Bangalore Waste

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  Chatbots Like ChatGPT That Won’t Take Bribes for Giving Advice a Hit in India

  ChatGPT is gaining popularity in India and an AI trial that happened in Bangalore offered India’s domestic workers, waste recyclers and struggling farmers a hands-on experience with the new tool. The new tech can assist in professional communications, empower people who don’t have language skills and help those who have a disability.

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  "Can't Waste Balls...": Australia Great Slams Virat Kohli, Faf Du Plessis For Poor Strike-Rate

  Faf du Plessis is leading the Orange Cap race with 343 runs in six matches, while Virat Kohli is third in the list, having scored 279 runs in as many games

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  IISc Bangalore, MTL To Develop Solutions To Turn Waste Into Plastic Packaging

  Another area of focus for the IISc and MTL collaboration is the replacement of cardboard-based packaging used in pizza boxes, with foamed polyolefins, offering improved thermal insulation and weight reduction.

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  Bengaluru Residents Take to Streets With Protest Against Waste Plant

  For residents of a south-east Bengaluru suburb the smell of rotting garbage is now and every day affair. After failing to convince authorities to relocate the waste management plant which they say is to blame for the persistent stink, they have brought their movement to the streets.

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  'Commuting Time, Waste Management': Bengaluru's Biggest Civic Concerns

  As part of a new Bengaluru Rising initiative, 10000 people have been questioned across the city to understand what their biggest civic concerns are - and to convey those priorities to the city's mayor and corporators.

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  Bangalore Composting Towards Zero Waste

  In Vani Murthy's house, beetroot peel, carrot peel and coriander waste never make their way into the dustbin. For this homemaker in Malleshwaram in Bangalore, the wet waste is meant to return as vegetables into her kitchen.

• Delhi Becoming World's E-Waste Dumping Yard: Report

  The Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) is fast turning into the world's e-waste dumping yard with the capital alone getting 86 per cent of waste generated in the developed world, a report said.

• In Fight Over Bangalore's Waste Disposal, This Village Ropes In the Chief Minister

  Mandur is perhaps Karnataka's most untidy village. Just 25 km away from Bangalore, this landfill site bears the brunt of the IT city's garbage. The residents here have been protesting for years against dumping of garbage which has created mounds, some as high as 70 feet, and led to respiratory diseases.

• Bangalore: Villagers Meet Karnataka Chief Minister Over Garbage Problem

  Bangalore's garbage problem has finally reached Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's door. Mandur, a small village next to the one of the biggest landfills, about 30 kms away from Bangalore is protesting against the dumping of waste at their village for the last five years.

• Bangalore's baby steps at waste segregation

  The love Bangaloreans have for their city has not extended to keeping it clear of mounds of garbage. They remain reluctant to segregate waste at the source - a practice followed by people in cities across the world - despite the cajoling and threat of penalties by civic authorities.

• Garbage-free Bangalore by Monday, promise authorities

  The BJP-ruled Bangalore civic administration has promised to rid country's IT hub from thousands of tonnes of overflowing garbage by Monday but doubts persist as its hunt for land to dump it has not made much headway.

• Bangalore, City of Filth

  Over the weekend, the Bangalore city corporation began a clean-up of thousands of tonnes of garbage that had been piling up on the streets - because the authorities simply did not know what to do with it. But it is still a work in progress, as rain adds to the filth on the streets.

• Complaint against Jagadish Shettar dismissed by Lokayukta court

  The Lokayukta court on Monday dismissed a private complaint filed against Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on alleged irregularities in land denotification in 2006 and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the complainant "for wasting the time of the court."

• Diesel from plastics! Chennai firm shows the way

  A Chennai-based company has been pioneering a first-of-its kind technique in the whole of Asia to extract crude oil from plastic waste over the past three years at a plant at Alathur. The company, M K Aromatics, which has attracted the attention of civic authorities in states including Karnataka and Kerala, is yet to find takers in Tamil Nadu. The...

• Bangalore waste worth Rs 10 lakh burnt in inferno

  The new year seems to have begun on a fiery note. After a hardware shop in Yelahanka caught fire on Sunday, on Monday night, it was a cotton willow, coir and rubber waste processing units in Okalipuram that went up in flames. The estimated loss at the units was around Rs 10 lakh.Fire brigade officials said the exact cause of the fire was not known,...