Roads no match for rains
Battered and bruised – that is what the city’s roads look like 18 days past the self-set deadline by the government to make Bengaluru’s roads pothole-free. Far from that, the potholes have only got...
View ArticleUpalokayukta wants details of Palike properties
Upalokayukta Justice Subhash B Adi has sought the details of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) properties, including leased ones, illegally occupied by private persons, and the revenue...
View ArticleIllegal dumping of garbage at Kengeri
Bengaluru: A pilot car and four motorcycles often accompany a vehicle late night or early morning to Kengeri ward. However this has nothing to do with any VVIP visiting the area. These vehicles escort...
View ArticleNo more excuses! Segregate your garbage or face the stink at your doorstep
Bengaluru: ‘Segregate madovargu garbage thagolalla’ (Won't take your garbage until it's segregated). Don’t be surprised to hear your pourakarmika say this, while refusing to accept mixed garbage from...
View ArticlePalike pins hopes on plastic ban
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is pinning hopes on plastic ban to substantially reduce the garbage problem in the City. However, the plastic waste generated by the packaging industry may...
View ArticleEpidemic fear stalks City as wet garbage leaves a stink
Fears of an epidemic stalked the City as mounds of uncleared garbage was awash in the unrelenting rain of the past few days, which doctors warn could be an open invitation to plague, cholera, typhoid,...
View ArticleIs BBMP squandering Rs. 200 crore?
The answer to the city’s mounting garbage problems lies in the complete implementation of segregation of waste at source. But, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) can implement this only by...
View ArticleHold BBMP annual economic survey
In 2007, the Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike became Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). Seven city municipal corporations (CMCs), one taluk municipal corporation (TMC) and 110 villages were merged...
View ArticleBBMP fully equipped to tackle contingencies
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is all equipped to implement preventive measures to tackle rain contingencies, in the wake of continuous downpour lashing the City. Speaking to Deccan...
View ArticleScavenger birds do BBMP's job, feed on uncleared waste
This could hinder flight movement in northern B'luru: Bird watchers The garbage problem may be bothering the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and citizens at large but scavenger birds like...
View ArticleA sweet escape
Long legacy It all began in 1957, as a small counter called ‘Kanti Sweet Meat Stall’, in Kempegowda Circle. But 58 years after its inception, Kanti Sweets has grown to a 44-outlet strong sweet store in...
View ArticleTake Precautions to Reduce Blowing Garbage and Recycling Containers (City of...
(Source: City of Bismark, ND) The National Weather Service predicts wind gusts around 60 mph are likely Wednesday and into Thursday. Bismarck Public Works Service Operations reminds residents that City...
View ArticleShortage of dustbins hits clean Visakhapatnam image
Visakhapatnam: Lack of sufficient dustbins and dumpsters at regular intervals in the city has been severely hitting the ‘clean city’ image of Vizag. Due to the shortage of bins, the garbage is seen...
View ArticleRed kite found dead near Nairn had eaten illegal pesticide
A red kite found dead in the Highlands last month had eaten an illegal pesticide, it has emerged. Police Scotland said...
View ArticleBanned African cat fish farming still thriving
Cultivation of the banned African cat fish (clarias gariepinus) continues to thrive in Bengaluru, officials from the Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute said. The species of carnivorous fish is...
View ArticleFirst in country? Agra civic body launches mobile app for sanitary officers,...
AGRA: Claiming to be first in the country, Agra civic body today launched a mobile application for its sanitary officers, workers and other department officials to track the progress of their daily...
View ArticleMeat Production: Q3/2015 (NSO - National Statistics Office of Malta)
(Source: NSO - National Statistics Office of Malta) News2015_214.indd 20 November 2015 | 1100 hrs | 214/2015 In the third quarter of 2015, meat production and producer value decreased by 4.2 and 7.8...
View ArticleAMC launches app to monitor sanitary dept work
Agra: In what is stated to be the first of its kind in the country, the Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) today launched a mobile application for its sanitary officers, workers and other department...
View ArticleFactory exported iconic soap to world
It was World War I that made sandalwood the toast of Kar nataka. Shipping goods, especially sandalwood logs from India, had become a tough task for French, German and English traders. Karnataka's dense...
View ArticleMigratory birds give Diamond City a miss
Surat: The arrival of Rosy Starling, a migratory bird from east Europe marks the arrival of winter in the Diamond City. Every year, large number of noisy flocks of starlings can be spotted in the city...
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