Cow dung cakes for eco-friendly cremation
VARANASI: Varanasi is set to become the first city in UP to use cow dung cakes for cremation despite opposition from a section of wood-sellers. Nagpur-based NGO Eco-Friendly Living Foundation and Kashi
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BARC designs buckets to collect biodegradable waste
Heaps of biodegradable waste would no longer bother Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) as Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) have come to its rescue with a novel technology of converting biodegradable
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Encephalitis claims 4 lives, toll 161 in Gorakhpur
Encephalitis claimed four more lives here since Tuesday, increasing the death toll to 161 this year. Local MP Yogi Adityanath visited the BRD Medical College where most of the encephalitis patients are
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Failure of SWM project leaves city stinking
VARANASI: Sanitation and cleanliness in the city are the prime concerns for the city. The reason is the failure of solid waste management (SWM) project that was launched under Jawaharlal Nehru National
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Farmers’ protest mars Clean Ganga Mission
VARANASI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Clean Ganga Mission is getting delayed in his own parliamentary constituency of Varanasi as the protest by a group of farmers has left construction of 140 MLD sewage
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Foundation stone of technology based toilet project laid
VARANASI: Foundation stone of the country's first technology based toilet project with behaviour trackers- 'remote monitoring and waterless urinal'- was laid by mayor Ram Gopal Mohaley at Rani Bhawani
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City gets contaminated water, risks water-borne diseases
VARANASI: The supply of contaminated water in various localities across the city is threatening the lives of the people. Patients suffering from water-borne diseases, especially diarrhoea are visiting
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NGT ban on garbage burning goes up in smoke
Varanasi Municipal Corporation's employees flout National Green Tribunal (NGT) ban daily by burning mounds of garbage in open. While many are unaware of the ban on burning garbage in the open, a few
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There should be no dam on Ganga
Justice (retired) Giridhar Malviya said that there should not be any dam or barrage to block the stream of the Ganga and Tehri dam should be dismantled in phases for free flow of the holy river. Addressing
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'Clean Varanasi' no more a distant dream for locals
Varanasi: Sidelining the deadlock continuing between Varanasi Municipal Corporation and A2Z, the company assigned for handling solid waste management (SWM) in 2010, the district administration officials,
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Cities along Ganga to have water quality monitoring system
Varanasi: The temple town Varanasi and other cities and towns situated on the banks of the Ganga will have automatic water quality monitoring system on the river under real time data network for water