It said the order was only a knee-jerk reaction of the state to "appease" a section of public with vested interest Vedanta group's Sterlite Copper Wednesday told the Madras High Court that the Tamil Nadu government's closure order against its Tuticorin unit was nothing but "naked" discrimination. It said the …
Meeting held on applications of radiation on marine productsTuticorin: Tuticorin is making big strides with hectic industrial activities and pioneering in power plant projects. The district has become the preferred destination for food processing industries thanks to the logistic support of Tuticorin Port in export and import.Tuticorin has also gained …
Express News Service Thoothukudi, August 4 THE Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials seized electronic waste that arrived from Dubai, here on Wednesday. Additional Director General of DRI, Chennai, C Rajan, told reporters that based on intelligence inputs that e-wastes were being imported in the form of used computers and …
Public protest against the setting up of plant in a residential area TUTICORIN: Protesting the construction of sewage treatment plant in a residential area, the public blocked traffic on George Road here on Monday for nearly four hours. A group of residents from wards 20, 34 and 35 recently submitted …
TUTICORIN: Demanding drinking water supply to their hamlet, a group of Kaalaankarai villagers submitted petition to Collector G. Prakash on Monday. The petitioners said they, who were getting drinking water from Srivaikuntam Combined Drinking Water Scheme, were not getting water for the past 20 days. Though they had informed the …
S M Arun | ENS THE residents and salt manufacturers around a private power plant in Pudur Pandiyapuram village have alleged that houses and salt pans were affected by fly ash from the power plant. ARAS Dhanapalan, secretary of Thoothukudi Salt Manufacturers Association told Express on Sunday that the fly …
Tuticorin: A group of residents residing in wards 20, 34 and 35 here staged a protest in front of the Corporation seeking to shift the sewage treatment plant reportedly being constructed in the residential area as part of the ongoing underground drainage project. Owing allegiance to the People's Protection Movement, …
TUTICORIN: A group of residents from wards 20, 34 and 35 submitted petition to Collector G. Prakash on Monday seeking his intervention to shift the sewage treatment plant reportedly being established amidst the residential area as part of the ongoing underground drainage project undertaken by the corporation. The petitioners said …
Intervention of the district administration is needed, say farmers STIR:Farmers who staged a demonstration in Tuticorin on Monday. Tuticorin: A group of villagers attached to Sernthapoomangalam and its surroundings approached the Collectorate here on Monday demanding for the intervention of the district administration to stop discharging the industrial effluents into …
Three months ago, in March, customs officials at the Tuticorin port in Tamil Nadu seized 20 containers carrying 500 tonnes of diapers, sanitary napkins, under-garments, surgical gloves—all used—along with shoe soles, broken toys, perfume bottles, aluminium foil packing material, batteries and bottles. These products, labelled waste paper consignment, were on …
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The Rs.9,000-crore Udangudi super critical thermal power project in Tuticorin district is all set to take off as the Union Environment and Forests (E&F;) Ministry's Expert Appraisal Committee has recommended the project to the Ministry for environmental clearance, which is critical to the project execution. Executed through …
M.J. PRABU Vilathikulam, in Tuticorin district, being drought prone most of the year, forced many farmers till a few years ago to either sell their lands or leave them barren. But today more than 600 farmers in the region are successfully growing different crops ranging from sunflower to chillies, using …
FOR A CAUSE:Members of the Akila Indhiya Samthuva Makkal Katchi who submitted a petition in Tuticorin on Monday. Tuticorin: Members of the Akila Indhiya Samthuva Makkal Katchi said that due attention was not being given to protected drinking water supply. They said that the overhead drinking water tank located in …
J. Praveen Paul Joseph Tuticorin: Seaweed cultivation reduces impact of global warming, as it has the ability to absorb carbon dioxide, according to M. Sakthivel, president, Aquaculture Foundation of India, Chennai. Seaweeds containing 62 minerals and having medicinal values is a wonder plant of the sea. Seaweed is presumably pervasive …
The paper highlights impact of environmental pollution on Health. The present study has been taken up in Tuticorin industrial town area. Major industries numbering 12 established in the district. They are engaged in the production of cotton, staple yarn, caustic soda, PVC Resin, fertilizers, soda ash, carbon-di-oxide gas in liquid …
Tuticorin: Tamil Nadu Integrated Agriculture Modernization and Water bodies Restoration Management (TN-IAMWARM) has been implementing a scheme with the assistance of the World Bank in the Shencottaiyar sub-basin at Vilathikulam taluk in Tuticorin district. At a function organised by the Department of Horticulture in Vilathikulam block on Friday, R. Gurumurthy, …
Madurai Bureau Eradication move: Deputy Director (Health Services) S. Uma, right, distributing DEP tablets at Alwarthirunagari in Tuticorin district on Sunday. Tuticorin: In a bid to combat the transmission of lymphatic filariasis, staffers from the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine have undertaken a massive drug administration drive at …
309 petitions received at mass contact programme at Padukkappathu Aid implements: Collector G. Prakash handing over a power-tiller to a farmer at Padukkapathu in Tuticorin district on Wednesday. Tuticorin: All requirements of the people will be fulfilled, Collector G. Prakash has said here on Wednesday at the mass contact programme …
