Clean garbage mess but not at cost of air, say experts
NEW DELHI: The Swachh Delhi app may have been launched to make the city cleaner but experts caution that the cleanliness should not be at the cost of worsening Delhi's air quality further. While the...
View ArticleSwachh drive may go up in smoke
NEW DELHI: The Swachh Delhi app may have been launched to make the city cleaner but experts caution that the cleanliness should not be at the cost of worsening Delhi's air quality further. While the...
View ArticleSanitation to get special attention
PUNE: A survey in Pimpri Chinchwad next month will have 15 citizens from each ward giving a feedback about cleanliness in their area. Private agencies carrying out the survey will also make direct...
View Article‘Man-eater’ of Bandipur meets dramatic end
The Bandipur tiger, labelled a “man-eater”, was shot dead in the Hediyala range on Thursday after it pounced on a forest watcher, who was on a combing exercise to dart and tranquilise the animal. The...
View ArticleDEC investigating death of waterbirds along shores of Lake Ontario
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is investigating the deaths of waterbirds found along the shores of Lake Ontario in Wayne, Oswego and Jefferson counties. The dead birds...
View ArticleViral infections on the rise
Rajamani Govindan, a resident of Hennur, is worried about the health of her two school-going children. The cold weather coupled with an increase in mosquitoes and flies are making this young mother...
View ArticleWatchers of weather are busy gauging the rain
BENGALURU: Why does it seem to rain every time you step out? There might be a pattern to it, say people who have been collecting city's weather data in the last eight months sitting at their homes and...
View ArticleTree fall holds up traffic for two hours
The movement of vehicles on the busy Ballari Road was affected for more than two hours after a huge tree crashed down on Friday night. The incident occurred...
View ArticleCollege student dies in road accident
Bengaluru: An 18-year-old second year PU student was killed while his friend suffered injuries after their bike rammed into the compound wall of a burial ground in Malleswaram traffic police station...
View ArticleForest dept lays claim to almost half of Jakkur Plantation Village
'Houses, shops built on 177 acres and 28 guntas of reserve forest land' The Assistant Conservator of Forests, Bengaluru North, has urged the Assistant Commissioner of Bengaluru North subdivision of...
View ArticleSweat not, this skywalk comes with escalator
BENGALURU: To make skywalks more pedestrian friendly and to help senior citizens and children cross the road, a skywalk with escalator is being constructed near...
View ArticleSenior citizen loses leg after SUV hits him
Little did Puttanaiah, a retired surveyor, know that a visit to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike head office on Thursday afternoon would change his life forever. He was at the BBMP office for...
View ArticleEpidemics tighten grip, BBMP finally wakes up
Bengaluru: The continuous downpour coupled with garbage menace has choked the city with epidemics. Not just residents of low-lying areas or slum dwellers, even residents of core areas are falling prey...
View ArticleLate-evening rain, treefall reduce traffic to a crawl
BENGALURU: Sunshine was back in Bengaluru on Friday forenoon but as the day wore on, the clouds rolled in. Late evening, the skies opened up, yet again, catching those heading home from work unawares....
View Article313 trees on the chopping line
There is light at the end of the tunnel for Phase I of the Namma Metro network, and the painstaking construction work for Phase II seems to be on the horizon. However, the first victim is nearly always...
View ArticleBBMP office accident: driver still absconding
Puttanaiah, the 69-year-old retired surveyor who was run over by an SUV on the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike head office premises on Thursday afternoon, now has an...
View Article'BBMP spent Rs 1,218 crore on 1,706-km roads'
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has spent Rs 1,218 crore on 1,706 km-long roads in the City which could not withstand incessant rains in the last 15 days, claimed...
View ArticleBBMP defends lease of its property to JD(S)
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike on Friday defended before the High Court of Karnataka its action to lease out a vacant...
View ArticleWhen motorists battled frustration for hours
For more than two hours, motorists in north Bengaluru battled frustration as the entire roadway seemed to have come to a standstill on Friday evening. A fallen tree — on Ballari Road that leads up to...
View ArticlePolice help sought to track erring garbage contractors
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) seems to have woken up to the menace of garbage being dumped on the sly in villages along national highways. On Friday, BBMP...
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