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3EA Funded 'Woodka' Launches its Studio at Surat
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 7 (ANI/NewsVoir): Getting plastic to disappear from our lives is quite a slow, painful process but with initiatives such as one taken by Woodka, brainchild of 3EA, is a promise to a plastic-free future.
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'Artificial raw material scarcity' soars plastic prices, sends market into
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 7 (ANI): A section of plastic traders have resorted to hoarding raw materials -- PVC, Polyethylene (PE) and Polypropylene (PP) and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) -- resulting in price surge, causing panic in the market, an industry insider said on Monday.
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India achieved replacement, adopting alternative methods for single-use pl
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 5 (ANI): Replacement of single-use plastic items is important and India has practically achieved replacement and is adopting alternative methods, said Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister of Environment on Friday.
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Nearly 400 railway stations serving tea in Kulhad to make India plastic-fr
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Alwar (Rajasthan) [India], November 29 (ANI): Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said that nearly 400 railway stations serving tea in 'Kulhads' and added efforts are ongoing to implement the same across the country as Railways' contribution in making India plastic-free.
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Death toll rises to six in WB's plastic factory explosion
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Malda (West Bengal) [India], November 20 (ANI): The death toll in the plastic factory explosion at Sujupur under Kaliachak police station of Malda district rose to six on Thursday night, Superintendent of Police (SP) Aloke Rajoria said.
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5 dead in Malda blast; West Bengal Governor asks CM to contain 'illegal bo
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Malda (West Bengal) [India], November 19 (ANI): A high-intensity blast at a plastic factory in West Bengal's Malda district on Thursday, in which five people were killed, has nothing to do with "illegal bomb-making" as "alleged by some quarters", the state home department said.
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Five killed in explosion in Bengal's plastic factory, Rs 2 lakh ex-gratia
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Malda (West Bengal) [India], November 19 (ANI): Five persons were killed in an explosion at a plastic factory here in Sujapur of Malda district, police said on Thursday.
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Valsad factory fire under control, no casualties
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Valsad (Gujarat) [India], November 14 (ANI): A massive fire broke out at a factory in Valsad in Gujarat on Saturday morning. The blaze has been brought under control.
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BSF troops seize air pellet gun, leather vessels from border in WB's Nadia
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Nadia (West Bengal) [India], November 11 (ANI): Border Security Force troops on Wednesday seized one air pellet gun, two slings, 95 leather vessels, and 74 Phensedyl bottles in three plastic sacks from smugglers at the International Border in West Bengal's Nadia district.
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Study focuses on a malformation that illustrates incredible plasticity of
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 3 (ANI): One in 4,000 people is born without a corpus callosum, a brain structure consisting of neural fibres that are used to transfer information from one hemisphere to the other. A quarter of these individuals do not have any symptoms, while the remainder either
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Single-use plastic to be banned in Ambala from Nov 1
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Ambala (Haryana) [India], October 30 (ANI): Single-use plastic and polythene bags will remain prohibited in Ambala, with effect from November 1, the Secretary of Municipal Corporation, Ambala City said on Thursday.
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NDMC issues challans to 218 polluters, collects Rs 18.18 lakhs in a week
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 28 (ANI): Taking stern action against the polluter, North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) has issued challans to 218 violators and collected Rs 18.18 lakhs in the last seven days.
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