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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Waste wisdom
If there is one thing that has put Chennai on the global environment map, that is waste. Carting waste away with modern trucks engages the attention of a great many administrators here, while others
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Bonded labourers out of the kiln
Ten families, working as 'bonded labour' brick kiln, where they had been employed, at Vellivoyal in Ponneri taluk, 30 km from Chennai. The law specifies that Rs 1,000 be provided to every labourer as
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Good response to Kanchi waste management campaign
The municipal administration of Kancheepuram and Chengalpattu will be working hard these days to ensure that the new scheme of garbage segregation at source evoked good response from the residents.
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Forest department plans seed, clonal orchards
The Research Wing of the Tamil Nadu State Forest Department has planned to raise seed and clonal orchards for 25 commercial species like neem, simaruba glauca, teak, rosewood, vagai, porasu in the
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Measures sought to stop illegal sand mining
Multitudes in Tamil Nadu face a bleak future as sand mining adversely affects local water and land resources in hundreds of villages, a "people's public hearing" was informed today. Illegal sand
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Row over quarrying Kanchi village tense
Sankarapuram village in Tamil Nadu witnessed tense moments today when armed policemen were mobilised in the village to foil any untoward incident after villagers gathered on the road to prevent
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Three-phase wildlife census at Top Slip
The Tamil Nadu Forest Department personnel of the Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary at Top Slip have proposed to undertake a census of animals in three phases. the census would be done in two phases
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Call for action against Palar pollution
Speakers at a meeting in Tamil Nadu today did not mince their words finding fault with the municipalities of Kancheepuram and Chengalpattu for letting untreated sewer water into the Palar and called
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'Evolve measures to check nematode attack'
Crop loss in the country due to nematode incidence is estimated around Rs 24,000 crores. According to the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Vice-Chancellor, S Kannaiyan, the first outbreak of
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Hope yet for children of HIV-infected women
Going by the statistics of implementation of the UNICEF and National AIDS Control Society project to prevent 'mother-to-child-transmission', there seems to be some hope yet for children and