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 …
Houses across 20 villages will benefit from the end of next month Dakshina Kannada’s first multi-village water supply project which will supply drinking water to 20 villages across eight gram panchayats in Mangalore taluk is expected to be operational by the year-end. The project envisages lifting of water from Shambhavi …
The government will set up an official committee to monitor adherence to environmental laws by factories and industries in the State. Addressing presspersons here on Wednesday, Minister for Forests, Ecology and Environment B. Ramanath Rai said the proposed committee, comprising officials of the department, would visit industrial areas and conduct …
A special health scheme will be implemented for endosulfan victims in the district, Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar has said. The scheme, Thejaswini, for which Rs.2.70 crore had been earmarked for 2013-14, envisaged free treatment to patients at primary health centres, community health centres and at houses of bedridden patients in …
Several government projects have ‘technically’ flouted regulatory norms From bureaucratic tangles, lack of awareness – even by some government departments – to staff shortages, the implementation of Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) norms in the district is hit by administrative issues. The government projects that have ‘technically’ flouted these norms include …
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Units to be set up in B'lore, M'lore, Belgaum, Gulbarga The State government has decided to set up Disaster Response Forces (DRFs) in Bangalore, Mangalore, Belgaum and Gulbarga. The four DRFs, each with a fixed area of operation, will cover the entire state taking up rescue and rehabilitation works in …
The people's movement against the proposed 4,000-MW ultra mega power project (UMPP) at Niddodi near Moodbidri is gaining momentum with villagers of Puthige joining them in the fight. They have formed a committee, Tulu Naad Oripuga Samithi Puthige (Save Tulu Naadu Committee- Puthige) at a meeting held recently at Sri …
NMDC is setting up a 1.8-million-tonne-per-annum (mtpa) beneficiation plant and a 1.2-mtpa pellet plant at an investment of Rs 650 crore KIOCL, a steel ministry undertaking facing severe shortage of iron ore for its pellet plant in Mangalore, is planning to partner public sector mining giant NMDC for a pellet …
Heavy rains that lashed the State’s coastal districts claimed five lives in Dakshina Kannada and two in Kasargod district on Tuesday. Four persons of a family were killed when a compound wall at a higher reach collapsed on their tiled roof houses below, in the wee hours of Tuesday, at …
'Second phase of Kudcemp work will deal with water supply' The urban development department is pursuing the proposal to include Mangalore under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM), said Urban Development Minister Vinaya Kumar Sorake. Chairing a meeting to review the progress of various development work in the …
Consortium partners will sign memorandum of understanding on March 18 A consortium led by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) will do a feasibility study on setting up a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Regasification Terminal at the New Mangalore Port. The proposed terminal will have an initial capacity …
ONGC, BPCL soon to sign an MoU for putting up LNG terminal at Mangalore ONGC, Six years after the $1 billion project was put in cold storage, state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) will by this month-end revive plans to set up a liquid gas (LNG) import terminal near …
Oil minister M Veerappa Moily on Monday ruled out a rollback in the Rs.1.50-a-litre hike in petrol and 45 paise a litre increase in diesel rates, saying only a small raise has been passed on to consumers. “I think everybody would appreciate that we have not put a lot of …
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) does not have single scientifically approved landfill site considering that it generates 60 per cent of solid waste in municipal bodies across State, as per Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) statistics. KSPCB distributed these statistics on pamphlets to citizens at BBMP sponsored — Wake …
The Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) and Canara Plastic Manufacturers and Traders Association have come together for an environmental cause. Fostering this uneasy truce - given that they have legally engaged each other in the high court - is the Plastic Waste Management and Handling Rules, 2011, which puts the onus …
Vaman Acharya, Chairman of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), said on Thursday that the KSPCB had named Mangalore and Bhadravati as “critically polluted” cities in the State. He was inaugurating a three-day international conference on “Environment and occupation health” organised by Manipal University, the National Institute of Occupational …
Mangalore City Corporation Commissioner Harish Kumar K. said on Thursday that the officials lacked the morale to implement the ban on plastic that was imposed with much fanfare on November 15. When it was pointed out during a “meet-the-press” programme here that the ban was not even being implemented in …
The 879-km Phase-II pipeline to Mangalore and Bangalore in Karnataka is under implementation and “the actual physical progress of the project is 64.1 per cent” State-owned GAIL India Ltd has completed the first phase of pipeline that will connect the upcoming LNG import facility at Kochi to consumers in Karnataka …
In the backdrop of receiving complaints by the general public over the dumping of waste at Modapadavu, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (Mangalore) has issued a show cause notice to Mangalore Refineries and Petro-chemicals Ltd on December 6. The show cause notice has been served for non-compliance of consent …
The Mangalore City Corporation has decided to give a new year gift to the residents by collecting the garbage from their doorsteps. The door-to-door collection of the garbage will be extended to all the 60 wards before the new year, Mangalore City Corporation Commissioner Dr Harish Kumar said. Now, the …
