Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Corporate social responsibility or CSR has come to be regarded mostly as a farce. . Indian companies put a little money into CSR to make themselves look good. It is important for them to be seen as caring. For the record, CEOs pay the usual lip service to development and …
The wind energy capacity addition in the State during the current financial year, which will end on Monday, is likely to be less than what it was in the previous years. Though 237 MW has been added this year, a senior official of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board hopes the …
India's first centre dedicated to monitoring climate change and finding country-specific solutions was opened at Anna University by R.K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on Friday. "Tamil Nadu has always been a few steps a head of the nation when it comes to innovation. The centre …
After months of politics and bureaucratic wrangling with various state governments, the Union HRD Ministry has finally selected the states which will get new IITs and IIMs. While six new IIMs will be set up in Jammu & Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand, four new IITs will …
The AIADMK yesterday demanded a white paper on the expenditure of flood relief funds announced by the Tamil Nadu government as untimely torrential rain lashed the state taking the death toll to 20, while crops worth more than Rs 100 crore have been damaged. Leaders of most of the political …
STRESSING ITS NEED: Tiruvallur Collector Rajendra Kumar speaking at a function to launch water bodies' adoption programme at SRM Eswari Engineering College recently. In an initiative seeking to make protection of ponds, tanks and lakes a mass movement, 10 water bodies across Tamil Nadu were adopted recently by Neer Exnora. …
To study the effects of pollution on road side paddy fields, three paddy fields situated at Kuttikkulam, Elamankulam and Rajathanthirikkulam near National Highway-47 passing through Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu and a control paddy field far away from National Highway 47 in Kuttikkulam area which was free from highway run-off …
Popular demand: Mr. George Thomas of Kozhikode seen harvesting the mushrooms. The problems are increasing: labour shortage, spiralling costs of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, difficulty in marketing, and absence of proper guidelines in price fixation for harvested produce. So, farmers are desperate to ensure minimum and sustained income from crops …
The State government has decided to give Rs.7,500 as compensation for loss of each hectare of paddy crop, Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin informed the Assembly on Wednesday. This is Rs.3,500 more than the Centre-specified norm of Rs.4,000 per hectare. The government will foot the additional Rs.3,500 per hectare. It …
A Central team will soon visit Tamil Nadu to assess the damage to the standing crop and property loss caused by the unusual rain that lashed several southern districts, M.K. Stalin, Minister for Local Administration and Rural Development said in Mudukaluthur on Tuesday. During his tour of flood-hit areas in …
Tamil Nadu has described as "untenable, unfair and unjust,' Karnataka's stand that neither the interim order nor the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal can be enforced against it, and that release of water has to be decided only by the Cauvery River Authority headed by the Prime …
Pots labelled after major rivers and lakes in the State were lined up, symbolically representing the death of these water bodies. This scene was created by the members of the Tamil Nadu Environment Council (TNEC) here on Tuesday, as a part of their protest demanding a separate ministry for water …
A clear picture on the status of damage caused by the present spell of heavy rain in the State, particularly in the southern districts, is likely to emerge by Tuesday evening when reports of the Collectors of the respective districts reach the government. As the rain has abated, the Collectors, …
The unusually-heavy rains over Tamil Nadu and other parts of southern peninsula may have been caused by La Nina and the positive phase of southern oscillation (SO), global scale circulation features. La Nina, the opposite of El Nino, pertains to the anomalous decline in the temperature of the central tropical …
SPOT ASSESSMENT: Local Administration Minister, M.K. Stalin, inspecting rain-affected areas at Desigapuram in Virudhunagar district on Sunday. (Right) Vaigai river has copious flow of water due to opening up of sluices of the dam following heavy rain in catchment areas. VIRUDHUNAGAR: The State government has undertaken flood relief works on …
The village of Palli about 10 km from Cheyyar in Tiruvannamalai district was agog with activity after 5 p.m. on Sunday. The villagers, including several children, squatted on the ground in front of the Panchayat Union Elementary School while many stood at a distance and watched the members of Gipsy …
Incessant rain claimed five lives and caused an extensive damage to standing crops, mostly paddy, over thousands of hectares in the southern districts on Sunday. People residing along river banks and in low-lying areas were instructed to move to safety as water level in major reservoirs was reaching full capacity. …
At ITC, CSR is built into its businesses. ITC is probably unique in that it does not implement its corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a separate foundation or trust. Instead, it has built these initiatives into its business model, by following what it calls the Triple Bottom Line Approach. Its …
