When a river weeps

Reduced to being a receptacle of household and industrial wastes and victimised by lopsided development, the Yamuna, Delhi's lifeline, is crying …

Private sector gives urban rubbish a new look

With government efforts proving inadequate, private organisations recycle the lion's share of urban waste in India.

Revision of regulation of EIAs for what?

Bioremediation works

Appetite for sewage

Bacteria feed on pollutants in sewage, kill odour, but are they a complete solution?

Researchers engineer landmass to treat sewage in wastewater

Contract killers

Who dares trash them?

A toilet per second

New report on skewed urbanisation in India

What a waste

Solid waste management plant that won Kanpur an award raises a stink

Mumbai's solid waste management plans expensive, dangerous

Dharavi's real estate threat

The Maharashtra government wants to redevelop Dharavi, Mumbai's sprawling slum. But its plan has not taken into account the fact that people not …

Stench in my backyard

As Kerala cities dump their waste in the countryside, people in the villages hit back. An unresolved civic problem of decades compounded by …

Excreta's economy a true experience

Sewage stink

Many townships in Greater Noida are not connected to the sewage system

Ugly is the new beautiful

A group of anonymous citizens in Bengaluru is cleaning filthy streets and inspiring change across India

Public private prank

How smart is a smart city?

Urban growth model needs reality check

Drowning in its own rubbish

For Thiruvananthapuram, the only way to manage waste is by flouting rules

A tale of two cities

The legendary Gandhian

Pakistani social scientist Akhtar Hameed Khan, is remembered, on his first death anniversary, for his achievements in the field of urban management

An urban puzzle

India’s population and cities are set to double by 2030. Can it cope with the pressures?

Why waste a chance?