Rs 250-crore terminal to be built at Hebbal on PPP model
The State government has submitted a proposal to the Centre to provide 500 buses to the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM).
It seems the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) cannot wait to get its hands on the prized piece of land at Karnataka Rehabilitation Centre, commonly known as Beggars’ Colony.
Though all the 203 GPs of the district won the Nirmal Gram Puraskar, the development model crashed like pack of cards within in no time of winning the award.
Taking note of this, the Zilla Panchayat has taken steps to sustain the works undertaken during the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) by appointing NGOs as nodal agencies to each of the five taluks, with an aim to monitor hygiene and create awareness.
A day after the Palike attempted to put up a construction at the Yediyur lake, it now appears that the project had been planned for a while.
According to local residents, the draining of lake started last week with the demolition of the lake bund, surreptitiously. Anand, a local resident, said he was witness to the act when he was walking along the lake.
The Forest Department will shortly provide a revolving fund of Rs three lakh to each village forest committee across the State, under a Rs 1,100-crore special project, Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwa
After the four-laning of National Highway, no agriculture activities were taken up on this land. However, now the farmers have a ray of hope of cultivating paddy thrice a year.
The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday sought a status report on the super critical thermal power station at Yermarus in Raichur district, proposed to be set up by the Karnataka Power Corporation L
Palike plans to develop an island in the water body
Damage control: Members of the Hasiru Usiru work to fill a rupture on the Yediyur Lake embankment. Yediyur lake, one of the few remaining water bodies in the City, may soon shrink in size or even perish if the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has its way.
The CBI probe into illegal mining involving Associated Mining Company of former Karnataka minister G Janardhan Reddy has revealed that as much as 32.9 lakh tonnes of iron ore, estimated to cost aro
