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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicLandfills

Topic: Landfills

Mandatory segregation to landfill fee—what changes with new solid waste management rules?

The rules also lay out the way compensation will work in case of false reporting, forged documents or operating without registration — the ‘Polluter Pays’ principle will now apply to these environmental violations.

Garbage mafia’s iron grip on Bengaluru. Even Deputy CM Shivakumar’s admitted defeat

Bengaluru: Known by monikers such as ‘strongman’ and ‘troubleshooter’, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar has expressed his helplessness in addressing Bengaluru’s garbage...

8 fragmented agencies are to blame for Delhi’s waste mountains. 4 ideas can help demolish them

Most of the solid waste disposal budget is spent just on transporting the waste to Delhi’s three overfilled landfills or processing plants.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.