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 …
KSPCB has yielded to pressure from the Karnataka Government & Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and has revoked its ban on dumping of solid waste at Mavallipura. Read this Press Release . It is being reported that the Karnataka Pollution State Control Board (KSPCB, autonomous environmental regulator) has yielded to pressure …
On a day when the Supreme Court directed the Union and State governments to provide basic infrastructure, including drinking water and toilets, in all schools within six months, a survey conducted among parents (low-income group) in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore said that “toilets remain the single-most commonly voiced …
Starting October 1, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike hopes, Bangalore residents will start segregating waste at their doorstep. The initiative comes after weeks of garbage rotting both on the city streets and landfills around it, and followed a nudge from the Karnataka High Court. The move to codify the policy on …
Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) has announced a higher compensation to farmers in seven districts of the state on whose land through which it would be laying underground pipeline to take liquefied natural gas from Kochi to Bangalore. “The revised scale has been fixed as per the directions of …
The State government has conceived a plan to help children of parents with HIV/AIDS. The new programme aims to give the children access to financial assistance for education and other expenses till the age of 18, regardless of their economic background. One condition to obtain the benefits, however, is that …
It emphasises growing less water-intensive crops, fodder during low rainfall and soil testing The University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) has come up with a contingency crop plan for southern Karnataka to tackle drought. UAS Vice-Chancellor Dr K Narayana Gowda said the contingency crop plan submitted to the State government lays …
Acquisition is without application of mind, says Court The High Court of Karnataka on Monday set aside the notification of 746 acres in Bangalore South for industrial purpose. Chikkanna and Hombaiah, the land owners and residents of Magadi taluk in Ramanagar district had moved the court, challenging the acquisition of …
With lesser number of sites available, many allottees fear losing sites The controversy surrounding the Arkavathy Layout refuses to die with the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) announcing that only 14,000 sites were available for the allottees and the farmers from the 16 villages where land had been acquired for the …
The State government on Tuesday informed the Karnataka High Court that 564 mineral and packaged drinking water units in the State were functioning without the ISI certification and only 224 such units had ISI certification from Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). This information was given to a Division Bench comprising …
BixLight to meet long-standing need aiding research in drug discovery, weather forecasting Like many life sciences companies around the world, Bangalore-based Strand Life Sciences needs enormous amounts of gene sequence data to develop its products and services. Researchers in developed countries and China have easy access to such data, but …
In Bangalore, it has taken control of the city’s water supply to run an extortionist private supply network. Most of India is fretting over a flop monsoon. In Bangalore, however, some are rejoicing that the rains have failed. They are the city’s dreaded water mafia. “Water mafia” was recently coined, …
Bangalore: Motorists who wish to donate their organs after they die can now carry a sticker in their driving licence, affirming their pledge, thus making it easy to harvest organs in case of fatal accidents or untimely death. Bangalore’s Electronic City RTO and NGO Gift Your Organ are launching the …
PANJIM: The Goa government is working to bring out at the earliest a Land Acquisition Policy that will protect the interests of those losing lands for various projects both for government and non-government. “This policy will protect the interests of those losing substantial land,” Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar explained. In …
Bangalore: There’s piping hot bisi bele bath on their plates, garnished with khara boondi, and the children are relishing their meal — a scene to warm hearts. But in this case, the heart would skip a beat. The lunch is laid out on the road in front of the school, …
Over two hundred farmers affiliated to an apolitical forum, Tamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam, staged a demonstration here on Wednesday to protest against the Gas Authority of India Limited’s (GAIL) choice of farmland in the district to lay gas pipeline to take natural gas from Kochi to Bangalore. The gas pipeline project …
The contamination in Mavallipura has reached such an extent that the Karnataka Milk Federation refuses to procure milk from the farmers here, alleged residents of Mavallipura. Speaking at a press conference here on Wednesday, the Mavallipura residents, under the aegis of Dalit Sangharsh Samithi (DSS) and Environment Support Group (ESG), …
Residents of areas in the vicinity of BBMP’s Mandur landfill seem to have taken cue from people of Mavallipura, whose agitation led to the closure of the garbage dump yard there. Newspapers and TV channels had reported in the past few days that the garbage dumped at Mavallipura spread diseases …
Responding to pressure from residents of villages surrounding Mavallipura landfill, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has issued orders to close the dump yard. Issuing orders on Wednesday, the KSPCB said that owing to non-compliance with the conditions stipulated, the BBMP has been asked to stop sending municipal solid …
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has asked Graphite India Ltd to close its Bangalore plant till further orders, citing environmental pollution. In a statement to BSE, the company said the board ordered closure of industrial operations in the company's plant in Bangalore till further orders, alleging non-compliance with …
Going green Bio-fuel bunk to come up in Hassan district in three months. A green fuel outlet, the first of its kind in the country, would be opened at Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka in three months, B Ramakrishna, executive chairman of Karnataka State Biofuel Development Board (KSBDB), has …
