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Sitharaman calls huge toxic waste 'threat' for India, calls on DRI to catc
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 4 (ANI): Highlighting that huge toxic waste coming to India and dumped here is a big threat, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) needs to act and catch big fish involved in smuggling of toxic wast
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Illegal denim factories responsible for frothing in Yamuna, says social ac
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI): Days after Delhi's air quality deteriorated post-Diwali, the Yamuna river in the national capital has been witnessing a thick layer of toxic foam which is a result of chemical waste used to dye denim being dumped by illegal jeans-making units set up close
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4 arrested in Dalit youth killing in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Hanumangarh (Rajasthan) [India], October 10 (ANI): Four people have been arrested and a minor detained in connection with the case in which a Dalit youth was allegedly beaten to death by a group of persons and his body dumped outside his house in Prempura village in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh d
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Cong treating Dalits as vote bank; dumped Channi for Sidhu: BJP
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 20 (ANI): The politics over Dalit votes has grown intense in poll-bound Punjab with Bharatiya Janata Party sharpening its attack on Congress for cheating the community and insulting them by using it only as a vote bank.
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Maharashtra farmers dump tomatoes on roadside as prices of produce crash
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nashik (Maharashtra) [India], August 27 (ANI): Farmers in Nashik and Aurangabad on Friday dumped truckloads of tomatoes on the road after prices crashed to Rs 2-3 per kg in the wholesale market.
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Woman kills 2-year-old nephew, dumps body in Delhi nalla
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 22 (ANI): A 24-year-old woman who allegedly abducted and murdered her two-year-old nephew and dumped the body in a nalla in Punjabi Bagh area here has been arrested along with her husband who assisted in the crime, Delhi police said.
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Delhi artist makes artwork with plastic, diverts 250kg from landfills
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): Delhi-based artist, Manveer Singh uses plastic waste as a raw material to create artwork and has utilised 250 kg of plastic in three years, diverting it from being dumped at landfills.
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China calls for 'dumping' of US-led Indo-Pacific strategy
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 4 (ANI): The US-led Indo-Pacific strategy, which is aimed at countering Beijing, "should be dumped at a trash heap", said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the opening ceremony of the 9th World Peace Forum in Beijing on Saturday.
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Karnataka: Farmers dump tonnes of mangoes on roadside as prices fall
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolar (Karnataka) [India], June 27 (ANI): Karnataka farmers dumped tonnes of mangoes on the roadside near Srinivasapura of Kolar district due to a steep fall in the prices of certain varieties of the fruit.
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COVID-infected corpses floating from Uttar Pradesh have reached Bengal, sa
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 21 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday claimed that corpses of alleged Covid-19 victims who were dumped in the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh were floating into West Bengal, polluting the rivers and causing contamination.
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Shiv Sena MLA makes contractor sit on Mumbai's waterlogged road, gets garb
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 13 (ANI): In a shocking incident, a Shiv Sena MLA forced a civic contractor to sit on a waterlogged road in Mumbai on Saturday and asked workers to dump garbage on him for allegedly not getting the drains cleaned properly.
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2 held after video of COVID patient's body being dumped in river in UP's B
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Balrampur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 31 (ANI): Two people have been arrested after a video went viral on social media showing a COVID-19 patient's body being dumped from a bridge into the Rapti river in Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur district.
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