a delay in setting into motion a solid waste management project has led to the piling up of 16,000 metric tonnes of untreated garbage in Shimla. Residents have raised a stink, complaining

In order to deal with the growing waste, the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (mch) has passed a resolution to impose a garbage tax on 2,000 waste-generating city institutions. These include

In response to a writ petition, Nepal's supreme court has asked the government to keep the capital city of Kathmandu free of garbage. Recently, the court issued a directive to ensure healthy

The biggest garbage dump in Mumbai will be closed now, courtesy the Supreme Court. Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the resident welfare association of Chincholi Bunder area

Yet another attempt by the government to ease CRZ curbs

if sustained restoration plans are not put in place, the beautiful Kodaikanal lake will be dead soon. The artificial lake on a 26-hectare marshy land has been utterly neglected and is fast

A Puerto Rican hotel has been directed to pay a large sum of money as penalty for discharging sewage into the Caribbean Sea. Arnold Benus, the president of Copamarina Beach Resort in Guanica, was

A polluting industrial unit in Gujarat continues to operate, despite the state Pollution Control Board issuing notices to shut it down