Tension ran high in Mavallipuram village near Yelahanka on Wednesday morning when villagers laid seige to the Ramky garbage management facility and locked up the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) personnel and the facility authorities.
The Thippagondanahalli reservoir (TGR), which caters to the water requirements of over one million people, is in the danger of drying up completely by 2016 if urgent redressal measures are not taken, cautioned a retired official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Vacant private plots of land where owners have dug their own borewells have emerged as major supply points for water at Mahadevapura and Kaggadasapura.
In India, the first Self Help Group (SHG) emerged in 1985, with the initiative of the Mysore Resettlement and Development Agency (MYRADA), a non-governmental organisation for promotion of self-help affinity groups; watershed, water and wasteland management.
India's first butterfly park, also the largest in the world, was opened to pubic in November, 2006 at Bangalore. Biotech News requested some of the people involved in the establishment of this unique facility, to re-visit the park and provide a feedback.
Two nanomaterials make polymers 400 times better it takes a research team from Bengaluru 10 days to prepare a batch of the compound it hopes would revolutionize the world. The compound consists of polyvinyl alcohol, a polymer, mixed with two carbon nanomaterials. There is a tremendous increase in the stiffness and hardness of the polymer
The Arkavathy River Conservation Forum is taking out a four-day padayatra from Nandi hills to Thippagondanahalli covering 101 kms from September 3, to create awareness among people on the need for reviving the dried up Arkavathy river.
The State government has decided to include Chikkaballapur, Bangalore rural, Gadag and Haveri districts under the National Horticulture Mission. With this, all districts of the State have been covered under the Mission.
