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 …
With wind-power generation in the state picking up in the last 3-4 days, parts of Chennai, including Kolathur, Villivakkam and OMR, were spared load-shedding Sunday. The districts have been reeling from over 10 hours of daily power cut, while Chennai and suburbs face a two-hour load-shedding. About 2.24 million units …
Cities in India are dreaming of becoming New York and London but we seldom worry about as basic an issue as sewage and its disposal in our country. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has brought out a two-volume book titled Excreta Matters: Report on the State of India’s …
New Delhi: The country’s first integrated vaccine centre (IVC) — a single site that will produce six important vaccines administered to Indian children — has crossed the final hurdle. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved the Union health ministry’s Rs 594-crore park proposal. Spread over 100 …
An important scheme to improve the health and lifestyle of residents in rural pockets around Tambaram and also to improve access to proper sanitation is in disarray owing to neglect on the part of State government agencies. The Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) of the Ministry of Rural Development aims at …
Come September Chennai's residents will have a new source of drinking water, a 100-million litre a day desalination plant that will produce fresh water from sea water. The Rs 1,000-crore plant being set up by VA Tech Wabag for the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, the public sector …
700 mechanised boats anchored in Rameswaram. The 45-day annual ban on deep sea fishing began on Sunday. The ban will be applicable to the fishermen from Kanyakumari to Chennai along the east coast and it is being implemented for undisturbed breeding . During the period the fisheries authorities will also …
A total of 4.48 lakh children under the age of five under the old limits of the Chennai Corporation were covered in the second phase of pulse polio vaccination held here on Sunday. Over 4,500 staff and volunteers participated in the drive. A total of 4,95,512 children below the age …
SHAKEN, NOT SHATTERED: Waves Of Panic Hit East Coast Chennai/Kolkata: Waves of panic swept through India’s eastern coast on Wednesday afternoon as cities were rocked by tremors and repeated alerts of a possible tsunami being triggered by a massive earthquake of 8.6 magnitude off the Indonesian coast. The alert generated …
Voicing his opposition to the proposed monorail, the mode of mass transport that found favour with the AIADMK regime over the Metro rail system, former chief of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation E Sreedharan has said it is disappointing that the authorities chose to pursue monorail proposal instead of completing the …
Water supply and drainage facilities in Chennai’s suburbs will be strengthened at a cost of Rs 2,000 crore, announced Mr K.P. Munusamy, Tamil Nadu Minister for Municipal Administration. Replying to the debate in the Assembly on the demand for grants to Municipal Administration and Rural Development, he said the Chennai …
New Delhi: The southern cities of Chennai and Bangalore have better and efficient fleets of buses compared to other big cities in India. A government report released for 2010-11 said state-owned buses plying in the two southern cities had higher vehicle productivity — km covered per bus per day — …
In the last three months, one person died and 12 others were diagnosed with the A (H1N1) virus in the State, according to a release from the Department of Health and Family Welfare here on Monday. The infection was found to have affected people in Chennai, Coimbatore and Tiruppur. The …
The Tamil Nadu Government has decided to set up a 660 MW supercritical thermal power plant at Ennore at a cost of Rs 3,960 crore, announced the Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, in the Assembly today. In a suo motu statement, she said the 40-year-old Ennore thermal power plant to …
KOLKATA, 14 MARCH: Even while choosing the collision course with his party boss Miss Mamata Banerjee over hiking of passenger fares, railway minister Dinesh Trivedi proposed some new projects and 20 new trains for West Bengal. The long distant Express trains proposed by Mr Trivedi are Secunderabad-Shalimar AC Express (Weekly) …
Residents of a village near Tambaram are divided over the status of a water body in their locality. While some of them support efforts by the elected representatives of the rural local body to protect and preserve it, others perceive it as move to grab a portion of the land …
Three more cities are switching over to Bharat Stage (BS)-4 emission norms from Thursday. These cities are Ankaleshwar in Gujarat, Hisar in Haryana and Bharatpur in Rajasthan. Already 13 cities, including Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Surat, Kanpur, Agra, Lucknow and Solapur are implementing the BS-4 …
It may be a case of owner's pride, neighbours' envy. Kilpauk resident D. Suresh seems hardly annoyed by the frequent disruption in power supply, unlike his neighbours. The stand-alone rooftop solar power plant put up by him at his house is helping him keep his cool. The solar photovoltaic power …
To supply super-critical steam turbines and generators Toshiba JSW Turbine and Generator has bagged an order from NTPC for the supply of three 800 MW (3 x 800 MW) super-critical steam turbine and generator island packages for the Kudgi Super Thermal Power Project, Stage-I, in Kudgi, Karnataka. The contract value …
NEW DELHI: The battle over removing hotels and resorts from the only corridor linking elephants in the Eastern and Western Ghats has got shriller. Experts on board the prime minister-led National Board of Wildlife (NBW) have written a joint letter to senior forest officials warning that they could be in …
New Delhi A specialised body for promoting sustainable development of the Indian auto sector, dubbed the National Automotive Board, is likely to be set up by April. "The proposed National Automotive Board (NAB), which is being finalised by the Department of Heavy Industry, is likely to be cleared by the …
