Chennai: A software engineer couple in Chennai have been troubleshooting all 'trash' problems. Chennai grapples with over 3,200 tonnes of solid waste everyday and much of it is recyclable. This struck two young software engineers, Sujatha and Jegan, the couple who started Kuppathotti.com in November, 2011. Kuppathotti, when translated in Tamil means a 'trash can'. This eco-friendly initiative also helps some souls to make a quick buck. The process is...
10:20 AM, May 23, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: New-found fame notwithstanding, the Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple today stands at the wrong end of the garbage crisis faced by the capital city. The roads immediately surrounding the old temple have become stinking garbage dumps with waste collection coming to a standstill owing to the Vilappilsala crisis. Local people as well as shops and establishments in the neighbourhood are dumping wastes by the tonnes every day in the locality....
11:28 AM, May 16, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The City Corporation, shedding all decorum, has lashed out at the State Government for remaining indifferent to the plight of the city, now almost drowned in garbage. Not only did the Corporation officials boycott a meeting called by Urban Affairs Minister Manjalamkuzhy Ali on Monday to discuss landfilling of garbage, in a press meet later in the day announced that they would move the Court against the Government stand....
11:46 AM, May 15, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A peaceful Sunday it should have been; but Mayor K Chandrika received the shock of her life early in the day when she saw how a mammoth march had reduced the main stretch at Palayam and the Chandrasekharan Nair stadium into a dump yard. Bottles, thousands of them, plastic glasses, covers, paper plates, left-over foodstuff, packets of snacks and what not, abandoned in the street and stadium after the...
11:30 AM, Apr 30, 2012
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11:50 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore was in a mess the day after the IPL match as an upset municipal corporation refused to clear garbage after being denied VVIP tickets by the state cricket board. ...
11:23 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi wakes up to over 7,000 tonnes of solid waste everyday. Overflowing garbage dumps are a common sight across the city. In the run up to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls, this waste is a significance issue for the average Delhi voter. But some like Anjali Bharghava took it upon themselves to clean it up. "We started working in one ward and now the garbage pick-up...
08:50 AM, Apr 10, 2012
CHENNAI: Guess where every plastic bottle that you toss on a Chennai-bound train ends up? China! In an effort to ensure the safe disposal of plastic waste, piling up in the pit lanes of coach maintenance yards, the railway has engaged an agency to collect these non - biodegradable material and ship it out of the country to China for recycling. The new initiative that is on a trial run...
08:01 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Mumbai: You never know what you might find inside the garbage cans at Mumbai airport. Now before you start planning to get your hands dirty, let's clarify here that the matter pertains to the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai customs busting a smuggling racket involving some employees at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA). The smuggler would drop their consignment inside a designated garbage box placed near the international terminal...
10:16 AM, Mar 14, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The mediation talks initiated by the High Court on the Vilappilsala garbage treatment plant will be held again on March 16. No consensus was formed at the mediation meet held in Kochi on Thursday. Representatives of the Government, Vilappil panchayat and City Corporation attended the meeting.Additional secretary C Radhakrishna Kurup represented the Corporation, LSG Principal Secretary James Varghese and Suchitwa Mission executive director George Chackacherry represented the Government and...
11:27 AM, Mar 02, 2012
BANGALORE: Bangalore University Vice-Chancellor Dr N Prabhu Dev has woken up to the fact that the varsity houses scrap items worth at least Rs 5 crore. In response to the report published in The New Indian Express on Saturday, Prabhu Dev called in to say that he would look into the matter seriously. I am shocked and surprised to learn that BU has scrap-items worth crores. I will take it...
11:13 AM, Feb 13, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Janakeeya Samara Samithi on Monday said a big no to the garbage vehiclesfrom the City Corporation entering the Vilappil panchayat and asked the State Government to implement the decision taken on December 21, 2011, to close down the Vilappilsala garbage treatment plant. This was announced in the presence of a mass delegation from the panchayat which sat in front of the Secretariat raising these demands as the five-day...
10:03 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Villagers near the Vilappilsala garbage treatment plant located in the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram protest as the stink from the plant has made life difficult for neighbouring villages. Locals were not allowing the entry of garbage trucks from Thiruvananthapuram into the village. Villagers have also sat on a relay hunger strike demanding that the plant be shifted. They have also said that the stench and pollution is killing them. In...
09:55 AM, Jan 11, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the curtains set to go up on the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) within four days, the condition of the roads leading to major theatres is enough to put the city to shame. For the regular delegates of the IFFK, the situation will be a repetition of last year. Just like the previous year, the authorities have woken up for a last-minute face-saving exercise. Work is progressing...
08:55 AM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: While Anna Hazare supporters went euphoric after the Gandhian broke his 13-day-old fast, the Ramlila ground silently bore the brunt of the agitation as garbage and filth was left strewn around the venue. Empty and partially-filled water bottles, biscuit packets, food packets, cartons, rice, curry, banana peel, dirty carpets, among others, were lying scattered all over the ground. During the fasting period of Hazare, the ground was cleaned...
05:06 PM, Aug 28, 2011
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