Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
BANGALORE : Three of the five noise monitoring stations in the city set up by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board saw a rise in noise levels during Diwali on Thurday night, according to statistics by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Of the remaining two, there was a decrease …
FESTIVE SPIRIT As City Readies To Dazzle In Diwali Lights, Concerns About Pollution Gain Prominence; Many Pledge To Keep It Noiseless Bhoomika GK, 32, a bank employee and resident of Ullal, West Bangalore, de cided to skip her morn ing walks for the next 10 days. Her doctor-friend advised her …
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) hasn’t put in place any special plans to check pollution during the Deepavali despite being ordered by the High Court to take stringent measures to that effect. The court had taken serious note of the increasing levels of noise and air pollution in …
BANGALORE: The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has given conditional approval to Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) for setting up of a municipal solid waste (MSW) plant at Lingadheeranhalli, Banashankari 6th Stage. Speaking to Express, Senior Environment Officer-Waste Management (SEO) of the Pollution Control Board, Venkatesh Shekar, said, “The …
BIG BITE: It's The Same Old Story -The Dreaded Disease Is Spreading Across Bangalore, But The Palike Is Fudging Numbers To Come Clean Ronak Rao, a self-employed civil en gineer, was down with high fever, severe body ache, headache and rashes. A lab test found his platelet count was low, …
The use of reflective surfaces offers one low-cost solution for reducing solar loading to urban environments and the Earth that should be considered as part of sustainable urban design. Here, we characterize the radiative benefits, i.e. the additional shortwave radiation leaving the atmosphere, from the installation of highly reflective 'cool' …
Processing Unit Coming Up Here After the Mandur flare-up, the government had declared it would set up by December 1 a scientific processing unit to treat 3,500 tonnes of waste produced by the city every day .With just over 45 days for the deadline to expire, the issue is set …
A study conducted by Metropolis Health Care Limited has revealed that high levels of cholesterol in the body could be one of the leading cause for cardiovascular ailments in the City. The study conducted on the working class population of Bangalore ahead of World Heart Day 2014, collected data from …
Upa Lokayukta Seeks Proof Of Trees Planted From Agency By Today Count trees in namma Bangalore and give proof. This is what officials with the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) have been ordered to do. Reason: They have to submit a report on the number of saplingstrees they are maintaining to …
Sweden is at least 600 times bigger than Bangalore but their population is almost the same. On an average, 250 people die in Swedish road accidents against 750 in Bangalore. Sweden has also managed to cut down on its carbon emissions by about 10 per cent over the last 15 …
Gated Community Worried About Radiation-Emitting Installation That's Cropped Up In Their Vicinity The mushrooming telecommunication towers in the city are setting off alarm bells, literally.Residents living near such radiationemitting installations are wary of the health hazards they pose. Shobha Amethyst, a gated community in Kannamangala village, Hoskote, East Bangalore, is …
In the run-up to the 15th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit scheduled for February, experts from diverse backgrounds on Tuesday deliberated on smart and sustainable solutions for Bangalore to make it a ‘smart city’. As a prelude to the global event, a series of regional dialogues are being organised, first of …
It's A Piecemeal Approach, They Say, As BBMP Selects 85 Roads For Differential Paid Parking System Park and pay is set to be a reality in many city areas. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has identified 85 roads where differential paid parking system will be implemented.But the moot question …
BANGALORE: ‘Shoot and act’ seems to be the latest mantra of BBMP for tackling the garbage issue. The BBMP is set to procure digital cameras for all ward engineers and officials concerned to take pictures of those littering in public places. It plans to click-start this action programme soon in …
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), which is setting up eight wet waste processing units, does not seem to have made much headway in achieving waste segregation at source. The Karnataka High Court had directed BBMP to open garbage processing units at nine places in the city at the earliest. A …
RED ALERT Bureaucratic Meddling, Poor Coordination And Lack Of Political Will Prove Toxic For Pollution Control A year ago, the Karnataka State Pollution Con-trol Board (KSPCB) issued a directive to police and transport departments to ban two-stroke vehicles in Bangalore, saying they re lease benzene, a potent cancer-caus ing agent. …
Following HC Rap, KSPCB Sends Proposal To Transport Dept, Wants Four-Wheelers To Honk Only At Certain Hours A two-wheeler without a horn? Doing away with this functional part may sound bizarre, but the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) wants to implement this measure in an attempt to cut the …
Second stage to include new passenger terminal, another runway Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) has been formally accorded the Environmental Clearance (EC) for its second stage expansion of the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA). This expansion will include the construction of a new terminal along with the second runway, taxiways, aprons, …
Entrusted with the task of finding a viable solution to the mounting garbage problem that has brought a bad name to Bangalore internationally, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike's Special Commissioner (Municipal Solid Waste) Darpan Jain is scrambling for ways to resolve the issue before December 1, the deadline set for …
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday asked the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to take steps to educate the public on the need to segregate sanitary napkins/diapers from other wastes. The court also asked the BBMP to come out with regulations to streamline the process of building demolition, disposal …
