Surat: The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has found mosquito breeding at 1,089 construction sites during the week-long drive to curb vector-borne diseases.As part of the targeted inspection exercise, civic health teams surveyed 1,579 ongoing construction projects. Officials said breeding conditions were identified at a large number of sites, prompting enforcement action and fines amounting to…
Jamshedpur: The ongoing drive against illegal parking in Sakchi and Bistupur here has led residents to demand that the enforcement campaign should be extended across the city and continued throughout the year.Over the past week, the East Singhbhum administration, in coordination with traffic police and district transport office (DTO), has intensified action against vehicles in…
COIMBATORE: It’s not stunning art works that adorn the city flyovers and compound walls. In fact, these public spaces are marred by illegal hoardings and posters.City roads and flyovers, be it Kavundampalayam flyover, Mettupalayam Road, Singanallur and Sundarapuram, are dotted with hoardings without a licence number, while compound walls of city corporation’s open ground at…
RMC additional municipal commissioner Sanjay Kumar during the meeting on Friday Ranchi: Cracking down on unauthorised boring operations across the state capital, the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has made it mandatory for residents to obtain a no-objection certificate (NOC) for carrying out four-inch boring operations. The civic body has also ordered a crackdown on unsanctioned…
Officers urged to enforce stringent action against both drug users Mysuru: Directing authorities in Mysuru to bring down the use and sale of narcotic drugs to zero, Karnataka Legislative Committee on Subordinate Legislation chairman and MLA SR Srinivas, on Wednesday, said officers should enforce stringent action against both users and dealers.Chairing the committee meeting in…
Clusters of food carts serving hot snacks fuel the problem further. Ghaziabad: Every other night, returning home from work, a Ghaziabad resident would find cars parked outside the gate of his Indirapuram condominium. “Sometimes the stereos would be on full blast — audible from my flat, typically after midnight. Working in Delhi for 15 years,…
Pune: The PMC has announced a renewed crackdown on bulk waste generators (BWGs), including imposition of heavy fines for those failing to process garbage on-site. However, the move has met with scepticism from activists who claim previous drives were mismanaged and unfairly targeted small housing societies while overlooking large commercial establishments.Under current solid waste management…
Bengaluru: Think twice before reaching for your favourite namkeen or savoury/salted snacks. Namkeens such as boondi, sev, chips and chow chow mixture, along with dairy products, emerged as the most unsafe food items in Karnataka in 2025-26, according to the Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA).The findings came after the department analysed 35,639 food samples…
tnnKanpur: A joint team of the revenue, police, transport and mining departments conducted a drive in the Ghatampur police station area of Kanpur on Friday night and took action against 91 vehicle owners for violations, including overloading, missing number plates, pressure horns and other traffic rule infractions.The transport and mining department took action against seven…
