Lakes In Bangalore

A college student's body has been found this morning near a Bengaluru lake, just days after he sent a video to his parentsasking them to provide 50 lakhs as ransom to his kidnappers.

Bosch has taken the decision to close the plant after the KSPCB directed closure of all industrial units within the catchment area of Bellandur lake in Bengaluru.

The National Green Tribunal today directed an immediate and complete shutdown of all industries around Bengaluru's Bellandur Lake where a mound of garbage was set on fire in February this year.

The terrible froth in Bengaluru's Bellandur lake has flared up again after a bout of rain on Sunday. The net that was fixed around the lake to try and hold the foam back collapsed. For the last two days, Gouts of foam with embedded dirt and muck came onto the road, spattering passers-by -the same foam had brought media attention to the plight of th...

We are in a country which has launched 104 satellites in one shot, setting a world record. Is it too much to ask for?

A fire erupted at 4 pm yesterday on Bellandur Lake in Bengaluru, causing drivers to swerve dangerously.

Bengaluru's lakes have become famous for potent declarations of the pollution they are swamped under - in recent months, three were covered with foam, another burst into flames. Today, the Ulsoor Lake was seen covered with thousands of dead fish, adding a new disastrous photo-op for a city often tagged as India's Silicon Valley.

The judge was disgusted. Four bureaucrats stood meekly before him, their heads bowed. In May, he had ordered them to inspect the damage wrought by development near an ecologically sensitive lake bed in Bangalore, one of India's fastest-growing cities. But their report left the judge far from impressed.

With familiar-sounding promises to clear out the garbage on streets, fix traffic jams, mend potholes and clean up filthy lakes, aspirants for the Bengaluru civic polls have jumped into the fray. Their first task at hand? Raise the offensive on opponents.

Nobody is in charge of Bengaluru's lakes - at least that is the impression, with any government department you ask putting the blame for the terrible condition of the city's waterbodies on each other.

Members of the Central Pollution Control Board or CPCB visited the Varthur lake in Bengaluru on Saturday after repeated complaints from angry residents to local athourites about the spilling of toxic water into the roads of the Whitefield area in the city.

Authorities in Bengaluru have begun a 10-day demolition drive to recover land allegedly encroached from the bed of the Puttenahalli Lake in the southern part of the city. The drive follows demolition notices that had been issued to a number of homes and apartment complexes in the area a month ago.

Virat Kohli is leading the Royal Challengers Bangalore and was part of the captains' conclave in the opening ceremony of IPL 2015. His girlfriend Anushka Sharma, set the floor afire with her dazzling performance at the event in Kolkata's Salt Lake Stadium.

A satellite-based study has indicated that a huge glacial lake has formed atop the Himalayas in Sikkim with a "very high" potential for it to burst and create devastation downstream.

In yet another example of reverse technology transfer, a product developed by Nualgi Nano Biotech (NNB), a low profile biotech company here, is helping Americans to clean up polluted lakes. A three-acre Duck Pond in Croton-On-Hudson in New York state has been restored to normal health thanks to 'Nualgi' - an invention by NNB founder Thothathri Samp...

A college student's body has been found this morning near a Bengaluru lake, just days after he sent a video to his parentsasking them to provide 50 lakhs as ransom to his kidnappers.

Bosch has taken the decision to close the plant after the KSPCB directed closure of all industrial units within the catchment area of Bellandur lake in Bengaluru.

The National Green Tribunal today directed an immediate and complete shutdown of all industries around Bengaluru's Bellandur Lake where a mound of garbage was set on fire in February this year.

The terrible froth in Bengaluru's Bellandur lake has flared up again after a bout of rain on Sunday. The net that was fixed around the lake to try and hold the foam back collapsed. For the last two days, Gouts of foam with embedded dirt and muck came onto the road, spattering passers-by -the same foam had brought media attention to the plight of th...

We are in a country which has launched 104 satellites in one shot, setting a world record. Is it too much to ask for?

A fire erupted at 4 pm yesterday on Bellandur Lake in Bengaluru, causing drivers to swerve dangerously.

Bengaluru's lakes have become famous for potent declarations of the pollution they are swamped under - in recent months, three were covered with foam, another burst into flames. Today, the Ulsoor Lake was seen covered with thousands of dead fish, adding a new disastrous photo-op for a city often tagged as India's Silicon Valley.

The judge was disgusted. Four bureaucrats stood meekly before him, their heads bowed. In May, he had ordered them to inspect the damage wrought by development near an ecologically sensitive lake bed in Bangalore, one of India's fastest-growing cities. But their report left the judge far from impressed.

With familiar-sounding promises to clear out the garbage on streets, fix traffic jams, mend potholes and clean up filthy lakes, aspirants for the Bengaluru civic polls have jumped into the fray. Their first task at hand? Raise the offensive on opponents.

Nobody is in charge of Bengaluru's lakes - at least that is the impression, with any government department you ask putting the blame for the terrible condition of the city's waterbodies on each other.

Members of the Central Pollution Control Board or CPCB visited the Varthur lake in Bengaluru on Saturday after repeated complaints from angry residents to local athourites about the spilling of toxic water into the roads of the Whitefield area in the city.

Authorities in Bengaluru have begun a 10-day demolition drive to recover land allegedly encroached from the bed of the Puttenahalli Lake in the southern part of the city. The drive follows demolition notices that had been issued to a number of homes and apartment complexes in the area a month ago.

Virat Kohli is leading the Royal Challengers Bangalore and was part of the captains' conclave in the opening ceremony of IPL 2015. His girlfriend Anushka Sharma, set the floor afire with her dazzling performance at the event in Kolkata's Salt Lake Stadium.

A satellite-based study has indicated that a huge glacial lake has formed atop the Himalayas in Sikkim with a "very high" potential for it to burst and create devastation downstream.

In yet another example of reverse technology transfer, a product developed by Nualgi Nano Biotech (NNB), a low profile biotech company here, is helping Americans to clean up polluted lakes. A three-acre Duck Pond in Croton-On-Hudson in New York state has been restored to normal health thanks to 'Nualgi' - an invention by NNB founder Thothathri Samp...