Ragpicking, one would assume, is the last area a corporate would want to foray into. But for ITC, which had in the past entered unorganised businesses such as manufacturing match sticks and incense sticks, it is a potential gold mine. Consider this: for 80 per cent of the 630 paper mills in India, waste paper is a key raw material.

Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting at the Governor

The Silk town is losing its charm thanks to TMCs negligence

Overflowing garbage bins, roads strewn with garbage, stinking drainages and stray animals making hey out of the garbage strewn across the roads, all these sites make an eyesore to the citizens.

The AJK government has decided in principle to ban throwing garbage at public place or rivers in all AJK districts to ensure pollution-free environment for citizens, official sources said. The sources told APP here Monday that orders to this effect were ready to be issued soon.

Garbage is the premier problem where human civilisation has been affected, befallen or otherwise displaced from place to place like, gypsies. The problem is obviously a result of ill planned human activities in industrialisation and urbanisation. It is always difficult to bring something back into the orderly position if it has been disordered.

New Delhi: Construction residue choking Barapullah drain; no way, say civic agencies

While the Barapullah elevated road project has received the Delhi government