KOCHI: The vexed issue of solid waste management has found a place in the scheme of things of the Kochi Corporation.

The annual budget, which was presented in the corporation council on Saturday, has envisioned a

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is going to implement a waste management programme on pilot basis aimed at transforming the urban wastes into resources with the ultimate goal of building a carbon-free habitable Rajshahi metropolis through reducing the emission of greenhouse gas.
According to the sources concerned, the two-year project titled "Programmatic Clean Development Mechanism" will be impl

The Okhla solid waste management plant will finally become operational in July.

The Coimbatore Corporation came under severe criticism at the Friday's council meeting. Councillors complained about the delay in the implementation of various schemes, in disbursing payments to contractors, anomaly in vacant land tax collection and raised various other issues.

P. Rajkumar, Ward 71 Councillor, started with the poor water supply.

The ban on use of plastics at the Marina beach will be extended to parks maintained by the Chennai Corporation and tourist locations in the city.

Mayor M.

New Delhi: The Delhi budget will be presented by finance minister AK Walia in the Delhi assembly on March 22. The cabinet led by chief minister Sheila Dikshit has recommended to Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna to summon the budget session of the Delhi assembly from March 15 to 31.

The session will commence with the LG Address on March 15.

Taking the fight against polluting plastic ahead, the environment ministry on Monday notified that plastic carry bags should be of a minimum thickness of 40 microns and will not be given free of cost to consumers. The new Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2011 announced on Monday will replace the earlier Recycled

Plastics Manufacture and Usage Rules, 1999.