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NEW DELHI: Shimla police have registered a case after a banner showing Lord Rama aiming an arrow at a garbage heap appeared near the Himachal Pradesh Secretariat in Chhota Shimla. Advocate Bharat Bhushan, coordinator of the Dev Bhumi Sangharsh Samiti, filed a complaint alleging that the banner reportedly put up by the Shimla Municipal Corporation…
BENGALURU: The city’s flagship cleanliness initiative, ‘Kasa Suriyuva Habba’, launched Thursday, has turned into one of Bengaluru’s largest single-day anti-littering enforcement campaigns. As many as 218 cases were booked across 27 city divisions, and fines amounting to Rs 2.8 lakh were imposed on violators for dumping garbage in public spaces, failing to segregate waste, or…
Screengrab from viral video (Image/X) NEW DELHI: A video that seems to promote civic sense is going viral but for the wrong reason. In the clip, a woman can be seen cleaning a train window using water and a tissue, only to toss the tissue and bottle onto the railway track afterward.The video was shared…
Across Delhi-NCR, the word “jugaad” has become shorthand for improvised, makeshift solutions born out of necessity — a reflection of how citizens adapt to inadequate infrastructure and municipal neglect. TOI visited three locations across the region to capture how this culture of quick fixes often conceals deeper civic failures. In Ghaziabad’s Indirapuram, a road lay…
