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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Delta farmers going in for short-term crops
Delta farmers, who had been raising paddy from time immemorial, now go in for alternate
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Good response to door-to-door campaign
The Chennai Corporation and residents today joined hands to launch the door-to-door garbage collection drive, aimed at cleaning up the city in a "record time".According to the civic agency, more than
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Vaigai sand miners now plunder private land
After lying low for a fortnight, illegal sand quarrying has again reared its head on the Vaigai riverbed.The "powerful"' miners, who work at their will in scooping sand from the riverbed, have not
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PIl against sand quarrying on Palar riverbed
A public interest litigation petition seeking to prevent sand quarrying on the Palar riverbed stretching from Walajah Anaicut to Kalathoor in Vellore and Tiruvannamalai districts has been admitted
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TN goes in for cloud seeding again
After a decade, the Tamil Nadu Government has decided to revive attempts at 'cloud seeding' to induce rain to meet the drinking water needs of the city. The Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalithaa, in a
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TNAU to research on 'Golden Rice' technology transfer
The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, is one of the four centres identified for development of technology to transfer the "Golden Rice" gene in traditional rice varieties. The Delhi
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Govt sanctions Rs. 324.32-cr. drought relief
The Tamil Nadu Government has sanctioned Rs 324.27 crores as drought relief following the failure of both southwest and northeast monsoon and non-release of Cauvery water by Karnataka last
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CM launches two websites
Two new websites, one for the State Forests Department and the other for the State Environment Department, were launched by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on the occassion of World
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Where pollution is part of life
The residents of Royapuram, Tamil Nadu have to contend with air and water pollution caused by factories and iron ore deposits. During summer in Royapuram, a tinted inshore wind turns everything a
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Wildlife authorities take up desilting of tanks in Guindy Park
Wildlife authorities in the Chennai city have taken up deepening and desilting of three tanks inside the Guindy National Park with financial assistance from the Union Ministry of Environment and