Pakistan's biggest city is faced with squalor that has resulted in a major reproduction of flies on a scale that has drawn coverage by the New York Times. In a special report, the prestigious US daily has said that Karachi has turned into a den of flies that are omnipresent in housing colonies, markets, homes, shops and everywhere else.
The minor girl had gone missing on Saturday night when she was sleeping with her family members in the verandah of their house near Angul bus stand, the officer said.
The Malka Ganj ward councillor first deposited dry waste in front of North Delhi Mayor Avtar Singh's office soon after the NDMC House was adjourned for the day in the wake of the death of a councillor.
Addressing a press conference on Monday, Panaji Mayor Uday Madkaikar said the city authorities would block transportation of wet garbage generated in the jurisdiction of the Calangute village panchayat because village residents on Sunday had blocked garbage trucks of the city corporation from passing through, en route a high-tech garbage processing facility near Calangute.
As the climbing season ended at the end of May, the Tibet Mountaineering Association, which administers all climbing activities on the north side, is still busy sorting the accumulation of garbage over the past few months.
A total of 11,000 kg garbage and four dead bodies were removed from the Mount Everest during a two-month long cleanliness drive conducted by the Nepal government on the world's highest mountain.
About 2,000 tonnes of garbage is dumped at Ghazipur each day. Taking up the area of more than 40 football pitches, Ghazipur landfill has no end to its foul-smelling growth.
"Next two-three days we will be monitoring and the MMC has to reply to our showcase within three days else, we will have to initiate legal or criminal prosecutions," Shetgaonkar told reporters late on Thursday.
More than 10,000 kilograms of solid waste was collected from Mt. Everest during a first-ever cleaning campaign on the world's highest mountain, Nepalese officials said on Monday.
Investigation revealed that some people had set the garbage ablaze at the site trapping the puppies sleeping there, police said, adding the injured pup was shifted to a veterinarian hospital.
Delhi was facing an "emergency situation" due to mountains of garbage, the apex court had said earlier this month.
It said that segregation of waste at household level was an important issue and asked the authorities to inform the apex court as to whether an awareness campaign in this regard could be started throughout the city.
The top court said that days are not far when garbage mounds at the Ghazipur landfill site in Delhi will match the height of iconic 73-metre high Qutub Minar and red beacon light will have to be used to ward off aircraft.
"Don't do this. Whatever junk you have, you dump it before us. We are not garbage collectors. Be absolutely clear about this," SC bench told Centre.
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In protest against non-payment of salaries, a section of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (north-MCD) employees today went on strike, an employees union official said. This happened even as East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) employees,
In the first such incident following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise announcement of scrapping Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes on Tuesday, a rag picker in Pune today found a sack full of Rs.
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