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 …
Several places deal with increasing primates’ menace Every day, Vallish V. Kaushik, conservationist and adviser to the BBMP, gets at least five calls from citizens reporting monkeys straying into residential complexes. Localities in the vicinity of Bannerghatta Road, Jnanabharathi and Yelahanka have seen a rise in such incidents. What’s making …
Calm, and egrets too, returned to Bellandur lake on Sunday, two days after the city's most polluted waterbody was ravaged by a fire. The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has now announced that it will ask BDA to launch a drive to rid the 960-acre body of grass, weed and …
BENGALURU: The water you drink or use for your daily needs may not be as safe as you think. With more than 9 lakh million litres of sewage water entering the state rivers annually, one can only imagine the level of contamination. Karnataka has the highest number of polluted river …
Experts urge government to restrict use of anti-inflammatory drugs in cattle Joint effort by various stakeholders, including the Forest Department, scientists, conservation NGOs, veterinary professionals and farmers, was stressed at a workshop that concluded at Ooty in Tamil Nadu recently to conserve the remaining vulture population in South India. The …
BENGALURU: Garbage disposal is a bugbear that has dogged the entire city and while the piles of rubbish on roadsides have often garnered focus, one issue that has slipped under the radar is collection of waste from schools. This issue was raised at the Times of India's Bengaluru Forward event …
Accuses K'taka of resuming Kalasa canal work violating SC order Panaji: The Goa government will file a contempt petition before the Supreme Court and the Mahadayi Water Dispute Tribunal against Karnataka for allegedly resuming work on a canal of a Mahadayi tributary at Kanakumbi in Belagavi district "in violation" of …
Tulsi Tanti, Chairman and Managing Director of wind turbine manufacturing company Suzlon Energy, is the new President of the Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers’ Association. Tanti took over from Sarvesh Kumar, Chief Operating Officer of RRB Ltd, another wind turbine company, at a meeting of the association that was held here …
The apex court has lifted the five-year-old ceiling from 30 million tonnes to 35 million tonnes for the A and B category mines Last month, Supreme Court has enhanced the cap, limit to iron ore mines in Karnataka, by five million tonnes to 35 million tonnes. However, industry representatives have …
Bengaluru: The animal husbandry and health and family welfare departments will continue the sanitation and disinfection drive at Dasarahalli, Yelahanka, wherein a stray incidence of avian influenza with H5 virus strain was confirmed a few days ago. About 1km radius of the epicentre was notified as 'infected zone' and 1-10km …
Health officials in Nanded, Sangli, Osmanabad, Latur, Kolhapur and Solapur, have been asked to raise awareness in poultry farms and look for possible infected cases in bordering villages. The Maharashtra government has issued an advisory to six districts to monitor the health situation after suspected cases of bird flu were …
CHENNAI: Nearly one-third of the area in the country with sandalwood distribution is in Tamil Nadu with the state covering an area of 3,040sqkm spread across several districts. India has a total area of 9,000sqkm of sandalwood distribution spread across eight states with Karnataka having the maximum area of 5,245sqkm. …
The state Forest Department has asked the Ministry of Environment and Forest's approval to perform immuno-contraceptive operation on female elephants to control the population of the pachyderms. With 8,976 elephants, Karnataka tops the number of pachyderms in the country. Their increasing presence has been a cause for concern since authorities …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Venkatesh & Ors. Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/01/2018 regarding use of an abandoned quarry at village Bagalur, Jala Hobli, Bengaluru North Talukas as a solid waste dumping site by BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) without authorization and …
BENGALURU: The high court on Wednesday directed the BBMP to de-seal an Indiranagar bar-cum-restaurant which was shut down due to alleged sound pollution on December 20. Justice Vineet Kothari also sought a joint survey report from the BBMP and the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) regarding sound pollution from …
Bengaluru: Taking a decisive step towards combating the problem of dust from construction activities polluting the air in major cities, the Karnataka government has issued a slew of directives to builders and road/rail developers to ensure that the 2016 National Green Tribunal (NGT) norms on dust pollution are properly implemented …
Panic swept the labour sheds at Belagere in Varthur where a cholera-like epidemic has claimed the lives of three and left 19 ill. Agitated labourers locked up BBMP medical staff camping at the sheds to screen the sick, while human rights activists and lawyers accused the builders who employed the …
Tata Power Renewable Energy today said it has commissioned its 100 MW solar plant project in Karnataka. With this, the company’s total installed operating capacity now stands at 1,614 MW, it said in a statement issued here. “The commissioning of the 100 MW solar plant in Karnataka we will continue …
BENGALURU: Next time you get caught with a defective silencer in your bike/car, you will not just end up paying but also have to be a mute spectator when the bulldozers will crush your silencer. In a first of its kind initiative, Adugodi traffic police have crushed 82 seized defective …
BENGALURU: Spiralling levels of pollution in the city have prompted lawmakers to contemplate setting up a separate pollution control board for the megacity. With various studies indicating that the situation is alarming, the issue of having an exclusive pollution control board for Bengaluru was discussed in the legislative council during …
BENGALURU: Two governments are fighting to execute one road between Chitradurga and Bantwal. Opposing this project are forest officials, locals and wildlife activists. They say the Shisila-Byrapura Road will permanently destroy the Western Ghats into two and sound the death knell for major rivers of Karnataka. If the state wants …
