Bengaluru, India's tech hub, faced a severe water crisis this summer due to a poor monsoon season and depleted groundwater. Residents relie...

With a whopping 125 members, they stand out as a close-knit joint family spanning four generations. Despite their vast numbers, they share ...

Out of this 1,470 MLD comes from Cauvery river and 650 MLD from borewells. We have a shortage of about 500 MLD," the Chief Minister told re...

Bangalore has a water shortage of 500 MLD. Drinking water needs and industries add up to 2600 MLD water, of which 1450 MLD is obtained from...

A brain child of Union minister Nitin Gadkari, 'Jal Kranti' initiative has also made the villages supply aggregates for highway constructio...

Since July 2016, over 75,000 households in Bengaluru are paying a penalty of 50% on their monthly water bill.

As on November 15, rabi crops have been sown on 13.05 lakh hectares, compared with the 28.35 lakh hectare area sown during the comparable p...

With seven BBMP wards and eight gram panchayats, it has a mix of urban, semi-urban and rural population. Understandably, the issues here va...

This advantage that India has over other countries is going to be there for the next 20 years. Therefore, we can easily say that our genera...

Faced with a harsh summer, which, authorities say , is the worst in fifty years, there are some lessons Bengaluru needs to learn, and fast.

People are forced to migrate to cities in search of jobs, but what makes the situation poignant is that they are sometimes forced to leave ...

The most devastating effects of deficit rains are slow to take root but they endure, filling the lives of farmers with uncertainty, writes ...

The water crisis is set to trigger regional feuds with residents demanding their water share from the state's rivers.

In January, the party had promised 700 litres free water, consumption beyond which would be charged for the entire amount consumed.

This year, 3.60 lakh farmers and farm labourers have sought daily wage work under employment guarantee scheme, against the 60,000 last year.

"Who are we fooling when we sell the idea of 'Green Bangalore'? Bangalore is not green; it is an ugly sprawl," declared Suresh Hebilkar, fo...

IT companies along the OMR corridor, including TCS, Cognizant and Infosys, rely on a rickety system of water supply: tankers