Protest against manual cleaning
Members of eight voluntary organisations and traders’ union recently staged a demonstration in front of the headquarters of Chennai Metrowater to protest against the manual cleaning of sewage manholes and…
Members of eight voluntary organisations and traders’ union recently staged a demonstration in front of the headquarters of Chennai Metrowater to protest against the manual cleaning of sewage manholes and…
Harshit Patel, a Mumbai-based entrepreneur, from Polytela e-commerce Private Ltd, has launched a first nation-wide service to collect e-waste free of cost. The company has formed eight collection centres –TechShops…
Merely 34% of the total rural population in India have access to diagnostic centres for chronic ailments like diabetes, heart and kidney diseases, says a study carried out by the…
The third waterworks recently inaugurated in Rohtak, Haryana, will provide 135lt per capita per day drinking water. This waterworks is stated to be the second such facility in the country…
A decision to ban the sale of electric bulbs in Punjab state was recently taken at a meeting on energy conservation headed by the Chief Secretary Ramesh Inder Singh. The…
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) said that the ban on use of plastic bags in Delhi had caused anxiety amongst the trading community. They want the move to…
Amsterdam RAI and ISSA have announced the new dates for ISSA/Interclean Amsterdam. The show will now be held from April 26-29, 2010, a week earlier than initially planned. During the…
President Pratibha Patil has called for effective waste management of plastics by adopting proper recycling technology. Plastics waste is not waste per se and could be treated as wealth by…
The project, ‘waste plastic to nano-carbon’, initiated by Dr Arup Chatterjee of I-Can Nano has been finally approved technically and commercially by DSIR (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research). Supported…
The Goa State government has announced schemes to provide subsidised sewage connections to the citizens of Margao. Digambar Kamat, Chief Minister of Goa, has appealed to the citizens to connect…