The Madras High Court directed the Neyveli Lignite Corporation to pay compensation at the rate of Rs 40,000 per acre to farmers whose standing crops were damaged during Paravanar Canal Diversion activities at Valayamadevi in Cuddalore district. The District Collector, Cuddalore District filed counter affidavit stating that standing crops in …
On a hot morning, there was an unusual bustle around the temple at Velingirayanpettai village in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu. There were around 50 people gathered under a tree outside the temple. A kilometre or two down the road were vanloads of policemen clustered around a canopy. People from …
Nagarjuna Oil Corporation Limited (NOCL) is aiming to ready its petroleum refinery project in northeastern Tamil Nadu by this year-end, with an additional investment of Rs 12,000 crore. NOCL, along with Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, is setting up the Rs 7,160-crore project with an annual capacity of six million …
Over a year ago, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) undertook an exercise to assess pollution levels in some of the highly polluted industrial areas of India. It then released a list of 43 most polluted areas, terming them critically polluted, and imposed a moratorium on their expansion. …
On the night of March 7, a thick pall of smoke enveloped Kudikadu village near Cuddalore. It made people ill; over 120 persons had to be hospitalised after they complained of nausea, giddiness and eye irritation. The white smoke was bromine gas and its source: pharma company Shasun Pharmaceuticals, which …
After declaring 43 industrial areas in India as critically polluted and imposing a moratorium on their expansion, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests is going easy on them. As many as 23 critically polluted areas have been removed from the moratorium list since last October on the basis of …
CUDDALORE: Collector V. Amuthavalli has fixed a target of planting as many as two lakh saplings across the district before August 15. She said this after planting a sapling at the Cuddalore headquarters government hospital here on Tuesday. Ms. Amuthavalli told presspersons that in a bid to expand greenery across …
The Central Government is planning to set up five new power transmission lines with private sector participation at an estimated cost of Rs.6,485 crore (worth over $1.40 billion). These planned transmission lines would help power evacuation from the proposed coastal generation projects in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. The total …
CUDDALORE: The National Forest Policy has stipulated that 33 per cent of the total land mass should be forests, but Tamil Nadu has forest area of only 17 per cent, according to K.T. Pachamal, Forest Minister. All efforts would be made to extend forest cover to the mandated level within …
Barnala lauds Indian Red Cross Society CHENNAI: The State chapter of Indian Red Cross on Sunday launched a slew of hygiene-promoting programmes, including a napkin vending machine for adolescent girls and clinical laboratories in 32 district centres of the service organisation in the State. Launching the projects, Governor Surjit Singh …
CUDDALORE: Flood control measures at a total outlay of Rs. 600 crore are yet to take off in Cuddalore district. The Assembly elections have stalled the tender procedures for assigning as many as 54 works in this regard, according to K.V. Elangeeran, president of the Vettuvaikkal and Naraikkal Eri Paasana …
The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared the proposal for setting up a Rs.5,907-crore lignite-based thermal power project by Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) in Tamil Nadu.
Dramatic reverses in Ariyalur and Cuddalore Female literacy has improved in State CHENNAI: While the overall child sex ratio has improved in Tamil Nadu, the dip in the boy-girl ratio in at least 14 districts, including Chennai, provides the demographic downside in the provisional population figures of the 2011 Census …
SHASUN Chemicals in the SIPCOT industrial park in Cuddalore, from where a bromine gas leak earlier this week left hundreds of people gasping for breath, was functioning illegally as it did not have a valid consent from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to operate the plant. Getting the …
The Tamil Nadu government has set up a four-member expert committee comprising senior officials of factory inspectorate from nearby Trichy, a senior official of the zonal Labour Institute and a senior official from the public sector United India Insurance company to inquire deep into the gas leakage incident at one …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has lifted its moratorium on new investment in eight industrial clusters including Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu. These are among the 43 clusters identified as critically polluted in a 2009 study. Interestingly, none of the eight are coalfields despite Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal's reported …
The Madras High Court, in a recent order, instructed industries in the SIPCOT industrial estate of Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu to pay Rs one lakh each to measure the pollution levels in the estate. At the court’s behest, the study is to be conducted by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute …
Level in Veeranam tank rose from 45 ft to 46.8 ft in three days: official CUDDALORE: Gagandeep Singh Bedi, Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board, has said that Cuddalore district was facing flood problem because of 70 per cent excess rainfall, above the average level. Mr. Bedi, …
FLOOD alert has been sounded at 30 villages situated along the banks of the Vellaru River, in Kattumanarkoil and Chidambaram taluks in Cuddalore district. District Collector P Seetharaman on Thursday advised the people to move to safer places. The Vellaru River is in spate, following the opening of Sathanur Dam …
Construction of a high-level bridge across the Velliangal Odai at Thirunaraiyur proposed TOUR OF FLOOD-HIT AREAS: Health Minister M.R.K. Panneerselvam at Thirunaraiyur to assess flood damage on Monday. A boat is ready to ferry him to the affected areas. CUDDALORE: For the second consecutive day on Monday, Health Minister M. …
CUDDALORE: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has sanctioned a sum of Rs. 301 crore for undertaking permanent flood control measures in Cuddalore district, according to Health Minister M.R.K.Panneerselvam. He inspected water sources and flood-affected areas in the district on Sunday. He was accompanied by Collector P. Seetharaman, District Revenue Officer S. …
