

Provincial Health Minister Khalil Tahir Sindhu has directed the Environment Protection Department (EPD) to launch a grand operation against factories involved in illegal recycling of hospital waste

There are no rules by which one can dispose of medical waste that is generated at home.

The Centre for Pollution Control (CPC), the agency authorised by Centre Pollution Control Board for the treatment of bio-medical waste, has as many 280 registered health-care establishments which t

Doctors associated with various organisations marched from Shaniwar Wada to Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Thursday in protest against a hike in charges for disposal of biomedical waste.

With biomedical waste treatment becoming a major issue in city apartments, the Kochi-chapter of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (Credai) has decided to launch a pr

SRINAGAR: The Committee on Environment of Legislative Assembly today recommended that all the Deputy Commissioners should act as nodal officers for ensuring Environmental Protection within their respective districts.

The Committee, which met under the chairmanship of MLA, M. Y. Tarigami discussed various issues related to environment. The meeting was attended by legislators, Mohammad Sharief Niaz, Abdul Rehman Veeri, Mohammad Khalil Band, M. Y. Shah, Rafi Ahmed Mir, Prof. Gharu Ram Bhagat, Durga Dass and Mohammad Ashraf Ganaie.

GANDHINAGAR: Prime hospitals in Ahmedabad, including Krishna Shalby Hospital and Sanjivani Hospital, have been issued a closure notice by Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) for their failure to

New Delhi: The national green tribunal has found that a “majority of the hospitals in the National Capital Territory are not complying with biomedical waste handling rules and are thus posing a ver