Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of A. Malliga Vs The District Collector Cum The Chairman of the District Environment Impact Assessment Authority, Trichy & Others dated 23/09/2022. Once it is found that the land in question is a water body, nobody can be permitted to …
The project involves construction of five small dams The Kollimalai Hydro Electric Project (1x 20 MW) that involves linking of a tunnel from the hills in Namakkal district to Puliancholai in Tiruchi is scheduled for completion by the end of next year, according to sources. The works on power tunnel …
The Committee of Commissioners, appointed by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, submitted a report on Tuesday on its inspection of sand mining in Tiruchi and Karur areas. The committee comprised advocates R. Alagumani and B. Saravanan and P. Ravichandran, Head, Department of Plant Science, Manonmanian Sundaranar University. …
TNBS conducted the survey in the reserve forest and open areas Endowed with valleys, ridges, waterfalls and thick forest areas, the picturesque and scenic Pachamalai hills in Tiruchi district has multiple species of butterflies - both in the reserve forest and open areas. During a two-day exploratory preliminary survey carried …
Four admitted to hospital, two patients test positive With a 43-year-old woman of Karur succumbing to H1N1 influenza on Friday night, the number of persons who died of swine flu since the onset of northeast monsoon in Tiruchi region has gone up to four, raising concerns among the public and …
They meet residents living on the banks of the stream At a time when doubts were raised on genuineness of studies undertaken by some research scholars, a group of schoolchildren in Tiruchi have embarked on a serious project on environmental degradation of the Uyyakondan river because of the indiscriminate dumping …
TRICHY: The forest department has found seven additional species in the Trichy forest division during its annual wildlife census, taking the total number of wildlife species in the division to 12. The census was carried out in four ranges- Trichy forest, Manapparai, Thuvarankurichi and Thuraiyur- spread over 45,272 hectares. The …
Project implemented at Rs. 3.97 lakh The commissioning of the 3.25 Kilo Watts Power (kWp) solar power plant at the Salem Railway Junction is expected to bring down the dependence of the Railways on the traditional energy to a considerable extent. The solar plant set up atop the newly extended …
A cross section of the farmers’ representatives of the district has urged the Public Works Department to ensure that Uyyakondan canal was protected from urban pollution by utilising the funds granted for the purpose by the government properly. The 1,000-year-old Uyyakondan canal, built by Raja Raja Cholan and renovated by …
TRICHY: A total of 203 of the total 1,272 government schools in the district do not have basic toilet facilities according to a recent list released by the department of school education and literacy, ministry of human resource development (MHRD) on its official website about schools that are functioning without …
TRICHY: There are more than 2.5 lakh women in Tamil Nadu who were found to be affected by diabetes in 2013-14, according to state health minister Dr C Vijaya Basker. The minister revealed this statistics while speaking at the fourth annual conference of the Diabetes Club of Trichirapalli (DCT) here …
The once perennial Cauvery river is turning into an eyesore with several places polluted completely. Officials say this is largely due to with the increasing number of devotees and the public who wash their clothes and perform their daily chores there. Dead fish, dirty clothes, plastic bags and tea cups …
As part of a plan to create slum-free cities, the government on Tuesday announced that 10,000 flats would be constructed in Chennai and other cities and towns in the state. “To fulfil the Vision 2023 and slum-free cities plan of the Union and state governments, the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance …
Trichy: Though biomedical waste management was made mandatory for all government and private hospitals in India, many still fall behind in segregating hazardous waste from general garbage leading to the spread of diseases. The raid by the city health officer (CHO) on Tuesday brought to light the negligence of hospitals …
TRICHY: Residents of Anna Nagar in Thiruppaichali blocked roads on Monday protesting against water shortage on Monday. Protesters, who dispersed after officials assured to take steps immediately, claimed authorities are not supplying drinking water for the past few months to the area which is near Mannachanallur. While shortage of drinking …
'Use of Diclofenac for cattle had been banned by the Drug Controller of India in 2006, but the use of drug still continues' The disappearance of vultures, which feed on carcass and act as a natural scavenger, has made Arulagam, a research organisation working in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, raise …
Division Bench also stays in-stream mining until June 4 The Madras High Court Bench here on Wednesday restrained Public Works Department (PWD) from using machines to quarry sand from various sites in Cauvery and Kollidam rivers flowing through Karur, Tiruchi, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam districts. A Division Bench of Justices …
Bullock cart operators and labourers, owing allegiance to the Tiruchi District Sand Bullock Cart Labourers’ Association, staged a demonstration in the city on Tuesday urging the Public Works Department to grant them permission to transport sand from the Cauvery and the Coleroon rivers in the Tiruchi region. The protesters said …
BHEL Tiruchi has come out with a protocol – Safety Vision 2015 – to make the company an accident-free one by the year 2015, said A.V.Krishnan, Executive Director. Mr.Krishnan was speaking at the 43rd National Safety Day function held on the factory premises here on Tuesday. Mr.Krishnan said that BHEL …
HC appreciates media for supporting the cause The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Monday informed the Madras High Court Bench here that it had planted 6,242 saplings on the highways within the territorial jurisdiction of the Bench in just seven days from February 15. After recording the submission, …
