Garbage Vehicle

A 20-year-old woman and her 15-year-old brother were killed when their two-wheeler was hit by a garbage carrying tipper truck in Nagpur on Friday, after which an agitated crowd set the offending vehicle ablaze, a police official said.

AAP Delhi unit convener Gopal Rai and the party's MCD election in-charge Durgesh Pathak on Friday flagged off 'garbage campaign' vehicles to highlight the BJP's "garbage mismanagement" ahead of elections to the civic body.

A man is seen doing push-ups on top of a moving garbage truck in Uttar Pradesh. The shirtless thrillseeker then stands on the vehicle but loses control moments later, bringing an end to his short-lived superhero moment.

The Greater Noida Authority today said it was introducing high-tech features like sticking QR codes outside houses and installing GPS and CCTV on vehicles carrying garbage in order to ensure efficient door-to-door waste collection.

The body of a 21-year-old man, who allegedly died by suicide, was taken for the funeral in a garbage vehicle in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district, following which local authorities took action against officials responsible.

A group of 22 Dutch students has built a fully functional two-seater electric car entirely out of waste, including plastics fished out of the sea, recycled PET bottles and household garbage.

In the second such incident in over a week in Madhya Pradesh, the body of a 35-year old man who allegedly committed suicide, was taken for autopsy in a garbage vehicle in Chandia town of Umaria district, officials said on Thursday.

The National Green Tribunal has dismissed a plea seeking review of its order refusing permission for registration of new vehicles of municipal corporations for garbage disposal.

Bengaluru's civic authority, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has decided to hand over the investigation of the garbage-disposal scam to Karnataka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Under the scam, the BBMP was ending up paying for garbage disposal vehicles that didn't exist.

Telangana government plans to replace about 4,000 state-run public transport vehicles in Hyderabad, run on diesel, with electric vehicles in a phased manner.

An environmental authority on Tuesday said excessive encroachments, poor garbage management and wrong parking of vehicles near Delhi's Anand Vihar bus terminal were aggravating the poor air quality in one of the worst polluted regions of the capital.

A giant pile of garbage teetered and collapsed at a massive dumping site in Delhi this afternoon, pushing a car, an auto-rickshaw and a scooter into a canal. A little girl is believed to be among the two dead; she was thrown off a scooter after an 80-foot heap of garbage crashed onto the road with such force that cars were swept off the road.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Delhi government to register two new diesel vehicles which are conforming to BS-IV norms and would be used for garbage disposal and handling of municipal waste generated in New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) area.

According to a database put together by the World Health Organization, Delhi is among the top 10 most polluted cities in the world, with sources of particulate pollution ranging from vehicle exhaust, industries, garbage burning, biomass and coal burning for cooking and heating, diesel generator sets, and re-suspended road dust.

A 20-year-old woman and her 15-year-old brother were killed when their two-wheeler was hit by a garbage carrying tipper truck in Nagpur on Friday, after which an agitated crowd set the offending vehicle ablaze, a police official said.

AAP Delhi unit convener Gopal Rai and the party's MCD election in-charge Durgesh Pathak on Friday flagged off 'garbage campaign' vehicles to highlight the BJP's "garbage mismanagement" ahead of elections to the civic body.

A man is seen doing push-ups on top of a moving garbage truck in Uttar Pradesh. The shirtless thrillseeker then stands on the vehicle but loses control moments later, bringing an end to his short-lived superhero moment.

The Greater Noida Authority today said it was introducing high-tech features like sticking QR codes outside houses and installing GPS and CCTV on vehicles carrying garbage in order to ensure efficient door-to-door waste collection.

The body of a 21-year-old man, who allegedly died by suicide, was taken for the funeral in a garbage vehicle in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district, following which local authorities took action against officials responsible.

A group of 22 Dutch students has built a fully functional two-seater electric car entirely out of waste, including plastics fished out of the sea, recycled PET bottles and household garbage.

In the second such incident in over a week in Madhya Pradesh, the body of a 35-year old man who allegedly committed suicide, was taken for autopsy in a garbage vehicle in Chandia town of Umaria district, officials said on Thursday.

The National Green Tribunal has dismissed a plea seeking review of its order refusing permission for registration of new vehicles of municipal corporations for garbage disposal.

Bengaluru's civic authority, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has decided to hand over the investigation of the garbage-disposal scam to Karnataka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Under the scam, the BBMP was ending up paying for garbage disposal vehicles that didn't exist.

Telangana government plans to replace about 4,000 state-run public transport vehicles in Hyderabad, run on diesel, with electric vehicles in a phased manner.

An environmental authority on Tuesday said excessive encroachments, poor garbage management and wrong parking of vehicles near Delhi's Anand Vihar bus terminal were aggravating the poor air quality in one of the worst polluted regions of the capital.

A giant pile of garbage teetered and collapsed at a massive dumping site in Delhi this afternoon, pushing a car, an auto-rickshaw and a scooter into a canal. A little girl is believed to be among the two dead; she was thrown off a scooter after an 80-foot heap of garbage crashed onto the road with such force that cars were swept off the road.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Delhi government to register two new diesel vehicles which are conforming to BS-IV norms and would be used for garbage disposal and handling of municipal waste generated in New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) area.

According to a database put together by the World Health Organization, Delhi is among the top 10 most polluted cities in the world, with sources of particulate pollution ranging from vehicle exhaust, industries, garbage burning, biomass and coal burning for cooking and heating, diesel generator sets, and re-suspended road dust.