"AAP came to end mafia in Punjab, now manager-in-chief": Congress' Navjot Singh SidhuCongress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab and said that AAP who had come to end m...
25 Sep, 2023, 10.52 AM IST
Governor says Punjab's debt rose by Rs 50,000 crore under AAP government, seeks details of utilisationIn his letter on Thursday, Chief Minister Mann said his government had taken up the matter with the Centre and even at the level of the pri...
22 Sep, 2023, 09.56 PM IST
Municipal Corporation of Delhi inks MoU with JK cement to lift RDF waste from landfillsDelhi Lieutenant-Governor VK Saxena flagged off five trucks on Monday carrying approximately 100 million tonnes (MT) of RDF waste from the ...
30 Aug, 2022, 12.37 AM IST
Withholding Rs 1,200 crore of Punjab's RDF an arm twisting: Manpreet BadalManpreet Singh Badal said the Centre has not released the RDF despite the state raising the issue with the concerned central ministry. Punj...
06 Jan, 2021, 10.38 PM IST
Saibaba is believed to be brain behind several attacks on policeG N Saibaba, a professor of English at Delhi Univeristy's Ram Lal Anand College, who completed his MA and PhD from Hyderabad, was engaged i...
14 Jul, 2018, 12.25 PM IST
Basmati paddy price firms up on lower harvest, steady demandHaryana-based Dunar Foods’ CEO, Sandeep Singla, said basmati output could reduce 8-10% this year. “The export prices are bound to rise in t...
04 Oct, 2017, 07.15 PM IST
Basmati millers in Punjab rue hike in mandi fee, RDFThe millers rue that the additional cost burden will also dent their cost competitiveness in domestic as well as international trade .
06 Sep, 2017, 05.57 PM IST
Waste processors' pay tied to compost outputMurthy , who was instrumental in the commissioning of these plants, has started doing his homework.“I'm now trying to find out why these pl...
05 Jul, 2017, 11.02 AM IST
Waste segregation in Bengaluru dips as BBMP finds itself corneredThat waste segregation has plummeted to under 40% from the earlier official claim of over 60% is an indication that things are not going ac...
03 Apr, 2017, 10.34 AM IST
BBMP to pave the way for recycling through plasticThis is one way that plastic, on a large scale, can be recycled, and the blanket ban on plastics enforced last March be made more meaningfu...
05 Jan, 2017, 11.36 AM IST
Okhla waste-to-energy plant safe: CPCB tells NGTJustifying setting up of the waste-to-energy plant in Okhla, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Friday told the National Green T...
09 Dec, 2016, 08.49 PM IST
How Bengaluru plans to use its kitchen waste as industrial fuelThe waste from city kitchens will soon make its way to industries in better forms after they are processed at waste processing plants in th...
05 Jun, 2015, 10.46 AM IST
NIA files charge sheet against 5 persons in cases related to meeting by suspected Maoist frontNIA filed a charge sheet against five persons in the Ernakulam Special Court for NIA cases relating to a secret meeting conducted by a susp...
22 Apr, 2015, 08.09 PM IST
Planning Commission recommends Public Private Partnership model for waste managementModel scheme also been detailed for setting up Waste to Energy projects through PPP mode, including a viability gap funding upto 40 per cen...
13 May, 2014, 02.02 PM IST
Punjab government announces waiver of RDF, market fee on BasmatiPunjab government decided to waive off Rural Development Fee (RDF) and market fee on Basmati variety of paddy in the state.
14 Sep, 2013, 02.55 PM IST
Turning waste into powerJust when Bangalore is staring at a sea of garbage piling on its streets, one Bangalorean has shown how waste can be effectively converted ...
27 Oct, 2012, 12.53 PM IST
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Paul Revoir and Rebecca English The future of BBC1’s controller hangs in the balance after it emerged that he failed to stop doctored docum...
15 Jul, 2007, 05.04 AM IST