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From footpaths to garbage: Minister Gowda faces Bengaluru’s tangled web of civic crises and politics

Krishna Byre Gowda took charge of Bengaluru promising to tackle its legacy problems. But his remarks to civic workers and vendor evictions have sparked a wider debate over the city’s governance.

Gurugram’s trash has outlasted every firm hired to clear it—Ecogreen to new stopgap vendors

Gurugram’s garbage mess was long blamed on MCG vendor Ecogreen. Two years after its exit, there’s still no replacement and old problems have stuck on—‘government has run away’.

CJP protesters are now carrying brooms. To tackle the garbage crisis at Jantar Mantar

Clearing the trash has become an extension of the protest itself. Dozens of students, some in neon jackets, masks and heavy gloves, are sweeping the streets.

In video, Sikh volunteers litter park on Canada Day. Spat turns ugly

In the video, a Canadian woman, Veronica Lace, says, ‘All of you should be ashamed,’ before asking the people, mostly Sikhs and South Asians, to ‘pick up some garbage’.

Chennai is starting to clear the Perungudi garbage mountain. And make furniture from it

In the immediate vicinity of Perungudi, the reclamation has already triggered a fresh wave of construction. A row of shopping outlets is coming up on one side.

Dumping garbage on Bengaluru’s streets? Civic body will dump it right back, outside your house

On the first day, Greater Bengaluru Authority’s ‘garbage dumping festival’ saw waste deliberately dumped in front of 218 households, and Rs 2.8 lakh collected in fines.

Garbage mafia’s iron grip on Bengaluru. Even Deputy CM Shivakumar’s admitted defeat

Bengaluru: Known by monikers such as ‘strongman’ and ‘troubleshooter’, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar has expressed his helplessness in addressing Bengaluru’s garbage...

World’s highest peak has an Everest-sized garbage problem. But drones have come to the rescue

New Delhi: Mount Everest is known to test human resolve. But, behind the success stories and summit photos lies a harsh truth—the world’s highest peak is...

A Serbian man in Gurugram shows a mirror to Indian society

Gurugram isn’t the first city where Lazar Jankovic has launched a cleanliness drive. He has cleaned streets wherever he lived — from Bengaluru, Tamil Nadu, to Rishikesh.

An IAS officer brought down Lucknow’s garbage mountains. He’s ‘kalyug ka Hanuman’

Two Ghazipur-like dumps in Lucknow are now a park and a waste plant. Former municipal commissioner Inderjit Singh drove city’s clean makeover. ‘Lucknow’s entire image has changed.’

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Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.