Sometimes piles of uncollected rubbish can be worth their weight in gold, as the family and friends of 26-year-old Vangelis Icapatos discovered when a reportedly unhappy Vangelis tried to take …
January 1, 2011
Imagine shelling out $500 for a night stay at a top five-star hotel in Melbourne and finding the luxury suite inhabitable due to unhygienic surroundings! A forensic audit using swab …
Imagine a robot which folds clothes, fetches beer from the fridge and also plays pool! The robot begins its work with something easy, like folding towels, before graduating to more …
In an unprecedented move in India, Chennai would soon have incinerator (crematorium) for dogs, bringing great relief to many dog owners in the city who live in apartments and find …
The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) promises to make the metro stations in the city pest-free. Stringent precautions are suggested and a high level of cleanliness has been planned …
Attracted by the garbage dumped from markets in areas surrounding the airport, a jackal strayed onto the runway of the NSC Bose International Airport in Kolkata forcing the pilot of …
A 5.6MW Barwala power project is being set up by the US firm Indus Terra Energy Inc using technology developed by Enviro Control Ltd, the UK, to generate power using …
Complete absence of garbage bins in commercial areas of Mohali has compounded the problem on city streets, which stems from residents littering around. Residential, industrial and commercial areas in Mohali …
Recognising the contribution of more than 6000 rag-pickers who collect 300-350 tonnes of dry waste from the city daily, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has proposed a financial aid for …
Some of the simple treatments of drinking water at any given point of time, or just after an emergency, are enumerated below.