Mangaluru: After receiving several complaints regarding foul smell emanating from fish transporting vehicles, at the recent police phone-in programme, the department has come out with certain guidelines to combat the issue. Taking a cue from the National Green Tribunal (southern zone) guidelines given to neighbouring state Kerala, the Mangaluru police came out with below-mentioned rules […]

Mangaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday, denied the allegations of corruption in Rs 1,761 crore steel flyover project for which National Green Tribunal has imposed stay on the construction. Talking to reporters, he said opposition BJP was spreading lies on the project, “which was initiated during their rule in 2010.” “Many BJP legislators were in […]

Mangaluru: The Department of Forests has given a go ahead to chop off about 5,000 trees spread over 14 acres of forest area at Sakleshpur, Hassan, to make way for the Yettinahole Project. However, the permission of cutting down trees has come along with several conditions, one of them being that once the project was […]

Mangaluru: People of Dakshina Kannada have continued their unique protest against the ongoing Yettinahole project. As the verdict of the project in National Green Tribunal is scheduled on September 21, many people people offered prayers in temples, churches and mosques in various places on Wednesday. Netravati Rakshana Samyukta Samiti members offered prayers at Sharavu Mahaganapathi […]

Mangaluru : The Nethravathi Rakshana Samyuktha Samithi will offer mass prayers at places of worship on September 14, seeking the blessing of almighty for the success in hearing as the National Green Tribunal (NGT), New Delhi, will hear the petitions against the Yettinahole project on September 21. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Samithi […]

Mangaluru: Even as permit holders are yet to commence sand extraction from rivers in the Coastal Regulatory Zone in Dakshina Kannada district, after the ban ended on Monday, the Chennai Bench of the National Green Tribunal extended the stay on sand extraction in CRZ areas of Udupi district till September 13. As the two-month ban […]

Mangaluru : Environmental activist K.N. Somashekar, one among those fighting against the Yettinahole water diversion project, on Saturday sought a public apology from the former Chief Minister M. Veerappa Moily for ‘misleading’ people by saying that the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had cleared the project. Mr. Somashekar told presspersons here that besides Mr. Moily, he […]

Mangaluru : The Chennai Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday cleared that the felling of 478 trees on 5.89 acres of land for the construction of district office complex in Padil and said that trees could be felled only after taking requisite permission from the competent authority. Advocate-activist Suma R. Nayak had […]

Mangaluru : The National Green Tribunal, Southern Zone, Chennai, which heard a batch of petitions against the Yettinahole project on December 21 posted the next hearing to January 8, 2016. K.N.Somashekar, one of the petitioners, said the Advocate General Karnataka appeared and submitted that the State will not go ahead with the project until the […]

Mangaluru : Indian Institute of Science Centre for Ecological Sciences Energy and Wetland Research Group (CES) Head Dr T V Ramachandra said that the State government should concentrate on rain water harvesting in Kolar and Chikkaballapur districts which have the capacity of around 52 TMC and 62 TMC of rain water production respectively, instead of […]