When a residential complex near Bellandur Junction recently drilled a borewell, they found water at a depth of 1,050 ft. "This is the sixth borewell we got drilled in 10 years.

BENGALURU: Whitefield resident Dharani M takes her seven-year-old son to a physician thrice a month. "This is because he keeps complaining of respiratory problems.

GAURIBIDANUR (CHIKKABALLAPUR DISTRICT): Until last month, Thimmakka had to blow her lungs out even to make a cup of coffee. And this had been her ritual for 40 years now. Not any more.

BENGALURU: The BBMP has decided not to lift waste if it is not segregated at source.

BENGALURU: The Karnataka government has proposed to acquire huge tract of land exclusively for dumping and processing city's garbage.

BENGALURU: At the wedding of Titan CEO Bhaskar Bhat's daughter on October 25, over 2,000 bottles of mineral water were used.

Karnataka state government signed an MoU on Monday with Netherlands' government for a waste to energy technology which will be utilised to dispose Bengaluru filth.

The anganwadi at a slum in southeast Bengaluru opens at 10.30am, but a group of barefooted children, clad in old and torn clothes throng the premises by 9am itself.

BENGALURU: On Tuesday , the narrow lanes of a slum near the Don Bosco Church in Lingarajpuram, east Bengaluru, wore a clean look.

If you haven't installed the rainwater-harvesting unit at your house yet, then cough up a huge penalty from December.