In order to ensure food hygiene in the Capital, especially during summer, the Health Department of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi had conducted 82 raids in eating joints of the city from May 8 to 15.

KOLKATA, 19 May: With the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) expecting a rise in vector-borne diseases like dengue and malaria this season, the municipal commissioner, Mr Alapan Bandopadhyay today sought better co-operation among various departments of the state government that included the public works, KMC and health department.

New Delhi: A couple of years after a High Court order said trees along roads should be provided with 6-feet-by-6-feet patches of earth around their trunk to grow, residents of N-Block in Greater Kailasa have finally succeeded in getting the authorities to

New Delhi: MCD seems to have one set of figures for public consumption and an entirely different one for official purposes.

NEW DELHI: Taking into account DDA and MCD's inability to maintain a water body at a place where the annual `Phool Walon ki Sair' is organized, the Delhi High Court has permitted the Shree Yog Maya Mandir Management Society to take care of it.

LUCKNOW: Alarmed with the emergence of swine flu, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) is mulling to establish a pig colony, on the lines of cattle colony, which is situated on Hardoi road.

Alarmed by the threat of swine flu, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has decided to conduct a drive to catch pigs across the city. Teams comprising health officials and professional pig catchers will be formed and they will be visiting the entire city and catch pigs.

Blame it on the general elections when millions of people cry for a drop of water across the state.

But thank the state for its decision to dig up 23,000-odd tube-wells, even if that comes at the fag end of summer with time for monsoon to set in.

The mosquito menace in the city has assumed alarming proportions. Residents of many localities have been blaming the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) for this. They allege that the negligence of the civic body with regard to controlling the menace has been leading to the present developments.

Shimla: Chief Secretary Asha Swaroop said efforts should be made to reduce the quantity of waste generated, besides ensuring its disposal in a scientific manner to protect the fragile hill ecology.

She was speaking at the training workshop on

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