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 …
Greeshma Gopal Giri | ENS MERE spattering, brief spells will not suffice for certain parts of Ambattur Municipality this year; the prayers are for heavy rain. Delayed monsoon has led to wells drying up and groundwater level getting depleted. Water scarcity is particularly acute in the localities in and around …
Aloysius Xavier Lopez Giving way: The trees which were removed on Swami Sivananda Salai. CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation has started removing 261 trees on roads around the new Legislative Assembly Complex construction site. This is being done as part of the road widening project for better traffic management once the …
CHENNAI: A Czech delegation is in Chennai to explore business partnerships on water resource management and waste water recycling. The delegation which was here, as part of a trade mission to India, had preliminary discussions with officials of the TWAD Board and Metrowater. Addressing a meeting hosted by the Confederation …
M G Devasahayam Seawater desalination finds no mention in the Chennai Second Master Plan. Desalination plants are energy guzzlers and their cost of production would be high. Yet, the government is aggressively pursuing these projects CHENNAI Second Master Plan's (SMP) mission statement on water reads thus: "Provision of water supply …
Three municipalities in south Chennai set up an integrated solid waste management project (Established 2002). With a private-public partnership, they are trying to find a solution to one of urban India's greatest nightmares, garbage. Every day Chennai produces 4,000 tonnes of garbage that rots on the roads and in the …
Corpn says there is no need to create panic ON a day when a reputed private hospital warned about the likely outbreak of dengue in the city, Chennai Corporation officials criticised the hospital, saying that there was no need to create panic. Doctors from Apollo Children's Hospital on Thursday said …
M G Devasahayam The Second Master Plan has no mention of high-speed corridors or the likes. Yet what comes out as projects nowadays are nothing but such fancy plans There is a famous saying: "East is East and West is West
Tiruchi among 40 cities where the study was conducted TIRUCHI: The per capita carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emission in the city has been estimated to be 0.33 tonne a year, well below the national average of 1.75 tonne, a British High Commission-sponsored study has revealed. The study was conducted by …
T. Ramakrishnan and Deepa H Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Thursday cleared the Rs.633-crore component of the Water Resources Department (WRD)/Public Works Department (PWD) in the Rs.1,448-crore project of improvement of Chennai
M G Devasahayam The decentralised plan should address the needs and aspirations of the citizens, factoring in the effects of climate change, resource depletion, food insecurity, population growth, poverty and economic instability EVERY first Monday of October is World Habitat Day. The idea is to take stock of the state …
India is the second largest bicycle maker in the world with an annual turnover of 12 million units per year, the industry one of the most established and stable industries in the country. Chennai-based cycle manufacturer is thinking big; TI Cycles has become the second largest cycle manufacturer in India …
In India there are very few population based data on prevalence of depression. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of depression in an urban south Indian population. Subjects were recruited from the Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiology Study (CURES), involving 26,001 subjects randomly recruited from 46 of …
V Gangadharan IN a significant step towards promoting energy conservation, energy audits would soon begin in major government buildings in the State including the Raj Bhavan and the Madras High Court. The State Electrical Inspectorate (SEI), which is the nodal agency for energy conservation, is in the last leg of …
Sangeetha Neeraja | ENS "The fever is catching up in Chennai. There are lot of people getting into it as a sport," says Eshwaran, secretary, Tamil Nadu Homer Pigeon Association PIGEONS, the one-time friends of lovers for carrying their love notes for miles, have now caught the imagination of Chennaiites …
TAKING a giant step to arrest global warming in city, Chennai Corporation on Wednesday announced a ban on the usage of all sorts of round bulbs in its 2000-odd buildings located in its limits. It will be replaced with compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) soon. Speaking to reporters at the …
K. Lakshmi CHENNAI: With hardly a month to go for the onset of the northeast monsoon, a check of the rainwater harvesting structures is imperative to reap benefit of the showers. Rainwater experts in the city said Chennai
Inclusive development is a much heard slogan today. But how can development be inclusive if the decision-makers in Chennai do not even know whom and what to include, wonders M G Devasahayam AS India is getting rapidly urbanised, a disturbing phenomenon
Sessions to be held at the centre at Ayanavaram till October-end Status check: With northeast monsoon a few weeks away, it is time again to check RWH structures to continue to reap benefits from them. A view of the Metrowater
G Saravanan | ENS Will streamline parking collections and pave way for comprehensive parking policy THE city's newest parking control measure - parking meters - have been installed in one of the city's oldest areas, Mylapore, and will soon be extended to other areas. With this Chennai has become the …
