Curious about the potential of taming Mumbai’s most capricious river, urbanist Sahil Kanekar and environmental engineer Kartiki Naik of WRI India fashion five opportunities that can alter the course of its future
19 March,2023 01:23 PM IST | Mumbai
Mumbaikars can finally expect a cleaner, greener Mumbai as authorities have devised yet another way to try and keep the city clean. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will use Information Technology to help fix problems pertaining to garbage in the city. Watch this video to find out more.
08 February,2021 12:00 AM IST | Mumbai
Rampant garbage burning along the highways in Mumbai, Thane & Raigad is posing a huge threat to people's health. A survey by the Awaaz Foundation at some of these sites has found that pollution levels had a direct co-relation with the size of the garbage dump being burnt. Sumaira Abdulali of Awaaz Foundation recently wrote to Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray highlighting the menace of garbage burning. Watch this video to find out more.
08 January,2021 12:00 AM IST | Mumbai
Congress and BJP councillors in the Jaipur municipal corporation are known for unruly behavior but a rather unruly method of protest against the lack of cleanliness in the city created a huge ruckus during the annual budget of the Jaipur Municpial Corporation. Video courtesy: NDTV
15 February,2012 06:49 PM IST
Another horror story of a baby girl being left to die. This time from Gurgaon in suburban Delhi. A four-day-old girl wrapped inside a polythene bag was found abandoned in a garbage dump in the Udyog Vihar area. Video courtesy: NDTV
19 April,2012 04:44 PM IST
Temperatures in Bangalore may have dropped after the rainfall it received yesterday, however the garbage problem that the city faced earlier, has now resurfaced. Video courtesy: NDTV
01 November,2012 08:19 PM IST
A national level gold medalist boxer, Kamal Kumar now collects garbage from door to door for the livelihood of his family in Kanpur.
03 September,2015 12:08 PM IST
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) workers on Thursday protested against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in front of Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia's house over non-payment of dues. They dumped garbage outside Sisodia’s house to show their anger.
28 January,2016 01:33 PM IST
The abandoned child was found by a labourer in the Navalganj area of Agra after he heard cries coming from the waste heap nearby his place.
03 February,2016 11:32 AM ISTADVERTISEMENT
