The new system will check illegal sale of notified or acquired properties

At a time when acquisition of land for public purposes has almost become synonymous with fraud and cheating, the Revenue department has a taken a big step forward to not only prevent hoodwinking of land owners and buyers but also ensure speedy acquisition.

Hailing Karnataka’s efforts in providing better public transport system, the Centre on Wednesday sanctioned 2,104 buses to the State under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM).

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to implement the Directorate of Urban Land Transport’s (DULT) recommendations on parking fees in the City.

Penal clauses have to be ratified by court, says official.

In the name of ridding Bangalore of its mounting garbage problem, senior officials are planning yet another trip to Salem in Tamil Nadu. This will be their third trip in as many years.

The parents of Shoaib, five, and Imran, three, got worried when the staff of a Born Learning Centre (BLC), who visited their house at Hennur in the City five months ago, told them that the brothers

The eco groups launch signature campaign against implementation of the scheme

Terming the Yettinahole drinking water project as “ill conceived and skewed,” environment groups have launched a signature campaign, demanding that the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) take a re-look at the same.

Poorly managed drains, encroached catchment areas are culprits

Heavy rain which lashed Bangalore for the last two days may have been a welcome development for a City reeling under a severe water crisis for the last two years, but they proved inadequate to fill a majority of lakes here.

TN opposes K'taka's move to build hydel reserviours across Cauvery

Even though the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha has raised objections to Karnataka’s plans to construct hydel reservoirs across the Cauvery river and modernise canals within its territory, the final award of the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal does not prevent the State from constructing any new projects within its boundary.

The State Forest department is all set to capture around 150 to 200 wild elephants that are “in continued conflict with humans”, and hold them captive to put an end to the problem “once and for all