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 …
More priority to power, clarity on infrastructure policy mooted. In its quest to diversify its investment character from the overhang of Information Technology, the State Government has to make a mammoth effort to improve overall infrastructure, particularly in tier-II cities, to provide competitive investment opportunities with a sound eco-system. The …
S Lalitha, Bangalore, Dec 9, DH News Service: The prospects of obtaining water free from chemicals have clearly brightened for the residents of Western and Northern Bangalore. A file photo of Thippagondanahalli reservoir. For, the Thippagondanahalli (T G Halli) reservoir, which caters to the water requirements of many parts in …
Pool your cars, ride bicycles and own trees. That is the message going out from Bangalore's green groups as the Copenhagen climate summit progresses. Governments across the world are hoping to agree on a far-reaching new treaty at the Copenhagen climate summit that would curb greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide and slow …
S Lalitha, Bangalore, Dec 5, DH News Service The prospects of obtaining water free from chemicals have clearly brightened for the residents of Western and Northern Bangalore. A file photo of Thippagondanahalli reservoir. For, the Thippagondanahalli (T G Halli) reservoir, which caters to the water requirements of many parts in …
S Lalitha, Bangalore, Dec 2, DHNS: Smile, they say, enhances your face value. But for the children of Shyanubhoganahalli, it is proving to be more than an embarrassment. For, excessive fluoride content in groundwater in this village has caused extensive damage to their teeth and dented their confidence. Dental fluorosis …
Recycling of water has assumed great importance worldwide due to water scarcity in urban areas. Use of fresh water for non potable secondary purposes will have huger burden on natural resources. Based on this objective, a water recycling plant was designed with tertiary treatment consisting of biological contractors for the …
The Western Ghats Task Force is contemplating to tie-up with the Forest department to develop Hoskere lake near Kengeri, into a medicinal park and an eco-tourism hub. Addressing a press conference in Bangalore, Task Force Chairman Ananth Hegde Ashisara said he would soon place a proposal before the Government to …
Bangalore: People who are losing their land to the first township proposed as part of the contentious Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project (BMICP) held a demonstration in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue on M.G. Road here on Wednesday to protest against the acquisition which they said went against court verdicts. …
Tobacco use imposes a huge burden of disease in India. Most studies on the use of tobacco among students in India have focused on secondary school students with a few studies investigating younger children and university students. The authors aimed to ascertain tobacco use among pre-university college students in Bangalore.
After four years of suffering financial losses, India's first gas-based power project, Ratnagiri Gas & Power Private Ltd (RGPPL), is now set to make its mark on India's power scene. The company had suffered a Rs600-crore loss in 2008-09, due to fall in capacity generation because of machinery breakdowns. For …
Tension ran high in Mavallipuram village near Yelahanka on Wednesday morning when villagers laid seige to the Ramky garbage management facility and locked up the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) personnel and the facility authorities. They were angry over the official inaction over the problem of high toxic material seeping …
The Thippagondanahalli reservoir (TGR), which caters to the water requirements of over one million people, is in the danger of drying up completely by 2016 if urgent redressal measures are not taken, cautioned a retired official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Delivering a talk on
S Lalitha,DH News Service,Oct 6,Bangalore: Vacant private plots of land where owners have dug their own borewells have emerged as major supply points for water at Mahadevapura and Kaggadasapura. Private water tankers are purchasing water from these points and distributing it to public. This has resulted in rampant exploitation of …
In India, the first Self Help Group (SHG) emerged in 1985, with the initiative of the Mysore Resettlement and Development Agency (MYRADA), a non-governmental organisation for promotion of self-help affinity groups; watershed, water and wasteland management. Over the past four years, the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore (UASB), India in …
India's first butterfly park, also the largest in the world, was opened to pubic in November, 2006 at Bangalore. Biotech News requested some of the people involved in the establishment of this unique facility, to re-visit the park and provide a feedback.
Two nanomaterials make polymers 400 times better it takes a research team from Bengaluru 10 days to prepare a batch of the compound it hopes would revolutionize the world. The compound consists of polyvinyl alcohol, a polymer, mixed with two carbon nanomaterials. There is a tremendous increase in the stiffness …
The Arkavathy River Conservation Forum is taking out a four-day padayatra from Nandi hills to Thippagondanahalli covering 101 kms from September 3, to create awareness among people on the need for reviving the dried up Arkavathy river. BJP Yelahanka MLA S R Vishwanath, who has taken the lead in this …
