{"id":284844,"date":"2018-01-19T17:06:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=284844"},"modified":"2018-01-19T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:36:24","slug":"bengalurus-bellandur-lake-again-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bengalurus-bellandur-lake-again-catches-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru&#039;s Bellandur Lake again catches fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bellandur_fireZ-Jan_18_750x500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-284845 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Bellandur_fireZ-Jan_18_750x500-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bellandur_fireZ-Jan_18_750x500\" width=\"315\" height=\"210\" data-id=\"284845\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe infamous Bellandur Lake of Bengaluru has again caught fire on the morning of January 19.<br \/>\nAccording to reports, since 2015\u00a0this was the fourth time that the highly-polluted lake was on fire.<br \/>\nWhile taking suo motu cognisance the lake&#8217;s state the\u00a0<a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/National-Green-Tribunal\">National Green Tribunal<\/a>\u00a0(NGT), in 2017 rebuked the city&#8217;s civic agencies for failing to clean up the lake.<br \/>\nIn May 2015 and August 2016, the froth caught fire due to the formation of methane gas. The polluted lake also got the attention of national and international media after it had caught fire on February 16, 2017.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is the only lake development authority in the world which is causing fire in the lakes,\u201d said the National Green Tribunal in April 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The infamous Bellandur Lake of Bengaluru has again caught fire on the morning of January 19. According to reports, since 2015\u00a0this was the fourth time that the highly-polluted lake was on fire. While taking suo motu cognisance the lake&#8217;s state the\u00a0National Green Tribunal\u00a0(NGT), in 2017 rebuked the city&#8217;s civic agencies for failing to clean up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":284845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,39],"tags":[311,312,313,314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}