Groundwater level has increased by 0.6 metres
Rs. 20 crore has been allocated for supplying water across the State, says TWAD Board managing director The groundwater level has increased from 18.10 metres below ground level (pre-monsoon) to 17.5
Hindu (Chennai)
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TNSCB plan to relocate 9,800 families
Even as civil works have commenced at Okkiyam Thuraipakkam site for resettling 6,500 families living in "objectionable areas" in Chennai, the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) has proposed a
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Court deadline places dyers in a fix
The deadline set by the Green Bench of the Madras High Court for the dyeing and bleaching units at Tirupur to start the effluent treatment plants by May 11, failing which they must be closed down,
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Fishermen's plea for enforcing CRZA
More than 5,000 fishermen's families living along the 27 km long coast from Kattumavadi to Enathi signed what they described as a 'Magna Carta' urging the State and Central Governments to strictly
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Hazardous waste
TNPCB staff being trained: With two sites identified near the city for setting up hazardous waste treatment facilities, the TN Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has begun training its engineers and
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Delay in setting up CETPs hits dyeing units
For the second time in the last six months, the dyeing and bleaching industry in Karur district has run into trouble and about 434 units have been forced to close down due to the delay in the
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NBR yet to make its presence felt
The first of the 13 biosphere reserves proposed in the country, the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR) covering 5,520 sq.km. in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, came into being about 12 years ago, but
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Conservancy project to be launched in Nungambakkam
Door-to-door collection, household segregation and vermi composting will be covered under the pilot conservancy project of the Chennai Corporation to be launched in Nungambakkam zone from June. This
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Total health programme for school students
An Australian organisation has prepared a total health programme for schools in Tamil Nadu, that claims to help students gain knowledge and develop living skills to overcome health and nutritional
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TN Govt moves HC in sandalwood case
The Tamil nadu State Government has moved an appeal before a division Bench of the Madras High Court, seeking to set aside a single judge's order for a CBI probe into the Tiruoattur sandalwood
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Ban on employment of children in hazardous units sought
A legislation to prevent the employment of children in hazardous industries, like match and fireworks factories and tanneries, has been mooted at an UGC-sponsored State-level seminar on 'Child rights