10+ hour, 16+ min ago   (416+ words) Mangaluru City Corporation is preparing a data-driven overhaul of waste management by mapping nearly 900 sanitation workers, drivers and loaders, along with collection vehicles, to identify service gaps and assign clearer responsibility across the city. MCC commissioner Rahul Ratnam Pandey said…...

13+ hour, 25+ min ago   (855+ words) urbanacres.in Shalboni Land Case Shows How Refugee Land Allegations Became a Financial Trail The Shalboni land case has moved beyond a dispute over individual plots and into a wider question about how government land allotted for refugee cultivation was…...

13+ hour, 42+ min ago   (976+ words) Bengaluru Civic Elections Face a Trust Test After Six-Year Gap urbanacres.in Bengaluru Civic Elections Face a Trust Test After Six-Year Gap Bengaluru civic elections are now about more than restoring a missing political calendar. They will determine whether the…...

1+ day, 42+ min ago   (384+ words) Bengaluru’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has entered its claims and notices phase, requiring 43.8 lakh voters to provide documents establishing their place and date of birth. By Friday, 7 lakh voters had completed their hearings, according to a Times…...

22+ hour, 28+ min ago   (325+ words) The material collected during immersion activities will include garlands, flowers, banana stems and other offerings used during worship. The corporation plans to gather the material centrally before sorting it for further processing. Flowers, strings, other puja material and plastic will…...

1+ day, 15+ min ago   (305+ words) Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation will collect floral and other devotional waste generated during Ganeshotsav and process it into compost this year, continuing an initiative that the civic body says has been successful for the past three years. Nirmalya collection urns will…...

23+ hour, 58+ min ago   (442+ words) Bengaluru Police rescued 529 children found working at commercial establishments, industrial areas and other locations across the city during a special operation that involved surprise inspections at 6,076 sites, officials said. The operation was conducted on Saturday by special teams comprising police…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (337+ words) Hyderabad’s Musi flood tree is more than a surviving piece of natural heritage. It is a physical record of how a river disaster reshaped the city, damaged its buildings and infrastructure, and left behind a question that remains relevant to…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (263+ words) The architectural brief was closely associated with Kengal Hanumanthaiah, who became chief minister of the then Mysore State in 1952. The supplied account says Hanumanthaiah wanted the building to possess an unmistakably Indian character, partly in response to Bengaluru’s existing collection…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (281+ words) A cleanup drive at Bengaluru’s Turahalli forest has removed more than two tonnes of waste, including poultry waste, domestic sanitary waste, plastic, medical waste and dog carcasses found in bags along the reserve forest’s boundary. The cleanup began at 8am and…...