In 2015 BBMP shifted all the PG accommodations with more than 12 paying guests under the commercial buildings bracket. Bangalore, February 1, 2018: Many paying guest facilities (PGs) in Vasanthnagar area in Bangalore do not have trade licenses and are also violating the rules set up by the BBMP to ensure safety of paying guests. […]
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National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP) data show a decrease in the number of reported leprosy cases, but that may not be the real story. Bangalore, February 1, 2018: The number of leprosy cases across the state may have gone down, if one goes by the NLEP data. Yet, this fall doesn’t show the actual scenario as […]
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Bangalore, February 01, 2018: BMTC’s plan to run 150 electric buses has received a setback because the Centre has cleared only 40. The corporation had planned to float a tender for 150 electric buses under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles (FAME) Scheme of the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP), but the Centre […]
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Bangalore, February 01, 2018: Translocation of trees seems better than chopping them down, but it has an adverse effect on them, environmentalists say. The process also has a negative impact on the environment. To make way for a Gottigere-Nagawara line, BMRCL recently translocated 185 trees to the IIM-B campus with help from private agencies. Sheshadri Ramaswami, […]
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Bangalore, February 01, 2018: The BBMP announced on December 29, 2017, that it would float a tender to replace streetlights with LED (light-emitting diode) bulbs within a few weeks. More than a month after the announcement, there is no sign of a tender. Five lakh streetlights are to be replaced with LED lamps. The budget is […]
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