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 …
Over 350 people have been killed in torrential rains in the current monsoon season across the country. Several regions in the northern region came to a standstill due to heavy downpour. Gujarat bore the brunt of the monsoon fury with 230 deaths, followed by Kerala, 64, Uttar Pradesh, 30, Karnataka, …
better late than never seems to be the motto of Enron Corp. The multinational company (mnc) has been struggling for five years to gain a foothold in India, its efforts almost symbolising the challenges faced by foreign investors in India. Enron recently said that it was pursuing additional projects in …
safe disposal: The Thiruvananthapuram-based Peninsula Polymers (Penpol) is breaking new ground in its hospital waste management business which specialises in the disposal of hazardous waste material. It has developed
tamil nadu's brick-makers who have been using flyash generated by thermal power plants in the state, will have to pay for the ash under the pretext of handling and delivery costs. Complaints regarding these payments were received by the Visakhapatnam-based Institute for Solid Waste Research and Ecological Balance, which has …
In the 1996 ninth general elections in India, water as an issue figured prominently in at least nine states. Among them all, Nalgonda in the Telengana region in Andhra Pradesh takes the cake. Nearly 500 farmers of the Telengana Jalasadra Samakhiya filed nomination papers, aiming to disrupt the electoral process …
Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) frequencies were deter mined in peripheral lymphocytes from traffic policemen drawn from various busy traffic points of Madras metro in India. These policemen were under constant exposure to automobile exhaust pollution during their 8 h work schedule. Analysis of SCE frequencies revealed a sig nificantly greater …
In a bid to break the deadlock over the Cauvery waters dispute, the Supreme Court requested Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, on December 28, 1995, to resolve the dispute immediately. The Tamil Nadu government had pleaded that if Karnataka did not release the required amount of water immediately, it …
IN KILLUKULAVAIPATTI village in the drought prone Pudukottai district of Tamil Nadu, M Thangappa - a 45 -year old marginal farmer - earns his livelihood from the thorny, bushy plant, Prosopis juliflora, popularly called Kattukaruvel. Like him, many subsistence farmers and landless labourers use juliflora not only as fuelwood, but …
THE agricultural policy of the state of Tamil Nadu has undergone a transfor- mation which will apparently ensure all round economic development and faster economic growth especially in the rural areas. The new policy was adopted by means of a resolution passed in the state assembly. Integrating farming systems animal …
GREEN POWER: The greening of the Rs 300 crore Venkatesbwara Hatcheries (VH) has begun. The company's first windfarm with four 225 kw mills started whirring in power from September. This windfarm will provide 'the entire one mw power required for its Tamil Nadu units, and protect it from future power …
With the Tamil Nadu government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signing the final document to bring Madras under the global Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP), key environmental concerns will now become a part of development planning for the city. The UNDP will provide a grant of US $605,000 over …
Inspite of repeated warnings, the 163 odd tanneries in Tamil Nadus North Arcot district have failed to set up common effluent treatment plants (CETPs). In the process, they have earned the wrath of the Supreme Court, which on September 8, ordered these tanneries to be closed immediately. The tanneries - …
P Rajagoplan, a Kattaikoothu artist, is directing a play "Pancha Bhoodam" which is being staged in various villages of northern Tamil Nadu. Kattaikoothu is a form of folk theatre prevalent in the region that draws its plots from the traditional scriptures and epics. Though even in Panch Bhoodam the religious …
What are the activities of the CSR? We are a very small organisation of just 5 people working on appropriate building technology and materials, water and sanitation. We have also been promoting alternative energy sources -- wind for water pumping and solar photovoltaic for lighting; now we are introducing solar …
To conserve energy. the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board has introduced a range of distribution transformers called Amorphous Metal-core Distribution Transformers (AMDT). These transformers could reduce the "noload po"wer loss", or idling loss to 60 watts (w) as compared to 260 w by a conventional transformer. Says Tamil Nadu's minister for …
Negotiations are in the final stages between the Union ministry of nonconventional energy sources (MNES) and the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) to establish a Wind Energy Centre at Kayathar in Tamil Nadu. MNES secretary 8 R Prabhakara says that Tamil Nadu is the ideal location as it accounts for …
A SET-UP which will test and certify wind turbines is likely to come up at Kayathar in Chidambaranar district, Tamil Nadu. The first of its kind in the country, it will also standardize the functioning of windmills. The Danish International Development Agency will help the ministry of no n- conventional …
PARCHED brown fields, often empty, dry paddy stalks - PanchanthangiPatti, a village 26 km from Madurai, is a mute victim of the chronic drought that afflicts the area. There are 30 other nearby villages cracking at the lips. But one more year and all their troubles should be over. There …
The Madras High Court rapped the Tamil Nadu government for going out of its way in passing a government order (GO) awarding licences to "enterprising enterprises" for quarrying granites in Semangalam tank in Villupuram of Ramaswami Padayachiar district. From 1973, the government had allowed the lessee to quarry at geographic …
HAPPY days are here again for thousands of women in the Madurai, Ramanathapuram and Kanyakumari districts of Tamil Nadu. Cutthroat moneylenders had better stay away, and drunken, violent husbands restrain their hands. Women can now own land, procure potable water within the village itself. And demolish arrack shops. "It's not …
