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 …
dangerous levels of toxic chemicals have been detected in the ambient air in and around Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore industrial estate. Residents of the area have constantly complained about widespread air and water pollution and related health problems, particularly among children. The industrial area comprises several chemicals manufacturing units. Residents in …
The Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project under the consideration of the Ministry of Shipping, Government of India, envisages creation of a ship navigation channel to suit different draughts (9.15 m, 10.7 m and 12.8m) through dredging/excavation in Adam’s Bridge, parts of Palk Bay and Palk Strait. The navigation route will originate …
Forest histories have more often than not remained aloof from more broad-based economic histories of agrarian communities. As a result, narratives of the forest economy have focused almost entirely on the process offorest settlement. This article focuses on regional processes of territorialisation associated with revenue and forest settlement in the …
the gram panchayats of Tamil Nadu (tn) have sought the Union government's intervention in overcoming a severe resource crunch. Faced with dues to the tune of Rs 300 crore, owed to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (tneb), the presidents of these panchayats have filed a petition with the Union minister …
sole authority: The Madras High Court (HC) has vested the Tamil Nadu government with the exclusive right to carry out sand quarrying activities. In doing so, the HC has upheld a government order (GO) dated October 1, 2003. But the private parties that have not violated environmental laws or breached …
Elections 2004 are over. Was it a vote for development, social inclusion and justice? Or simply a vote against an incumbent government, flattened by sleazy and slick self-promotion? The answer is complicated, as can be expected from a country as diverse and layered as India. So, for instance, it can …
The much-awaited AIDS control programme takes off. So why are drug companies still miffed? On the first of April, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), rolled out its long-awaited campaign to reach anti-retroviral drugs to India's victims of the AIDS virus. Called the art initiative (art for anti-retroviral therapy, which …
faced with the threat of exposure to toxic waste, the people of a few nondescript villages of Tamil Nadu (tn) exhibited remarkable unity and resolve to register their protest. They were ably supported in this endeavour by civil society representatives. It was as if a storm hit the Kancheepuram collectorate …
Migrant Forum, a part of Coordination of Action Research on aids and Mobility (caram), Asia, an international organisation empowering migrants against aids is active in 21
A collaboration of geneticists, chemical engineers, pharmacists, agronomists and dieticians could not have produced a more valuable tree than neem (Azadirachta indica) . For many people worldwide, neem is priceless due to its numerous medicinal properties. It is such a cherished tree that in Sanskrit it has 31 epithets. In …
By the beginning of the next financial year, consumers in India would have over 10 companies to choose from while buying petrol and diesel. The new entrants in this segment include private players like Reliance, Essar and Shell, and three psus, Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemical Ltd (mrpl), ongc and Numaligarh …
on the night of March 4, 35-year-old Chandramma of Anchetti village in Tamil Nadu’s (tn) Krishnagiri district died after a severe bout of vomiting. The next day, five more people with similar symptoms expired in Anchetti and Takkati, a neighbouring village. By March 8, the toll had risen to eight. …
the onset of summer has again brought into sharp focus a plethora of issues pertaining to groundwater. It has been found that the authorities in Rajasthan have yet to spring into damage-control mode despite the state being parched. The situation is equally alarming in states like Tamil Nadu (tn) and …
A failed monsoon brings distress to Kerala; its second longest river, the Bharathapuzha, is virtually dry, and Palakkad district faces the worst drought in its history. Palakkad district is facing one of the worst droughts in its history. The Malampuzha dam, the biggest irrigation dam in the State, has failed …
Mention Chennai and the first thing people want to know about is the availability of water, besides the heat of course. This summer the scarcity could be the worst ever for the 55 lakh people in Tamil Nadu's capital city, not to speak of the several lakhs living in its …
Tamil Nadu reels under a third successive year of drought, and the rural economy is fast drying up as a sixth straight crop failure stares farmers in the face. R. Maniam, who owns 3.5 acres (1.4 hectares) of land, is virtually in tears as he crushes a fistful of paddy …
there are no signs of any let-up in the quarrying of river sand in Tamil Nadu (tn). This despite the Madras High Court (hc) staying the activity on all sites except the 79 owned by the state government. "Not only is rampant quarrying taking place, the public works department (pwd) …
an optimistic note, about wiping out polio from the six afflicted countries, was to be sounded at a conference organised by the World Health Organisation (who) in Geneva on January 15. Instead, the sudden re-emergence of the disease in two African nations
despite its genome sequenced three years ago, the cholera bacterium continues to dodge all efforts aimed at combating its menace. Now, scientists from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), have found out how Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium, renders the
