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
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Students clean up the Marina
Visitors to the Marina beach in Tamil Nadu were greeted by the sight of about 500 students sweeping the beach front to remove waste. The Marina faces the chronic problem of large amount of waste
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Declare Tamil Nadu drought zone, demands CPI(M)
The Tamil Nadu state Committee meeting of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which concluded has demanded that Tamil Nadu be declared drought hit zone and urged the State and Central Governments
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Samba hopes hinge on sustained inflow
Farmers in the Cauvery delta districts of Thanjavur and Tiruvarur in Tamil Nadu have started raising nurseries for samba cultivation with the hope that they could sustain the crop using canal
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'Idols with toxic paints pollute water bodies'
Celebration of Vinayaka Chaturthi, which was once a statement of offering to nature of what was taken from it, has now become a festival that played havoc with the eco system, according to
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Centre ignored subsidy for waste management, Corporation tells HC
The Chennai Corporation has blamed the Union government for framing the Municipal Solid Waste Rules, 2000, ignoring a subsidy component as recommended by an expert committee constituted by the
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It was starvation death: fact finding team
The death of seven year old Prakash of Athitchapuram in Tiruvarur district in Tamil Nadu was indeed due to starvation, according to a nine member fact finding team from the Campaign for the Rights of
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Samba preparations on in delta districts
With the release of water from the Grand Anaicut, farmers have started preparing for Samba cultivation in canal irrigated areas in the Cauvery delta district of Thanjavur and Tiruvarur. While raising
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'Malaria free Chennai' campaign to be launched on Sunday
The much hyped "Malaria free Chennai" campaign, to be kicked off in the metro on Sunday, will be the largest co-ordinated effort to examine bio-environment friendly means of controlling the spread of
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Naturalists oppose move to cut dead trees
The Indian Institute of Technology campus has been attracting several migratory bird species this year, but a move to remove dead trees on the campus could affect the nesting site. A meeting convened
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Sandalwood trees uprooted in Coimbatore forest College
The Tamil Nadu forest department has ordered uprooting of 79 sandalwood trees on what is commonly referred to as the Forest college campus, housing the State Forest Rangers college and the Institute