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Bengaluru Buzz: Garbage crisis in city | Complaints system for bad roads | Milk bank in Vani Vilas Hospital

August 3, 2019 News Desk

The city slips into a garbage crisis as Bellahalli dumpsite fills up, High Court orders BBMP to set up a complaints system on road conditions within six weeks, the first government-run milk bank in south India will start in Vani Vilas Hospital soon. Read more on what’s happened in Bengaluru this week

Environment

Garbage burning can cause cancer, should be banned: Doctors

March 2, 2015 Pavan Kulkarni

With leaf litter often set on fire by the roadsides, along with other trash, Bengalureans are getting affected. Children are most vulnerable, and toxins released during burning garbage affect lungs, according to experts.