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: 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
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation on Thursday opened its pre-monsoon cleaning drive, but is in a quandary over the disposal of the collected waste. Reason - all the areas that were designated by the Corporation after December for burying garbage have hit the saturation point. The State Government has not responded to a request by the Corporation that government plots be released for garbage burial.Meanwhile, Mayor K Chandrika said the Corporation...
11:27 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Visited by thousands everyday and a symbol of courage and pride of the Indian soldiers, the famous India Gate is badly in need of a ...
06:15 PM, Apr 18, 2012
CHENNAI:If residents treat the city as they treat their own home, a chunk of problems can be solved, said Mayor of Chennai Corporation, Saidai SDuraisamy. Speaking at the inauguration of the Raja Annamalai PuramResidents Welfare Association here on Sunday, he said that thecleanliness of their surrounding was in their hands. After having stated that the Chennai Corporation lacked basicfacilities when he and his team took up office, the Mayor added...
08:26 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Singapore: Squeaky-clean Singapore needs cleaner toilets and public awareness is one way to achieve this, a civic group said at the launch of the latest stage of its LOO campaign -- Let's Observe Ourselves. The city-state has 30,000 public restrooms and is pushing to make 70 percent of them at least "three-star" clean by 2013. But a survey by the Restroom Association (Singapore) (RAS) found that only some 500 of...
02:11 PM, Dec 20, 2010
Lahore: The Pakistan Cricket Board has said it would give credibility to the report about match-fixing in a British newspaper only if the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit took up the issue and contacted it. The Sunday Times, in its report, quoted a bookmaker making big claims about how he had fixed matches, including the 2011 World Cup semi-final between India and Pakistan. The report only becomes creditable to us...
08:26 PM, May 02, 2008
Centurion: The pre-series verbal war has set the stage for an electrifying battle as India gear up to face a hostile South Africa in the first of a three-Test cricket series starting here from Thursday to not just prove themselves as worthy world number ones but also improve their unarguably poor record here. Described as the final frontier by coach Gary Kirsten, world number two South Africa will challenge India's ...
08:45 PM, Nov 16, 2007
Chennai, Kolkata and Bangalore ranked higher than Delhi in a survey conducted by a Lifebuoy to grade India’s cleanest cities. ...
10:26 PM, Apr 07, 2007
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