The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday directed the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to file an affidavit for ‘interfering with the court proceedings’ in the matter of setting up a
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday gave a dressing down to the chairpersons of Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Board and Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board on their failure to implement its orders to prevent manual scavenging in the State.
Area selected for project is near tank that quenches animals’ thirst
The State government’s initiative to restore the glory of ‘Gandhadagudi’ (abode of sandalwood) in the State through its ‘Siri Chandanavana’ project does not seem to be in order.
Boost to protection of green belt around Bangalore
In a big boost to the protection of green belt around Bangalore, the State Minor Irrigation Department has taken up a project to rejuvenate and fence 18 tanks located within the green belt limits, after clearing encroachments.
New Delhi The report of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) on Karnataka’s mining sector, expected to be submitted to the Supreme Court this week, has the state steel industry on the tenterhooks.
Steel companies in the state, including Kirloskar Ferrous Industries and BMM Ispat, are a worried
NTPC Ltd's first ultra-mega power project (UMPP) of 4,000 MW, coming up at Kudgi in Bijapur district of Karnataka, is all set to award contracts for the first phase of 3 by 800 MW once it secures n
The Supreme Court appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC), headed by PV Jayakrishnan, today visited the mining areas in Tumuti in the district to monitor the ongoing survey and demarcation of mining leases in the area as directed by the apex court.
The survey and demarcation was conducted by personnel from revenue, forest, mining and geological departments, along with Bellary Deputy Commissioner Aditya Amlan Biswas, official sources said.
Experts have made several recommendations to the government including long distance translocation of jumbos to resolve the man-animal conflict in Sakaleshpur taluk of Hassan district.
After a daylong workshop on Saturday organised by the Forest Department, Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara said, that the experts have suggested that the area which holds small population of elephants is not viable for conservation.
25 acres for Amritanandamayi Trust to set up hospital, medical college
The State Cabinet on Thursday went on a land allotment spree sanctioning prime real estate in different parts of the State to private players and government agencies for commercial, industrial and residential purposes.
Hundreds of farmers staged a protest in front of the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) office on Thursday night, as there was no breakthrough in talks between farmers demanding compensation for
