Hold your nose this Diwali
BENGALURU: The festival of lights is here but citizens are still in the dark about how long they've to put up with the stink from garbage heaps in their neighbourhood. Though the...
View Article6 months on, fumes still rising from trash at Terra Firma
Fumes are still emanating from the mounds of garbage at Terra Firma landfill more than six months after a fire broke out there. This was noticed during...
View ArticleExpect BBMP performance reports soon: Mayor
The audit and administrative reports on performance of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will soon be tabled before the council within three months and will later be made public, said Mayor...
View Article'Mr CM, come here and see how we live amid stinking trash'
Agitating villagers reject request to meet Siddu, want him to visit instead There seems to be no immediate solution to Bengaluru’s garbage problem as villagers living near the two waste-processing...
View ArticleBBMP plans tar plants to speed up pothole-filling exercise
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), in a bid to speed up the process of filling City potholes, is planning to set up four tar manufacturing plants under Public-Private partnership (PPP)...
View ArticleIt's the same old story of Bengaluru, the garbage city
As protests go on near landfills, BBMP looks at plastic ban for relief Bengaluru’s garbage problem, which was temporarily resolved after the waste-processing unit at Mandur was shut last year, is...
View ArticleNow, Veerananjipura residents warn of protest against dumping of trash
Residents of Veerananjipura in Nelamangala taluk are a frustrated lot. They angry with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) for indiscriminately dumping waste in their village. When at least...
View ArticleTraders clean filthy streets, but BBMP takes credit
Having fed up with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) apathy towards clearing mounds of garbage in the last few days, shopkeepers in and around Majestic took up the task of clearing the...
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 Article'Don't kill our kids to keep your city clean'
BENGALURU: The garbage gridlock worsened on Thursday. As the muck piles grew larger in Bengaluru city, furious villagers of Dodda mankalala in Doddaballapur, about 50 kms away, dug their heels in. "Why...
View ArticleBBMP lacks manpower to collect rent
That the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is cash-strapped is known. But what is new now is that the civic body does not have the requisite manpower to collect rent from its tenants. The BBMP...
View ArticleRoads 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 ArticleBBMP official slashes fine on Fortis Hospital
Buckling under political pressure, the Joint Commissioner (Health) of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), reduced the penalty imposed on Fortis Hospital, for not disposing of medical waste, from...
View ArticleBBMP joins hands for campaign on diabetes
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and Novo Nordisk Education Foundation launched a campaign to mark Diabetes Day in the City on Wednesday. A free screening camp and diabetes awareness...
View ArticleBBMP south zone lags in property tax collection
The members of BBMP Taxation and Finance Committee on Tuesday took the revenue officials of the Palike south zone to task for their failure to collect property tax. A day after releasing the list of...
View ArticleGarbage: talks with Doddaballapur communities fail
Communities living around the two garbage processing units at Doddaballapur refused to withdraw their protest, even after Bengaluru Development Minister K.J. George, city Mayor B.N. Manjunath Reddy and...
View ArticleGovt may acquire 1,000 acres to dump waste
BENGALURU: The Karnataka government has proposed acquiring huge tracts of land exclusively for dumping and processing the city's garbage. Replying to the debate on the issue in the assembly on Monday,...
View ArticleFroth on Bellandur lake brought under control
The temporary measures taken by various civic agencies to contain foaming at Bellandur lake fetched some results on Thursday. The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara...
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 ArticleFoul smell from KCDC landfill continues to bother residents
Citizens rubbish Palike's claims on odour control The foul smell emanating from the waste-processing unit of Karnataka Compost Development Corporation at Kudlu off Bommanahalli continues to bother the...
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