After potholes, there is now a new menace to face on city roads. With underground pipelines resulting in rapid soil erosion below the roads, cave-ins have become increasingly frequent.

As India Cements Limited, which was helping the municipal corporation by taking a portion of the plastic garbage generated in the urban local body as a supplementary fuel in its kiln, has stopped taking the waste for the past two months, the civic body has been forced to look for a company afresh for using the non-recyclable refuse.

CHENNAI: Garbage should be processed using new age technology in a shorter space, Municipal Administration and Rural Development Minister, KP Munusamy, told the officials after inspecting the Perungudi dumping ground on Wednesday.

AHMEDABAD: A team of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) health officials raided shops of wholesale dealers of plastic bags near Kalupur market on Thursday and seized three tonnes of plastic bags

The state Cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday, decided to amend its Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy-2010.

Increasing population, mainly due to migration, is putting significant strain on the civic amenities in the city and adversely affecting the environment of Pune.

The Energy and Resource Institute (Teri), the reputed environment institute, has failed to determine the carbon footprint of the city.

AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has cracked down on polythene bag users, but it has not yet regulated it.

AHMEDABAD: In the next three months, a small army of workers in uniforms will be spending the nights cleaning Ahmedabad's streets.