New Delhi, August 5, 2012: After Okhla, the Delhi government is getting ready to make the waste-to-energy plant at Ghazipur operational. It has asked East Delhi Municipal Corporation to send garbage to the plant from August-end for the trial run. The plant will be fully operational by the end of 2012, sources said.

Haldwani, July 16, 2012: Concerned over the garbage disposal problem being faced particularly in urban areas, the State Government has decided to hire some private agencies for smooth disposal of the civic waste from big cities of the mountain State.

Rohtak, July 15, 2012: The garbage collection and disposal system in the city is set to go hi-tech with the introduction of the Global Positioning System (GPS). This is the first time that this technology will be used for this purpose.

Lucknow, June 26, 2012: A team of officials from UP Jal Nigam and UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) on Monday initiated an enquiry into the death of scores of fish in Gomti.

Vilappisala, June 6, 2012: "We tell friends planning to visit us to follow the stench of rotting garbage," says Jeevaratnam (one name), a homemaker in this village 16 km from Kerala state’s capital of Thiruvananthapuram.