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 …
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 …
MUCH of the groundwater in Tamil Nadu's Tirupur town is unusable, having been contaminated by the effluents that the town's prolific hosiery industry churns out. But now, a scheme to set up common effluent treatment plants is getting underway after crossing many hurdles. Tirupur, which has some of the most …
Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan's charter of 10 demands to the Tamil Nadu government as the precondition for releasing 3 hostages may provoke the final offensive against him by authorities. In a message sent through his brother Arjunan, Veerappan has declared his acquiescence to surrender and release of deputy superintendent of police …
INDIAN farmers are cashing in on the Western fad for organically produced food. But before organic farmers can start dreaming of the greenback, it is virtually essential for their produce to get international accreditation or recognition. Kurunji Organic Food India Pvt Ltd (KOFIL), a Tamil Nadu-based agency, was the first …
VEERAPPAN, the legendary sandalwood smuggler, may be nabbed shortly, but putting an end to rampant sandalwood smuggling in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu may prove considerably more difficult. The ban on sandalwood export, in conjunction with anti-people conservation measures, have seen more and more people turn to sandalwood smuggling, with the …
Dense cinchona and silver oak forests covering 3,000 ha in Valparai in the Annamalai hills will be replaced by tea plantations if the state-run Tamil Nadu Plantation Corporation Ltd (TNPCL) has its way. TNPCL was set up in 1976 to rehabilitate Tamil refugees from tea gardens in Sri Lanka. Since …
The Union agriculture ministry's plan to draw up a national fisheries policy for the integrated development of fishing in India has drawn flak from organisations representing coastal fisherfolk in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Gujarat. The fisherfolk have objected strongly to the Union government's policy of supporting …
A unique database on mangroves -- the Mangrove Ecosystem Information Service (MEIS) -- developed by the Centre for Research in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (CRSARD) in Madras, will be operational by December. Work on MEIS is being headed by eminent scientist M S Swaminathan. CRSARD will also set up …
SCIENTISTS at the Gandhigram Rural Institute (GRI) in Tamil Nadu have found that used tubelights can be recycled into inexpensive laboratory apparatus, which will cost just one-tenth of what such apparatus costs in the market. B V Appa Rao, head of the university's science instrumentation centre and his team have …
CHEMICALLY treated tamarind seeds can provide an adhesive stronger than those commercially available, claim scientists of the College of Agricultural Engineering, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore (Kisan World, Vol 28, No 8). Large quantities of tamarind seeds are available in India as a by-product of the tamarind pulp industry. When …
