Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
Federation of Jayanagar Residents' Associations had organised a spot inspection to clear doubts on the Metro Rail project on Nanda Road, here on Saturday. Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) managing director N Sivasailam and Jayanagar MLA B N Vijayakumar joined the inspection to clarify apprehension on the number of …
A few residents of Jagajeevanramnagar staged a flash protest in front of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) office on Friday demanding compensation for a labourer who died of Malaria. Compensation sought The deceased, Maruthi (36), was rushed to the Victoria Hospital around 11.30 am. He failed to respond to …
The division bench headed by Justice N Kumar directed the BMRCL not to fell trees along both Lalbagh as well as the Lakshman Rao Park boulevard, where the metro rail alignment is planned. The High Court has directed the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) not to fell trees along …
Hasiru Usiru had earlier lodged a complaint with Siddapura police against 'Namma Metro' authorities on Monday, for tree-felling activities. Hasiru Usiru, the green NGO has made a representation to Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bangalore South, Krishna Bhat and Assistant Commissioner of Police, Jayanagar, Ramesh Chandra on Tuesday, to protect public …
On the whole 281 patients with fever have visited camps and hospitals for their dose of Paracetamol. Suspect chikungunya cases are rising in DJ Halli area. On Sunday around 100 new patients were treated at the BBMP health camps and 28 new cases were reported at the DJ Halli Hospital. …
P M Raghunandan, Bangalore: Owners of private properties within 150 metres of the proposed Namma Metro stations across the City have reasons to cheer. They will now be allowed to construct high-rise buildings in accordance with the Bangalore Development Authoritys Master Plan 2015. The State government has made a provision …
"Twenty four doctors are already on duty at BIA to screen international passengers", Regional Director Health & Family Welfare Services, Dr Anbazhagan said. In the wake of World Health Organisation warning that a global swine flu pandemic was imminent, Bengaluru International Airport has already put in place a team of …
Chikungunya outbreak in DJ Halli is getting worse. Of the 450 suspected chikungunya cases treated at the DJ Halli hospital since Saturday, 165 cases were reported on Wednesday alone. Many of these cases are reported to have been confirmed. Hospital sources said eight of the cases reported on Wednesday were …
Close to a thousand passengers were screened at the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) here on Wednesday, following the outbreak of the deadly swine flu in Mexico, USA and parts of Europe. Dr Shanmuganandan from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GOI said,
As trees disappear across the City to make way for the Metro and new roads, twin giants have been given a new lease of life by a tree-lover. Bangalore cardiologist Dr Ramana Rao paid roughly Rs one lakh from his pocket to relocate two enormous peepal trees - one aged …
Hasiru Usiru and Environment Support Group, NGOs protesting against the BMRCL for construction of the Lalbagh station and tree felling at Lakshman Rao boulevard, has now alleged that bonded child labour is prevalent in the construction of Namma Metro. In a release issued here on Tuesday, Leo F Saldanha said …
Noted environmentalist and former Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Dr A N Yellappa Reddy has said that the alignment issue should not be allowed to stall the Namma Metro project at the present juncture.
The message was loud and clear: Shelve plan to acquire Lalbagh, change alignment of Namma Metro. With no response from the State government over the R V Road alignment and construction activity of Lalbagh station progressing,
Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore: Residents of NGEF Layout, Sanjaynagar have been fighting a battle in vain against Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike (BBMP), which has reportedly turned a blind eye against an illegal garbage dumping site in the locality. No relief seems to be in sight for the residents, who …
Subir Roy / New Delhi April 22, 2009, 0:46 IST After a gap of five years, the good people of Bangalore have come forward again to make their presence felt. And the area of action could not have been better chosen
More than a 100 protesters, including members of Hasiru Usiru staged yet another protest in a Padayatra outside the Lalbagh on R V Road here on Tuesday demanding that the metro alignment be shelved. Vinay Sreenivasa of the green NGO, said the BMRCL must drop the R V Road alignment …
By Michelle Cherian The only genuine untouched lung spaces are the famed Cubbon Park and Lal Bagh, besides the large tracts that the army has inherited from the British in the Cantonment area. There is very little original tree cover left in Bangalore. And the only genuine untouched lung spaces …
Two children at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital tested positive for cholera by the hanging drops method, here on Monday. The children were referred to Isolation Hospital, from where their samples may be sent to the Public Health Institute for culture tests. The two children Zaiba (3) and Selvi (12), …
