Dearth of environmental justice: Horror for people living around Sisdol landfill site The environmental problems facing our planet worsen with each passing day, leading to profound and often irreversible damage to ecosystems and communities. Opinion 19 Nov, 2024
Waste management The Kathmandu Valley, comprising three cities, has been widely acclaimed for its natural beauty, rich culture and excellence of art and architecture since ancient times. Blogs 03 Dec, 2021
Medicinal value of animal urine It may sound strange, but urine’s medicinal properties were discovered by our ancient sages. Charak Samhita has described the role of urine in anointing, enema, purgatives, keeping the body warm and in abdominal expansion. Urine is used in poisoning also. Blogs 10 Jun, 2021
New law empowers local levels to control pollution in their area KATHMANDU, AUGUST 14 The Environment and Natural Resources Protection Act-2020, enacted for the purpose of all local levels prohibit any person or organisation from causing pollution contrary to the existing standards, that may cause significant... Travel 15 Aug, 2020
Ganges River flows with history and prophecy for India ALONG THE GANGES: More than 2,000 years ago, a powerful king built a fort on the banks of India’s holiest river, on the fringes of what is now a vast industrial city. Today, little of the ancient construction remains, except for mounds of rubble... Women 11 Aug, 2020
South Sudan ignores reports on oil pollution, birth defects PALOCH, SOUTH SUDAN: The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals, according to four environmental reports obtained by The Associated... Women 13 Feb, 2020
China�to curb farming near rivers in push to reverse water pollution: official More areas off limits to development in next 5-year plan Arrests for environment crimes on Yangtze in 2019 up 43% on year China's overall water quality improved last year BEIJING/SHANGHAI: China will impose more curbs on agriculture and... Art & Culture 17 Jan, 2020
New bill proposes strict action against water polluters Kathmandu, May 21 The government has proposed a provision that strictly prohibits direct discharge of faecal sludge and wastewater into water bodies. According to Section 38 of the Water Supply and Sanitation Bill registered by the government at... Horoscopes 22 May, 2019
EDITORIAL: For a strong NHRC All these provisions have raised the suspicion that it is intended to give a clean chit to violators of human rights The government draft bill seeking amendment of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Act aimed at curtailing its constitutional... 02 May, 2019
90 per cent industries lack waste management system Kathmandu, April 30 While waste management remains a growing challenge in cities across the country, including Kathmandu, a recent survey has revealed that 90 per cent of industries which produce toxic waste are operating sans a waste management... Horoscopes 01 May, 2019
Trash mountain, toxic canal highlight Serbia's EU waste challenge BELGRADE: Workers handling rat-infested garbage on the outskirts of Belgrade face a double health hazard: from the trash itself and a nearby stream of raw sewage gushing into a canal on its way to the river Danube. The dump, that covers around 2... Art & Culture 02 Mar, 2019
Action sought against two industries releasing toxic waste into Jhanjha River Rautahat, January 6 Durga Bhagawati Rural Municipality Office has demanded that the district administration office take action against two industries that have released water mixed with harmful chemicals from the industry into the Jhanjha River... Travel 07 Jan, 2019
