Ganesh pandals to lower decibels
Vadodara: The Ganesh pandal organizers have agreed to keep the decibel levels low this festive season. Senior police officials had on Thursday held a meeting with the organizers to discuss and resolve
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Post-visarjan, BMC starts composting ‘nirmalya’ waste
In an attempt to reduce the amount of ‘nirmalya’ waste reaching the dumping grounds, the BMC has started a waste segregation and composting project after the Ganpati Visarjan. G/ North ward (Dadar)
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This yr, puja will be less eco-friendly
Where on one hand the whole country is promoting eco-friendly puja pandals and statues, in Ranchi not many puja organising committees are interested in being environment friendly this year. Previous
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Immersion procession noise remains high
At 4 pm on Monday and at 8 am on Tuesday, sound levels from festivities, as the city bid adieu to their favourite deity during the immersion procession (visarjan) crossed permissible limits, though it
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PoP idols down to 0.67% this Chaturthi
Panaji: Goa's Ganesh celebrations have turned eco-friendly, as the use of Plaster of Paris (PoP) in the making of a Ganesh idol has shown a drastic decline from 35% a few years ago, to 0.67% this festive
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Noise levels on second day of Ganeshotsav rose in most areas
First Day Of Immersion Was Louder Than '13 Nearly half of the locations monitored for noise pollution in the city, on the second day of the Ganesh festival this year, have witnessed an increase in noise
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Idol immersion: PCB sends water samples to NGT
The Pollution Control Board in the district has sent samples of water in the Cauvery and Bhavani rivers following immersion of Lord Ganesha idols earlier this week in connection with the Chathurthi celebrations,
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Lokhandwala Lake a birdwatcher’s paradise lost?
Garbage Stifling Lake's Spirit, Say Experts Over the last five years, naturalist and bird watcher Sunjoy Monga has spotted 102 spe cies of birds over and around Lokhandwala Lake. But on Thursday morning,
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Collegians map noise during festival
College students have been busy pandal-hopping, measuring noise levels. This year, the the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has outsourced the task of measuring decibel levels to Ashwamedh
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No visarjan in Yamuna from this year
After the Allahabad high court's ban on immersing idols in the Yamuna to save it from pollution, the Agra district administration is ensuring that the orders are strictly implemented and temporary ponds
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For the first time, city noise levels monitored for 24 hours on Day 1
For the first time, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), which monitors noise levels in the city during the Ganesh festival every year, measured levels for 24 hours on the first day of the festival