The cause of the fire remains unknown; landfill blazes are often triggered by combustible gases from disintegrating garbage. Every year, as mercury levels soar during New Delhi’s scorching ...

The blaze broke out Monday at the Ghazipur landfill east of New Delhi, according to the city’s fire services director, Atul Garg. The cause has not been established, but fires can be triggered ...

With temperatures reaching 42C in Delhi, residents ... in India Fires at this landfill are not unknown, say locals. “There’s a fire every year. It is not new. There is a risk to life and ...

Acrid smoke hung over New Delhi for a second day on Wednesday after a massive landfill caught fire during a scorching heatwave, forcing informal waste workers to endure hazardous conditions.

MCD seeks new techniques from fire department to tackle landfill fires at Ghazipur. Only one fire reported this year. Challenges include methane-led fires and unstable landfills. The Municipal ...

NEW DELHI, April 27 (Reuters) - India is getting too hot too early, raising the risk of fires, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned on Wednesday, as a heatwave gripped much of the country and a ...

New Delhi: Environment minister Gopal Rai on Monday ... Rai wrote a letter, stating “an incident of massive landfill fire has been reported from Ghazipur landfill site on Sunday evening ...

The Delhi Municipal Corporation has made significant progress in containing the fire at the Ghazipur landfill site, successfully extinguishing 90 per cent of the blaze since Sunday, April 21.

New Delhi [India], February 7 (ANI): A blanket of smoke engulfed Delhi's Okhla landfill site after a fire broke out on Friday. Following the information, eight fire tenders reached the spot and ...

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has reached out to the fire department to suggest new techniques or equipment to douse landfill fires as conventional methods were not working, the civic ...