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 …
EFFORTS were on by the Chennai Corporation to restore the Velachery lake to its original glory, which would make flooding during monsoon a thing of the past, said Mayor M Subramaniam. After inspecting the Velachery lake on Thursday for developing it as a tourist spot with fun-boating facilities, Subramaniam told …
CHENNAI: Incessant monsoon rains hit life across Tamil Nadu, including Chennai, for the second day on Monday, heavily flooding low-lying pockets of the capital city. As the weatherman predicted intensified rainfall in the state
This new synthesis report provides outcome of the Air Quality Monitoring, Emission Inventory and Source Apportionment Study carried out in the cities of Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kanpur, Mumbai and Pune. The primary focus of the study was on respirable particulate matter (PM10), although it also deals with other pollutants like …
CHENNAI: Amid chaos of big cities, thousands of workers process garbage providing an environmental service. The health and social costs are high and yet, their contribution remains unacknowledged. As many as 70 waste pickers from across the country condemned the proposal for refuse-derived fuel plants in the city at a …
Ajai Sreevatsan Equitable distribution of space on the road would mean giving priority to public transport buses. A scene of MTC buses vying for space on Poonamallee High Road, near Aminjikarai, on Monday.
Sangeetha HERE is a man who thinks, talks and walks cycle rickshaws even if he does not drive one. Dr Pradip Kumar Sarmah, Executive Director of Centre for Rural Development (CRD) is a crusader for the cause of cycle rickshaw. He has extensively studied issues relating to cycle rickshaw pullers …
Yogesh Kabirdoss | ENS A reader's suggestion on the need to aggressively promote cycle rickshaws as an alternative mode of transport set us thinking. Express reporters checked out their current status and got the impression that the rickshaw's return is nowhere on the horizon THOUGH THEY WERE FOOT SOLDIERS FOR …
CHENNAI: The rapid growth in the number of automobiles in the city has turned the focus on the need for the authorities to take stringent measures to contain air and noise pollution. The number of motor vehicles has been steadily growing over the past 12 years, according to the Transport …
CHENNAI: Twenty five automatic weather stations will be set up across the city to develop an early warning system for flood monitoring. The data would be used to provide information about the areas that are likely to be inundated and help the authorities plan evacuation and rescue measures. Two control …
The Chennai Corporation on Tuesday announced that a fine of Rs.100 would be collected from people who violate the plastic ban on the Marina Beach. Inspecting the development works in progress at the Marina, Mayor M. Subramanian said,
CHENNAI: About 50 experts working on climate change will draft the action plan for the next meeting to be held in New Delhi on November 12, said Gerolf Weigel, head of Climate Change and Energy and Deputy Country Director, Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation, India, on Monday. Speaking at …
Chennai Corporation will soon complete earthquake vulnerability mapping of the city in collaboration with the University of Madras. Mayor M. Subramanian said this in his address at the Asian Ministerial Conference on disaster risk reduction in Incheon, South Korea, on Tuesday. He added that the university had brought out a …
Arun Kumar WASHINGTON: Three Indian cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Chennai - have been listed among the world's fastest-growing cities by Forbes magazine. It also called Gujarat the "most market-oriented and business-friendly" among Indian states. "The urban powerhouses of the next decade aren't behemoths like New York or Mumbai, but …
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS THE piped water you get at home could be laced with toxins if a proposal by five municipalities and a town panchayat to set up a compost yard in Kuthambakkam village comes through. For, the project site falls within the catchment area of the Chembarambakkam Lake, …
A proposed compost yard project at Kuthambakkam could be an environmental time bomb, warn green activists. If given the go ahead, it would pollute the water bodies and also pose a risk to the livelihood of the locals. Speaking to Express, Almitra Patel, member of a Supreme Court Committee on …
