Yadgir district in-charge to meet Chief Minister today

Residents of Gogi village and surrounding places, along with local legislators, have strongly opposed uranium mining by the Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. (UCIL) in their village in Yadgir district and have demanded that the Government cancel the project, which they fear will cause health hazards.

A high-level committee headed by Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath on Wednesday cleared a Rs. 2,792-crore road project under the Karnataka State Highway Improvement Project.

Addressing presspersons here, Minister for Public Works C.M. Udasi said the State highways would be developed in different parts of the State under the project and Rs. 800 crore would be spent before end of 2011-12.

The Centre has, at last, given its nod to the State Forest department to translocate 25 wild elephants that have terrorised the local residents in the Alur forest range of Hassan district.

Union Minister of State for Railways K H Muniyappa announced that the State government had agreed to provide land for the construction of three new lines, for which the survey has been completed.

It is close to a year since the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) formed an expert committee to look into the short and long-term plans to meet the growing demand for water in the City.

Although the committee is tight-lipped about details of their seven meetings, most of their long-term plans include river and stream diversion from different parts of the State.

Another vital water body seems to be on the verge of extinction despite strict guidelines by the High Court to the BBMP to conserve them.

The rules to regulate exploitation of ground water will come into effect by early December, P N Sreenivasachary, Secretary, Water Resource Department (Minor Irrigation) has said.

Bio-medical waste management is crucial for a balance in the environment.

Karnataka Government is in the process of preparing an action plan to preserve ecology that had ''deteriorated'' following mining activities, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said today.

Facing a separate investigation by the CBI for allegedly amassing illegal wealth, YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy may also be made a co-accused in the illegal mining case against former Kar