Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister said that Bengaluru’s civic problems like waste management and lake pollution will be taken up on a ‘war footing’
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) report heavily criticised the role played by Bengaluru’s civic agencies in cleaning up the Bellandur lake
The NGT’s order comes after the January 19 outbreak of fire on the lake, which took over 30 hours to be brought under control
Bellandur Lake, the largest of the 262 lakes and tanks in Bengaluru, receives about 40 per cent of the city's sewage.
At Bengaluru's 1,000-acre Bellandur Lake, infamous for pollution and toxic foam, a massive fire broke out this afternoon. It took more than 5,000 army personnel and...