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 …
C Shivakumar | ENS UNAWARE of World Health Organisation norms, Metro Water officials here along with Corporation authorities have decided to raise chlorine levels to 10ppm (parts per million) in water distributed through MW sytems, which experts say is harmful. The decision to raise residual chlorine (RC) level to 10 …
It will be held at SRM University in Kattankulathur, with delegates from all over the country participating Express News Service THE Indian Youth Science Congress is all set to begin here on June 26. The three-day Congress is aimed at providing a platform for students and young teachers between the …
C Shivakumar| CMWSSB will procure new devices worth Rs 8 crore. Plans are on to purchase 25 more jet rodding machines, 17 desilting machines and three super suction machines } IN a bid to cut down complaints, Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) is planning to buy new …
Coimbatore: A cycle rally, a signature campaign and planting of saplings will mark World Environment Day celebrations in the city on June 5. The cycle rally to create awareness among people on the need to save fuel and using cycles for short distance travelling, is being organised by The Hindu …
C Shivakumar | ENS Chennai, May 30 Some of them don't even exist, putting the groundwater table under strain THE capacity of water bodies in and around the city has shrunk by at least 20 per cent, and some of them don't even exist, putting the groundwater table under severe …
Rekha Pulinnoli | ENS IT'S 9 am. But Santhome Beach is already like a furnace. The sultry weather and balmy winds have taken their toll. Vijay heads towards the solitary vendor sitting beside a makeshift structure on the beach and orders two water sachets. But, didn't the Corporation ban water …
Liffy Thomas and R. Sujatha NGOs and State government have played a pivotal role in taking home the message about ills of using tobacco Smoke free: Several buildings are becoming
The latest Cooum river restoration project in Chennai aims to focus on slum eviction as an achievable first step. A 19-kilometre elevated expressway on the river is also planned. Together estimated to displace over 18,000 families from the banks of the Cooum, these two projects testify to how waterfront development, …
V Gangadharan | ENS SQUALLY winds with speeds upto 60 km, thunderstorms accompanied by extremely heavy rains, rough seas and tidal waves along the coast of northern Tamil Nadu. This was the scary forecast for Thursday that the weath f erman made on Wednesday as Cyclone Laila, which has intensified …
THE AMBITIOUS PROJECT'S FIRST MANIFESTATION, THE ELEVATED STAGE WILL CONNECT KOYAMBEDU AND ST THOMAS MOUNT As of today we are on schedule... Nearly seven hectares of land have to be acquired. Efforts are on to acquire the land by this year THE work on the elevated stage of Chennai Metro …
CHENNAI: The State Environmental Appraisal Committee has recommended conditional environmental clearance to the Chennai Corporation's proposal to set up a solid waste processing facility at the Perungudi garbage dump yard, according to sources in the civic body. The Corporation has also applied to Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board for pollution …
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS We are boiling drinking water now, following the advice of Corporation officials. But, if they had warned us in time, may be the number of cases could have been reduced DESPITE the Corporation and the Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board popularly known as Metrowater washing …
It will plant bamboo saplings -- which absorbs more carbon than most other plants -- in 1,000 residential buildings in the shopping hub TEXTILE retail major Pothys, in association with British Council, is all set to gift a green lung to T Nagar by planting bamboo saplings, an acknowledged carbon …
Privatisation of water supply to households may increase prices, but it ensures clean drinking water for all Luis Miranda The debate over privatisation of water ended some time ago. Today we have no choice
The Tamil Nadu Government proposes to enact a law to give statutory authority to the Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (UMTA) soon. The authority will enable creation of a multimodal transport system that will integrate the various public transport systems available in Chennai. In October 2007, the State Government constituted the …
Deepa H Ramakrishnan Comprehensive study carried out at traffic junctions NOISY AFFAIR: Noise from vehicles contributes to the high pollution levels in several spots in the city, such as this on Anna Salai on Tuesday. CHENNAI: Noise levels at major traffic junctions in the city, including Ashok Pillar, Koyambedu, Vadapalani, …
BS III, II fuel availability causes confusion in 13 cities. Murali Gopalan One month into the new clean fuel regime finds the auto sector struggling with vehicle supply schedules and facing the prospect of stocks not being registered in metros with tighter emission norms. Effective April 1, 13 cities moved …
BUTTERMILK, COOL DRINKS IN PLASTIC PACKETS, INSTANT DOSA, IDL MIXES, PACKAGED SAMOSAS AND PUFFS ALSO ON THE BANNED LIST City Corporation on Thursday gave its approval to ban sale of drinking water, buttermilk and cool drinks in plastic sachets citing poor quality within its limits. After a Corporation Council meet, …
