Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Hydrogeological and geomorphological parameters have been quantitatively correlated with groundwater availability. Weathered rock thickness has the highest control on availability of groundwater followed by lineament density whereas drainage density is seen to have minimum influence. A poor correlation is noticed between borewell depth and yield. The amplitude of seasonal variations …
S. Ramesh SALEM: The Panamarathupatti Lake, a picturesque water spread located near the city, will complete 100 years this year. The lake, which has a massive water spread area of 2,139 acres, was built during the British period. The government in 1908 approved the scheme primarily to make it as …
SALEM: Over 50 residents of wards 36 and 37 attempted to block the traffic in Ammapet here on Monday protesting against the supply of contaminated water. They claimed that the Salem Corporation was supply drinking water mixed with sewage for the past few days. Despite repeated complaints, officials and councillors …
SALEM: The indiscriminate dumping of solid waste into the Tirumanimutharu channel continues unchecked in the city, thus defeating the very purpose of implementing the river improvement project, for which the Salem Corporation has spent crores of rupees already. The State government has sanctioned the Tirumanimutharu Channel improvement project a few …
SALEM: Police arrested three persons for hunting deer, boar and rabbits for meat in the forests abetting Harur in Dharmapuri district and Mottur near Ilampillai in Salem district on Wednesday. A gun was also seized from them. On information that a gang had been indulging in illegal hunting inside the …
THREE persons, including a theatre owner, were arrested on Wednesday for poaching de er and wild boar in the reserve forest area near Illampillai. Even as the poachers were busy apportioning the flesh of the deer in a farm, a police team swooped down on them. They took into custody …
MARKING its silver jubilee on Sunday, the Salem Tree Club released a declaration that spells out eco-friendly solutions to day-to-day pollution. Pasumai Thayagam chairperson Sowmiya Anbumani received the first copy, which would be submitted to the government also. The declaration opens with a demand to ban tree cutting for fuel …
PRIVATE powerloom owners in Tharamangalam in Salem district have agreed to contain noise pollution. An assurance to this effect was given to the First Bench comprising Chief Justice H L Gokhale and Justice R Banumathi, when a public interest writ petition from S Sakthivel and S Susheela came up before …
SALEM: The Tamil Nadu government is keen on increasing the green cover in the State to ensure a safer environment for the future generation, Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam has said. Inaugurating a massive tree plantation drive in Periyar University here on Thursday, the Minister expressed serious concern over the …
Action please: Stagnated rainwater on Manipuram street in Ward 25 in Salem poses health hazard to the residents. SALEM: People living in Manipuram and a few other residential colonies in Ward 25 here are exposed to serious health risks as the area lacks a proper drainage system. Slippery Rainwater mixed …
SALEM: Traffic on the Salem-Bangalore National Highways was disrupted for nearly an hour on Monday when a group of residents from Narasothipatti and Kamarajar Colony blocked the road in protest against inadequate drinking water supply to their localities. The residents, mostly women carrying empty pots, gathered near Sankar theatre bus …
TIRUCHI: The zonal and state level mine safety awards, for the best mines and best employees of mines in various trades, would be presented during the valediction of the Mine Safety Week here this weekend. Over 100 prizes are to be given away during the two-day event hosted by the …
G Babu Jayakumar | ENS A DEMAND to fell 11,088 trees in Kanjamalai forest in Salem district and another 2,22,397 trees in Kvuthimalai forest in Tiruvannamalai district for iron ore mining under a joint sector project by Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation Ltd (TIDCO), a state government-owned undertaking, has come …
It is an intense, but a lone battle, being fought in the non-descript classrooms of schools in remote and dusty villages in Salem and Dharmapuri districts against the emerging threat
MAN WITH ANTHRAX SYMPTOMS ADMITTED TO GOVT HOSPITALA MAN suspected to be infected by anthrax has been admitted to the Salem Government Hospital. Parisutham (45), who milks cows, is suspected to have contracted the disease from an infected cow. He had complained of skin blisters and fever in the last …
SALEM: Collector J. Chandrakumar asked the officials from the Mining and Revenue departments to work in close co-ordination to prevent illegal mining in the district. Participating at a meeting held here recently, the Collector cautioned that stern action would be initiated against persons who were found involved illegal mining of …
R. Ilangovan Government to upgrade weaponry of forest guards, rangers concern: Forests Minister N. Selvaraj enquiring about the health of P.Govindan, who was shot by poachers, at the Government Medical College Hospital in Salem on Tuesday. Dean P. Shanmugam is on his right. SALEM: To strengthen anti-poaching drive in the …
SALEM: The Animal Husbandry Department organised a special veterinary camp at Veeranam near here on Wednesday. Collector J. Chandrakumar inaugurated the camp and called upon the farmers in the village to vaccinate their cattle against various diseases. A team of veterinaries immunised the cattle against foot-and-mouth disease. Poultry birds were …
