Tribune News Service
Shimla, January 14

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Delhi L-G Tejendra Khanna, on Tuesday, chaired a meeting to review the progress in the implementation of the solid waste management master plan of the MCD. While many projects related to the use of different kinds of technologies in dealing with waste are yet to take off, the MCD claimed it would begin with door-to-door segregation by Arpil this year.

Pioneer News Service | Lucknow

The ambitious waste management project sanctioned for Lucknow in 2007 is yet to take off despite funds being released for it.

HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, JAN 13

ONTHESPOT - PORUI DASPARA POND

The pond at Porui Daspara, most of which is under a thick cover of water hyacinth, while its edges have become a dumping ground for building materials. Pictures by Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya

Alpha Arzu

The government is formulating regulations necessitating healthcare facilities to have safe disposal and management of medical wastes that can expose people to various diseases such as hepatitis, HIV, tuberculosis, gangrene and tetanus.

Mumbai: Ten years after acquiring a 45-acre plot for solid waste management, Kalyan and Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) continues to dump garbage in a small plot, which has outlived its capacity and utility.

TACKLING TRASH

Melvyn Thomas | TNN

Surat: After joining hands for Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), Japan will partner Surat-based Gujarat Enviro Protection and Infrastructure Limited (GEPIL) to make Gujarat a

KALIABOR, Jan 11

Take afforestation fee and denotify our homes, forest land residents tell state governmentMumbai: Builders are systematically destroying mangroves in the Mira-Bhayander region, dumping debris and garbage on them and hacking and dredging the soil for illegal constructions, an NGO of environmentalists has alleged.