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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding dumping of waste in a canal in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 29/05/2025

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 …

Air more polluted in City residential areas

Dust levels have gone up in mixed urban pockets Bangalore: Residential and commercial areas are more polluted than industrial areas in the City, which has the highest levels of both air and noise pollution. According to a study by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), dust levels with chemical …

Raid on factories yield lorry load of banned plastic

MCC, KSPCB?undertook joint operation inspecting five firms MCC?officers inspect plastic at an industry in Mysore on Friday. In-charge Health Officer Sudha, environmental engineers Girijamma, Rekha,?Shafinaz and Shakuntala are seen. A team of officers attached to Mysore City Corporation (MCC) and Karnataka State Pollution?Control?Board (KSPCB), Mysore region, jointly undertook a surprise …

Residents stage protest against Excel Plant

Mysore, Agitators warn of intensifying stir if civic body fails to act Cutting across party lines, a group of leaders along with prominent residents staged a protest demanding the shifting of Excel Plant (waste treatment unit) at Sewage Farm in Vidyaranyapuram, in the city on Wednesday. The protesters including women, …

This councillor vows to make his ward green

Efforts are being made by the civic body to improve greenery by promoting massive tree plantation with people

Minister urges Centre to permit use of biofuels

Mysore, Home and Transport Minister R Ashoka urged the Union Government to grant permission to use biofuels. Welcome: Home and Transport Minister R Ashoka welcoming a passenger to board a bus headed to Kuvempunagar as part of Bus Day celebrations, in Mysore on Monday. MUDA Chairman L Nagendra and others …

Kabini phase-1 water project to be commissioned in December

Mysore, Southern and eastern parts of the city will be supplied with water from Kapila As the work on the drinking water component under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (Jn-nurm) progresses in a snail

How safe is your drinking water?

The poor operation and maintenance of ground level reservoirs puts the people

Greens save eight big trees in Manasagangothri

Give green signal to building project; All Acacia trees will be felled Mysore, The 15-member committee has cleared the decks for the University of Mysore to construct a hostel building and a building for the biodiversity and bioprospecting project. The evironmentalists have saved eight major trees from being felled in …

Prevalence of prediabetes in school-going children

The objective of the study was to study the prevalence of prediabetes among school children in Mysore city. http://www.indianpediatrics.net/apr2011/295.pdf

Where did the birds go?

Shyam Sundar Vattam In the name of urbanisation, the city is losing a variety of exotic birds. Converting agricultural lands into sites, encroaching upon the natural tanks and using of pesticides by farmers in the surroundings of the city have resulted in the dwindling population of the birds, writes Shyam …

Kabini water scheme in limbo

Ramesh S Kebbehundi, December 10 The Kabini drinking water project is sure to take more months for completion, as deadlock over compensation to ryots continues, writes Ramesh S Kebbehundi The much-ambitious project of bringing water from the River Kabini to quench the thirst of Mysoreans is likely to be delayed …

Cluster analysis of hydrographical parameters in the two lakes of Mysore City

Totally 19 hydrographical parameters are estimated in the Kamana and Karanji lakes of Mysore city and subjected wot hierarchical cluster analysis with the help of SYSTAT 7.0 software. Similarity of water quaity in different months (variables) is used as measure in hierarchical cluster analysis.

Eco-friendly LED lamps at Mysore Palace

With a view of reducing consumption of electricity as well as the global warming, Mysore Palace Board has decided to replace 635 Sodium Vapour and other electric lamps with LED lamps at an estimated cost of ` 77 lakh. This would conserve as many as 20,000 units of power per …

Explore possibilities of Bicycle Day during Dasara

Deputy Commissioner Harsh Gupta has asked officials of various departments to explore the possibilities of observing any one day during ten-day Dasara festival as

Give JnNURM touch to developmental works

Urban Development, Law and Parliamentary Affairs and District-In-Charge Minister S Sureshkumar on Wednesday said that works being taken up out of funds made available under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) scheme look like works that are implemented by Mysore City Corporation (MCC), without any speciality. He was addressing …

A new urbanism in Mysore?

Money comes into Mysore, especially for real estate transactions, not only through legal, banking channels but also in gunny bags, and that has been a common practice. Real estate transactions, with the exception of new apartments purchased from builders, generally include both a legal white money payment through a bank …

Mysore awaits fuel, perfume from plastic waste

Preethi Nagaraj, Mysore, June 9, DH News Service: The Mysore City Corporation (MCC), basking in glory after the city was recently adjudged the second cleanest in India, is planning to turn the place into a

Green initiatives proposed for Heritage City

The State government will collaborate with the British High Commission to take up green initiatives in the heritage city of Mysore. Addressing a press conference in Bangalore after meeting the British Deputy High Commissioner Richard Hyde, Urban Development Minister Suresh Kumar said the commission would help the State adopt green …

No full-time head yet for Mysore zoo

Nearly five months after the State Government raised the Mysore Zoo Director

2 tigers die, elephant electrocuted

A tigress died of old age at the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens in Mysore in the wee hours of Wednesday. The body of the tigress, Vijaya. dh photoThe 20-year-old tigress, Vijaya, was one of the oldest members of the zoo. She had stopped eating for the last one and a …

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