Thiruvananthapuram: A public comfort station invariably conjures up images of grimy walls, damaged cisterns, soiled toilet seats, and shabbily dressed cleaners spitting pan juice all over the floor.

Now replace all that with swanky exteriors, gleaming metal walls, an automatic flushing and cleaning system, and a remote-controlled operating mechanism.

Too good to be true?

Three days time given to traders against using them
COIMBATORE: Beginning May 12, the Corporation will ban plastics in the city.

Waste material accumulates on inner roads in Erode and suburbs ERODE: Heaps of uncollected trash are rotting on the sides of roads, at the entrance of residential colonies, and in front of the markets in Erode town as the local administration here has grossly failed to ensure proper garbage collection.

Thiruvananthapuram:

PANJIM, The Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) in a special meeting on Friday passed a resolution to construct Municipal Solid Waste Management facility and sanitary land fill site at Taleigao. It also approved to construct compound wall and bio-fencing on a plot of land surveyed as 268/1(P), 273/2 (P), 273/3, 274/1 (P) which would form part of waste management plant.

New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has been getting repeated complaints regarding poor waste management in the city, especially in areas where sanitation has been outsourced to private concessionaires.

In Dwarka, residents had complained to it that the private concessionaire, Delhi MSW Solutions Limited (DMSWSL), was not doing the work properly and garbage was overflowing o

Company will spend . 400 crore on capital expenditure in FY12
Thermax is scouting overseas to buy a company worth up to $100 million in industrial waste water treatment space, said Managing Director MS Unnikrishnan. "Our target market for water treatment projects in India is worth . 4,000-4,500 crore. Within this, the industrial waste water market would be worth around . 1,500 crore.