In the second week of January, amidst heavy security provided by the local police and the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP), Forest Department officials — along with the Dakshina Kannada district authorities and personnel from Mangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (MESCOM) — began uprooting and chopped nearly 202 trees at [...]
Forest department will give a hearing to public on Jan 4, Thursday regarding its proposal to fell more than 660 trees in the city for construction of a new DC office complex at Alake village in Padil. The proposed DC office complex is coming up on a six acre plot. [...]
In the wake of pollution of Gurpur Phalguni river at Malavoor dam, residents of Malavoor, Thokur, Kenjar and members of the local unit of National Environment Care Federation (NECF) issued a deadline of 24 hours to the district administration to solve the issue and prevent local industries from further releasing [...]
