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 …
P.Oppili in safe hands: The rescued elephant calf at the Vandalur Zoo in Chennai on Friday. CHENNAI: A four-month-old male elephant calf, abandoned by an elephant herd, was rescued by Forest Department officials in Erode last week. The calf was brought to the Vandalur Zoo for rehabilitation on Friday. According …
CHENNAI: The need for increasing the green cover in the city was stressed by C.K. Sreedharan, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of Forest Force, Tamil Nadu, here on Saturday. Participating in the
THE Greenpeace activists on Friday launched the Bachat Lamp Yojana in the city. Film director Vasanth and Bengali actor Dhritiman Chatterjee, who acted in the recently released Tamil film Yaavarum Nalam, were present. As a part of the launch, the activists set up a stall near the Gandhi Statue on …
They opened their eyes 12 days after birth, say zoo authorities One cub, which had congenital defects, died six days after birth Cubs will be allowed to come out of the enclosure only after three to four months NEW ARRIVAL: One of the white tiger cubs at the Vandalur zoo. …
K. Lakshmi CHENNAI: Chennai Metrowater has registered a slight increase in its revenue collection through water tax and charges in 2008-09 compared to the previous year. However, the Board has recorded a net deficit of Rs.107 crore, which is the difference between the total income and total expenditure. A Metrowater …
S. Aishwarya TENDING WITH CARE: Despite the meagre salary and physical labour, it is their passion for the job that keeps the gardeners going. CHENNAI: A leisure stroll on a refreshingly lush lawn studded with multi-hued flowers is something everyone would crave for. Behind the pleasurable experience of having a …
Sangeetha Neeraja | Chennai, THE unfortunate incident of the boy who fell to his death from the terrace of his apartment, after being scared by a pet dog at the Indian Airlines staff quarters recently, brings into focus the need for proper parapet walls in all flats in the city. …
CHENNAI: A team of officials from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Chennai, conducted a raid in Choolaimedu on Tuesday to check the misuse of ISI mark on packaged drinking water. According to a press release, substantial quantities of fake ISI-marked packaged drinking water in 20-litre pet jars were seized …
SOURCE SEGREGATION: A Neel Metal Fanalca bin placed in an apartment complex in Chennai. CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation will create a separate network of non-governmental organisations, rag pickers and other agencies to collect non-biodegradable waste. The initiative, to be launched after Lok Sabha elections, is aimed at collecting waste, including …
R. Chidambaram inaugurates an international seminar on composites CHENNAI: A pilot project to recycle automobile waste and extract aluminium from that has been sanctioned by the Union Ministry of Heavy Industries, R.Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Union Government, said on Tuesday. Speaking at the inauguration of a three-day international …
P.Oppili This is a first-time event at the Vandalur zoo CHENNAI: The three-and-half-year-old white tigress, Anu, at Vandalur zoo gave birth to three cubs early on Tuesday. It is the first time that a white tigress has delivered cubs at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park, Vandalur, since the facility was …
A RELENTLESS campaign launched by an RTI activist and local residents has forced the Chennai Corporation to act remove an encroachment on the eastern corner of the Turn Bulls Road-Chamiers Road junction that has posed as stumbling block to free flow of traffic on the busy stretch. The disputed spot, …
Urban transport is an important component of the urban infrastructure system. A good urban transport system will increase productivity, enhance efficiency, ensure competition, and promote urban economy. It will also facilitate social interactions, provide people with accessibility to opportunities, safeguard environment, set directions and pattern of land use development, and …
K.Lakshmi CHENNAI: A few residential apartment complexes in the city with metered water connections continue to pay charges according to the old billing system even a year after Chennai Metrowater switched over to a new billing system such customers. As per the new billing system, which is being implemented in …
At least 200 people, most of them women and children, have been affected. Residents have attributed the disease to water contamination, as there are no proper drinking water facilities Water from the lake, which is sometimes brackish, is pumped into a tank, from where it is made available to the …
K. Lakshmi CHENNAI: Even as the city is preparing for the scorching summer, residents need not panic about their water pipes running dry as the city reservoirs have sufficient storage to meet the increasing demand in the summer months. An official of Chennai Metrowater said the four reservoirs were nearly-78 …
