The Mines and Geology Department has named six of its former directors and joint directors as being involved in 20 different cases of illegal mining over the past six years in the State.

The names include those of M E Shivalingamurthy (IAS), Gangaram Baderia (IAS), K S Prabhakar (IAS), Basappa Reddy, D R Veeranna and H M Khayum Ali. While Basappa Reddy retired as the director of the department, Veeranna and Ali were additional directors.

Blame put on delay in forming standing committees

The delay by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in forming 12 standing committees has affected the green drive so much that not a single seedling has been planted in the City out of Palike funds this year, officials say.

Government school children in the State, in class one to nine, will soon have an addition to their mid-day meal plate on Saturdays, a boiled egg or a banana.

The BBMP has, for over an year now, been trying to promote segregation of waste at source. But the civic body’s efforts had not paid much dividends.

Leachate flowing with rain water contaminates Mavallipura's lifeline

Good rains after two years of drought are always a welcome proposition, but not for the residents of Mavallipura as the showers have only brought miseries to them.

As if the City’s shameful traffic jams were not enough to worsen the living conditions, the ceaseless sounding of horn by motorists, especially near hospitals, has begun to badly affect the recover

A portion of the Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP), which draws thousands of tourists everyday, will be closed following the sudden outbreak of foot and mouth (F and M) disease.

The Bangalore Apartments Federation (BAF), which was formed on September 15, has called for more apartment associations to join the fight to reduce water charges.

Orissa govt raising an army of trained elephants. Orissa has been facing the problem of pachyderms frequently raiding human habitations.

The organised sector handles only 10 per cent of e-waste. The rest is handled by the unorganised sector that employs unscientific methods.

Bangalore surely basked in the global glory of its “IT hub” tag for years. Thanks to the huge IT revenues it generated and the big ticket firms that dug deep roots here, Bangalore deserved that. But now, it is wake up time. No, not from its unrelenting garbage piles or its mounting civic problems, but this time from the rising threat of its electronic waste. Rising because, the city’s e-waste volumes are going beyond 18,000 metric tonnes per annum, an astounding piece of statistic brought home by a recent Assocham survey.