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 …
K. Manikandan Contamination will be stopped, say officials Untreated raw and sewage water in the stormwater drain around the Tirupananthal lake in Pammal poses a health hazard. TAMBARAM: There seems to be no end to the onslaught on Tirupananthal lake in Pammal near Tambaram. It has been in the spotlight …
Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae with resistance to carbapenem conferred by New Delhi metallo-?-lactamase 1 (NDM-1) are potentially a major global health problem. The researchers investigated the prevalence of NDM-1, in multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in India, Pakistan, and the UK.Note: This research paper is available free online after registration to the journal Lancet Infectious …
Chennai: The Government of India has incurred a loss of more than Rs 116 crore by keeping three public sector vaccine labs closed for two years, government audits and RTI applications have revealed. While the government had to spend an additional Rs 40 crore to purchase BCG, DPT and TT …
The indiscriminate ingestive behavior of cattle predisposes them to accidental swallowing of both penerating and non penetrating foreign bodies that settle in the reticulum and rumen most of the times. As a result of extensive occupation of grazing land by human inhabitants there is dearth of the same for cattle. …
Sandhya Ravishankar|ENS RESIDENTS of Motilal Street in T Nagar are distressed by constant noise and vibrations caused by a generator installed on the fifth floor of a cloth shop on Usman Road. Residents say their children are unable to study and that life in general has become unbearable due to …
Until 10 years ago, Alandur, a residential suburb of Chennai in the Kanchipuram district, famous for its ancient temples, had no underground sewerage. As in 80 per cent of the metropolitan area outside the city of Chennai, most households depended on septic tanks with soak pits. The urban landscape of …
INDIA generates over 10,000 tonnes of plastic waste daily. This is almost 10 per cent of the entire solid waste generated. Mukesh Doble and his student Trishul Artham from the Indian Institute Technology in Chennai spent a year experimenting with fungii that can degrade bisphenol A (BPA)-containing plastic. BPA is …
K. T. Sangameswaran CHENNAI: The State Human Rights Commission on Monday ordered that the Chairman, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), Commissioner, Chennai Corporation, and the Chennai District Collector should file a report to the Commission on a report regarding contamination of groundwater in West Mogappair. Taking suo motu cognisance …
WHILE more than 600 families living behind a petrol filling station at Fourth f Block in Mogappair West f complained that gasoline (from the fuel outlet) had seeped into their wells and rendered water unfit for cont sumption, officials of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) strongly denied the allegation, saying …
No subsidy, but over 99% of the TN capital complies with the rules TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Like other metros in India, rapidly-urbanizing Chennai too faces the risk of its groundwater levels plunging to new depths. But this southern city has resolved to replenish its groundwater and secure its …
Extreme wave events of 1000 and 1500 years (radiocarbon ages) have been recently reported in Mahabalipuram region, southeast coast of India. Subsequently, we carried out extensive sedimentological analysis in regions covering a total lateral coverage of 12 km with a new archeological site as the central portion of the study …
Generated in thermal power plants at Ennore, North Chennai, Mettur and Tuticorin CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the State government to constitute Dispute Settlement Committees, as stipulated by the Centre, in thermal power plants at Ennore, North Chennai, Mettur and Tuticorin for resolving differences over free allocation of …
The city's seashore is often remembered as beautiful thanks to the 12-km-long Marina, which got a face-lift after the 2004 tsunami. But sea erosion has been reducing North Chennai's coastal strip to tiny strips, writes G Pattabi Raman in his photo essay For the average outsider, Chennai's seashore usually means …
P. Oppili The mahouts are tribals born in Kozhikamuthi in Topslip, Pollachi, where an elephant training camp is functioning As kids: The mahouts' family taking the calves for a walk inside the enclosure at the Vandalur zoo on Wednesday. CHENNAI: Sharon, a 14-month-old orphaned elephant calf, quietly walks behind four-year-old …
CHENNAI: The second Cauvery Combined Drinking Water Scheme will be implemented at a cost of Rs.47.74 crore and will benefit Kankeyam town panchayat (now elevated as municipality), Vellakoil Municipality and 174 rural habitations, Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said on Monday. Responding to Congress member Vidiyal S. Sekar, Mr. Stalin …
New Delhi: You will have to pay up to 50 paise more for cleaner motor fuels in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and nine other major cities that plan switch to Euro-IV grade. Petrol in Delhi will be costlier by 50 paise per litre at Rs 47.93 per litre and diesel …
Off to a start: Work being launched on modern integrated compost yard at Venkatamangalam near Vandalur on Wednesday. TAMBARAM: Effluents discharged from common sewage treatment plants will be pure enough to be used in industrial units, gardening and other purposes, Niranjan Mardi, Secretary, Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply, …
The A&N; Islands were rocked by a strong earthquake on Tuesday night. According to the US Geological Survey, the quake measured 6.9 on the Richter scale and was recorded at the north Andaman region, nearly 137 miles north of Port Blair. However, the India Meteorological Department's Andaman unit claimed the …
