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Health

Delhi: 45 sanitation workers test positive for COVID, 15 succumb, but where are the yellow bins?

July 9, 2020 Vijaya Pushkarna

Municipal corporations have not sensitised people about the need to have a third bin. This puts sanitation workers at maximum risk, but also threatens citizens. »

Waste Management

How Gurugram is managing biomedical waste from residential communities in the time of COVID-19

June 26, 2020 Monika Khanna Gulati

Despite the guidelines from CPCB, management of biomedical waste is proving to be tough on the ground at several levels. Some suggestions for Gurugram »

Waste Management

Where should the waste from quarantine centres and COVID isolation wards go?

April 25, 2020 Ananya Tewari

Management of biomedical waste during COVID-19 pandemic plays a critical role in overall public health protection and health care workers’ safety. Here’s what the Central Pollution Control Board recommends. »

Civic

City Buzz: Mumbai-Goa expressway | Bengal civic polls deferred | Water contamination in Ludhiana…and more

March 22, 2020 News Desk

Predictably, it has been the COVID-19 pandemic that has been on top of everyone’s minds this week. But here are some other important news that you may have missed. »

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