The panel, in its previous meetings, had decided to review the state-owned polluting industries set up in the ecologically sensitive zone.

Environment protection groups, Save Bangalore Lakes Trust (SBLT) and Namma Bengaluru Foundation (NBF), have brought out a report on the encroachment of lakes in the City.

Housing Minister M H Ambarish on Wednesday said that the government is upgrading 26 slums in the State at a cost of Rs 1,347 crore under the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY).

The government has asked the Lokayukta to reopen cases against officers for their role in alleged irregularities at MML.

The State government will release Rs 250 crore in two instalments to mitigate drinking water shortage during summer, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister H K Patil has said.

The installation work of the five-tonne-capacity biomethanisation power plant is under progress at KR Market in the City.

Bangalore generates 57,000 MT of electronic waste a year, reveals Assocham study.

Banana plantation damaged due to heavy rain in HD Kote taluk of Mysore district on Monday.

Rain and thundershowers in several parts of Karnataka claimed seven lives on Monday. While five died of lightning, two were electrocuted after they came in contact with a live wire in Tumkur and Davangere districts.

With the City facing an unusually sizzling summer, it has brought in its wake a spurt in the cases of chicken pox, especially among children.

While popular opinion states that Western Ghats are a source of capturing rainfall and water resources, a series of studies conducted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has shown that rainfa

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