Supreme Court says Delhi under 'mountains of garbage', slams LG for inactionThe top court had at the last hearing of the case demanded to know if the officers accountable to the CM or the LG were answerable for the ...
13 Jul, 2018, 07.02 AM IST
Heads must roll over garbage mess: Delhi high courtHC was upset that while media reports exposed the ground reality , the corporations, including the commissioners, continue to file affidavi...
22 Jun, 2017, 10.56 AM IST
NGT seeks details of budget allocations to sanitation workersThe green panel also directed the Delhi government to place on record the order of Delhi HC which asked the authorities to remove the garba...
12 Jan, 2017, 02.01 PM IST
- BJP's Satish Upadhyay says government yet to give funds to MCDs
BJP's Delhi president Satish Upadhyay and the three mayors on Monday accused the AAP government of playing politics over the release of fun...
02 Feb, 2016, 12.02 PM IST
AAP ministers, MLAs hit the streets to clear garbage messThe sanitation workers warned that the situation in the city may "deteriorate" after the government engaged PWD teams in the cleanliness dr...
31 Jan, 2016, 04.48 PM IST
Singasandra a synonym for civic apathy; bad drainage, inept garbage collection hurt residentsLocated within a 5-km radius of IT hub Electronics City, the Singasandra ward is all about bad drainage, lack of Cauvery water and poorly m...
22 Sep, 2015, 12.07 PM IST
Ganesh festival leaves 50-tonne waste trail in ChennaiThe city was a mess on Monday morning, a day after thousands of people took out processions to immerse Ganesha idols in the sea, and left m...
22 Sep, 2015, 04.19 AM IST
East Corporation's clean-up operation fails to show improvement, garbage still untouchedEast Corporation's clean-up operation has failed to show any remarkable improvement as garbage in several areas was still left untouched.
15 Jun, 2015, 11.56 AM IST
Delhi clean-up drive stutters over slow pace of garbage disposalThe rain played spoilsport for sometime and the clean-up operation had to be called off, with the stench only becoming stronger.
14 Jun, 2015, 10.31 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi asks staff to rely on ‘shakti’, forgets stinkThe party is gearing up for the municipal elections in 2017 and Gandhi's address to sanitation workers is seen as the first step in this di...
13 Jun, 2015, 11.39 AM IST
Garbage mess: Delhi stinks as AAP government & Centre spar over MCD fundsHC today issued a notice to the Centre, Delhi government and East MCD on pleas seeking removal of garbage and payment of salaries to the ci...
12 Jun, 2015, 01.30 PM IST
BBMP's irregular garbage collection increases Bengaluru residents' travailsRoad and water are virtually indistinguishable during rain in Suranjan Das road, whose widening plan has been on for nine years now.
19 May, 2015, 10.50 AM IST
One year of Modi govt: People of Vrindavan wait for MP Hema Malini to join them in cleaning streetsWhen hundreds of people thronged the streets of Vrindavan on November 7 last year to catch a glimpse of Dream Girl Hema Malini, Shukla deci...
17 May, 2015, 06.50 AM IST
PM Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: It’ll take more than brooms to clean IndiaA look at the jaw-dropping dimensions of the problem makes one wonder whether Modi really has a chance to meet his target to clean up India...
10 Nov, 2014, 03.27 PM IST
- Pollution killed aquatic life in Sabarmati
Unchecked littering has cost us our rivers and this is particularly true about Sabarmati which today has more garbage than water downstream...
09 Jun, 2014, 02.18 AM IST
Challenges for new government: Rid cities of filth, free roads of jams, fix civic bodiesWith the trend of urbanization picking up, with more and more people migrating from villages to cities, with population growing, slums are ...
24 May, 2014, 01.28 PM IST
- Garbage mess inspires political move by biz elite
The garbage issue has become a turning point for greater participation by citizens in the civic affairs of Bangalore, Mazumdar-Shaw observe...
06 Nov, 2012, 11.39 AM IST