Residents of Sumadhura Sawan apartments in ITPL area are apprehensive about falling ill. Nowadays, the sight of a single mosquito scares them.

Elephants have been wandering in Kolar and Bangalore Rural districts. The number of people killed by elephants in the villages of the region since Saturday has risen to four.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday announced a relief package of Rs 50 lakh to provide food, clothing, medicine, and to address other basic needs of pilgrims from Karnataka stranded at Kedarn

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to implement compulsory segregation of waste in a phased manner.

Heavy rains that lashed the State’s coastal districts claimed five lives in Dakshina Kannada and two in Kasargod district on Tuesday.

Four persons of a family were killed when a compound wall at a higher reach collapsed on their tiled roof houses below, in the wee hours of Tuesday, at Dalit Colony, Thottilaguri near Bajpe, in Mangalore taluk.

The State government will constitute a Cabinet sub-committee to decide measures to effectively tackle illegal sand mining in the state.

Minister for Public Works Dr H C Mahadevappa told presspersons here on Tuesday that he would be heading the sub-committee to be set up soon. “We will try to prepare a policy in the next three months to regulate sand mining.”

For residents of Iblur (near Sarjapur outer ring road), water crisis has become a way of life. They are heavily dependent on water tankers to meet their daily needs. The onset of monsoon has brought no respite to them.

Mallikarjun, a resident, said: “For the past 30 years, the water issue has been persisting. We neither get CMC (City Municipal Corporation) water nor Cauvery water regularly.“

'Second phase of Kudcemp work will deal with water supply'

The urban development department is pursuing the proposal to include Mangalore under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM), said Urban Development Minister Vinaya Kumar Sorake.

The State government is planning to provide sugar and wheat to Above Poverty Line (APL) ration cardholders under the Public Distribution System (PDS), Food and Civil Supplies Minister Dinesh Gundu

The country’s inability to achieve all the tenets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by the established deadline has prompted various City-based volunteer organisations to compile recommenda