18-month-old boy falls into storm water drain near Bangalore

September 25th, 2009 BANGALORE - Bangaloreans are hoping the skies will not open up over the next three days and spoil the Dussehra and Durga puja festivities in the city which has been lashed by heavy rains in the last two days. Weather officials are not holding out any hope as they predict heavy showers to continue till the end of September.

September 21st, 2009 BANGALORE - With heavy showers leading to massive traffic jams and yet another child dying after falling into a flooded drain, residents and experts say only public-private partnership (PPP) can save Bangalore's crumbling infrastructure and give it an image makeover. "To mend the city's civic amenities is the collective responsibility of both the government and the public," V.

September 17th, 2009 BANGALORE - More than 24 hours after an 18-month-old boy was washed away in a flooded drain here, his body has not been found and the search operation has shifted to a nearby lake, officials said Thursday. Police, fire and city corporation personnel began searching the Madivala lake spread over around 115 hectares, about 15 km south of city centre, after they failed to find the body of Vijay in the drain in which he fell Wednesday morning.

September 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - An 18-month-old boy fell into an open water drain here Wednesday and was washed away as it was flooded after heavy rains that lashed the city Tuesday night, an official said. A 50-member team from the fire department has been deployed to search Vijay, son of Lakshamma and Vardharaju - migrant labourers from Tamil Nadu.

June 12th, 2009 BANGALORE - The army Friday called off its four-day search for the body of a six-year-old boy who drowned here May 31 after falling into into an uncovered drain that was flooded with rainwater. "After four days of relentless efforts to de-weed the Hennur lake in a bid to search for the body of Abhishek, the six year old boy who went missing in a drain in Lingarajpuram 12 days ago, the Army has decided to call off their operations on Friday evening.

June 11th, 2009 BANGALORE - After a six-year old child died after falling into an uncovered rain flooded drain May 31 in this tech hub in Karnataka, another person died Wednesday night after the city witnessed heavy down pour, an official said Thursday. A 39-year-old man, was found dead in a pool of rain water in Kamala Nagar.

June 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - The Indian Army has joined the search for the body of six-year-old Abhishek Prakash, who drowned here May 31 after falling into into an uncovered drain that was flooded with rainwater. A team of the Madras Engineering Group (MEG) will begin a search operation to retrieve the body of Abhishek Prakash, who slipped into the drain while walking with his mother at Lingarajapuram in north Bangalore, said a joint press release issued Monday by BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palika) and the army.

May 18th, 2009 AGRA - Ever since the mercury has risen this summer, breaking several oldecords, residents of Agra are enduring acute shortage of drinking water and even compelled to buy water at a premium. In some areas one can witness the broken water mains over a drain and people hanging their buckets to fetch drinking water from the cracked pipes just above the slushy drain.

May 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - Congress veteran and former railways minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief lost to Congressman-turned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee D.B.

May 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - With the Karnataka results out, the young voters of India's IT hub are impatient to see the winning candidates work for the overall development of the city. Of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, three are in the capital - Bangalore Central, Bangalore South and Bangalore North.

April 26th, 2009 ROPAR - The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has taken samples of water and plants from Satluj river in Punjab to evaluate the damage caused by a furnace oil spill after a thermal power plant pipeline burst two days ago, officials said here Sunday. 'We had sent our team of environmental engineers to evaluate the damage incurred due to leakage of oil into the Satluj water.

April 23rd, 2009 BANGALORE - Over 28,000 polling booths opened at 7 a.m. across 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka Thursday in the first of the two-phase elections for the 28 seats in the state.

March 30th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Environmentalist and godman Balbir Singh Seechewal will go on a 50-km march along the banks of river Sutlej to create awareness about water pollution. 'People from every section of society like doctors, lawyers, teachers, students and social workers will participate in this 50 km march.

February 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Rs.15-billion project to decrease the levels of pollution in the Yamuna river by trapping pollutants at major sewage drains is ready to be implemented, Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Tejender Khanna announced here Sunday. 'A major project costing Rs.15 billions to trap pollutants at Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) at 18 major sewage drains falling into the Yamuna river is ready for implementation to ensure that only clean water from the entire city flows into the river,' Khanna said while flagging off Yamuna Rally at Jamia Millia Islamia organised by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

February 21st, 2009 BANGALORE - The Karnataka government Friday allocated Rs.33 billion (Rs.3,300 crore) for the infrastructure development of India's IT hub in the state budget for the ensuing fiscal 2009-10. 'Of the total budget (Rs.33 billion), Rs.20 billion (Rs.2,000 crore) will be spent on upgrading arterial roads in Greater Bangalore under a special programme, involving private partnership for their maintenance,' Chief Minister B.S.