July 11: Civic activists who are opposing BBMP’s proposed road widening project, have called for a socio-economic survey of the chosen roads to check if they really need to be widened. According to them, the survey is needed as a lot of people would be deprived of their livelihood by the project not to mention those who would lose their property.

Spearheading a movement against the project,

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Bengaluru, June 25: Taking its ‘go green’ initiative a step further Bengaluru will play host to a new two-day festival dedicated to trees.

Several events have been planned for the ‘Around A Tree’ festival, which kicks off on Saturday. Noted artists from the city will display their work at the festival. Paintings depicting nature’s emotions, aggression and propagating care will be disp

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June 21 : One way of making sure that environmental concerns are not relegated to the background when planning infrastructure projects for the city is to set up ward committees and allow local people to have a say through them, in how they will be built, suggests Vinay Sreenivasa of Hasiru Usiru, a voluntary group working for the environment.

“It is essential to bring about decentralisation

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May 26: People may be crying themselves hoarse in protest and a traffic expert may have good reason to argue against it, but the authorities seem determined to go ahead with building yet another underpass and destroying more of the city’s green cover. On Wednesday, it was the turn of a 50-year-old tree, Pelto Forum, to be brought down to make way for the Tagore Circle underpass in Basavangudi, w

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Bengaluru, May 21: Bengaluru’s tree cover has always been its crowning glory. But not only is it being shorn of it for infrastructure projects and widening of roads, the authorities now seem to be making way for more trees to be cut by bringing in an amendment to the Karnataka Tree Preservation Act which will remove a larger number of trees from the list of protected species and allow them to be

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