BENGALURU: Alarmed by the drilling of a borewell next to a public one that catered to hundreds of people in Ambedkar Nagar in Whitefield, residents united to put an end to the drilling process. The ...

BWSSB seeks to make unauthorised borewell drilling cognisable offense, pushing for stricter penalties, including mandatory imprisonment As the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) gears ...

Concerned about the rising instances of illegal borewell drilling, Whitefield residents are urging the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board ...

NAMAKKAL: Borewell truck owners in Namakkal, Tirupur, Coimbatore and Erode districts have been on strike since Friday demanding an increase in drilling charges due to the rising prices of diesel, ...

Illegal borewells are dug in many parts of the city amid water crisis (file photo) Amidst an unprecedented drought and severe water crisis, the Citizens’ Agenda of Bengaluru has launched an online ...

A BWSSB engineer told DH, 'We do not use the soil debris left behind by borewell-drilling anywhere as it is not of good quality. We let it dry on empty land in the city outskirts.' ...

Summer is usually the peak season for borewell drilling, and now the increasing costs of borewell drilling due to rise in fuel prices has severely affected contractors and public alike. Borewell ...

To prevent accidents involving children falling into unsealed borewells, the Karnataka Assembly has passed amendments to the Karnataka Groundwater (Development, Management, and Control) Act, 2011, and ...

Due to the absence of an FIR, the police are unable to take the case forward, said Sandeep Anirudhan, convenor of Namma Whitefield, a resident welfare group.

This Diwali, the people of Tamil Nadu were glued in great anxiety to their televisions, following the rescue of two-year-old Sujith Wilson from an abandoned borewell near his house in Tiruchirapalli ...