The Mangalore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) on Saturday formally came to be the first urban development authority in the State to install rooftop solar power unit on its building.

Mangaluru: The Mangaluru City Corporation is on an energy saving mode.

Citizen activists and organisations working in the filed of environment have taken up the no-plastic bag challenge and are making efforts to strictly enforce the ban.

The National Green Tribunal in this landmark judgment imposed a new buffer zone of 75 metres for lakes and wetlands which will be a no-construction zone, as opposed to 30 metres of buffer earlier in Bangalore. The court also ordered Mantri Techzone Private Limited to demolish structures built on buffer zone around lakes and rajakaluves in Bengaluru and ordered Mantri Developers to pay the fine of Rs. 117. 35 Crores.

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Octavia Albuquerque & Others Vs Ministry of Agriculture & Others dated 04/05/2016 regarding Mangalore Fisheries Harbour III Stage Expansion. NGT directs that the creek will not be blocked and instead it will be well defined by providing boundaries such as riveting the edges of banks and the basin will be dredged from the existing level of 0 to -1 meter up to -3 meters so that the sailing vessels as well as fishing boats can have a smooth navigation.

With bore­w­e­lls drying up faster than ever before, some places in the city are facing a water crisis.

Bengaluru: If you are planning to install solar panels on your rooftop and sell the excess power to the grid, you will get lesser money than those who already have the system in place.

The Karnataka government on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking extension of time till June-end to complete the e-auction process for sale of iron and manganese ores in the state.

According to the new rules, buffer zones should be strictly maintained around landfill sites.

The scorching summer and drying up of river Bhima has taken a toll on the inflow of pilgrims to the famous Dattatreya temple at Deval Gangapur on the banks of the Bhima in Afzalpur taluk of the dis

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