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SC pulls up Delhi govt. over solid waste management issue
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 12 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Delhi government to take necessary and effective steps to manage solid waste in the city.
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ICT Academy and Autodesk announce India Design Week 2017
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Dec 9 (ANI-NewsVoir): ICT Academy, in association with Autodesk, announced the India Design Week 2017, a unique initiative for budding designers to learn, explore, innovate and design products for different areas. These areas include built environment, disaster
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Microsoft plans to upgrade Redmond headquarters; to expand work-space capa
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [USA], Nov 29 (ANI): Microsoft Corporation's headquarters is all set to get a makeover, as the company announced its plans of executing a multi-year campus refresh project next fall.
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Coimbatore: Fire breaks out in waste godown
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) [India], November 25 (ANI): Tons of plastic and wood kept at a waste godown in Kuniamuthur's J. J. Nagar area caught fire on Saturday evening.
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Aussie 'Metallic Glass' may offer solution to India's wastewater problems
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Nov 23 (ANI-BusinessWire India): Scientists from the Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia have developed a way to modify the atomic structure of iron to create a 'metallic glass' that can purify wastewater in minutes.
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Solid Waste Treatment Plant to end waste dumpings in Imphal
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Imphal (Manipur) [India], Nov. 4 (ANI): The Solid Waste Treatment Plant at Lamdeng, constructed by the Manipur Government with a project cost of Rs. 4175 crore, had been upgraded from it's " Waste to Compost" policy to " Waste to Compost and Energy".
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Up to 50% of milk, fruits, veggies produced in India go waste
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 24 (ANI): Despite India being world's largest producer for milk and second largest producer of fruits and vegetables, about 40 to 50 per cent of the total production valued of $440 billion (bn) ends up wasted, noted a recent ASSOCHAM-MRSS India study.
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Ghazipur landfill fire: EDMC to soon set up waste-to-energy plant
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 15 (ANI): Mayor of East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) Neema Bhagat on Sunday said that the department will soon set up a waste-to-energy plant to issue all the problems taking place from past few days at Ghazipur landfill site.
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Andhra CM Naidu flags off thirty Solid Waste Management vehicles
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], October 11 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday flagged off thirty Solid Waste Management vehicles.
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'Burning' Kundli landfill endangers health of locals
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 3 (ANI): The Kundli garbage landfill, which is said to be burning for more than 35 years despite the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) has imposed a nationwide ban on the burning of bulk waste in open spaces.
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Army responds to PM's Swachhta Abhiyan call, removes 60 tonnes of Siachen
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct.2 (ANI): Responding positively to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for launching a cleanliness drive or Swachhta Abhiyan across the nation, the Indian Army has spent the last fortnight carrying out special cleanliness drive in various cantonements across the countr
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Your office coffee mug may up risk of diarrhoea, vomiting
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 28 (ANI): Beware before drinking tea or coffee in those mugs from your office kitchen, as nearly 90 percent of cups are coated in disease-causing germs and 20 percent of actually carry faecal matter, claims a study.
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