The city corporation on Saturday installed a surveillance camera at Edappally Muttar Junction to check waste dumping.

The first phase of the Rs 10 lakh-project was inaugurated by mayor Tony Chammany

The BBMP council witnessed acrimonious scenes on Friday as corporators opposed the garbage tenders floated on Tuesday night by keeping the council, the standing committee on health, the ruling party a

The garbage piles continue to haunt the Chennai corporation and the latest headache to the civic body is acute shortage of bins to collect and translocate the solid waste.

Most of the wards in the c

When the people of Mavallipura protested against Bengaluru’s garbage being dumped in their village, the government and BBMP went looking for an alternative site to dump in. As if the garbage problem i

The Garden City, which could more appropriately be called ‘garbage city’ in the past few days, is getting back to its normal, better-smelling self.

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has

Corporation officials swung into action and covered an unfinished stormwater drain with a huge wooden plank in SBI colony, Shanti Nagar, Perambur, that had been left open for several weeks, after Decc

Failing to learn from the present garbage crisis set off by its unscientific disposal, the BBMP has now identified two private landfills with a capacity to hold 2,000 metric tonnes of garbage, to cle

While contractors are expected to segregate garbage into wet and dry waste before dumping it into scientific landfills, hardly any of them bother to do so. And despite the Supreme Court’s directive on

Five days after the city of Bengaluru stopped clearing its garbage — for the second time in as many weeks — posing a serious health hazard to pedestrians, joggers and school-going children as it attra

K. Ramakrishnaiah, 58, who had come all the way from Dobbspet to the BBMP west zone office to make a correction in the khata document of a property, had to return empty-handed as the BBMP zonal office