When residents of Whitefield felt the government had not done enough to record pollution in the area and formulate remedial plans accordingly, they took matters into their own hands.

BENGALURU: Six years after becoming the first urban body in the country to announce it’ll collect sanitary and medical waste separately, the BBMP’s efforts to put in place a proper mechanism to ens

BENGALURU: In the past 44 days, a pregnant woman and three others have died in Bengaluru due to Influenza A (H1N1) virus as per patient data with the state-run Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Disea

BENGALURU: For the first quarter this year, Graphite India saw its gross sales surge 373% to Rs 1,965 crore and profit rise 49% year-onyear to Rs 957 crore.

Bengaluru: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has rejected the Karnataka government’s proposed run-of-the-river Shivanasamudram hydro-electric power project, citing technicalities on im

Bengaluru: A month after Wipro chairman Azim Premji met chief minister HD Kumaraswamy and offered to work towards fighting air pollution in the state, the government is chalking out a plan with spe

Dr T V Ramachandra, lead scientist at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), who had warned the government in 2015 of the dangers of supplying poorly treated water, to Kolar insists that it is pol

In February, artist Avril Stormy Unger spent 10 hours each day for five days on Old Madras Road, sitting with wilted flowers and an anti-pollution mask, on an over-sized chair, next to an air quali

Karnataka added 5 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity in the last year alone, becoming the leading Indian state in green power. It overtook global leaders like Denmark and the Netherlands.

BENGALURU: A recent study by a senior pulmonologist has revealed that the city’s air pollution is resulting in rising incidence of chronic cough among children.