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Modi segregates plastic with women rag pickers in Mathura
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Sep 11 (ANI): Days afters advocating a complete ban on single-use plastic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday stepped into the shoes of rag pickers, who segregate plastic from the garbage on daily basis.
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Paswan holds meeting for alternatives to single-use plastic
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 9 (ANI): Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday met key stakeholders from plastic bottle industry and senior government officials to find a suitable alternative to single-use plastic.
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Meeting held to decide definition of single-use plastic: Secretary, Consum
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 9 (ANI): AK Srivastava, Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, on Monday said that a meeting was held to decide the definition of 'single-use plastic' so that the sellers and consumers can be made aware of the same.
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Time has come for the world to say good-bye to single-use plastic: PM Modi
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Sept 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the time has come for the world to say 'good-bye' to single-use plastic.
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Tripura: Vegetable vendors in Agartala join hands against use of plastic b
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Sept 8 (ANI): As the country gears up to impose a nationwide ban on single-use plastic bags on the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the vegetable sellers in Agartala have joined hands to eliminate the use of plastic bags.
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Raipur family distributes free cloth bags to discourage use of plastic
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], Sept 6 (ANI): Inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence day speech in which he urged citizens to eliminate the use of single-use plastic, Bairagi family here is distributing home-made cloth bags, free of cost, to everyone they encounter in the mar
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Madhuri Dixit, Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif urge fans to shun single-use plas
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 6 (ANI): Actors Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif and Madhuri Dixit hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiative of banning single-use plastic in the country and urged fans to support the mission.
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PM Modi seeks participation of teaching community in curbing single-use pl
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 5 (ANI): On the occasion of Teachers' Day on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought 'active support and participation' of the teaching community in curbing single-use plastic.
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Paswan bans single-use plastic products in ministriy, PSUs
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), September 4 (ANI): Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Wednesday announced a complete ban on the use of single-use plastic in his ministry and all its PSUs including Food Corporation of India (FCI) from September 15.
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PM Modi's initiative to ban single-use plastic reaches 'Coolie No. 1' sets
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Sept 1 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiative of banning single-use plastics has reached the sets of Varun Dhawan starrer 'Coolie No. 1'.
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Flipkart introduces renewable alternatives to replace single-use plastic i
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Aug 31 (ANI): Leading e-commerce marketplace Flipkart has said it achieved a 25 per cent reduction in single-use plastic during August through various initiatives across its packaging value chain.
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Delhi: LG chairs meeting on digital delivery of services, minimising singl
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 29 (ANI): Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal on Thursday chaired a meeting to enhance Digital Delivery of Services and prepare for the scrapping of Single-Use Plastics in Delhi.
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