In a post on X, Namami Gange, the mission's flagship programme for conserving the Ganga river, said the URMP initiative is an attempt to re...

Air pollution across eastern India and the Indo-Gangetic Plain has worsened sharply over two decades. Bihar and West Bengal are now highly ...

Retail market investors are presented with a choice. Act now, when the uncertainty quotient is high. Or, wait for things to settle down. In...

Delhi-NCR has entered Stage 1 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) as air quality dropped to the 'poor' category with an AQI of 208. T...

Portugal's Minister of State for Economy, João Rui Ferreira, expressed readiness to contribute to India's infrastructure goals, highlightin...

Water efficiency, if managed wisely, could very well be the next competitive advantage for Indian MSMEs.

West Bengal strives to meet waste management goals by 2026 with comprehensive plans, including waste-processing plants in all cities. The s...

As per the ministry's assessment, about 170 million tonnes of waste is accumulated at 2,304 dump sites in the country. The inert material a...

"This is creating problems in treatment of the waste water at STPs (sewage treatment plants). In this regard, the secretary, Ministry of Ja...

Tamil Nadu has launched a waste-to-energy plant at Venkatamangalam, 20 km from Tambaram, Chennai with an intake capacity of 300 metric tonn...

The Centre will conduct a survey of 75 cities in the country, especially those with a population over 10 lakh, to ascertain the sanitation ...

Over four lakh individual household toilets have been constructed in urban areas of the country since the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission i...

Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today called upon the corporate sector to invest in solid waste management projects.

The neglect of solid waste management (SWM) is growing into a huge stink, which gravely compromises public health and the environment.

Due to lack of dumping space, financial constraints and inadequate capacity of urban local bodies, problem of garbage disposal in cities ha...

Government will encourage public private partnership (PPP) model for developing infrastructure.

With the aim of meeting financial resources for effective waste management services, a parliamentary panel has recommended imposition of ta...