An unclaimed laptop bag found outside the Army Research and Referral Hospital in Delhi Cantonment area on Monday led to a security scare. The Delhi Police and bomb disposal squad reached the spot after getting the alert and found that the black laptop bag contained a device with circuits. ...
05:06 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Bangalore: The IT city is slowly becoming the garbage city and even the New York Times has reported about the falling hygiene standards here. For more than two months now city authorities have failed to sort out the garbage mess. Under fire, the corporation has now approved Rs 300 crore sold waste disposal contracts and plans to purchase 400 acres of land for waste disposal in the outskirts. But not...
09:48 AM, Nov 01, 2012
Bangalore: The BJP-ruled Bangalore civic administration has promised to rid country's IT hub from thousands of tonnes of overflowing garbage by Monday but doubts persist as its hunt for land to dump it has not made much headway. The promise stems from the small success Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, the third Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leader to head the state government in four years, had with residents of Mandur on...
10:10 AM, Sep 02, 2012
Mumbai: In a world of plastic intentions, plastic promises and plastic bags, while the latter are the citys civic agencys obvious priority, the other two components cannot be overlooked. Why else would Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which recently ran a campaign between June 17 and July 18 against plastic less than 50 microns thick, sell it back by the hordes to the highest bidder? The corporation has always insisted that...
02:00 PM, Jul 30, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: When waste disposal has reached a stalemate in the city and continues to be a source of worry for the local body as well as the police who are entrusted with the task of protecting the Vilappilsala plant, the city police have come out with their own plan to deal with the issue. All the 20 police stations in the city limits will soon set up waste composting units...
03:37 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Chennai: In the wake of orders to beef up security in the High Court premises, the security police of the campus has acquired the latest in bomb detection technology. To train 200 policemen on how to use the equipment, a demonstration was held at the Tamil Nadu State Legal Services Authority here on Sunday. The portable explosive vapour detector, MO-8-TVIN, is designed for inspection of people, bags, vehicles, trains, aircraft...
12:35 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Pollution Control board has issued a notice to the Patel Chest Institute for fluting bio-medical waste disposal rules. The hospital has been given 15 days to reply to the notice and explain its stand. This comes after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) pulled up the hospital following a CNN-IBN expose. On December 1, CNN-IBN had reported how Delhis top tuberculosis hospital had been putting hundreds...
08:36 AM, Dec 10, 2011
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala State Poultry Development Corporation (KEPCO) has put forward an idea before the City Corporation to get rid of the tonnes of animal waste in the city. A proposal to set up a Carcass Utilisation Plant (CUP) at a cost of Rs 2.5 crore on 50 cents of land has been mooted by KEPCO and it is under the consideration of the Corporation. The KEPCO officials had done...
08:33 AM, Nov 25, 2011
New Delhi: Bomb disposal teams and dog squads conducted a surprise check outside Tihar Jail early on Thursday morning, soon after the Anna Hazare team announced that the Gandhian would move out of the prison to launch his anti-corruption protest at Ramlila Maidan. The teams descended outside the jail, where Hazare supporters were camping to express solidarity with the 73-year-old Gandhian, at around 3:30 am and conducted a thorough check...
07:43 AM, Aug 18, 2011
Pradeep Bhatia takes on municipal authorities for not taking garbage to disposal plant. ...
02:59 PM, Jun 05, 2010
Despite various complaints by the residents BMC had not acted says leader. ...
03:14 PM, Feb 27, 2009
Crescent Hospital and Nursing Home evacuated. ...
07:17 PM, Dec 06, 2008
Delhi generates over 6,500 metric tonnes of garbage daily. ...
07:16 PM, Nov 25, 2008
The four men who defused the Surat bombs are the talk of the town. ...
01:00 AM, Aug 01, 2008
Biju Varkey’s Merlyn D3 is a robot, which disposes bombs. ...
10:31 PM, Oct 30, 2007
Shalini V Shenoi is president of Scientific Handling of Waste Society. ...
11:16 PM, Aug 31, 2007
Army tries to save the glacier as garbage, human waste wreak havoc. ...
01:09 AM, Jul 29, 2007
Company does the opposite of law on hazardous waste disposal. ...
12:34 AM, Jul 25, 2007
While the judiciary finds itself burdened with numerous pending cases, a court has set record by disposing off 51 cases in a day. ...
11:21 AM, Jun 10, 2007
In Bangalore, garbage contractors have called off their strike, but residents say the city is still down in the dumps. ...
09:00 AM, May 09, 2007
