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Bengaluru water crisis: More work, less water in India's 'Silicon Valley'

Bengaluru is paying a heavy price for its success since marketing itself as a tech hub in the late 1990sYears of rapid urbanisation, a swelling population and poor water management have led to drying taps, falling groundwater levels

9 min read5 Jun 2019
Politics

Bengaluru water crisis: India’s Silicon Valley might head Cape Town way

Bengaluru water table has shrunk from 10-12 m to 76-91 m in just two decades while the number of extraction wells has gone up from 5,000 to 0.45 million in 30 years

1 min read21 Mar 2018
Politics

Bengaluru, India’s Silicon Valley, faces man-made water crisis

Bengaluru 's biggest lake Bellandur has become so toxic it spontaneously catches fire, and emits clouds of white froth so large authorities have had to build barriers to keep it from spilling onto the road

3 min read17 Mar 2018

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The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared

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