Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Seeking a report on the mushrooming of resorts and other activities in the reserve forests in five districts of the State, the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) issued notice to the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) in Bangalore on Thursday. The CEC has instructed the PCCF to provide …
Tension prevailed at some places in Haveri district on Tuesday, due to protests and stampede during distribution of Bt cotton seeds. Farmers break barricades in a bid to collect seeds from an outlet of Bt cotton seeds company in Haveri district on Tuesday. DH PhotoThe increase in demand for the …
The area under forest cover in Karnataka has increased by four square kilometres, according to a latest report of the Forest Survey of India. It says the change has been noticed in the assessment year of 2009, compared to the survey carried out in 2008. The report was put in …
However, PPP model for effective utilisation of rivers, lakes will be encouraged The government today said there was no proposal for privatisation of water resources, but would encourage public-private partnership (PPP) mode for effective utilisation of the scarce natural resource. "Privatisation is not being done and it cannot be done," …
Conservation effort The State government has given its nod for the construction of an alternative road connecting Mysore and Mananthavadi, bypassing the Nagarahole National Park. The existing road had led to controversies, as it passes through critical tiger habitat. The government released Rs 18 crore for the alternative road last …
Karnataka will implement modified National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) in 20 taluks in five districts. NRLM is a poverty-alleviating scheme formulated by the Union Government. The state government has renamed it as ‘Sanjeevini'. “Karnataka has tweaked the mission to include social, financial and economic inclusion while rolling out the scheme …
Jaipur, Mysore and Thane have come forward to do pilot projects for grid-connected rooftop solar, Mr Tarun Kapur, Joint Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, told Business Line. “Talks are on with one or two more (cities),” Mr Kapur said. Grid-interactive rooftop solar power plant is the ‘big story' …
Additional power of 75,000 MW to be generated in five years Union Minister of State for Power K.C. Venugopal said here on Monday that work on the Mysore-Kozhikode transmission line would start soon as the project had secured the final environment clearance from the Union Ministry of Forests and Environment. …
Announcement comes at concluding session of ITS seminar The Union Urban Development Ministry will fund 80 per cent of the cost of preparing master plan/ detailed project report for intelligent transport system (ITS) in important cities across the country, including those in Karnataka. A senior Ministry official announced this at …
‘Outsourcing supply will see tariffs skyrocketing’ Day Two of the Bangalore World Water Summit saw a parallel summit being organised by Peoples Campaign for Right to Water, which sees a move to privatise water supply in the agenda of such meets. Activists from a cross section of society - including …
Kannada movie on brigand’s life being shot inside elephant habitat violation: Crew members of ‘Attahaasa’ shooting in a forest in Chamarajanagar district. ‘Attahaasa’, a Kannada film based on slain forest brigand Veerappan, is again in the news for the wrong reasons. The movie by A M R Ramesh of ‘Cyanide’ …
Hopping onto a BMTC bus equipped with an Intelligent Transport Solution (ITS) is closer to reality than ever before. Past all the promises and hype over the last two years, the Corporation has invited tenders for the project as also for a control data centre. The most useful and important …
New Delhi: Stray dogs entered the Delhi zoo on Tuesday night, got into the enclosure for the chinkara and killed four of the fleet-footed antelopes. The dogs, two in number, were captured on Wednesday morning. Zoo sources said the chinkara, a relatively small animal also known as the Indian gazelle, …
Several important State highways (SH), including the busy Bangalore-Mysore and Kodagu-Mangalore routes, will soon become National Highways (NH), if the State Government has its way. The State Public Works Department (PWD) has recently proposed to the Centre to declare 21 SHs as NHs, covering 4,031 km. If the Union Ministry …
Many factors associated with modern society have combined to produce a burgeoning in water demand. This demand can be realized only through efficient management of water sources and supply systems. To achieve sustainable water supply the beneficiary communities should be made to maintain the facilities created in the rural areas. …
The State Forest department has decided to grow over 20 lakh sandalwood trees on 2,000 acres of land at a cost of Rs 50 crore in nine districts of the State. Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara told mediapersons on Monday that the project, implemented in Mysore on a pilot basis, …
Despite the High Court’s observations on Karnataka’s plans to translocate elephants from Alur taluk in Hassan district to the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary in Mysore, Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara seemed confident about convincing the court on the government’s move. Addressing the gathering during a State-level workshop on extraction of non-timber …
Farmers register their protest in a meeting with MUDA officials A meeting convened by Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) on Tuesday, to acquire land for formation of the proposed Lalithadripura first stage ended inconclusive as farmers outrightly registered their opposition. unrelenting: Farmers argue with MUDA officers at a meeting over …
The notification to provide more protection to Western Ghats by extending the boundaries of the Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuary and to ensure contiguity to Kudremukha National Park has suffered a setback with Union Minister for Corporate Affairs Dr M Veerappa Moily writing a letter to reconsider the proposal. The inclusion of …
Officials had prepared to tackle drought, but nature had other plans For a district that was prepared to face the drought less than a month ago, this sure is a strange situation with officers running around to fix compensation amount for houses that collapsed owing to heavy rain. In a …
