Bengaluru Civic Issues

Dire water shortages, flooding, gridlocked roads and poor civic facilities have become major issues in Bengaluru, residents in India's tech hub said as they voted on Friday in the Lok Sabha elections.

However, amid the chorus of grievances, many people defended the situation. Arguments surfaced, blaming the app's algorithm for assigning drivers located miles away, thereby exacerbating wait times.

Corrugated metal sheets that blocked the doorways to two apartments in Bengaluru with COVID-19 cases, sealing off residents inside their homes without a thought for emergencies, were taken down on Thursday evening after the move triggered an outcry. The commissioner of the city's civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) also issued an a...

Nearly 3.5 crore people in Karnataka voted on Saturday at the end of a rancorous campaign that saw the PM Narendra Modi and Congress' Rahul Gandhi throw themselves into the campaign and hurl barbs at each other for weeks. But as people in Karnataka capital Bengaluru stepped out to vote, many suggested civic issues would take priority when they vote...

The country's top green court today issued a strong warning to the Karnataka government and the civic authorities of state capital Bengaluru for failing to control the pollution in the frothing, fuming Bellandur lake. The state had been given a month's deadline to clean up the lake, which gets over on May 19, but has failed to finish the job.

As part of a new Bengaluru Rising initiative, 10000 people have been questioned across the city to understand what their biggest civic concerns are - and to convey those priorities to the city's mayor and corporators.

Maintaining suspense over his party's move, Janata Dal (Secular) chief HD Deve Gowda today made it clear that he is in no hurry or 'anxious' to take a call on the issue of extending support either to the ruling Congress or BJP to take control of the city civic body.

With the municipal elections due this Saturday, the residents of Bengaluru are thinking more than usual about the civic challenges faced by the city. A garden city that first turned into the country's IT capital, became a pensioner's paradise, and is now a startup town.

The Karnataka High Court has warned Bangalore's civic body, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), that it would be superseded if it finds that politics is being played while dealing with the garbage issue in the city. This is the second rap from the court in less than three weeks to do the clean-up act.

Dire water shortages, flooding, gridlocked roads and poor civic facilities have become major issues in Bengaluru, residents in India's tech hub said as they voted on Friday in the Lok Sabha elections.

However, amid the chorus of grievances, many people defended the situation. Arguments surfaced, blaming the app's algorithm for assigning drivers located miles away, thereby exacerbating wait times.

Corrugated metal sheets that blocked the doorways to two apartments in Bengaluru with COVID-19 cases, sealing off residents inside their homes without a thought for emergencies, were taken down on Thursday evening after the move triggered an outcry. The commissioner of the city's civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) also issued an a...

Nearly 3.5 crore people in Karnataka voted on Saturday at the end of a rancorous campaign that saw the PM Narendra Modi and Congress' Rahul Gandhi throw themselves into the campaign and hurl barbs at each other for weeks. But as people in Karnataka capital Bengaluru stepped out to vote, many suggested civic issues would take priority when they vote...

The country's top green court today issued a strong warning to the Karnataka government and the civic authorities of state capital Bengaluru for failing to control the pollution in the frothing, fuming Bellandur lake. The state had been given a month's deadline to clean up the lake, which gets over on May 19, but has failed to finish the job.

As part of a new Bengaluru Rising initiative, 10000 people have been questioned across the city to understand what their biggest civic concerns are - and to convey those priorities to the city's mayor and corporators.

Maintaining suspense over his party's move, Janata Dal (Secular) chief HD Deve Gowda today made it clear that he is in no hurry or 'anxious' to take a call on the issue of extending support either to the ruling Congress or BJP to take control of the city civic body.

With the municipal elections due this Saturday, the residents of Bengaluru are thinking more than usual about the civic challenges faced by the city. A garden city that first turned into the country's IT capital, became a pensioner's paradise, and is now a startup town.

The Karnataka High Court has warned Bangalore's civic body, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), that it would be superseded if it finds that politics is being played while dealing with the garbage issue in the city. This is the second rap from the court in less than three weeks to do the clean-up act.