Pump it like Kolkata: What IT cities Bengaluru and Gurgaon can learn from a city that stopped sinking a decade agoGurgaon and Bengaluru’s frequent flooding reflects deeper flaws in urban planning, where natural drainage has been sacrificed for construct...
15 Jul, 2025, 04.15 PM IST
Bengaluru companies, including Infosys must declare WFH for two days: BJP MP urges for relief as rains flood IT capitalBengaluru Central BJP MP, PC Mohan, urged IT companies like Infosys to allow employees to work from home due to heavy rainfall. The city ex...
21 May, 2025, 10.44 AM IST
Bengaluru alert: A gaping deficit amid tech and biz surplusBengaluru, India's tech hub, grapples with failing infrastructure amid rapid growth, leading to frequent flooding and poor road conditions....
20 May, 2025, 06.15 PM IST
Watch: Bengaluru couple threatens to self-immolate opposing demolition of their house, rescued just in timeWhen the BBMP official reached the couple's house with bulldozer, Sona Sen and her husband screamed that they would set themselves on fire....
12 Oct, 2022, 04.37 PM IST
Working with BBMP as demolition teams clear drain encroachment: WiproSoftware giant Wipro, which also figures on the BBMP’s list, said in a statement that it was committed to supporting the ecology of the are...
20 Sep, 2022, 07.50 PM IST
Drive against encroachments in Bengaluru will go on: Minister"An anti-encroachment drive should be continuous or else illegal occupation will come up again. There will be no discrimination between the...
20 Sep, 2022, 04.46 PM IST
Wipro, Columbia Asia Hospital other big names figure on Bengaluru demolition list'What goes around comes around, comes around' aptly summarises the situation in India's silicon valley in the aftermath of the massive floo...
14 Sep, 2022, 04.19 PM IST
Bengaluru flooding: Karnataka minister warns of "Noida towers-like demolition" driveHis statement came after the Bengaluru civic body on Monday began a demolition drive within days of the havoc caused by rains-triggered flo...
13 Sep, 2022, 05.35 PM IST
Rains bring Bengaluru to its knees every year. Here's whyThe heavy downpour has led to traffic snarls in several parts of the city, leaving houses and vehicles partially inundated.
07 Sep, 2022, 11.13 AM IST
Heavy rain: Karnataka CM announces Rs 5 lakh as compensation for family of deceasedBasavaraj Bommai ordered completion of work relating to stormwater drains, along with secondary and tertiary drains, in several wards of th...
18 May, 2022, 04.55 PM IST
Missing 500 metre sewer link in Bengaluru brings 10,000 truckloads of sewage into rain drainOver 10k truckloads of sewage is flowing through the stormwater drain near Mysuru Road every day. This is due to a 500m gap in the sewer li...
13 Jun, 2018, 12.42 PM IST
Missing 500-m Sewer Link Brings 10k Truckloads of Sewage into Rain DrainOver 10,000 truckloads of sewage is flowing through the stormwater drain near Sri Gali Anjaneya Temple on Mysuru Road every day.
13 Jun, 2018, 12.18 PM IST
Government, opposition trade charges in rain-affected BengaluruNine people have died in Bengaluru in the past 15 days due the heavy rainfall and in pothole-related accidents.
15 Oct, 2017, 12.15 AM IST
This pervious concrete can absorb a floodIn fact, the BBMP is spending Rs 800 crore to construct new storm-water drains and remodel existing ones using reinforced cement concrete (...
19 Jun, 2017, 10.50 AM IST
India's IT capital is at the mercy of rainBengaluru is, in fact, spending huge money on stormwater drains. Only , the Commissioner seems unaware.As many as 509 flood-prone areas hav...
23 May, 2017, 11.06 AM IST
Drain mess: Govt pins six retired, 14 serving officersMunicipal authorities are on a demolition drive since Saturday last, razing at least 100 buildings that had allegedly encroached stormwater...
09 Aug, 2016, 11.55 PM IST
BBMP men on demolition drive with a 114-year-old map as guidePrakash's neighbor Pradeep Rao, too, had much of his house bulldozed despite having his building plan approved by officials from the erstwh...
09 Aug, 2016, 10.34 AM IST