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The Hindu
13-08-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Institutional bodies must come together to prevent Bengaluru from becoming a gas chamber like Delhi: Khandre
Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre on Tuesday (August 12, 2025) urged institution bodies across various sectors to join hands with the government to increase Bengaluru's green cover. Inaugurating the first stakeholders conclave of the Karnataka Forest, Wildlife, and Climate Change Foundation, he said, 'For a person to live comfortably, there should be seven trees per person, but in Bengaluru, there isn't even one tree for every seven people. The city's population is approaching 1.5 crore. To prevent the capital from becoming a gas chamber like New Delhi, institutional bodies must join hands to increase the city's green cover.' More green space He added that officials have already been instructed to study ways to increase Bengaluru's green cover. 'Lalbagh and Cubbon Park were created over a century ago, but in the last 150 years, no other large park has come up in Bengaluru. Now, at Madappanahalli near Yelahanka the government is developing a 153-acre biodiversity park at a cost of ₹250 crore. Institutional bodies must cooperate to make this a reality,' he added. He also said that the government is committed to reclaim the forest land given to Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT). 'In the 1960's, land was given to HMT for setting up an industry. Now that the industry has shut down. We will reclaim this land and set up another large park, and legal action is also being taken towards this,' he said. Smart tree tag Vijay Mohan Raj, principal secretary (Ecology and Environment) making a presentation on the Climate Change Mandate made a presentation on Smart Tree Tag, an initiative to connect greening efforts to the smartphone revolution. 'Every sapling planted will have a digital existence (tagging information like species, year of planting, owner of the plant). The aim is to involve corporates, philanthropists and passionate individuals in the greening mission,' he said. He also spoke on the Bengaluru tree estimation, a citizen-science initiative for Bengaluru. 'The objective of this initiative is to identify every individual tree in the city with a physical tag and attribute to an online presence. To calculate the worthiness of trees in terms of oxygen generation, identify the key species and neighbourhoods which are carbon-surplus, carbon neutral and carbon deficit,' he said.
The Hindu
28-05-2025
- The Hindu
Two pseudo naxals held in Hyderabad extortion plot
The Jeedimetla police arrested two men who attempted to extort ₹50 lakh from a businessman by posing as naxalites on Wednesday. The accused, both natives of Gannavaram in Andhra Pradesh, were picked up from the Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT) forest area in the early hours, and 13 country-made bombs, a threatening letter, and four mobile phones were seized from them. The accused were identified as Yerramsetty Raju, 33, and Kandurelli Raju, 24, currently residing in Shapur Nagar on the outskirts of the city. The case came to light on May 22, when the complainant, Kuna Raghavender Goud, approached the police after his father, Ravinder Goud, discovered that the Tulasi plant in front of their home had been damaged and a red-coloured towel and letter were placed on their car. The letter, written in Telugu and signed under the name of a naxalite group, demanded ₹50 lakh and threatened them with dire consequences if the demands were not met. Search teams were formed who analysed footage from over 500 CCTV cameras to trace the perpeterators. Following their arrest, they confessed to the crime, revealing that financial distress had driven them to orchestrate the extortion attempt. Investigation revealed that Yerramsetty Raju, who has a previous record of property-related offences at Gannavaram police station, had recently lost his job at a private company. Along with his associate, Kandurelli Raju, he devised the plan to target affluent individuals in Shapur Nagar, in the hope of securing quick money through fear tactics. When the initial threat failed to elicit a response, the two travelled to Vizianagaram, where they reportedly assembled improvised explosive device (IED) in a bid to escalate their intimidation. They returned to Hyderabad with the intention of planting and detonating a bomb to compel compliance from the victim. Their plan however was foiled before any harm could occur.
