Move comes after HC flayed BWSSB for failure to check contamination

The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), along with the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), is all set to test water samples of 50 borewells, including dug wells, in 110 villages on the outskirts of the City from Monday.

The Centre on Tuesday approved a Rs 588-crore highway project in Karnataka under its flagship road building programme.

About 60 pc of positive cases reported from private hospitals

Power to be generated from 50 proposed projects, including Gundia

Even as the State continues to face frequent power shortage, the government has said that it will create an energy bank of 21,614 MW by the end of the financial year 2021-22.

The High Court of Karnataka on Monday directed the State government to furnish details in a day on the status of borewells in the City.

The governments, both at the Central and State levels, have realised the need to reduce the use of fossil fuels and implement the biofuel programmes, said Additional Chief Secretary and Development

Focus on eliminating middlemen to help farmers

The State Cabinet on Thursday is learnt to have constituted a sub-committee to draft an agriculture marketing policy which among others would provide thrust to infrastructure and help provide facilities to farmers to take their produce directly to the retailers by eliminating middlemen in the process.

The State Cabinet, on Thursday, is learnt to have decided to constitute a sub-committee to suggest recommendations on whether changes could be made in relevant legislation to allow regularisation o

BBMP commissioner M Lakshminarayana said on Wednesday that the garbage crisis may become a thing of the past in the next two years.

Addressing the gathering at the launch of the zero garbage programme in Vishwanatha Nagenahalli, Gangenahalli and Jayachamarajendra Nagar, Lakshminarayana emphasised on the need for public participation to make Bangalore free of litter. The garbage crisis has earned a bad name for the City. He said the BBMP will strive to restore the City’s glory.

It will also look into drought-like situation in 51 taluks in State

The State government will set up a Cabinet sub-committee headed by Revenue Minister V Sreenivas Prasad to look into natural calamities in the State.