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Ebola scare: DGCA asks airlines make in-flight announcements, take other measuresAviation watchdog DGCA has issued new guidelines for airlines amid the Ebola outbreak in Africa. Carriers with flights to or from Uganda an...- Discarded PPE kits at airports pose new biomedical waste challengeThe six busiest airports in India — Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai — are together handling more than 6,000 kilos ...
- Covid-19 heaps up bio waste at airportsThe six busiest airports in India — Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai — are together handling more than 6,000 kilos ...
- Huge mark-ups, even on PPE, send private hospitals bills soaringWith many patients being admitted for 10-15 days, the costs add up and bills of Rs 4 lakh to Rs 16 lakh have grabbed headlines. Common inve...
- NGT directs team of Centre, CPCB to supervise scientific disposal of COVID -19 wasteThe tribunal said that while the Bio Medical Waste Rules deal with waste generated in dealing with infectious diseases, the coronavirus pan...
- India to generate 775.5 tonnes of medical waste daily by 2020: StudyThe study, which was released yesterday, said medical waste is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 7 per ce...
- Submit list of hospitals and waste generated:NGT to Delhi govtAsking medical bodies to ensure proper collection, segregation and disposal of bio-medical waste in the national capital, the National Gree...
- Govt notifies rules to dispose of garbage; puts special attention on managing sanitary wasteManufacturers of sanitary pads/napkins and diapers in India will have to provide a pouch or wrapper for disposal along with the packets of ...
- Environment ministry revises the Solid Waste Management Rules after 16 yearsThe Rules stipulate zero tolerance for throwing, burning, or burying the solid waste generated on streets, open public spaces outside his p...
- Environment ministry releases new Bio-medical waste management rulesThe Environment ministry today released the new Bio-medical Waste Management Rules, 2016 which will bring in a wider and more comprehensive...
- Plea to ban mercury equipments: NGT notice to Health Ministry, MoEFA demand to ban mercury-based equipments in hospitals to prevent spillage of the metal which causes major diseases, has been made by a lawy...
- Delhi budget: Government plans subsidies, saplings for cleaner cityAround 12 lakh saplings will be planted in Delhi in current financial year by all concerned agencies in order to improve the air quality, D...
- Delhi High Court stays closure of bio-medical waste treatment plantThe plant, situated barely 30 metres from Sukhdev Vihar, is a threat to the health and life to the 10 lakh population living near it, resid...
- Himachal's Kinnaur to have solid waste management systemn a bid to save fragile ecology of tribal Kinnaur district located along China border, Kinnaur district administration has decided to launc...
- NGT to decide whether biomedical waste disposal units need ECThe National Green Tribunal today reserved its verdict on whether bio-medical waste disposal units require environment clearance prior to b...
- Govt calls for strengthening hazardous waste management rulesThe government has called for strengthening hazardous waste management rules especially at the port level to ensure that such material was ...
- Gadget makers line up for a green makeoverBeing one of the fastest-growing markets for gadgets from mobile phones to notebooks to digital cameras to an array of other electronic pro...
- CAG for polluter pay principle to curb waste dumpingThe CAG has suggested the "polluter-pay" principle to deter dumping waste in the open, which causes health and environment hazards.
- India Inc is waking up to e-waste managementndia’s booming mobile, PC and TV sales is forcing the country to address an issue that has long been dismissed an a concern of developed we...
- HC directs Govt to provide site for bio-medical wastesThe Bombay High Court directed the State government and the municipal corporation to provide a site for dumping bio-medical waste.
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