Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
The Madras High Court on Tuesday granted interim stay of certain rules pertaining to the appointment of expert members of the National Green Tribunal. These rules were challenged by a law student who contended that they were unconstitutional. A Division Bench, comprising Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and D. Hariparanthaman, stayed …
In the last year, nearly 50 packaged drinking water units have come up around the city, an indicator of the growing demand for the product, predominantly from households. However, this has not meant an improvement in customer satisfaction with regard to the quality of water supplied. The number of packaged …
CHENNAI: Chennai Metrowater has recorded a net deficit for the fifth consecutive year by registering Rs. 99.5 crore loss in 2009-2010. The water agency started making losses since 2005-2006, the final year of the previous All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam regime. The last occasion when the agency's income exceeded …
CHENNAI: The Water Resources Department has approached the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT-Madras, to scrutinise its report of the project to control sea erosion along the coastline, including along Ennore High Road. Officials of the WRD said as the project is to be implemented with a new technology, the expertise …
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Tuesday claimed that the recently released six-city study on air pollution sources by the Environment Ministry was
CHENNAI: Scientists globally are a step closer to resolving the energy crisis after Italian scientists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi recently developed a cold fusion device that is capable of producing 10 KW of power, said noted nuclear scientist M Srinivasan. Speaking at a tutorial school on the theme,
Indian Railways is poised to set up four bio-diesel plants at a cost of `120 crore, in potentially one of the biggest initiatives for the bio-fuel production in the country. While two bio-diesel esterification plants are going to be commissioned at Raipur and Chennai during the next two years, the …
Poison in the air and love for the puff have made Calcutta the lung cancer capital of India. A study has revealed that in 2007 Calcutta had topped the metros in new lung cancer cases. The comparative study on lung cancer is part of the National Cancer Registry Programme conducted …
CHENNAI: A disturbing trend has emerged from a study on the quality of drinking water that city schools are supplying to their students: more than half of them provide unhygienic drinking water. An even more disturbing observation is that the private schools, which boast of better infrastructure and hence demand …
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the State government to take up with the Centre a matter relating to necessary amendment to the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act. The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice M.Y. Eqbal and Justice T.S. Sivagnanam, gave the …
A sum of Rs.465 crore has so far been given to those affected by heavy rainfall during the northeast monsoon last year. An amount of Rs.75 crore has been given to legal heirs of those who died as well as those who lost their cattle and dwelling units. Of Rs.400 …
With all the 1,000-odd Tata Magic maxicabs that operate in the city on the road to regularisation, the question of effective utilisation of the increasing number of such share cabs and autorickshaws to serve the city's transportation needs has cropped up again. Speaking to The Hindu, Transport Minister K.N. Nehru …
The national summary report on air quality monitoring and emission for six cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune and Kanpur has rung alarm bells over the
The average groundwater level in the city has witnessed an increase by two metres in the past six years. The quality of groundwater has also seen an appreciable improvement, according to a recent study of Chennai Metrowater. The average water table in Chennai was 5.42 m during 2005. Successive years …
The decks have been cleared for the further expansion of Chennai Metro Rail with the State government announcing that the viability of three new corridors is being explored. A detailed project report will soon be undertaken by the consultant, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, to determine the feasibility of the corridors …
CHENNAI: The average groundwater level in the city has witnessed an increase by two metres in the past six years. The quality of groundwater has also seen an appreciable improvement, according to a recent study of Chennai Metrowater. The average water table in Chennai was 5.42 m during 2005. Successive …
Chennai: The State will promote deployment of rooftop solar power plants connected at LT level with net metering facilities, in line with the National Solar Mission, said Electricity Minister Arcot N. Veeraswami on Friday. Addressing an international conference on Renewable Energy, he said the State would start deployment of rooftop …
More than 70 per cent of work in two units of 600 mega watt coal-based thermal power plant in North Chennai Thermal Power station at Athipatu village of Thiruvallur district is completed and the units will go critical by January 2012, according to TNEB officials. Chief engineer of the station …
A survey to assess seismic vulnerability of the built environment in Chennai has classified 29 per cent of the buildings in the city as highly vulnerable in an earthquake event. The survey undertaken by the Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management (CDMM) at Anna University aerially mapped 22,758 medium-to-tall buildings …
