India generates about 60 million tonnes of garbage every day and about 45 million tonnes of garbage remains untreated. These stats just show that we have...
East Delhi Municipal Corporation tied up with an NGO Chintan to implement a zero waste management plan in Delhi’s Vasundhara Enclave. The aim is to make...
With above a billion mobile phones in use across the country, e-waste has emerged as a major challange for the government, which will launch an awareness...
The city of joy - Kolkata, along with 10 other cities from across the globe, has been honoured with the best cities of 2016 award in...
Waste management is a huge challenge and crisis for our country but some cities have managed to put in successful waste management systems and made a...
Domestic sewage containing organic wastes, mainly from toilets and kitchens, may prove to be a source of energy that can be harvested by using hungry bacteria,...
The 13th World Robot Olympiad will be held in India for the first time, with over 2,000 students from 54 countries participating to find innovative ways,...
With the breakneck speed of expansion of cities, India has the greatest number of urban-dwellers in the world without safe, private toilets and practising open defecation...
Delhi government has revived the proposal to convert the Rajghat power plant into a waste-to-energy plant by 2017 in order to tackle the shortage of garbage...
Billed as the facility that would take care of all the waste from the coastal belt of North Goa, a solid-waste management plant built here has commenced recycling...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has decided to provide Rs 10 lakh for every 'mandi' (market) for setting up waste management plants under ‘e-Nam...
It may sound like science fiction, but wastewater treatment plants may turn ordinary sewage into biocrude oil, thanks to this new research which took place at...
34-year-old Dr Swaminathan Chandramouli runs “Doctor on Wheels”, a mobile-healthcare initiative to provide at-home medical services to senior citizens in...
70-year-old Dr Arunoday Mondal, a Padma awardee has been providing healthcare services for free to rural Sundarbans for over two...
Padma awardee Dr. Neelam Kler highlighted the importance of having a holistic healthcare approach to reduce neonatal and maternal mortality...
Dr Indira Chakravarty, who is a Public Health Specialist, said that the Banega Swasth India campaign has helped people understand...
Currently working as the Chairman of the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology and AIG Hospitals in Hyderabad, Padma awardee Dr Nageshwar...
