Water to be supplied once in 4 days in Madurai
MADURAI: The Madurai Corporation on Thursday formally announced its decision to reduce the frequency of water supply to the residents in order to use the available water judiciously through the summer.
MADURAI: The Madurai Corporation on Thursday formally announced its decision to reduce the frequency of water supply to the residents in order to use the available water judiciously through the summer.
Madurai: Although the Madurai Corporation has spent nearly a crore on the purchase of road sweeping machines, roads in the city continue to remain dusty. According to environmentalists, dust particles
MADURAI: Over 1,200 tonnes of garbage was cleared by corporation workers after two days of Pongal festival in the city. Large chunks of garbage had accumulated in many parts of the city as residents seemed
The need for all citizens to get involved in the movement to make Madurai clean and green was highlighted by several speakers at a rally organised by the Madurai chapter of Confederation of Indian Industry,
MADURAI: The four important streets around the Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple will be made plastic free soon and an awareness campaign to stress the same was started near the temple on Friday. Corporation
Tuticorin: A team of officials from the ministry of environment, forests and climate change regional office (South Eastern Zone), Chennai, on Wednesday inspected the site where Sterlite had started expansion
It is alleged that procedures to determine pollution level are hardly followed by the authorities concerned Crossing the Goripalayam junction to board her bus to Mattuthavani Integrated Bus Stand daily
A farmer in Madurai district, who adopted organic farming, has reaped a handsome paddy harvest. A N M Tiruppathi of Kulamangalam village has revived the agricultural methods of his ancestors and used
MADURAI: The unplanned and rampant development which took place in the last few years have resulted in the ruining water bodies in the city. For a city like Madurai water bodies and storm water channels
MADURAI: A day after Madurai City Corporation banned plastic bags below 50 microns around Meenakshi temple, the civic body raided shops and seized 660 kilograms of banned polythene bags and levied a total
MADURAI: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Wednesday passed an order imposing a ban on use of plastic bags below 40 microns in Courtallam falls situated in the Courtallam town panchayat and
MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court in its interim order has banned two soft drinks majors, Pepsi and Coca Cola, from drawing water from the Thamirabarani River for the purpose of producing
MADURAI: In what may come as a surprise package to the farming community, the number of farmers in Madurai district has increased marginally, even as there is a decline at the national level. In 2001,
MADURAI: Situated next to the sprawling Madakulam village tank is Kovalimalai - a 1,500 feet tall hillock - with a temple of Goddess Kabaleeswari at the top. For villagers of Madakulam, the hillock and
Tuticorin: Activists and environmentalists fear that pollution which has been the scourge of Tuticorin city for decades may have taken a turn for the worse. Recently, Tuticorin stood 21st in a list of
Following the recent announcement in the railway budget to make Rameswaram a green station, the Madurai railway division has started allotting more bio-toilet fitted coaches to the station. One of the
The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Monday directed the Madurai Corporation commissioner and the dean of Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) to provide uninterrupted water supply to operation theatres
Chief minister Edappadi K Palanisami has sought a detailed report on the Sterlite row from the Tuticorin district administration. The report will soon be sent to him and we expect a good decision to be
Tirunelveli: An analysis of the study conducted by college students on pollution in the Thamirabarani river on March 10 that was compiled by the Anna University Regional Centre threw up some interesting
A study conducted by the School of Energy, Madurai Kamaraj University, found that household appliances also contribute to greenhouses gases, and indoor plants can help to tackle the problem, say experts.