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 …
DH News Service, Bangalore: The DHiE theatre festival charged into its second week with the English play The first leaf which opened to a packed house in Ranga Shankara. After a week of Kannada theatre, which showcased
By Basavaraj Itnaal, DH News Service, Bangalore: To cut costs while increasing service delivery, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in its new garbage contracts has authorised contractors to collect service charges from hotels, choultries and other major commercial establishments. Though the terms of the existing contracts require the contractors …
victoria hospital in Bangalore is the most polluted of all areas recently studied in several cities of Karnataka. The 2007-08 report of Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (kspcb) described air pollution in the hospital area from
Bangalore: The road widening projects proposed for City by Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will now have to go through the scanner of a seven-member Review Committee headed by environmentalist A N Yellappa Reddy, to check on its environmental and social sustainability. A city NGO Environment Support Group (ESG)'s president …
By Basavaraj Itnaal, DH News Service, Bangalore: If you thought the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is all prepared to prevent damage from the impending monsoons, heres reason to doubt it: The Palike will instead be busy with curative jobs since its work on remodelling of storm water drains (SWD) …
Bangalore: Admitting that there has been a delay in Rs 6395 crore 'Namma Metro' mass transport project, the new managing director of Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) N Sivasailam said the project is nine months behind schedule. Addressing industry and trade representatives at a presentation on the project at …
Bangalore: Chikungunya cases continued to admitted at both KC General Hospital and Sriramapura Referral Hospital in Bangalore on Thursday with 33 fresh suspected cases reported in both hospitals. While statewide 21,805 suspected cases of chikungunya have been reported, Health Minister B Sriramulu said that he received reports of suspected cases …
Bangalore: Ministers for Information and BWSSB Katta Subramanyam Naidu and Medical Education Ramachandra Gowda on Wednesday assured members in the Upper House that the government would not privatise lakes in and around Bangalore City. During the debate on the issue, the Ministers also promised that they would take steps to …
Bangalore, DHNS: Instances of chikungunya continued to spiral in Bangalore City with over 260 suspected cases of the disease being reported since June 14 at K C General Hospital and Sriramapura Referral Hospital. About 36 fresh cases were reported on Wednesday. Most patients affected by the vector-borne disease were from …
What is the feeling in the Railways about the proposed ideas? The Monorail does not come under the purview of the Railways. On the proposed Commuter Rail corridors, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) of the Bangalore division of South Western Railway Mr Mahesh Mangal says, "Most of these proposals are not …
Having seen the Metro in Delhi and Kolkata, the urban rail network in Mumbai and Chennai, the Bangalorean had always wondered why the City's existing railway llines weren't put to better use. After all, Bangalore had about a dozen railway stations criss-crossing the City... Trains there were aplenty as well, …
Biopharma major Biocon is planning to set up a dedicated greenfield facility to manufacture tablet formulations. The Bangalore-based company currently outsources this activity. Biocon is in the tablet formulation market in a small way now across the nephrology, diabetology, cardiology and oncology verticals. This segment accounts for about 10% of …
Madhur Tankha NEW DELHI: A group of people besotted with the dark skies are working on a special project these days to measure light pollution in Delhi and some other cities. Nehru Planetarium and non-government organisation Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators started the "Taare Sadak Par' project in …
keeping in mind Bangalore's growing water demand, the city's water supply and sewerage board is working on a plan to treat waste water and supply it. "The plan is under design and expected to be operational by 2011. We will call for expression of interest and solicit public opinion soon. …
In which we attempt to assess what average Indians living in big cities think about India's environment, and to gauge their levels of awareness, attitudes, perception and concerns Methodology The State of Environment in Indian Cities survey attempts to assess what average Indians living in big cities think about India's …
Cities in the developing countries have multiple modes of human and animal waste treatment and disposal that finally decide the overall impact on the urban ecosystem, and these have been studied for the city of Bangalore. Four modes are found, namely underground sewage systems, decentralized soak pits and septic tanks, …
Signs a collaboration agreement with Safety Syringes of the U.S. safety first: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon, launching the drug delivery system in Bangalore on Wednesday. Biocon launched pre-filled syringes for delivering two life-saving drugs manufactured by it. The company has entered into a collaboration agreement with …
The objective of this document is to specify suitable requirements and procedures for carrying out monitoring of ambient noise levels around airports due to aircrafts. A proper database is essential for planning and executing suitable noise control programme for airports in the country.
The decline of the political significance of industrial conflicts is not quite a result of the structural changes in management-labour relations (as commonly thought) in these times of globalisation. It is more a consequence of the lack of an appropriate agency and politics among the working classes, despite their increasing …
The Indian Space Research Organisation makes history by launching 10 satellites in one flight of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. THE Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, the old faithful of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), was suddenly the focus of media attention in end-April: It was to launch 10 satellites …
