Tag: waste

UNITED NATIONS: India tore into Pakistan after it raised the issue of Jammu and Kashmir at a Security Council meeting here, prompting India's permanent ambassador to the United Nations Ruchira Kamboj to assert that she would not waste the Council's time by responding to such 'mischievous' remarks.Kamboj's stern response ...

#Pakistan News Plastic is the new gold. At least it may lead to gold as Farooq Ahmad Ganai in Indian-administered Kashmir has been running a program where people can bring in plastic garbage in exchange for gold. Last year, a friend of the 51-year-old Ganai complained to him about ...

A youth from Leh creates awareness on waste management Stanzin Dothon is a 22-year-old environment enthusiast working towards sensitising people about waste management and ecotourism in Leh, Ladakh. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Delhi University and works as a field assistant with Little Green World, an ...

Hailed as one of Asia’s largest freshwater lakes, Wular is shrinking with an urgency hard to reverse. A flood basin for the Kashmir Valley, parts of the lake have turned into shallow streams, with vast expanses of the area covered in silt and dotted with solid waste.Around 34 km ...

Solid Waste Management facility coming up at Bandhu-Rakh Jammu Tawi, May 05: The Administrative Council (AC) led by Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, accorded administrative approval for establishment of an integrated solid waste management facility at Bandhu-Rakh.  AC approved the setting up of 125 TPD Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) facilities ...

JMC Mayor Chander Mohan Gupta addressing a press conference at his office on Monday. Excelsior CorrespondentJAMMU, May 2: Mayor Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) Chander Mohan Gupta today appealed the citizens to judiciously use the water and adopt the habit of segregation of dry/wet waste at their own level to ...

India is among the 28 countries at a high risk of e-waste congestion, which could make proper handling of the material challenging in the coming years, shows a new mathematical model that has mapped the global movement of hazardous waste over the past two decades.Over 7-10 billion tonnes of ...

Geneva: Discarded syringes, used test kits and old vaccine bottles from the Covid-19 pandemic have piled up to create tens of thousands of tonnes of medical waste, threatening human health and the environment, a World Health Organization report said on Tuesday (February 1, 2022). The material, a portion of ...

  I s it proper to respond to a rule or even a statutory provision by choosing the uncalled for option of paying the penalty instead of complying with or implementing the rule scrupulously ? However, the implications thereof again are to be analysed in a situation where a ...

HYDERABAD, Sindh: Scientists in Pakistan’s southeast Sindh province have begun extracting fiber from banana waste in what textile industry stakeholders and farmers hope could become an alternative to cotton.   Banana fiber is one of the strongest natural fibers. Biodegradable  and similar to bamboo fiber,  it is made from the stem of the banana ...