While the rest of the country stubs it out, at least in public, from October 2, in Mumbai you can carry on smoking. That

You may know all about the link between lost kingdoms and horseshoe nails without ever having anticipated this connection. And it isn't something out of Ripley's. No less a person than Kolkata's mayor has blamed the city

The Municipal Corporation will hire consultants for augmentation of water supply and sewerage system in the city. The consultants will prepare feasibility reports and thereafter, the detailed project report for submission to the Ministry of the Urban Development under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission.

Following increase in malarial cases in the city the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to disconnect water supply lines of buildings and police stations that fail to take appropriate measures to check the breeding of mosquitoes inside their premises. One death due to malaria has been reported form the city.

The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh had proposed a multi-level parking lot in Sector 17 around two years ago, looking at the increasing problems of parking in the area. While the problem has now assumed almost alarming proportions, the project is yet to see the light of day.

Solid waste management is proving to be a major problem for authorities in Kashmir. Total quantity of waste generated within the municipal area is reported to be about 467 tons a day.

Taking the anti-dumping and garbage management campaign in Shimla to the public domain, the Government today involved Municipal Councillors and the Mayor of Shimla Municipal Corporation to tackle the

At times when political leaders from Thane are fighting over garbage dumping by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) at Mulund, all of them seem to have ignored the fact that their own city, Thane

Receding Gomti

KOLKATA, Sept. 10: A day after 173 people were suspected to have been affected with enteric in Rabindra Pally and Purba Phulbagan areas of Jadavpur, over 50 more people were detected with similar symptoms today. This took the toll of affected people to over 200.

While the leakage in the water supply line, which is suspected to have caused the outbreak in the area, has been repaired by engineers of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), the water supplied to the area has still not been declared fit for consumption. Engineers said that chlorination of the water is being carried out.

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