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 …
Loss To Exchequer From 2006-10 Put At Over 16,000cr Bangalore: In a stunning finding that could blunt the BJP’s attack on Congress on corruption, Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde has said chief minister B S Yeddyurappa’s family got illegal payoffs from a mining company to hasten clearance of pending applications. …
Infrastructure and construction design and engineering environmental issues environmental pollution As the debate on aircraft noise affecting people staying close to airports gathers momentum in India, Dr M. L. Munjal, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and head of the National Committee on Noise Pollution Control, outlines the various issues …
Bangalore The fate of South Korean steelmaker Posco's proposed plant in Karnataka remains uncertain with two groups of farmers holding different views on the project. The government has already assured protesting farmers that the project would not come up in Gadag district. However, it is also waiting to see if …
Census 2011: Rapid urbanisation sees dip in numbers since the last headcount Of the 6.11 crore population in Karnataka, 61.43 per cent live in rural areas, but their number has drastically declined since the last Census, giving an indication of the increased preference of the people to shift to cities. …
4 deaths in the State this year; low figure seen as increase in immunity Deaths reported in the State due to H1N1 have declined steadily over the last three years. From registering 94 deaths in 2009 and 42 in 2010 in Bangalore urban district (including BBMP area) alone, the numbers …
Ticking bomb: Studies indicate situation heading from bad to worse With the scientific community predicting a steady rise in temperature in the years to come, the State is all set to come out with a comprehensive action plan that would provide a roadmap for policy interventions to mitigate the adverse …
Six H1N1 deaths have occurred in the State this year in Bangalore, Yadgir, Bellary, Shimoga, Davangere and Udupi districts, while the Health department had confirmed 31 cases of the disease, out of the 896 blood samples taken, said Health Minister B Sriramulu. Of the 31 cases, 22 were reported in …
Lottery to identify beneficiaries of the land improvement grant scheme Not the vagaries of nature, but chance will play a major role to identify beneficiaries, who have applied for benefits of the State Government
PWD, the nodal implementation agency, says it has no details Fifteen years after conceiving the Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) project, the State government now claims it has no clue where exactly the controversial project is being implemented. A file photo of the BMIC project.The Public Works Department (PWD), the …
This paper compares the theory and expectations of privatisation with the performance record of privatised public services in several countries in order to inform and stimulate scrutiny of India’s determination to privatise MSWM. Over the past decade, the Indian government has encouraged localities to privatise municipal solid waste management (MSWM), …
Recognising that Climate Change most adversely affects marginalized communities, INECC felt that it was necessary to have a better understanding of the vulnerability of these communities to climate change as well as develop and prepare adequate resilience to the impacts of climate change. The problems and the solutions will be …
Distillation, reverse osmosis can help purify water Water samples were found with undesirable levels of nitrate in Bangalore rural areas. Borewells in Bangalore Urban and Rural areas have shown the presence of high levels of nitrate, total hardness, pH and fluoride content, according to a recent study conducted by the …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned the slackness of the Karnataka government in implementing the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project mired in political controversy, saying that the government seemed to have gone on
Prolonged consumption of contaminated water may eventually lead to cancer Water in many newly added areas of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has high levels of nitrate. The phenomenon is attributed to heavy dependence on borewells coupled with lack of underground drainage system that has led to contamination of …
The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday observed that it was not right to make public comments on the endosulfan ban. Four companies which have challenged the ban had contended that public comments were having an adverse effect. The court held that the matter was sub judice and nothing could …
As the City residents cope with the acute shortage of water that threatens to become worse with the advancing summer, the State government has ignored the most workable solution to the problem - the City
