High court shuts down houseboats on Dal lake Come summer, tourists visiting Srinagar may not be able to rent a houseboat on the famous Dal lake. The Jammu and Kashmir high court, on February 25, ordered the government to close down all houseboats. The owners will be allowed to resume operations if they instal sewage disposal units in the houseboats. Dal lake has about 1,000 houseboats and in

Pune You are playing with our lives, villagers tell PMC, district officials, MPCB

Colombo

Shillong: The Shillong Cantonment Board (SCB) and the Syiem of Mylliem will have to answer to state government for contributing to accumulated polluting garbage in Iew Mawlong- Mawlonghat in the heart of Shillong.

The Central Environment Authority is formulating a program to deal with electronic waste found at State institutions as huge amounts of unused electrical and electronic equipment have piled up without being disposed of for years.

Mumbai: The Cuffe Parade police on Sunday registered an FIR against a private contractor for dumping truckloads of debris on a government land at Navy Nagar. The complaint was lodged by officials of the Greater Mumbai Collectorate, who had surveyed the area following frequent complaints from residents.

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As many as 380 sites have been identified throughout the state for scientific disposal of muck and construction debris in accordance with the environment protection act.

The Sri Lanka Supreme Court yesterday proposed two alternative sites, one at Mahara and another belonging to the Sri Lanka Ports Authority to dump accumulated garbage in Colombo.