Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item titled "Netravati Waterfront Promenade Project is Hurting Lives of Common people Stakeholders" appearing in Manglorean dated 26.01.2024. The original application is registered suo motu on the basis of the news item titled "Netravati Waterfront Promenade Project is hurting …
MANGALURU: For more than six villagers of Jokatte village, the gram panchayat (GP) election is a fight for clean air, water and quiet environment. Activists of Jokatte and Thokur, who are in the forefront of series of protests being held against Phase III of MRPL, have now decided to take …
Come July, people can monitor online the quality of effluents and also of the air in the areas around industries coming under the highly polluting and grossly polluting industries in the State. Industries in this category that are located in Mangaluru are Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited, Mangalore Chemicals and …
A three-member team from Institute of Topical Medicine and International Health, Berlin, Germany, will commence a research within two weeks to study the causes for increase in malaria cases in the city.Prof Frank P Mockenhaupt, deputy director and research group, malaria & infectious diseases epidemiology department of the Institute will …
The Dakshina Kannada Permanent Lok Adalat has received a unique petition. In a letter to it, a resident of 34-Nekkilady has written to it questioning the district administration for failing to provide drinking water to the village while implementing a project for nearby Puttur. The 34-Nekkiladi Gram Panchayat and the …
Citizens could get some relief from the 'hefty' solid waste management cess payable along with property tax under self-assessment scheme from the financial year 2016-17. Taking note of disparities in effectiveness of the solid waste management collection practices in the city and solid waste management cess that people have to …
Mangalore City Corporation will include Moodshedde and Bala gram panchayat areas in the corporation limits to stake claim to be part of the Smart City scheme of the Union government. At present, the population in the corporation limits, as per 2011 census, is a little over 4.99 lakh — falling …
President of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat Asha Thimmappa Gowda on Monday instructed the District Health and Family Welfare Officer (DHO) H.S. Shivakumar to study if the authorities of Durgaparameshwari temple at Kateel and others were polluting the Nandini river by various means and submit a report within a week. She …
Seven wards of Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) have been identified by the expert committee on National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme (NVBDCP) as very high risk areas for malaria. The areas are categorised based on annual parasite index (API) per 1,000 persons. If the API is above five, then it …
Action plan towards control of malaria to be ready by this month. The Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) will come up with an action plan by this month to create awareness on malaria and for the control of malaria. A series of meetings have been held in this regard. Speaking to …
District has received only 446.71 mm rainfall till now TAKING CHANCE? Farmers have begun cultivating their lands despite deficit rains in Dakshina Kannada this year. Dakshina Kannada district has seen 50 per cent less rainfall compared to last year. In June last year, the district had received average of 885.92 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Octavia Albuquerque & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 18/06/2014 regarding construction work being carried out in Coastal Regulation Zone area, Mangalore.
As many as 35 KSRTC buses have been sanctioned to Mangalore and 30 buses have been sanctioned to Udupi under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and the buses will start operating in the last week of September. These buses should ply only in those areas where there is …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Octavia Albuquerque & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 13/05/2014 regarding filling of major part of a creek in Mangalore. A committe will be constituted which shall conduct inspection of the site and submit …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Octavia Albuquerque & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 09/05/2014 regarding filling of major part of the creek as well as some part of the River Gurupur, Mangalore for the purposes of establishing the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Octavia Albuquerque & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 02/04/2014 regarding construction work being carried out in Coastal Regulation Zone area where nothing could have been built upon, Mangalore. The Applicant along with the …
In India 73% of the population own cellphones. While manufacturers claim that the 'planned obsolescence' of phones is about two years, consumers change their phones once in about six months to 18 months on an average. This generates tonnes of e-waste. Electronic devices containing toxic elements if not disposed of …
Amidst opposition over levying solid waste management (SWM) cess on general public to generate revenue for implementing the three package SWM project in the city, District-in-Charge Minister B Ramanath Rai put the ball to the MCC Administrator’s court, directing him to take a call on the matter after consulting with …
The programme aims at providing adequate and efficient urban public health delivery system for the urban poor. The ambitious National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), aimed at providing adequate and efficient urban public health delivery system for the urban poor, was launched here today. Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad formally …
Chief minister Oommen Chandy has expressed hope that the opposition to the gas pipeline project of GAIL in some parts of the state would come down once house connections are issued in Kochi. Already, petroleum companies have begun issuing industrial connections from gas pipeline in Kochi and are in the …
Union Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Thursday said her Ministry will express opposition if there was any damage caused to agricultural lands or environment under the Kochi-Mangalore gas pipeline. “We will surely express our opposition if there is any damage to farmlands or environment,” she said. Ms. Natarajan was responding …
