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 …
CHENNAI: Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Wednesday defended the new economic policy and poverty alleviation schemes of the Eleventh Plan saying it was too early to state that the policy had failed. “We have to look at the data of recent years before we declare that …
In an effort to prevent e-waste being broken down by rudimentary hazardous methods by people in the informal sector, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has asked local bodies, including the Chennai Corporation, to set up e-waste collection centres. TNPCB Member Secretary K.Karthikeyan said that only five per cent …
CHENNAI: Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS) in Chennai is under-utilised, poorly designed and lacks maintenance, says a study. The study, which was initiated by the Goethe Institut in collaboration with the Anna University as part of Year of Germany Celebrations, found that many stations lacked basic infrastructure required for commuters …
Ask Priyabrata Kanjilal, a grocery store owner in one of the bylanes of south Kolkata, for a Vim washing bar. Chances are he will produce an egg (dim in Bengali), for he cannot distinguish between the two words. Twenty years at the store has taken a toll on his hearing …
Constant exposure to noise can make one deaf. The major culprit is road traffic. Can one avoid noise? It’s difficult. Checking it, however, is not impossible. As the Central Pollution Control Board regulations remain unimplemented, the authority has initiated a nationwide real time noise monitoring, hoping for an improvement.
If all the 5.75 lakh cars registered in the city were to be parked on-street parallel to one another, the area that the vehicles occupy would be as much as seven per cent of Chennai. As existing regulations on parking are inadequate and the enforcement is lax, most of the …
Let out by residents living along banks and even government agencies Buckingham Canal is the most polluted of the three major waterways in the city with nearly 60 per cent of the estimated 55 million litres of untreated sewage being let into it daily, including by Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply …
CHENNAI: Chennai is witnessing the classical development versus environmental debate yet again as students, faculty and well wishers of the Pachayappa’s College are up in arms against the State Government’s proposal to raze the lush green campus and make way for a metro station in its vicinity. All this is …
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will soon take action against wholesalers and retailers stocking and selling plastic bags less than 40 microns thick, said Member Secretary K.Karthikeyan. The drive would be conducted in coordination with the respective local bodies, Mr.Karthikeyan, who took over as TNPCB's Member Secretary recently, …
After its intensive campaign to popularise rainwater harvesting, Rain Centre is now promoting recycling of grey water in residential complexes using a natural and economical method. For the past eight months, the voluntary organisation has been helping residents across the city recycle the water used for washing and bathing purposes …
CHENNAI: “I have promised the residents that the garbage collection in their area will improve once it comes under the Corporation,” says Neelankarai Panchayat president V Ettiyappan. But residents of the area are in no mood to listen to him, who, they say, has only found a convenient excuse to …
CHENNAI: With Chennai, like many other cities, running desperately short of parking spaces, experts suggest that parking should be treated as a commodity with appropriate pricing mechanisms for effective traffic management and to encourage public transport usage. According to statistics provided by Chennai City Connect, a body working on urban …
Conservancy operations in 88 sq km of the expanded city will be entrusted to a private operator by the Chennai Corporation. The civic body on Thursday invited bids for selection of the operator for collection, segregation, transportation and disposal of garbage in the proposed new zones of Teynampet (Zone IX), …
India’s largest crocodile bank situated here is gearing up to welcome four more crocodile species to its collection. The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology (MCBT), located on the East Coast Road, will receive the new reptiles “by end of September or beginning October,” its Director, Colin James …
Cancer specialists and public health officials optimistic that incidence of cancer will come down With the Union Health Ministry categorising pan masala and gutka as banned food products because they contain tobacco, there is fresh hope among cancer specialists and public health officials that incidence of cancer caused by these …
CHENNAI: Former students and professors joined the students of Pachaiyappa’s College on Tuesday to voice their unhappiness over the acquiring of land for the proposed construction of a Metro Rail station on the campus. Demanding that the Metro Rail station proposed to be constructed there be relocated to another place, …
CHENNAI: More than six lakh people are gasping for breath in Kodungaiyur as the city dumps its waste on a vacant piece of land that has been allegedly earmarked by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority as a place for institutional purposes in its second master plan. More than 4,000 tonnes …
Accelerating growth in the transport sector, a booming construction industry, and a growing industrial sector are responsible for worsening air pollution in Indian cities. While estimates of health impacts are effective in raising overall concern about air quality, they do not specifically answer the question of where the pollution is …
The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, a panel of international experts assessing the current scientific knowledge on climate, has asserted that warming of the earth's climate system is ‘unequivocal', Fr. Ignacimuthu, Director, Entomology Research Institute, Loyola College, Chennai, said here recently. Inaugurating an international congress on “Global Warming on Biodiversity …
Experts in SWM call for measures to promote segregation of waste at source and efficient disposal system In the past few weeks, conservancy workers have been working overtime to clear garbage that has piled up across the city. Apart from being an eyesore, the overflowing waste bins pose health hazards. …
