Order of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake and Bird Conservation Trust Vs State of Karnataka & Others dated 02/05/2025. Pursuant to the tribunal order dated April 24, 2025, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) informed the court that as per …
On an average, a household with a Rs 3,000 monthly bill can achieve 90 per cent reduction in energy bills with the solar, said Srinivas Potukuchi, founder & CEO of Glowship. BENGALURU: Glowship, a three-year-old start-up headquartered in Bengaluru, has rolled out a unique platform for rooftop solar in the …
BENGALURU: In the past 44 days, a pregnant woman and three others have died in Bengaluru due to Influenza A (H1N1) virus as per patient data with the state-run Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD), Bengaluru. Three of these cases were reported in October. The health department is, however, …
Residents of Bengaluru's Whitefield have been complaining against the Graphite India factory since 1980. Imagine living in a home in which everything is covered in black dust - the floor, walls, plants, your clothes and even your food. The black dust is everywhere and no matter how much you clean, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vinay Shivanand Nayak Vs. State of Karnataka & Others dated 26/09/2018. The principal question requiring determination in this case is as to whether the State of Karnataka should be permitted to continue with the use of BS-II and III compliant …
Entomophagy is practised on a large scale by the tribal communities in North East India compared to eastern and southern states. Termites, honey bees, grasshoppers, stink bugs, aquatic insects and silkworms are common and preferred insect species because they contain high amount of protein, fat, minerals and vitamins. Silkworms are …
With Karnataka rejecting the draft notification, the Centre had asked the state to form a state-level committee to readdress the issue. BENGALURU: With the Karnataka government urging the Centre to constitute another committee on the declaration of Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) of Western Ghats, the Centre is likely to come …
BENGALURU: For the first quarter this year, Graphite India saw its gross sales surge 373% to Rs 1,965 crore and profit rise 49% year-onyear to Rs 957 crore. And one of the reasons behind its stellar growth over the past year has been China’s push for cleaner and greener energy. …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of National Green Tribunal Bar Association Vs. Dr. Sarvabhoum Bagali (State of Karnataka) dated 25/09/2018. This application seeks direction for an enquiry into the death of three teenaged girls on 04.07.2014 belonging to Gubbewad village, Indi Block, Bijapur District, Karnataka, who …
No proposal for translocating them A total of 3,281 trees will have to be felled and 2,084 trees pruned to build a network of elevated corridors that will span the length and breadth of the city. The Karnataka Road Development Corporation Ltd. (KRDCL), which is implementing the project, has submitted …
The burden of diabetes is increasing rapidly in India but a systematic understanding of its distribution and time trends is not available for every state of India. We present a comprehensive analysis of the time trends and heterogeneity in the distribution of diabetes burden across all states of India between …
Karnataka’s objections to the K. Kasturirangan Committee report on demarcation of ecologically sensitive areas (ESAs) got a major blow after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently directed the State, along with five other west coast States, not to clear projects affecting the Western Ghats. The NGT directed the Ministry of …
Bengaluru: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has rejected the Karnataka government’s proposed run-of-the-river Shivanasamudram hydro-electric power project, citing technicalities on implementation and concerns over it falling under the eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) of Cauvery wildlife sanctuary. First proposed in late 1990s, the project was part of the state’s plans …
KSPCB says plans already pending with State govt. Four cities in Karnataka with high levels of pollution are yet to submit action plans to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) detailing strategies to tackle the problem, an RTI query by Greenpeace India has found. Under the National Clean Air Programme, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of K. S. Ravi Vs. State of Karnataka & Others dated 04/09/2018 regarding restraining construction activities at Kaikondrahalli Vilalge, BBMP Ward No. 150 (Bellandur Ward), Mahadevpura Zone, Bengaluru. The grievance of the applicant is that the project called ‘SJR Watermark Project’ …
Bengaluru: A month after Wipro chairman Azim Premji met chief minister HD Kumaraswamy and offered to work towards fighting air pollution in the state, the government is chalking out a plan with specific interventions to tackle the menace in Bengaluru. Increasing the number of monitoring stations, mitigating vehicular emissions and …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Himmat Singh Shekhawat Vs. State of Rajasthan & Others dated 28/08/2018 regarding illegal mining in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka. National Green Tribunal directs the State of Madhya Pradesh to work out the damages to …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sarvabhoum Bagali Vs. State of Karnataka & Others dated 20/08/2018. The grievance in this application is the order of State of Karnataka dated 18.11.2016 under the provisions of Karnataka Minor Mineral Concession Rule, 1994 permitting use of JCB for sand …
The worsening air pollution at Anand Rao Circle following increase in high-rise buildings, prompted the board to install the first air quality monitoring station there in 1983. BENGALURU: A systematic assessment of pollutant levels in the air through air quality monitoring stations in and around Bengaluru by the Karnataka State …
In February, artist Avril Stormy Unger spent 10 hours each day for five days on Old Madras Road, sitting with wilted flowers and an anti-pollution mask, on an over-sized chair, next to an air quality index monitor with giant lungs that showed just how bad the air is that we …
Obesity prevalence in women is between 22.8% and 34.8% while it is 23.4% in men. Hyderabad: Institutional studies carried out in south India have registered that overall cases of obesity and its prevalence was between 22.8 per cent to 34.8 per cent among women and 23.4 per cent in men. …
