Awareness
Footpaths are shrinking by the day, thanks to encroachments by hawkers, two-wheeler parking and the mess following monsoon. Cluttered pavements and roads that do not have footpaths are increasingly turning into a danger zone. Statistics show that at least 50% of those killed in road accidents in Bangalore are pedestrians and that shrinking pavements are [...] Continue Reading »
From Wednesday, Delhi traffic police will follow emergency vehicles armed with video cameras to collect evidence of violators. The next time if you don’t give way to emergency vehicles such as ambulance, prepare yourselves to find a traffic cop at your doorstep with a challan of Rs 2000. Five teams will travel in police vans [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is setting the perfect example by implementing rainwater harvesting. BBMP commissioner Siddaiah said the civic body is implementing the project at its head office at a cost of Rs45 lakh. The BBMP is also implementing rainwater harvesting in playgrounds, parks, public places and buildings. The BBMP is expecting 3 [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of L & T South City Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore protested at the Freedom Park, Gandhinagar against Messrs L&T and Dinesh Ranka for cheating South City apartment owners and deficiency in their project. Though originally L&T South City project scheduled to be completed by 2005, the project has dragged on for about 12 years and [...] Continue Reading »
BWSSB Minister S Suresh Kumar officially announced that rainwater harvesting (RWH) is a compulsory rule and the 56,000 houses identified so far, will have to install them. He said the citizens must reduce their dependence on borewells as the groundwater table had depleted. Among the 100 borewells dug by the BWSSB in 2010, nearly 50 [...] Continue Reading »
For Residents of Mana Sarovar Apartment, water crisis and hefty electricity bills are things of the past, thanks to the foresight of a resident. As summer approaches, borewells across the city dry up and tankers are summoned. However, for Residents of Mana Sarovar Apartment in Doddanekkundi Marathahalli, water crisis and hefty electricity bills are things [...] Continue Reading »
This Sunday, Residents of Bellandur, Sarjapur, Outer Ring Road and neighborhood ran not for fitness or health but for awareness and to draw attention of the authorities on the need to restore Bellandur lake, the biggest lake in the City. This is their 13 year demand for action to restore -Bellandur lake- once beautiful lake [...] Continue Reading »
According to an inter-ministerial committee formed by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to study the hazards posed by mobile phones, radiation from mobile phones and towers poses serious health risks, including loss of memory, lack of concentration, disturbance in the digestive system and sleep disturbances. The committee has also attributed the disappearance of [...] Continue Reading »
In at least two cases, maids hired through a placement agency and a security agency looted valuables from the employer’s house. Bangalore is home to lakhs of working couples who need a maid at home. With demand being high, some people have started offering maids at your doorsteps. Dubious people are taking advantage of demand [...] Continue Reading »
Earlier, people used to prefer apartments over individual houses because they considered the former to be safer. But after a few murders in apartments recently,apartment dwellers are taking steps to ensure more security. Though luxury apartments follow strict norms in giving entry to visitors, apartments for upper middle-class group have also started restricting entry to [...] Continue Reading »
