Topic: Delhi

India's waste pickers brave landfills to live

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Durga Mukherjee remembers the first time she climbed to the top of New Delhi's largest and oldest landfill, joining the dogs, cows and crows there to begin her life as a waste picker."I vomited so much," the 40-year-old ...
Types of pollution The Pollution is of various types, and It needs different type of pollution control1 Air Pollution. Very large number of residents of Metro towns are living in the polluted air Which is killing the people, Many office goers as ...

Oldest mountain in India

They were uplifted about6000 to 7000 millions years ago whereas the Himalayastook 50 to 60 million years to attain their full height! Near Delhi, it is a rocky hillock called the DelhiRange.But the range is most prominent in Rajasthan where it divides ...

E-WASTE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA

Environment: E-WASTE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA You are welcome to change your personal computer, cell phone, refrigerator, or for that matter any electronic or electrical gadget, but be careful while disposing of the old one. Throwing it into the dustbin is not the ...

Environment: E-WASTE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA

Environment: E-WASTE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA You are welcome to change your personal computer, cell phone, refrigerator, or for that matter any electronic or electrical gadget, but be careful while disposing of the old one. Throwing it into the dustbin is not the ...

Lights out across Asia as world marks Earth Hour

Monuments from Sydney's Opera House to Delhi's Red Fort went dark on Saturday for Earth Hour, a global power switch-off aimed at revitalising efforts against climate change.Ferry horns blared across Sydney harbour in a noisy start to the energy-saving event, which is ...

Shhh! Indians told to keep the noise down

By and large, Indians embrace noise."We Indians are a noisy lot, be it loud weddings or honking on the streets," Delhi's chief minister Sheila Dikshit acknowledged during a recent conference on environmental health risks.Dipankar Gupta, a former sociology professor at Jawaharlal Nehru ...

Shhh! Indians told to keep it down

By and large, Indians embrace noise."We Indians are a noisy lot, be it loud weddings or honking on the streets," Delhi's chief minister Sheila Dikshit acknowledged during a recent conference on environmental health risks.Dipankar Gupta, a former sociology professor at Jawaharlal Nehru ...

Environmental Pollution

Environmental Pollution The environmental problems in India are growing rapidly. The increasing economic development and a rapidly growing population that has taken the country from 300 million people in 1947 to over one billion people today is putting a strain on the ...
he Impact of Privatization of Solid Waste Collection and Transportation in Delhi: The Impact on the informal Recycling Sector Background Since the late 1990s, two important public interest litigations have been filed in the Supreme Court, the highest court in India. Both ...
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