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 …
BWSSB officials have blamed recent instances of water contamination on the presence of "illegal and unauthorised pipelines" in "slums and low-lying areas."
Urban transport is an important component of the urban infrastructure system. A good urban transport system will increase productivity, enhance efficiency, ensure competition, and promote urban economy. It will also facilitate social interactions, provide people with accessibility to opportunities, safeguard environment, set directions and pattern of land use development, and …
As traffic-weary Bangaloreans prepare to welcome Namma Metro, the project appears to crawl in its journey to meet deadlines, says S Praveen Dhaneshkar A year behind schedule, the city
The High Court has directed the Karnataka State Pollution Controlled Board to bring down the levels of pollution in the City. Hearing a petition by A V Amaranathan, a City-based advocate who has moved the High Court against the increase in air pollution, the division bench comprising Chief Justice P …
Addressing media at the KPCC office on Friday, the Mayors expressed their unhappiness over the bus shelters that have come up in the City recently, and claimed that they had been awarded to private companies without calling for any tenders. Former Mayors and Congress men, M Ramachandrappa and J Huchappa, …
Awareness on power-related issues too, is quite poor. This is the verdict spelt out by a survey on power consumption, undertaken in the City recently. Even as the State is reeling under a power crisis, middle class families in the City clearly lack a sense of commitment when it comes …
The Mono Rail project is an answer to the growing transportation needs of Bangalore, and is on par with the Citys technological status, said Managing Director of the Geodesic Techniques Srinidhi Anantharaman at a presentation to engineers here on Wednesday. Addressing a group of engineers at the Institute of Engineers …
By S Lalitha, DH News Service, Bangalore: One illiterate, gritty womans novel initiative in D J Halli can serve as an eye opener to both the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board and the government. Social worker Victoria, a resident of Cauvery Nagar, has single-handedly redressed the water woes of …
By S Praveen Dhaneshkar, DH News Service, Bangalore: The work on Reach 1 of Namma Metro seems to be edging towards completion, despite Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) withdrawing some of the civil works entrusted to the contractor. The viaduct work on M G Road, according to BMRCL, is …
Bangalore has traditionally been strong on voluntary initiative and this has spawned a new public private partnership venture to come to grips with the city's intractable problems. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in Karnataka and prominent NGO Janaagraha have taken the lead to form Bangalore City Connect. The thought …
Watch out for toxic toys! They could cause serious harm to your children Sudhakar Pai from Mangalore had severe abdominal pain at the age of seven. Tests revealed he was anaemic. The doctor prescribed medicines for intestinal worms and anaemia. But the pain persisted. After about four months, he was …
Several cities in India including Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, have begun to take steps to implement fiscal measures to address the problem of air pollution and congestion. The key focus of the fiscal measures are clean fuels and technologies including CNG, LPG and zero emissions technologies; disincentives for older …
Bangalore, dhns: The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) chaired by Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee, on Friday, accorded approval for the North-South corridor extension of Namma Metro project. To be constructed at a cost of Rs 1,763 crore, the project had received approval from the State government in Oct …
Interview with Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa. "The idea of the 'hobli' level' 'Janaspandana' meetings... was to take government programmes and facilities directly to the rural masses." FOR the B.S. Yeddyurappa-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka, the year-end holiday season brought some good news. With the BJP winning …
In Bangalore about 6.8 million people produce more than 3500 tonnes of waste in a single day. Despite the large infrastructure created for waste management, garbage is currently being disposed rather than managed. It continues to pollute the environment and poses a health risk to collectors as well as the …
Huge blocks of flats in cities can provide supplementary water requirement, manage floods and reduce pollution of the environment Simple techniques: Storing rain and rooftop water in apartments has now become easy Apartments are mushrooming all over our cities with the boom in the housing sector. These apartments place a …
Dec. 18: In a glaring breach of security at a defence establishment, five sandalwood poachers armed with lethal weapons entered the Air Force Technical College campus in Jalahalli on Wednesday night. An IAF man on guard duty, Lance Naik Amarik Singh, shot one of poachers when the intruders attempted to …
The 14 Bangalore hospitals which were ordered to close down by the Lok Adalat have filed an impleading application, seeking time to establish liquid bio-medical waste treatment plants in their premises. The Principal Secretary (Health) and others who appeared before the Lok Adalat bench, sought modification of the December 4, …
