Traffic police launch campaign on lane discipline
The traffic police kick-started a campaign on lane discipline at a programme sponsored by DriveU app, by setting out a flock of ducklings on the stage, in the City on Monday. C H...
View ArticleMy goal is to find an immediate solution: Subodh Yadav
Bengaluru: As garbage menace continues to affect the city, newly-appointed Special Commissioner (Solid Waste Management) Subodh Yadav, who took charge on Friday, stressed that immediate solution to...
View ArticlePre-cast elements block footpath
For years now, several blocks of pre-cast elements have been lined up by the side of the road. Apart from making the footpath completely inaccessible for the pedestrians, the spot has also become...
View ArticleMinister Ramalinga Reddy's promise of pothole-free roads turns a farce
The November 1 deadline set by the authorities to rid the City of potholes has ended. But scores of potholes still dot many roads. The State government and the civic agencies, in particular the Bruhat...
View ArticleTug-of-war over National College grounds
A banner outside the popular National College grounds in Jayanagar 7th Block warning trespassers has come as a surprise to many locals. A tug-of-war has broken out over the south Bengaluru landmark....
View ArticleRoad caves in, forms treacherous crater
A small portion of the road caved in on Sunday in Subramanyanagar near Malleswaram. A crater, about a meter in diameter, had formed on the...
View ArticleHeavy rain brings along deluge of problems
Citizens who faced a myriad of hardships following heavy rains on Monday took to the social media to express their anguish at the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) poor civic infrastructure...
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 ArticleShowers, festival trash compound garbage woes
One-and-half times more waste generated Even as the City is still grappling with piles of garbage generated during Dasara and before, the first two days of Deepavali has further worsened the situation....
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 ArticleRain whips up more froth in Bellandur
It was a nightmarish experience yet again for those living around or passing by Bellandur Lake on Tuesday. The highly polluted water body erupted again, with high volumes of froth spilling on to the...
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 ArticleNovo Nordisk partners with BBMP for diabetes day initiative
Free diabetes screening was conducted for all pourakarmikas from the East zone of BBMP Marking World Diabetes Day, Novo Nordisk Education Foundation, organised the launch of a diabetes campaign in...
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 ArticleBengaluru Police and BBMP join hands with HCG for breast cancer awareness
HCG launched free breast screening programme for all the Paurakarmikas of BBMP and women officers with Karnataka Police HCG – The Specialist in Cancer Care launched their initiative called 'Love Your...
View ArticleAroma of lemon grass greets visitors to KCDC
All landfill sites around Bengaluru City can be identified by the stench emanating from them. However, the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) landfill near Kudlu, off Bommanahalli, is an...
View ArticleGarbage rears its ugly head again
Politics, they say, is down in the dumps. In the case of protests against garbage dumping at Doddaballapur, it may literally be so. The communities living around the processing plants in Doddaballapur...
View ArticleTackling garbage problem top priority, says George
Newly appointed Bengaluru Development Minister K J George on Monday said he would accord top priority to solving the garbage problem and treatment of sewage water generated in the City. Speaking to...
View ArticlePergola collapse: citizens shouldn’t pay for BBMP’s negligence, says MLA
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has been blamed for the collapse of the pergola on 20-year-old Harshitha Umesh at Sankey Tank on Tuesday evening, which has caused injuries to her...
View ArticleDid BBMP follow road-building standards? Rain gave the answer
'Palike doesn't follow specifications in contract or PWD's code' The severe damage caused to roads across the City following incessant rainfall over the past few weeks has raised serious doubts about...
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