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 …
This paper by AR Shivakumar of Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology was presented at a national seminar organised by ISRO at NIAS Bangalore in 2010. It highlights the grave water situation in the city where the water demand is ever on the increase with the increasing population. This …
Sandeep Moudgal, June 10, Bangalore: For the motorist struggling his way through Bangalore's notoriously chaotic traffic, the problem of parking is often the last nail on the coffin. Mounting vehicular population and narrow roads have only made this problem so acute and critical that the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) …
Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has issued notices to nearly one lakh building owners for not taking steps to harvest rain water. Notices will be issued to another six lakh in one month, according to Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu. Speaking at the …
Eleven slum dwellers, including two children, were taken ill after drinking tap water on Wednesday. Of the 11 persons who displayed symptoms of water contamination like diarrhoea and vomiting, two were treated by the BBMP health officers while nine including two children were admitted to a private nursing home, said …
A demolition and eviction drive by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) at Basaveshwara slum in Okalipura, turned ugly when some slumdwellers refused to vacate the area on Tuesday. According to BMRCL officials, a few residents who are said to be illegal tenants could not produce either a
The City will host the 2011 World Eco-tourism Conference, said tourism minister G Janardhan Reddy here on Friday. Speaking at the launch of a corporate brochure and picture book to commemorate 30 years of Jungle Lodges and Resorts (JLR), he said the international convention centre that is being constructed at …
Twenty-two children from New Life Centre for Girls in Bharathinagar, took ill after consuming contaminated water on Wednesday. All were admitted to the CSI Hospital on Wednesday morning from where they were shifted to Epidemic Diseases Hospital on Thursday morning after the officials suspected the case to be a cholera …
SARJU KAUL LONDON BENGALURU IS the best city in India offering the highest quality of living. The capital city of Karnataka with rank of 140 is, however, way below European cities of Vienna, Zurich and Geneva the top three cities in the worldwide rankings of cities for the quality of …
Prerana Sabnis, Bangalore, May 14, DH News Service: Water crisis in the City seems to be getting worse by the day. Even a public toilet has to get its supply of water from private tankers for its maintenance. Even more surprising is the fact that the public urinal is one …
Anoo Bhuyan, Bangalore, May 14, DH News Service : Once known for its green canopy and the salubrious climate, Bangalore over the past two years has seen itself turn into a
This might sound perverse but this writer actually likes the water and power crises that is upon us. It is poetry to one who has long lamented young journalists’ lack of attention to the shortage of power and water and, of course, to the piling heaps of garbage in every …
Hike in drinking water tariff seems imminent as the State government is contemplating on increasing the rate once regular water supply is ensured in the City.
Prerana Sabnis and Poornima Nataraj, Bangalore, May 11, DH News Service: Water shortage has been particularly scary this summer for citizens of Bangalore, but it can soon lead to a milk shortage. Manju and Ratna in their cattle shed. dh PhotoConsider this: Manju and Ratna, a couple who earned their …
As many as 236 villages in 13 districts of the State have been reeling under acute drinking water shortage. A sum of Rs 19 crore has been released to supply water through tankers to these villages. Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Jagadeesh Shettar said on Thursday said that depletion …
P M Raghunandan, Bangalore, May 5, DHNS: Those planning to settle down in and around Devanahalli near Bangalore City in coming days, may have to depend on treated water -- even for drinking purpose. The State government has decided to provide treated water to the parched Devanahalli, where a host …
Keeping in view the onset of monsoon by the end of this month or the beginning of June, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner Bharat Lal Meena issued guidelines to the health department officials to check water-borne or vector-borne diseases. During a meeting on Tuesday with the officials including …
S Lalitha, May 5, Bangalore, DHNS: Bangaloreans making use of freshly pumped borewell water for drinking purposes need to put an abrupt end to the practice. For, the carcinogenic, radioactive gas, Radon has been found to be present 100 times above the permissible limit in water samples analysed across the …
S Lalitha Bangalore, April 30, DHNS The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has decided to ask the State government to bear the excess expenditure that has come up while executing works related to the Second phase of Cauvery Water Supply Project Stage IV. The decision was arrived at …
BS III, II fuel availability causes confusion in 13 cities. Murali Gopalan One month into the new clean fuel regime finds the auto sector struggling with vehicle supply schedules and facing the prospect of stocks not being registered in metros with tighter emission norms. Effective April 1, 13 cities moved …
