Workshop for homemakers on

The Rajshahi City Corporation on Friday launched a clean-up drive to dispose of garbage aiming to prevent possible water logging during the rainy season.
With the financial assistance of the Asian Development Bank, the drive was launched through removal of wastes from a drain in the Ganakpara area in the presence of Rajshahi mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton.

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh today cleared a proposal to start a pilot project adopting at least 11 road projects in the state, where waste plastic bags will be used in the construction of roads.

Topics of importance of environment, fallouts of pollution and other environmental hazards should be included in syllabi from primary education till higher and professional education.

The Environment and Natural Resources Ministry and the Urban Development Authority will take over the control of the four of Sri Lanka's largest waste dumping sites from respective Municipal Councils and Pradeshiya Sabhas in keeping with a Cabinet decision to manage urban solid waste on a firm footing, said Environment and Natural Resources Minister Champika Ranawaka.

Moti Jheel, which used to be a pride of Lucknow, seems to have lost its natural glory. The waterbody has been gobbled up by land grabbers, thanks to the ignorance on the part of Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC).

Presently, the lake houses several snacks and plastic factories, godown apart from a number of residential establishments.

Referring to the garbage crisis in the Colombo City, the Former Opposition Leader of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) Vasudeva Nanayakkara charged yesterday that no one is taking steps to stop the thuggery of Minister Mervyn Silva who had stopped dumping of garbage in Peliyagoda.

Order passed on a public interest litigation petition

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the Porur town panchayat to remove the garbage dumped between two schools at Porur, on the city

The Corporation of City of Panaji has warned the Town and Country Planning Department (TCP) and the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) to shift their vehicles from the EDC complex at Patto or else to pay the required penalty.
The EDC complex has literally turned into dumping ground for various scrapped government vehicles, which are occupying major space.

Pune In a bid to bring about a solution to the garbage crisis in Uruli Devachi and Phursunhi, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is pondering over creating ward-wise garbage processing units in all the 14 wards of the city, through which energy would also be created.