Though the use of non-standard plastic is banned, many hotels and food stalls in the city blatantly use it.

Karnataka is setting up a Natural Calamities Relief Fund with a corpus of Rs 125 crore to reduce hardships of the people hit by such disasters besides meeting the demands of the affected district

Forest Minister Ramanath Rai on Wednesday stated that the State government has no plans of carving out new elephant corridor but has, nonetheless, allocated Rs 109.37 crore to a comprehensive project aimed at reducing man-animal conflict.
The project has been envisaged for 15 districts which have seen heightened elephant activity.

The government has prepared a Rs 109-crore comprehensive project to contain man-animal conflict in the backdrop of the increasing number of elephant attacks.

The scheme aims to provide 30 kg rice every month to families under BPL at subsidised rate of Re 1 per kg via PDS

The first populous scheme of the Karnataka government, Anna Bhagya rice scheme, as promised in its election manifesto, will be launched tomorrow in Mysore district benefiting nearly six lakh BPL card holders.

Bangalore, known for its salubrious climate, according to Central Pollution Control Board Senior Scientist M Madhusudanan, is among 24 most critically polluted cities today.

Stressing upon the need to stop encroachments along the elephant corridor, the High Court, on Thursday, called for steps to stop incidents of elephants entering human habitats and repeated recurren

Huge profit margin lures even influential politicians.

The Health department on Wednesday confirmed that two people had died in the last five months, till May 28, due to dengue.

MYSORE: Even as the number of dengue cases mounted on Monday, a six-year-child, who is tested positive to the fever, is battling for life at Cheluvamba Hospital for Women and Children.