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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding dumping of waste in a canal in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 29/05/2025

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 …

Resistance to privatisation of water

RAMASWAMY R. IYER The book is about Bangalore, but its importance goes far beyond even the Indian context RESISTING REFORM?

Bringing the green cover back in Bangalore

The Rajanet Yegneswaran Charitable Trust was started by Janet S K Yegneswaran in 2005 in memory of her late husband R S Yegneswaran. The Trust plants trees for free to anyone who offers a place for planting and is willing to look after the sapling that has been planted. The …

City to have four mini Lalbaghs

In a bid to replicate the success of the famed Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Monday announced that four new mini Lalbaghs would be created in the City, giving a fillip to the much needed green cover. All set: Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa (not in …

Labourer killed Namma Metro construction work

A worker engaged in property demolition work for Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) was killed while on duty. KILLER WALL: A view of the wall that collapsed during demolition, killing a worker in Bangalore on Saturday. DH photoA release from BMRCL has stated that the worker, Prakash (24) of …

H1N1 flu symptoms reported in City

A family of four who had returned from a vacation in Malaysia two days ago underwent screening for H1N1 influenza A at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases here on Thursday. Among the four, the father and the son who showed upper respiratory infection (URI) symptoms have been quarantined, …

HC seeks clarification

The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to make its stand clear on the land allotted to Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) for Metro project. Admitting a Public Interest Litigation filed by environmentalists and Hasiru Usiru questioning the government

Chikungunya cases on rise in City

Meanwhile, the number of suspected chikungunya cases continued to climb with the Public Health Centre in Kaval Byrasandra reporting 450 OPD cases per day. Lady Curzon and Bowring Hospital is treating 40 suspected cases everyday while KC General Hospital reported 24 suspected cases on Tuesday. Sources at the PHC confirmed …

4.29 lakh houses yet to pay for water

Poornima Nataraj,DH News Service,Bangalore: As many as 4,29,898 households under new BBMP areas are yet to pay their water connection charges under the Greater Bangalore Water Supply Project (GBWSP), which was undertaken a year ago by the BWSSB to provide Cauvery water to them. Despite the interest-free installments facility, only …

Solar power to fire Nemmadi telecentres

Nandini Chandrashekar, DH News Service,Bangalore: Power cuts at the Government

Majestic underground Metro station: Work from July 1

The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) will be carrying out the work for its proposed underground station at Majestic from July 1 2009. With a permanent acquisition of nearly 7.5 acres of land, the BMRCL will have in its possession approximately 20 acres at the time of construction.

Gigantic banyan tree crashes

Friday came as a big shock for Bangalore

BMTC: 45 TTMCs to ease traffic congestion

To provide better public transport services for citizens, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has identified 45 Traffic and Transit Management Centres (TTMCs) in and around the City. This was announced by Transport Minister R Ashok after inspecting the Transit Terminus at Shantinagar here on Friday. In its first phase, …

Getting a city into shape

Bengaluru needs a little political will and a lot of community-level initiatives Many years ago, weather used to be the icebreaker in conversations in Bengaluru. Traffic and its interminable snarls is the only subject every Bengalurean or visitor to the city talks of now. There are 3.5 million vehicles in …

Govt aims at 1 lakh solar roofs

The Karnataka Energy Department plans to set up at least one lakh solar roofs in the next five years to emerge as the number one in the country in terms of renewable energy usage.

Swine flu: CGHS team visits RGICD

Senior officials from the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) visited the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) and the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD) here on Wednesday. The team was led by A K Sethi, Director General of health services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Sources …

Chikungunya cases on the rise

Even as BBMP plans to issue notices to private doctors in DJ Halli for creating panic over chikungunya, two cases of the vector-borne disease have been confirmed at Bowring Hospital on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Palike has confirmed six dengue and 36 chikungunya cases since May 12. Besides, suspected cases …

Three samples test positive for chikungunya

Three blood samples - two from DJ Halli and one from KG Halli - have tested positive for chikungunya, according to the reports received by Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Tuesday. The number of confirmed chikungunya cases in the city in April alone, according to official reports, is now …

Plan for Metro phase 2 by Aug

S Praveen Dhaneshkar, Bangalore, DH News Service: The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) is going ahead with phase 2 of the project, progress being made in phase 1 notwithstanding. Sources in

BBMP not doing much to curb Chikungunya

The number of suspected Chikungunya patients has been increasing in and around D J Halli, Kaval Byrasandra and the surrounding areas. These areas have more than 50 local clinics and nearly 40 persons are said to be suffering from Chikungunya. A few residents alleged that the BBMP deputy commissioner visited …

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