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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Pollution board notice to HLL on water contamination
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board served a show cause notice on the Hindustan Lever Limited under section 26 of the Water Act 1974, for discharge of chemical and solid waste generated from the
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Ban or checks, the nocturnal plunder goes on unabated
Inspite of the total ban on sand mining in the Cauvery and the Vennar and irrespective of checks by revenue officials, illegal quarrying is going on in the delta districts of Thanjavur and Tiruvarur,
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Action plan to eliminate child labour by 2007
Coming in time for the Anti-Child Labour Day on April 30, the Tamil Nadu State Action Plan for the Elimination of Child Labour has got the nod from the Chief Minister. The plan hopes to ensure that
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Anti - sea erosion project for 4 districts
The Tamil Nadu State Government would take up a Rs 57.68 crore project to prevent sea erosion in Kanyakumari. Tirunelveli, Tuticorin and Ramanathapuram districts, the PWD Minister O.Paneerselvam
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Unhindered run on the delta lifeline
Tiruchi road margins in Tamil Nadu being littered with fine sand is not an uncommon sight, nor is the reason far to seek. The prolonged and unhindered quarrying in the nearby Cauvery and the Coleroon
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Hurdles no more to sewer project
The "ambitious scheme" to provide underground sewer systems in 14 municipalities and two municipal corporations in Tamil Nadu, at an estimated cost of Rs 844 crores, may become a reality this time,
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'Corporation must take up numbering of trees'
Numbering surviving trees which are more than three years old, encouraging residents to take up planting of saplings, engaging tree wardens selected by the forest department are some of the issues
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'Tanneries follow environmental norms'
The Pallavaram Tanners' Association has claimed that tanneries in and around the region followed safe environmental practices. The association has the common effluent treatment plant-Pallavaram
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Jungle kings languishing in cages
They are supposed to be the kings of jungles. But, for a star crossed bunch of four lions, abandoned by a circus company in the dusty small town of Sattur in Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu life
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Break no bones
For geriatricians in the Chennai city have warned people above fifty years of age to take calcium rich diet in order to avoid reduction of bone mass density and the crippling effects of Osteoporosis.