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Tourists in Karnataka forced to travel back 80 kms to pick their trash
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Kodagu (Karnataka) [India], November 6 (ANI): Two persons had to drive back from Madikeri to Kodagu in Karnataka to collect waste they threw in open, on the behest of the police after Kodagu Tourism Association's General Secretary posted the video of garbage on social media.
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Best out of waste: Punjab NGO makes diyas with cow dung
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Mohali (Punjab) [India], November 1 (ANI): Ahead of Diwali, an NGO in Punjab's Mohali district has started making idols and diyas with cow dung, which they claim is eco-friendly and more efficient than other raw material.
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Solid waste contributes to rise in pollution level in Yamuna
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 30 (ANI): The level of water pollution rose in the national capital after a spike in levels of ammonia with banks of the river also strewn with large amount of solid waste.
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Confessions of a terrorist state: Bajwa, Imran and Jaish hand in glove
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Glasgow [UK], October 30 (ANI): At 15:30 hours (local time) on February 14, 2019, a convoy of 78 vehicles, transporting 2,500 Central Reserve Police Force personnel, passed through Lethpora near Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir when it was hit by a car carrying 300 kilograms of explosives. At
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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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Dharma Productions will get notice for fine for littering in Goa Village,
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], October 28 (ANI): Goa Waste Management Minister Michael Lobo on Wednesday said that Dharma Productions will get a notice for a fine from the Goa Waste Management office after reports claimed the production crew has allegedly littered a Goan beach village last week durin
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Chandigarh-based group raises money for children's education by reusing ea
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], October 27 (ANI): Motivating others to reduce and recycle waste materials, a Chandigarh-based group has come up with 'Deep Se Sahayog Tak' project under which they have reused discarded earthen lamps to raise money for children's education.
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Assam artist creates Durga idol with medical waste to show solidarity in f
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Dhubri (Assam) [India], October 25 (ANI): In an attempt to showcase his creativity, an artist from Assam's Dubri has created a Durga idol with strips of expired tablets, capsules and injection vials to express solidarity with everyone fighting the COVID-19 menace.
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Farmers begin cultivating asafoetida in Himachal's Lahaul valley, thanks t
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI): Farmers of the remote Lahaul valley in Himachal Pradesh are now taking up cultivation of asafoetida (Heeng) on the vast expanses of wasteland in the cold desert conditions of the region, owing to efforts of a CSIR constituent laboratory, the Institute of
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Bin that butt to save the environment goes digital on World Cleanup Day
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI/NewsVoir): Let's Do It India, the Indian subdivision of 'Let's Do It World' organisation, that aims to instill a lasting change in the way solid waste is dumped in India and is relentlessly addressing the need to promote a greater understanding between p
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Satyendra Jain inspects wastewater treatment plants at Rohini, Rithala, an
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 18 (ANI): Delhi Minister (Water) and Chairman of DJB Satyendar Jain along with senior officials inspected wastewater treatment plants at Rohini (15 MGD), Rithala (60 MGD), Coronation Pillar (30 MGD) and also the Timarpur Oxidation Pond and Bhalaswa Lake site.
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Flipkart, Patanjali issued show cause notices for closure of operations, C
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 13 (ANI): The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that show-cause notices were issued to Flipkart and others for closure of their operation and for levying of Environment Compensation for non-compliance of provision
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