Dehradun to now impose fine on those burning plastic, garbage in open
India | Nov 21, 2021, 01:59 PM ISTDM has directed the Municipal Corporation and the concerned departments to make challans against those who burn garbage in the open.
DM has directed the Municipal Corporation and the concerned departments to make challans against those who burn garbage in the open.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Sunday suspended Commissioner of Vuyyuru Nagar Panchayat in Krishna district over the dumping of garbage in front of four bank branches in the town last week allegedly by sanitation workers as a mark of protest over "indifferent attitude" in sanctioning loans.
A video, which shows three persons boarding the trolley in Nellimarla town, has gone viral on social media, prompting the authorities to order a probe.
A 45-year-old ragpicker sustained serious injuries in his left hand on Sunday when an explosive burst while he was pulling out garbage from a bin onthe side of the road near Puducherry, police said.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
New Delhi: Lawmakers and volunteers of Aam Aadmi Party took to streets to clean up the growing pile of garbage in the capital as MCD worker's strike over non payment of salaries enter its fifth
New Delhi: Taiwanese artist Lin Shih-Pao has showcased a talent to recycle garbage into modern art and spent 4 months working on an unusual project.Lin made a car out of used mobile phones. The project
Kolkata: Barely days after Kolkata woke up to the horror of a man living with his sister's corpse for months, another man has been found in the city 'addicted' to stashing his house with trash
New Delhi: Soon, you can alert New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) about malfunctioning streetlights or garbage on streets by clicking the site and sending the image to the agency using a photo-based mobile application.The app
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