The worries for City's biggest living lake stem from the recent frothing in the Bellandur and Varthur lakes.

Heaps of garbage are being cleared by BBMP workers at the KR Market on Tuesday. KPN

People wait for Swine flu checkup outside H1N1 flu ward at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Disease in Bengaluru.

The Bengaluru Urban district administration has identified 79 abandoned quarries, covering an area of 184 acres on the outskirts of the City, to serve as landfills for the piling City garbage which

Smoking seen as one of the biggest risk factors for the disease

The Doddabidarakallu lake is dying due to rampant encroachments, apathy of civic agencies and discharge of sewage into the waterbody.

The Centre has decided to expedite the task of mapping of aquifers for better management of water as groundwater is depleting fast due to over exploitation.

The Subramanyapura lake will be relegated to history if the government agencies and other stakeholders do not take measures, both immidiate and long-term, to stem the rot, said a report prepared by

The callousness of government agencies to protect lakes and the helplessness of the citizens in rejuvenating them were the highlights of a discussion on Thursday.

Touts strike deals in Aland and Afzalpur taluks; blow to agro-economy feared