Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
The 5,000 tonnes of garbage generated in the city per day has the potential to be converted to 12 crore litre of aviation fuel and 4.5 crore litre of diesel per year. An expert told Express that through plasma gasification and vitrification process, a technology developed by NASA, the garbage …
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Tuesday referred to the National Green Tribunal Bench in Chennai a public interest litigation against the operation of the solid waste treatment plant at Vilappil in Thiruvananthapuram. The Bench, comprising Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice A.M. Saffique, issued the order …
Around 20 years from now, Mumbai and Chennai may routinely start seeing temperatures hotter than they have experienced in 150 years, an alarming University of Hawaii study predicting the climate ‘tipping points’ of various cities has warned. By 2045, Pune, Surat, Jaipur, Bangalore and Ahmedabad would have joined the ranks …
Senior Care Professionals - India's Leading Elder Care Provider Specialized Personal In 2010 memorandum, Environment Ministry exempted projects that had made substantial progress from clearance obligation The National Green Tribunal on Monday stayed the operation of an order of Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) exempting projects that have …
Almost one-fifth of the centrally-funded sewage treatment plants in the country are “non-operational”, leading to millions of litres of untreated water either seeping into the ground as potential pollutant of ground water or being discharged into natural drainage systems and rivers every day. Besides, performance of another nearly one-fifth of …
Saffolalife is an initiative by Saffola which provides health and nutrition aspects of preventive healthcare and seeks to impart accurate, credible and expert-led information. From free cholesterol checks across 90 cities in India to helping individuals find their heart’s age, Saffolalife’s mission is to keep India’s heart healthy. Every year, …
The Saffolalife Study 2013, India’s largest study on risk factors precipitating heart disease, found that more than 70% of 1.86 lakh urban Indian respondents are at cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. When the study was conducted among 23,313 Delhi respondents over a period of three years, it was revealed that 71% …
While setting aside an order of a single Judge of January 2009 on a batch of writ petitions, the Madras High Court directed the petitioners and the New Tirupur Area Development Corporation Ltd (NTADCL)., to get necessary approval for drawing water from their open wells and supplying them through tankers …
When a large number of children are vaccinated for pneumonia, other children too benefit as the spread of the infection is contained. This automatically reduces deaths due to the infection, said Adam H.R. Finn, professor of paediatrics, University of Bristol. Even if vaccination is provided partially to a high-risk group …
Mumbai: Twenty-five professors and researchers mainly from the IITs working in the field of telecommunications have written an open letter to the Centre, stating that the country’s cellphone tower radiation norms are among the safest in the world and there is no reason to change them. But doctors and social …
For a decade, the Tamil Nadu Groundwater (Development and Management) Act, 2003, which was to usher in a regime of controlling, regulating and administering the precious natural resource, remained only on paper. From September 14, the Act stood repealed as the government promulgated an ordinance to that effect. A senior …
MUMBAI: Mumbai is among the noisiest cities in the country, closely followed by Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore. Nearly all residents are impacted by adverse health effects of noise continuously, some without any apparent immediate effects and the majority with severe symptoms. In an endeavour to make the Ganesha festival noise-free, …
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Youth Wing Secretary V. Easwaran has moved the National Green Tribunal, Southern Zone, in Chennai seeking orders to shift the Coimbatore Corporation’s dump yard out of Vellalore. In his petition, he has said that the Corporation had been dumping waste in Vellalore without necessary approval from …
Chennai Metro Water has expressed concerns over private agencies trying to spook residents over the quality of water by using flawed surveys to promote their products. Hitting out at one such allegedly flawed survey by Eureka Forbes and GFK Mode, Metro Water officials say the study is more of a …
The Puducherry government has submitted before the Madras High Court that it has cancelled the agreements with private partners to develop a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Sedarapet-Karasur in the Union Territory. The submission was made when two writ petitions by joint venture partners of the project seeking a direction …
TVs, washing machines and computers may be a part of most city households, but Chennai has not figured out a structured way to collect discarded household electronic equipment – collectively called e-waste — which needs to be disposed of properly. E-waste contains toxins that can leech out over several years …
High levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a group of toxic carcinogens, have been detected in the air in various parts of the city. A study conducted in Ambattur, Kolathur, Saidapet and Egmore by the department of environmental management, Bharatidasan University, Tiruchy, showed the average concentration of particle-associated PAHs ranged …
Ten years and many more bans later, lack of awareness and failures in implementation has placed the city in the second position in the generation of plastic nationally, after New Delhi. Ten years ago, the Tamil Nadu government introduced the Tamil Nadu Plastic Articles (Prohibition of Sale, Storage, Transport and …
Diversified conglomerate ITC Ltd plans to invest nearly Rs 300 crore to add 48 MW wind power generation capacity by early next fiscal. The capacities will be located in Andhra Pradesh. The company currently has a 70 MW wind farm capacity, mostly in Tamil Nadu. According to Pradeep Dhobale, Executive …
The Madras High Court bench here on Wednesday ordered notice to the Public Works Department (PWD), the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and the Madurai District Collector on a public interest litigation filed alleging that two private granite companies had dumped the waste material from their quarries into several …
