New Delhi: A fire broke out in a plastic market in the capital on Wednesday night. The incident occurred in Mundka in West Delhi. Scores of godowns were gutted and goods worth lakhs of rupees were destroyed. Over 20 fire tenders rushed to the scene to battle the flames. The cause of the blaze is currently under investigation. The market has been ravaged by many fires in the past as...
08:54 AM, May 03, 2012
CHENNAI: Guess where every plastic bottle that you toss on a Chennai-bound train ends up? China! In an effort to ensure the safe disposal of plastic waste, piling up in the pit lanes of coach maintenance yards, the railway has engaged an agency to collect these non - biodegradable material and ship it out of the country to China for recycling. The new initiative that is on a trial run...
08:01 AM, Mar 21, 2012
London: An ailing Bloodhound has got a new lease of life after his owners spent over 10,000 pounds to treat him and transform him from a "grumpy old man." Five-year-old Junior, who bears a striking resemblance to cartoon dog Droopy, has been transformed after having three operations and 39 stitches, his owners said. Junior, who has just added a tummy tuck to last year's facelift, has run up a surgeon's...
06:17 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: Actresses usually shy away from discussing their cosmetic surgeries, but Shruti Haasan has no problems in admitting that she went under the knife for a nose-job before her Bollywood debut. However, she clarifies it was for medical reasons. She says she went in for a corrective surgery in the US because she was facing breathing problems. She revealed on BIG CBS Love's show 'India's Glam Diva' that she...
05:07 PM, Feb 24, 2012
BANGALORE: Next time when you see plastic material on streets, worry not that it will harm the environment. If the new proposal is implemented, a Chennai-based private firm will convert plastic waste in Bangalore to useful products. Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has taken initiative to convert waste plastic products into crude oil that can also be used as fuel for machines and vehicles. BBMP which had called for tenders...
08:02 AM, Jan 24, 2012
HYDERABAD: 20,000 Kg! Thats just how much of non-recyclable plastic waste is generated by billboard flexes in the city in a single day. It would be hard to believe but not when you consider the math behind it. With the city home to 2,100 plus billboards of an average size of 40x30 sq ft, each of the flexes used to cover these boards is of 320 GSM type. According to...
08:56 AM, Jan 11, 2012
HYDERABAD: It is meant to be a health run but it seems not so healthy for the environment. Last year, the Hyderabad 10 K Run left 400 kg of plastic waste. With Peoples Plaza being one of the points, many bottles were found strewn around the Hussainsagar lake. This time around, the AP Pollution Control Board, Save Our Urban Lakes NGO and Buddha Purnima project authority have decided to ask...
08:38 AM, Nov 26, 2011
Pune: It is a known fact that waste generated from discarded plastic items is hazardous to the environment, but what is seldom known is that waste plastic can also be utilised in constructing roads in the city. The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) recently repaired half a km of the road outside Hutchings High School near Old Golibar Maidan. This was done by integrating plastic with tar known as polymer-modified bitumen,...
12:41 PM, Nov 22, 2011
Mumbai: Get set to pay for that plastic bag the next time you step out to shop. Over 700 big and small retailers in Mumbai are now charging for plastic bags. As per a union ministry of environment notification. CEO of Retailers Association of India Kumar Rajagopalan said, "for customers it is not big money but the minute you're asked to pay for it you start thinking its got a...
09:03 AM, Jul 08, 2011
Howrah: There was a fire at a plastic glass manufacturing unit at Shalimar, 10 Km from Howrah, early Saturday morning. The fire broke at 2:30 am after a cylinder blast. Fifteen fire tenders reached the location and tried their best to douse the flames which is still to be brought under control. Two people have been reported injured in the incident. One was admitted to Howrah district hospital where the...
09:07 AM, Apr 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre on why there should not be a complete ban on the use of plastics in the country which at present is limited to tobacco products. A bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly issued notice to the Centre on a PIL seeking the court's direction to impose a complete ban on the use of plastics....
06:07 PM, Mar 28, 2011
Washington: Who said only women fret about their appearance and spend a mini-fortune on beauty treatments? Doctors say men too are increasingly resorting to cosmetic surgery to look and feel good. Facelifts for men rose 14 percent in 2010 in the US compared to the previous year, while male liposuction increased seven percent. Men underwent more than 1.1 million cosmetic procedures, both minimally-invasive and surgical. "Typically, people think of celebrities...
12:34 PM, Mar 21, 2011
New Delhi: Even as India waits for harsher pictorial warnings on all tobacco products - a new ban is put in place for plastic packaging of gutka. The Supreme Court's landmark decision to ban the use of plastic in sachets for storing or selling tobacco, gutka and pan masala came into effect across the country from March 1 this year. "This is basically a part of the environment ministry's revised...
09:26 AM, Mar 03, 2011
New Delhi: The plump pout made famous by actress Angelina Jolie is yesterday's news. Women want Scarlett Johansson's lips instead. Oscar-winning actress Jolie came in second to Johansson in the lips category of the "14th Annual Famed Hottest Looks Survey" compiled by Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeons Dr. Richard Fleming and Dr. Toby Mayer. Brazilian-born supermodel Gisele Bundchen beat F.R.I.E.N.D.S star Jennifer Aniston in the "Most Desired Female Body" category. Among...
05:53 PM, Jan 08, 2011
London: Now, an intelligent food wrapping which will tell you when food's going off, say scientists who claim to have created the packaging that changes colour if the contents are going bad. The smart plastic packaging detects when meat, fish or salad leaves have passed their use-by date or have been left out of the fridge for too long; it also alerts householders if sealed packaging has been broken or...
07:23 PM, Jan 07, 2011
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