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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding dumping of waste in a canal in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 29/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …

Hyderabad to get 422 posh new buses

Hyderabad: Notwithstanding the strikes and financial troubles, the Andhra Pradesh Road Transport Corporation asserted on Thursday that it wanted to go ahead with its development schemes and announced the sanction of 737 new buses, under the JNNURM scheme, to be used in the four major cities of the state. Of …

Progressive Cenozoic cooling and the demise of Antarcticas last refugium

The Antarctic Peninsula is considered to be the last region of Antarctica to have been fully glaciated as a result of Cenozoic climatic cooling. As such, it was likely the last refugium for plants and animals that had inhabited the continent since it separated from the Gondwana supercontinent. Drill cores …

Purification of drinking water is substandard

Anantapur, Oct. 9: The poor maintenance of outdated drinking water purification plants posed a threat to residents in Anantapur city. The summer storage tank (SS Tank) at Gooty road is providing 9 million litres per day but consumers often complain of reddish and contaminated water with gems. According to the …

Eco awareness blossoms in drought-prone town

Anantapur, Aug. 10: A city in a drought-prone district has set an example by banning the use of plastic below 20 microns (0.2 mm) and that too from 2006.Tadipatri, the industrially developed town in Anantapur, is completely free of plastic and other hazardous substances.Even roadside tea-stalls and fruit vendors have …

Leaders fail to ensure underground drainage

Anantapur, June 15: The long-pending underground drainage scheme for Anantapur city seems to remain unfulfilled due to political leaders’ apathy. This is a dream pending from 1996 for city people and clogged drains are making localities stink. Congress leaders had assured people that they would ensure laying of underground drainage …

Acute water shortage stares at Anantapur

ANANTAPUR, Feb. 14: There will be severe drinking water problem in the Anantapur city in the ensuing summer as water levels in the summer storage tanks and borewells have reduced to dead storage level. The city requires drinking water of 20 million litres per day of which the summer storage …

100 consume polluted water, hospitalised

About 100 people of Durganagar and Sathya Sai Nagar areas in Dharmavaram town were hospitalised after suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea due to consumption of contaminated water on Thursday. According to people, municipal officials supplied drinking water to the two areas at 4 pm on Wednesday. People who drank the …

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