The country’s nuclear research programme could get a major fillip with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre proposing to build two new research reactors under the 12th Five Year Plan.

Operating agency to pull out of waste management project

Reopening the waste treatment plant at Villappilsala at the earliest, entrusting its running to competent agencies, and rescheduling door-to-door waste collection to the evenings.

LUCKNOW: Even after five years of its sanctioning by the Centre under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme, the much-awaited municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment pla

Town area included in the first phase of the campaign

Kottayam Municipality's initiative in collecting segregated household waste from the source will begin on Wednesday. According to V.K. Anil Kumar, chairman of the Municipal Standing Committee on Health, in the first phase, the town area of the Municipality has been included in the campaign.

New system for conservancy inspectors and assistant executive engineers launched

SHILLONG: The government of Meghalaya is making efforts to overcome the problems of disposal of garbage.

Despite sustained public protests and lawsuits against the Timarpur-Okhla waste-to-energy incinerator in Sukhdev Vihar, the beginning of trial runs this January 2 has invited the ire of the residents of this densely populated area.

“The incinerator is located in a residential area which is surrounded by university, schools, hospitals and a bird sanctuary. It is huge health and environmental hazard and the residents have been protesting for a long time. But it seems that the Delhi Government has turned a deaf ear to the protest and plea of the over one million people who will be adversely affected by the plant.

puzzled crusaders collect river samples for tests, JSPCB ‘ignorant’ and unfazed. It may look like the surf’s up in Subernarekha.

The Suchitwa Mission has recommended setting up at Brahmapuram a mega plant capable of processing about 500 tonnes of municipal solid waste generated daily in Kochi corporation areas and nearby mun