Bellandur

Whether it is 500K, 500C or 500D, you’ll know only when the bus is close by and it won’t stop unless you signal the driver. This means you flag down every bus to look at its number and then wave the angry driver along.

Pollution Control Board fees for large apartments, layouts went up by 200 times! Residents of one set of apartments tell KSPCB, it is not fair.

Karnataka’s pollution watchdog recently charged southeast Bangalore’s elite apartments with polluting the already threatened Bellandur lake. The cloud, though, is on the regulations more than the violators.

Iblur lake near HSR layout has been contaminated with sewage water from nearby apartments. Fish are dying because of this affecting the livelihoods of fishermen who use the lake.

Preschool carnival aims to create awareness of environment in the young children.

Shaurya Saluja, a Bellandur area resident is organising a Squash workshop, to be conducted by Satinder Bajwa, Harvard University Head Squash Coach, with proceeds going to a Squash academy that coaches rural children.

Police Inspector L Y Rajesh shares tips to play safe and avoid losing your valuables to street robbery. Includes emergency contact numbers of HSR Layout police officials.

Citizen Matters caught up with Bellandur candidates – Babu Reddy (INC), P Mahesh of JD(S) and Jagannath Reddy (BJP).

The BDA has planned flyovers at Agara and Iblur junctions to ease traffic on the Outer Ring Road/Sarjapur Road junctions; cutting trees for road widening and drilling are already underway.

The Bellandur lake, which has provided drinking water and nurtured the city’s farming and fishing activities for over a century, is now a polluted and dying water body.