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MCG refloats door-to-door garbage collection tender

MCG refloats door-to-door garbage collection tender

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The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has reissued its five-year tender for door-to-door garbage collection, transportation and segregation, said officials. The previous bidding process was stalled earlier this month, raising the estimated project cost by over ₹41 crore to ₹647.78 crore. (HT) The previous bidding process was stalled earlier this month, raising the estimated project cost by over ₹41 crore to ₹647.78 crore. The city has been divided into two clusters with four zones each. Cluster-I is pegged at ₹ 327.51 crore and Cluster-II at ₹ 320.27 crore, officials said. The previous tender was valued at ₹606 crore. The contracts will be awarded for five years, with a provision for a four-year extension based on the agency’s performance. The tender was stalled after the rate negotiations failed between the Haryana government’s high-powered purchase committee (HPPC). Cluster-I includes 401,288 establishments, while Cluster-II covers around 327,911 units, including houses, apartments, shops, offices, street vendors and bulk waste generators. A senior MCG official said the rise in project cost could be attributed to factors, including increase in number …

MCG head conducts sanitation checks across Gurugram

MCG head conducts sanitation checks across Gurugram

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Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) commissioner Pradeep Dahiya on Thursday conducted surprise inspections across over half a dozen locations in the city and issued firm directions to improve cleanliness standards. While inspecting Jharsa Chowk slip road, he ordered the removal of accumulated waste without delay. (HT) Accompanied by a team of officials, the commissioner reviewed sanitation at key junctions and public areas, directing immediate removal of waste from roadsides, green belts, and prominent city spots. Officials were instructed to prioritise clearing plastic waste, horticulture waste, and construction and demolition (C&D) debris. At Rajiv Chowk, he directed officials to ensure the immediate lifting of accumulated soil and debris along the roadside. He also inspected ongoing sanitation work by the National Highways Authority of India and asked the team to strengthen mechanised cleaning of national highways. While inspecting Jharsa Chowk slip road, he ordered the removal of accumulated waste without delay. The commissioner also reviewed sanitation at several major intersections, including Signature Tower Chowk, MDI Chowk, Atul Kataria Chowk, CRPF Chowk, and areas surrounding Sheetla Mata temple. …

Why the MCG is deploying 831 vehicles to end the city’s waste crisis

Why the MCG is deploying 831 vehicles to end the city’s waste crisis

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2 min readGurgaonApr 27, 2026 10:45 PM IST In a bid to overhaul the city’s waste management infrastructure, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has initiated a Rs 609-crore tender process to deploy 831 vehicles for door-to-door garbage collection, with a pre-bid meeting for prospective agencies scheduled for April 29. The civic body has divided the city into two clusters for the purpose, issuing separate tenders for each to ensure a permanent and streamlined arrangement. According to the MCG, the comprehensive plan involves a fleet comprising 653 light commercial vehicles and 178 e-rickshaws. The total tender has been issued at a cost of around Rs 609 crore, with the agencies to work for a five-year period. “The scope of the project includes the coverage of over 4.46 lakh properties across Gurugram, with a capacity for daily collection and management of over 1,200 metric tonnes of municipal solid waste,” an MCG spokesperson said. “The tender was officially published on April 22. Following the upcoming April 29 pre-bid meeting, the final deadline for bid submissions is set …

Alyssa Healy’s fireworks ended Harmanpreet Kaur & Co’s dream at MCG

Alyssa Healy’s fireworks ended Harmanpreet Kaur & Co’s dream at MCG

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4 min readUpdated: Mar 8, 2026 04:43 PM IST The timing isn’t too auspicious for Indian cricket fans, but it was on this very day in 2020 when the Women in Blue were thrashed in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup final. It was one of the landmark days in women’s cricket history as a packed Melbourne Cricket Ground watched the home team outclassing Harmanpreet Kaur’s side by 85 runs. Alyssa Healy was the star of the show with a 39-ball 75 and by a bizarre coincidence the Australian wicket-keeper batter took the field for her country for the last time on the same day six years later – leading her team to victory in a Test match at Perth against the same team. The final was played just days before the world shut down on account of the Covid-19 pandemic, hence it remained in the fans’ consciousness for a long time with no sport for quite some time. FOLLOW LIVE: IND VS NZ T20 WORLD CUP FINAL UPDATES India had come into the title …

‘If there was a pitch like that anywhere else in the world, then all hell would have broken loose’: Sunil Gavaskar on MCG pitch | Cricket News

‘If there was a pitch like that anywhere else in the world, then all hell would have broken loose’: Sunil Gavaskar on MCG pitch | Cricket News

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The fourth Test between Australia and England ended within a couple of days at the MCG. ICC has rated the pitch ‘unsatisfactory’, and it was awarded one demerit point. Former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar wrote in his column that if it had been someone else whole world would have “broken loose.” “If there was a pitch like that anywhere else in the world (read India), then all hell would have broken loose. Not surprisingly, many have come to the defence of the curator, sorry, Director of Turf, and suggested it was an honest mistake in leaving so much grass on the pitch. It’s exactly like in the old times that whenever an English and Australian umpire made wrong decisions, then it was a ‘human error’, while mistakes made by the sub-continent umpires was ‘cheating.’” wrote Gavaskar in his column for Mid-Day. “Even today, despite the ICC panel of umpires officiating in games, a mistake made by them is often mentioned with their name and country suggesting that it was incompetence or more, while similar mistakes …

