Expresso Top National and International Headlines of the Week on 29 October 2023

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In top national news: On the day The Indian Express published a report on how Mumbai’s civic body took its eyes off the garbage dumping and its burning, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ordered a complete ban on the burning of garbage in the open. Earlier, the city’s Guardian Minister Deepak Kesarkar said the BMC had sent notices to 6,000 construction sites to install fogging machines and sprinklers. At a press conference Wednesday, Kesarkar also said the BMC is putting in place a process to soon start segregation of waste — extraction of pollutants from the garbage — at its two...