District Collector Navjot Khosa visits the site of the furnace oil leak at Travancore Titanium Products Ltd in Thiruvananthapuram. According to preliminary estimates, a 2-km stretc...
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Cows feed on garbage in front of shops, spread by MCD workers, during their strike, near Ghanta Ghar in New Delhi.
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This is aerial photo shows plastic bottles, wooden planks, rusty barrels and other garbage clogging the Drina river near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad, Bosnia. Further upstr...
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A man carries garbage in a bucket to dump in the river Brahmaputra, walking past idols of Hindu goddess Kali in Guwahati. Brahmaputra is one of Asia's largest rivers, which passes ...
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A policeman questions locals throwing puja offerings on the Yamuna river and at the pavement of Geeta Colony Bridge, on the last day of Navratri festival, in East Delhi.
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An MCD worker trying to douse a burning garbage heap, in New Delhi. The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has slapped the North Delhi Municipal Corporation with a fine of Rs...
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Tens of thousands of people protest in Port Louis, Mauritius, over the government's slow response to an oil spill from a grounded Japanese ship and the alarming discovery of dozens...
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This photo provided by the French Army shows oil leaking from the MV Wakashio, a bulk carrier ship that ran aground off the southeast coast of Mauritius. Thousands of students, env...
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A dog stands on a pile of waste at the Ghazipur landfill area, in Delhi. Authorities have processed 13,0000 MT of wastes till date at India's tallest garbage mountain in Ghazipur E...
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Trommel machine-cum-ballistic separators, which are mechanical screening machines used to separate solid-waste and inert materials, at the Ghazipur landfill site in New Delhi. The ...
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A ragpicker searches for recyclables items at a garbage dump, in New Delhi.
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A medic throws his PPE suit into a dustbin at a government hospital, during the ongoing nationwide lockdown to curb spread of coronavirus, in New Delhi.
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A rag-picker look for usable material at a garbage-dumping site on World Environment Day, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Ghaziabad.
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Workers clear garbage from Lower Lake, as seen on World Environment Day, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Bhopal.
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Ragpickers segregate reusable material at a garbage dump on World Environment Day, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Ghaziabad.
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Labourers load used plastic bottles in a van on the eve of World Environmental Day, in Guwahati. The World Environment Day is observed every year on June 5, and the theme of this y...
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Rag pickers search for re-usable items from the garbage at Waryana landfill on the eve of World Environment Day, in Jalandhar.
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Health workers dispose of medical waste in open at a government hospital, during the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, in New Delhi.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs a meeting with National Disaster Management Authority officials regarding the situation in Visakhapatnam, in New Delhi.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs a meeting of the National Disaster Management Authority regarding the situation in Visakhapatnam, in New Delhi.
Two youths were made to travel 80km back to Madikeri in Coorg just so that they can clean up the garbage they had thrown on the highway while traveling.
In the confidential emails, which got leaked to a local newspaper, UK envoy to the US, Kim Darroch had criticised US President Donald Trump as 'inept, insecure and incompetent' after which he was compelled to resign.
Sweepers of Municipal Committee Kishtwar found the body of a newborn baby girl at a roadside garbage dump in the town in Jammu and Kashmir, when collecting garbage, officials said.
During the hearing, the court observed that Delhi is getting buried under mounds of garbage and Mumbai is sinking under water, but the government is doing nothing.
There are time-bombs ticking in the capital—after all, there’s only so much garbage landfills can take. Swachh Bharat slogans won’t stop the volcanoes from exploding, as remedies and alternatives languish for lack of vision and funds.
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