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 …
Biologists at Bangalore's Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research recently discovered a new HIV strain in the southern Indian states. Led by Ranga Udaykumar, the researchers have been studying subtype C, the predominant strain of HIV in India, over the last three years. While analysing 115 samples, most of …
Faced with a barrage of criticism from the Opposition that it has failed to stop Andhra Pradesh from going ahead with the construction of "unauthorised" irrigation projects in the Krishna and Godavari river basins, the Karnataka government is yet to decide which of the two options it must pursue: approach …
Andhra Pradesh is in a hurry to complete 16 irrigation projects on the Krishna in an attempt to turn a clause in the Tribunal Award in its favour. Andhra Pradesh is gearing up to complete 16 irrigation projects, including five ongoing ones, on the Krishna river within the next three …
karnataka's vendors' associations are lobbying for the implementation of the National Policy for Urban Street Vendors, passed by the Union ministry of urban development and poverty alleviation in 2004, in the state. They want the state government to grant them legal status by issuing identification cards and permitting vending in …
This article is based on the findings of a recent survey of the midday meal programme in Madhya Pradesh. Comparison of the new ‘suruchi bhojan’ with the old ‘daliya’ programme in the government primary schools in the survey area and observations on programme implementation in Karnataka, suggest a pressing need …
Child labour are working in very large and alarming numbers in the iron-ore and granite mines of Hospet-Bellary region of Karnataka state in direct violation of the constitutional rights of children. Most of the children are migrant labourers. Children are working in highly hazardous and painful conditions in the mines …
Domestic sewage, industrial sludge and agricultural wastes pollute almost all surface water in the country. Filtration and chlorination are often used to clean it up for domestic utilisation. However, most areas in the country lack such facilities and many believe that well water from underground aquifers is a good source …
pressured by frequent naxalite attacks across the state for control over forestland, the Karnataka government is trying to denotify 12,141 hectares (ha) of the total 55,847 ha of Kudremukh reserved forest area. The state's information minister B Sivaraman recently told the media that 43,706 hectares of the forestland will remain …
With fields of dry crops like ragi and jowar all around, it's not surprising when the trail leads to a tank that has hit rock bottom and has some stalks of corn growing from its dry bed. Even when the tank is full, its water is not enough to meet …
conservationists working in the Kudremukh region of the Western Ghats have received a shot in the arm in their tussle with the Karnataka forest department. On January 6, 2005, the Karnataka High Court (hc) stayed proceedings in five cases filed by the forest department against non-governmental organisations (ngo s ) …
Please act: The Supreme Court issued a notice to the Union government on January 3, 2004, in response to a petition by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) that seeks a thorough examination of the contents of soft drinks. The petition points out that despite extensive research proving that …
A disaster is brewing in Belgaum and we are on the brink of committing suicide. We have lost our traditional jobs and do not know how to feed our children. In spite of running from pillar to post, no government support has come to us. Please write about our plight …
koose Muniswamy Veerappan is dead. The thousands of commandos that combed the Satyamangalam forest in Tamil Nadu for 12 years, looking for him, must feel vindicated. The forest department must be celebrating. Now, it is being said, the dastardly sandalwood smuggling business will also die. But Karnataka still reports sandalwood …
It's hard to tell who was the first in the village to really strike upon the business idea. But very soon everyone in Hangala was part of it. The sleepy and dry village at the periphery of Bandipur National Park, Karnataka, had in a mere two year's time, transformed itself …
My initiation into environmental advocacy began in the mid-1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal was involved in a fight against the Karnataka government's proposal to give forest land to Harihar Polyfibres - the Birla-owned pulp mill based in the state - to grow its raw material. The matter was in the …
"What shall we do if all our protests fail?' asks C Madegowda, a leader of the Soliga tribe from district Chamrajnagar, Karnataka. "We shall protest yet again,' responds B Jadegowda, president of Zilla Budakattu Girijana Abhivradhi Sangh, Chamrajnagar
the problem of parallel bodies interfering with the work of panchayats may end soon if the consensus reached at the second roundtable of state ministers on panchayati raj is followed. A resolution passed at the meet, held at Mysore on August 28-29, 2004, said bodies such as community-based organisations, forest …