ICC rates MCG pitch ‘Unsatisfactory’ | Cricket News

ICC rates MCG pitch ‘Unsatisfactory’ | Cricket News

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The Boxing Day Test finished off in just a couple of days. The ball was swinging and seaming through the Test match, and at times was bouncing unevenly. Match referee Jeff Crowe has said the pitch was “unsatisfactory”. “The MCG pitch was too much in favour of the bowlers,” Crowe said. “With 20 wickets falling on the first day, 16 on the second day, and no batter even reaching a half-century, the pitch was ‘unsatisfactory’ as per the guidelines, and the venue gets one demerit point.” However, CA’s chief of cricket, James Allsopp, was confident that the stadium would bounce back and deliver a better pitch for the 150th anniversary Test between England and Australia to be held in March 2027. “We were disappointed for the fans holding tickets for days three and four, and also the millions of fans excited to watch the action in Australia and around the world, that the pitch did not provide the MCG’s customary balance between bat and ball,” Allsopp said. England’s Brydon Carse, right, watches his shot that will have him out to Australia …

Alastair Cook slams MCG pitch after England win Boxing Day Test match in 2 days against Australia

Alastair Cook slams MCG pitch after England win Boxing Day Test match in 2 days against Australia

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Former England captain Alastair Cook slammed the pitch that was used for the 2025-26 Ashes Test at Melbourne, calling it ‘sub-standard’ and citing how batters like Joe Root and Steve Smith had found it hard to bat on that surface. He added that the MCG pitch had become livelier after he made 244 in the Boxing Day Test match in 2017. “There has been a lot of comment about batting techniques and how players batted on this surface. But I think the pitch was sub-standard, and it became an absolute lottery. International bowlers don’t need very much assistance, and when they get as much as they did here, it becomes almost impossible.” “We saw two modern greats of the game — Root and Steve Smith — really struggling to score runs convincingly. Root tried to gut it out, but in the first innings made a 15-ball duck and barely laid a bat on it, whereas Harry Brook played in his usual adventurous style and made 41, which was an important innings.” “It was after I …

MCG curator in ‘state of shock’ after Ashes Test ends in two days

MCG curator in ‘state of shock’ after Ashes Test ends in two days

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Melbourne Cricket Ground curator Matthew Page admitted that he was in a state of shock over how the pitch his team had prepared, played out in the fourth Test of the Ashes series. The Test match lasted for a grand total of two days with 36 wickets falling in total.   This was the second two-day finish of a Test match in this Ashes series with the opener in Perth also being short-lived. Cricket Australia have estimated that the cost of the shortened Test match would cost the organisation around 10 million Australian dollars.   “I’ve never been involved in a Test match like it and hopefully I’m not involved in a Test match like it again,” Page said to the media. “We know this hasn’t gone as we planned. We will look at what we need to do to improve.”   England captain Ben Stokes was clear in his disappointment at the pitch, saying that similar two-day results in other parts of the world would have raised eyebrows and questions.   Page said that …

‘I’m pretty sure if that was somewhere else in the world, there’d be hell on…’ England skipper Ben Stokes declares his verdict on MCG pitch

‘I’m pretty sure if that was somewhere else in the world, there’d be hell on…’ England skipper Ben Stokes declares his verdict on MCG pitch

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With the Boxing Day Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground ending in less than two days, it was also the second time in this year’s Ashes that a Test ended in less than two days. While the Perth Test in this series was the 26th Test match in Test history to finish in two days, the Boxing Day Test this week too joined the list. The previous time an Ashes Test finished in two days was in 1921, the first of the Ashes series between the two countries at Nottingham. England skipper was critical of the pitch post the match and alsovinayakk questioned if the same Test was anywhere else in the world,  there would be ‘hell on’ “Being brutally honest, that’s not really what you want. Boxing Day Test match. You don’t want a game finishing in less than two days. Not ideal. But you can’t change it once you start the game and you’ve just got to play what’s in front of you. But I’m pretty sure if that was somewhere else in the world, …

‘We play for a lot of people – not just ourselves’: Ben Stokes after win in MCG Test | Cricket News

‘We play for a lot of people – not just ourselves’: Ben Stokes after win in MCG Test | Cricket News

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England registered their first win in the ongoing Ashes on Saturday. Chasing 178 runs in the Boxing Day Test match in the final innings, the visitors managed to get there with the loss of six wickets. Fast bowlers Josh Tongue and Brydon Carse have been the key contributors for the side in both innings with the ball, and the batters who have come under a lot of criticism managed to chip in with cameos, which were enough for England to register their first Test win against Australia in their backyard since the 2010/11 series. Speaking in the post-match presentation, Stokes said, “It has been a massive effort from everyone, and to come out on the right side of the result feels really special. Hopefully, it means a lot. We play for a lot of people – not just ourselves. The support we get, wherever we go in the world, is incredible. The noise, the chants, the constant backing – the lads out in the middle hear it, feel it, and thrive off it.” “I know …