The City’s hopes of getting a Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) may have floundered in red tape, but the State government has offered Bangaloreans a fresh ray of hope that BRTS can be made a reality.

MGNREGS wages paid to non-beneficiaries, before their names were deleted

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report that was tabled in the Assembly on Tuesday hinted at large-scale irregularities while implementing projects taken up under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) between 2007 and 2012.

Residents of Samruddhi Layout are up in arms against a proposed garbage segregation unit on a park site close to Gowdanapalya Lake in Padmanabhanagar ward.

Excess arsenic found in borewell water samples in four taluks of Raichur, Yadgir.

The State government will take a decision on processing the application by Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited (KIOCL) on seeking a 116.55 hectare mining lease at Hosahalli in Chikanayakanahalli tal

Forest Minister Ramanath Rai on Wednesday stated that the State government has no plans of carving out new elephant corridor but has, nonetheless, allocated Rs 109.37 crore to a comprehensive project aimed at reducing man-animal conflict.
The project has been envisaged for 15 districts which have seen heightened elephant activity.

Residents of KR Puram village remember the lake in their vicinity as a brimming water body at one point in time. But the once-abundant K R Puram lake is now being lost to unabated encroachment and increasing constructional activities in its surroundings.

The lake, which was located on either side of a narrow road in the KR Puram village was developed by the Lake Development Authority (LDA) and a private firm on a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model in the year 2006.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah reiterated on Wednesday that Bangalore would be garbage-free in six months.

“The State government will extend all possible help to the BBMP to make the City free from waste,” he said after inaugurating the ambitious ‘Kasa Muktha Bengaluru’ (garbage-free Bangalore), a pilot scheme to make 22 select wards free from trash.

Action likely against IPS officer Sonia Narang for 'helping' illegal miners.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday informed the Legislative Assembly that the government would soon announce a sanitation policy and build public toilets in Bangalore in proportion to the City’s population.

He was replying to a question by Shivajinagar MLA R Roshan Baig (Congress) who said that were only 504 public toilets in the City, while the requirement is not less than 5,000.