Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Says Union Forest Ministry can’t impose heritage tag on Western Ghats against govt’s wish With barely 20 days left for India to resubmit its dossier to Unesco World Heritage Committee (WHC) for the serial nomination of the Western Ghats, Karnataka, as in the previous year, isn’t making the task any …
Several important State highways (SH), including the busy Bangalore-Mysore and Kodagu-Mangalore routes, will soon become National Highways (NH), if the State Government has its way. The State Public Works Department (PWD) has recently proposed to the Centre to declare 21 SHs as NHs, covering 4,031 km. If the Union Ministry …
A private power generation company has threatened officials of the forest department in Sakleshpur taluk for taking action against the company for violations in the Kagneri and Kenchankumari reserved forests. Maruthi Power Gen (India) Private Limited was permitted to implement two mini-hydel projects of 19 MW and 18.9 MW by …
The Meghalaya Government has embarked on a hi-tech waste management project to clean up its cities and turn garbage and wastes to productive use as a spin-off. An Expression of Interest floated by the government recently for such a pilot project here has had as many as seven Indian and …
The State Forest department has decided to grow over 20 lakh sandalwood trees on 2,000 acres of land at a cost of Rs 50 crore in nine districts of the State. Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara told mediapersons on Monday that the project, implemented in Mysore on a pilot basis, …
Forty-year-old K H Krishnamurthy has been a farmer all his life. But one day, eight months ago, the Class X dropout from Kolathur village in Hoskote taluk outside Bangalore city decided he could do better. “For 11 years, I had been supplying vegetables to supermarkets in Bangalore like Reliance, Food …
Opportunities like innovation for reduction of T&D; losses, financial innovation and technologies for carbon capture are areas within the ambit of clean tech that entrepreneurs must focus on, clean tech experts said at the TiE Entrepreneurial Summit today. With a lot of players coming into other renewables such as solar …
What was once a polluted water body, the Puttenahalli Lake in JP Nagar, 7th phase, today, stands rejuvenated with clean water. Credit must go to the Puttenahalli Neighbourhood Lake Improvement Trust (PNLIT) for giving the lake a facelift. Usha Rajagopalan, a member, said the lake was choked with untreated sewage …
Bangalore: An FIR was registered against external affairs minister S M Krishna and two other former Karnataka chief ministers by the Lokayukta Police on Thursday on a private complaint alleging that they facilitated illegal mining during their tenure. Apart from Krishna, his senior Congress colleague N Dharam Singh and JDS …
India’s IT hub Bangalore has left behind four metros — Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata — to emerge as number one in quality of living, according to a global survey. Chennai tops the list among Indian cities on personal safety rankings. Out of the total 221 cities all over the …
A day after the Palike attempted to put up a construction at the Yediyur lake, it now appears that the project had been planned for a while. According to local residents, the draining of lake started last week with the demolition of the lake bund, surreptitiously. Anand, a local resident, …
The project at a cost of Rs 3,400 cr will solve water woes in B’lore Urban development minister Suresh Kumar assured to complete the Cauvery IV phase works, before March 2012, as scheduled. Inspection: Urban Development Minister Suresh Kumar supervising the works of Cauvery IV phase work at Torekadanahalli in …
This document contains the presentation by Hita Unnikrishnan, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru, on “Rural urban transition and Vulnerability to Climate Change: A case study of a village in Bengaluru” during Second National Research Conference on Climate Change, organized by the Centre for Science and …
‘Let it be laid on coastal bed instead of cutting across fertile land’ As many as 32 families residing in Kariangala Gram Panchayat limits (in Kariangala and Ammunje Village) unanimously proclaimed non co-operation to the proposed Kochi-Kootanad-Bangalore-Mangalore Natural Gas Pipeline Project of Gas Authority of India (GAIL), which will be …
Commercial use of groundwater, especially in Bangalore Urban, Bangalore Rural, Kolar and Chikkaballapur districts, will soon become a costly affair. The state government is contemplating imposing a flat rate of Rs 30 to 40 a kilo litre of ground water extracted for commercial purposes by metering the extraction. In the …
The inauguration of Bangalore Metro last month was a milestone for the urban transportation sector. Metro rail started way back in 1984 when Calcutta Metro started its partial service between Esplanade and Bhowanipore. It took another 18 years for India to start the next metro rail service in 2002 in …
Mumbai is India's most populated city with over 1.84 crore (18.4 million) people, followed closely by Delhi with 1.63 crore (16.3 million) and Kolkata with 1.41 crore (14.1 million), making these India's 'mega-cities', according to the preliminary Census 2011 results. In terms of urban agglomeration or spread as an extended …
Govt proposes fixing meters to pumps to check over extraction Commercial use of groundwater, especially in Bangalore Urban, Bangalore Rural, Kolar and Chikkaballapur districts, will soon become a costly affair. The state government is contemplating imposing a flat rate of Rs 30 to 40 a kilo litre of ground water …
PANJIM: Goa government is in a dilemma over the fate of 19 mines, which were asked to be shut down by union ministry of environment and forest. The state Forest Ministry has decided to refer the issue of buffer zone back to the Centre. It’s been over a month now …
Noise pollution levels have touched alarming levels in India’s big cities, making even nights as noisy as days in several areas and exposing people to a 24X7 assault on their eardrums, the apex pollution watchdog has found. The data reflected in a yet-to-be released, half-yearly analysis of continuous noise monitoring …
