Bengaluru, Gandhinagar reel under water contamination crisis after Indore; Typhoid and other diseases spikeWater contamination crisis: Following 10 deaths in Indore, Gandhinagar and Bengaluru are now grappling with public health emergencies due t...
04 Jan, 2026, 01.07 PM IST
'The road not taken... was also blocked': What made this Bengaluru Redditor compare traffic to a zombie movie?A Bengaluru resident's frustrating commute went viral on Reddit. The user likened navigating blocked roads to a zombie movie. Many others s...
14 Jul, 2025, 07.32 PM IST
World Bank approves $426 million for Bengaluru Water Security projectBengaluru is set to receive a boost in its water security. The World Bank has approved USD 426 million for the Karnataka Water Security and...
25 Jun, 2025, 07.30 PM IST
'Is this Brand Bengaluru?': Angry resident shares video as sewage from restaurants enters homes, contaminating drinking waterA Bengaluru resident shared a video of sewage flooding her home. The sewage originated from nearby restaurants. The incident sparked online...
10 Dec, 2024, 10.21 AM IST
The Hidden Toll: The high price of entertainment on water resources revealed in stadium water usageA report by India's Jal Shakti ministry has found that 20 of the 26 stadiums examined were using borewells/tube wells to extract groundwate...
07 Aug, 2023, 12.47 PM IST
With rise in COVID cases, sewage surveillance system launched in Bengaluru for early detection of infectionThe drive is an initiative of COVIDActionCollab (CAC) supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the S...
27 May, 2021, 03.47 PM IST
The clue to testing 1.3 billion people for Covid could be in the sewageExperts are developing a protocol to test sewage for Covid traces in selected areas of Bengaluru and Kolkata.
27 Apr, 2020, 07.28 PM IST
This nanotechnology helps in removing waste from water used in washing busesAccording to Chetan Singh Thakur, assistant professor, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, IISc, regular sewage methods need thre...
25 Jun, 2018, 04.22 PM IST
A personal sewage treatment plant will keep track of recycled waterWell-known sustainability consultant Ramesh Kikkeri, who is mentoring Setty, points out that in an individual home, for a family of four, a...
07 Mar, 2018, 12.08 PM IST
How a Bengaluru-based company is working to transform sewage into biodieselThe Bangalore Water Supply & Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has permitted Eco Green Fuels, a private firm, to see if it can convert waste into feed...
17 Jan, 2018, 11.02 AM IST
Bengaluru: Tag is high-tech but city a messBengaluru has rocket science but no roads. There are corporatised start ups and their lavish tech parks but also unplanned localities.
15 Sep, 2017, 11.02 AM IST
No sewage to flow into Bellandur lake by 2020?Thippeswamy gave the example of the recently inaugurated 60 MLD treatment plant in the K&C valley which, he said, does not receive even 10 ...
31 Aug, 2017, 10.28 AM IST
Statutory bodies coming under pressure to improve sewage treatmentBengaluru generates about 1,400 million litres per day (MLD) of sewage but the BWSSB has an installed sewage treatment plant (STP) capacity...
25 Apr, 2017, 12.16 PM IST
Rs 40k crore needed to slake Bengaluru's thirst by 2030The state government expects a major shortage of drinking water in the northern parts of Bengaluru in the coming months as areas around the...
17 Feb, 2016, 11.08 AM IST
Muck raking BWSSB looks away as Bengaluru's central business districts drown in sewageGeospatial data available with the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board show 1,301 m of sewage line, circa 1970 from Anil Kumble circl...
05 Feb, 2015, 12.15 PM IST
Clean India 'a bit of hype', needs more details: Jairam RameshFormer Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the programme also needs to address the issue of open defecation.
06 Nov, 2014, 09.18 PM IST
Japan offers to assist India on Intelligent Transport SystemsJapan has offered to assist India in developing Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in urban areas of the country.
30 Oct, 2014, 06.09 PM IST