Bangalore: Chris Gayle might have enthralled the Bangalore crowd on Wednesday at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore. But the stadium is in a big mess after the IPL match. Piles of garbage bags remained uncollected even at 11 am on Wednesday morning. This came after the Karnataka State Cricket Association refused to give VVIP tickets to the city corporators for IPL matches. BBMP, the city's civic body, has stopped collecting...
01:35 PM, Apr 18, 2012
BANGALORE: A day after legislators proposed a hike in their pay at the Legislative Assembly, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) councillors are now batting for an increase in their pay scale and other perks. If the government approves the proposed hike, Palike will have to bear an additional Rs 5 crore burden annually. The BBMP Council passed a resolution to increase the honourarium of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and councillors.Also,...
08:57 AM, Mar 30, 2012
BANGALORE: Vendors at Russell Market, who have collected money to renovate their gutted shopsare nowshocked.BBMPs Special Commissioner (Projects), has directed them to stop repair works at the market, and vacate their shops until the civic body completes the entire renovation work.However, the vendors have proceeded with the repair works.They told Express, Ninety per cent of the repair works have been completed. Why should we vacate our shops now? We will...
10:25 AM, Mar 16, 2012
BANGALORE: Though water-related problems were not included in the subject meeting of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Council meeting on Thursday, Councillors voiced the water woes in their wards. On Thursday, before session began, Peenya industrial area Councillor K L Thimmananjiah (Independent) stormed the well. Later, Nagavara Councillor Irshad Begum and D J Halli Councillor Sampath Raj joined him with empty pots. Thimmananiah demanded Mayor Sharadamma to call BWSSB Chairman...
09:37 AM, Feb 17, 2012
BANGALORE: Amidst the allegations that state government is trying to hush up the multicrore bogus scam probe, it seems it is also trying to delay the process of investigation of the fire that broke out at the BMTF office in BBMP in last November. The fire had broken out in the third floor of the BBMP building on November 20, which had housed one of the rooms for BMTF to...
08:36 AM, Jan 06, 2012
BANGALORE: Fund-crunch Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has sponsored one more foreign trip for councillors. This time the trip is to Israel. Councillors will participate in the International conference on water technology, renewable energy and environment control between November 15 and 17. The conference is taking place at Tel Aviv,the second most popular state in Israel. Though the multi-crore scam is creating ripples, a team of 14 members have left...
09:57 AM, Nov 15, 2011
BANGALORE: The lethargy of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in implementing Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) project means that water-logging may continue to haunt Lord Hanuman of the Gali Anjaneya Temple for several months to come. Joining the Lord in mute suffering are the residents of the area and the commuters bearing the brunt of the never-ending construction work of a grade separator at Gali Anjaneya junction. BBMP...
08:29 AM, Nov 03, 2011
New Delhi: Bangalore's civic body has come up with an innovative way to embarrass and force tax defaulters to cough up money they rightly owe the agency. Bangalore's civic body BBMP is sending drummers to embarrass those who haven't paid property tax. The owner of a shopping complex in Malleshwaram with a McDonalds outlet has reportedly not paid property tax since 2005. The constant drumming and gathering crowds forced employees...
07:53 AM, Sep 29, 2011
Bangalore/Rajouri: A heavy downpour brought life to a standstill in Bangalore on Friday and claimed the lives of 17 people at Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir. Massive traffic jams and waterlogging was reported in various parts of Bangalore, which just can’t handle the heavy rains. The infrastructure is pathetic and the government is just not doing anything. Bangaloreans were frustrated after being stuck in traffic and rain for nearly four...
11:24 AM, Sep 25, 2010
The situation in Bangalore's destitute home is worsening by the day with 23 people dead and over 80 hospitalised following symptoms of dysentery and food poisoning. Some of the inmates are mentally ill, some are physically disabled, some abandoned by their families with many picked up while begging from the streets. All of them are inmates at the government destitute home in Sumanahalli where the living condition is absolutely pathetic. ...
10:06 AM, Aug 20, 2010
Officials of the BBMP say they want to get the potholed roads repaired. ...
04:29 PM, Sep 01, 2008
Johannesburg: Cricket South Africa president Mtutuzeli Nyoka has filed a criminal case alleging corruption within the board over irregular IPL bonuses paid to CEO Gerald Majola and other CSA staff three years ago. The case has already been launched under the Prevention of Corruption Act - it's with the (elite investigative unit of the South African Police) the Hawks, Nyoka's legal advisor Bernard Matheson told the daily Business Day. Majola...
11:18 PM, Feb 27, 2008
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahangar Palike to date owes the beggars of Bangalore a whopping Rs 28 crore. ...
08:35 PM, May 22, 2007
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