Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
As many 28 cases of cholera have been reported in Mugalihal in Saundatti taluk of Belgaum district. The samples sent for the tests on December 3 have tested positive for Cholera. Declaring the village cholera-hit, the district administration has asked the villagers to take precautions to prevent the spread of …
After four years of suffering financial losses, India's first gas-based power project, Ratnagiri Gas & Power Private Ltd (RGPPL), is now set to make its mark on India's power scene. The company had suffered a Rs600-crore loss in 2008-09, due to fall in capacity generation because of machinery breakdowns. For …
Ganesh Chandanashiva, Oct 14, Bijapur: The River Don is not as devastating as the Huang Ho, described as sorrow of China, or Kosi in Bihar. But it leaves a trail of destruction during the monsoon, severely affecting the lives of the people living on the banks. changing course: Silt accumulated …
T.V. Sivanandan 13,446 works have been taken up under employment guarantee scheme Out of Rs. 105.47 cr. spent, Rs. 72.69 cr. has gone for wages and Rs. 32.27 cr. on material 9,467 households have been provided 100 days of employment this year as stipulated under the Act For Employment generation: …
At least 74 people died in rain-related incidents in Karnataka since June as the state received 391 mm of rainfall in the last one-and-half months against the normal average of 328 mm, Revenue Minister G Karunakara Reddy informed the assembly today. While 57 people were killed in June, 17 more …
Concerned over the rapid depletion in forest cover in Karnataka, a city based NGO has started a unique 'million trees' project supported by corporates covering all districts and addressing factors like changing climatic condition, erratic rainfall pattern, high carbon emissions and loss of water bodies. Karnataka at present has just …
Karnataka Bureau Bangalore: Incessant rain in coastal Malnad, south interior Karnataka and Belgaum over the past six days has claimed 12 lives, and the weather bureau has indicated that there will be no respite from the monsoon fury in these regions for the next two days. District authorities in Kodagu, …
This paper presents a methodology for estimating the burden of diseases in monetary terms instead of a demographic indicator. The purpose was to ascertain the financial burden arising out of various categories of morbidity in the community. The disease-wise burden would act as a pointer for the policy maker to …
Mangalore, May 20 The Dharwad-headquartered Karnataka Vikas Grameen Bank (KVGB), which has financed over 12,000 solar light units under its area of operation, is now planning to make 80 villages solar villages. Mr K.P. Muraleedharan, Chairman of the bank, told Business Line on Wednesday that the bank wants to make …
BANGALORE: For the first time in 35 years, the Department of Water Resources has taken up modernisation of the Tungabhadra Dam and canal system, which irrigates lakhs of acres of land in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, at a cost of Rs.192 crore. Announcing this at a press conference, Water Resources …
In the next few weeks the Karnataka government will begin deliberating on the future of Chamalapura, a tiny hamlet near Mysore, and its surroundings. According to highly placed sources in the state's energy department, feasibility studies will be commissioned soon for setting up a coal-fired thermal power plant in and …
Manjunath Sullolli The Bhimgad Fort, in the village lands of Tanali, is built on a detached spur of the Sahyadris about sixteen miles south-west of Khanapur taluk of Belgaum district.
P M Raghunandan,DH News Service,Bangalore: Political parties may run short of any serious issue to raise at the hustings. But, severe shortage of drinking water has become an issue of great concern for the electorate across the State, including Bangalore. Almost all the districts are hit by scarcity of potable …
The fluoride contamination study has been carried out in ground waters of Khanapur, Bailhongal and Saundatti taluks of Malaprabha sub basin, Belgaum district, Karnataka. 21 samples were collected during the pre-monsoon and post-monsoon season of 1999.
Textron Systems and QuEST Global, a leading provider of outsourced engineering services and manufacturing, on Thursday announced that the two companies are working together on the development of the QuEST Global Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Belgaum. The SEZ, endorsed by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, covers 300 acres …
