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 …
VELLORE: Residents of Arasamarapettai in Vellore Corporation have complained that sewage has mixed with drinking water and they could not use the water being supplied by the Corporation in the last 10 days. A visit to the area revealed that drainage channels on Ammakara Street and Thali Panamaram Street in …
The other day, our editions in Tamil Nadu carried a small item of news from the northern district of Vellore, on the pleasure of water-rig operators at the profitable season ahead. The Celsius level has suddenly shot up there, the maximum touching almost 40 degrees already, and the water level, …
P.V.V. Murthi VELLORE: Energy policy of the country should be integrated with trade, environment, security and foreign policies to lay greater thrust on efforts at meeting the energy requirements through tapping of alternative sources of energy, in the light of the fast depletion of fossil fuel resources, D.M.V. Kalyani Annie, …
Agricultural drought has been a recurrent phenomenon in many parts of India. Remote sensing plays a vital role in real time monitoring of the agricultural drought conditions over large area, there by effectively supplementing the ground mechanism. Conventional drought monitoring is based on subjective data. The satellite based monitoring such …
VELLORE: All encroachments on waterbodies in Vellore district will be removed, C. Rajendran, Collector, said here on Wednesday. He was inaugurating a two-day Water Management Training organised by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), South Eastern Coastal Region, Chennai, and the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA), Ministry of Water Resources, …
Vellore (TN) (PTI): Tamil Nadu Government has sanctioned a total of Rs 16 crore to four districts, including Vellore, for undertaking fourth phase of rainwater harvesting of irrigation wells. The other districts covered under the fourth phase were Tiruvannamalai, Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts, officials said. The rainwater harvesting would lead …
VELLORE: The oral polio vaccine (OPV) that is administered to children in the 0-5 age group during the annual pulse polio campaigns in the country is perfectly safe and does not cause immediate illness or death, according to T. Jacob John, Emeritus Professor of Virology of the Christian Medical College …
The Tannery sector is one of the most important highly water polluting industrial category. India has about 3,000 tanneries with a total processing capacity of 700,000 tons of hides and skins per year. In this paper an attempt is made to know the pollution level in the effluent generated and …
Saving ecology: M.S. Swaminathan, Chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, planting a sapling in Vellore on Sunday. Collector C. Rajendran is in the picture.
Generating awareness: Students of the Government Higher Secondary School, Brammapuram, watching a demonstration of a solar cooker at an awareness programme conducted at the VITU in Vellore on Thursday. G. Viswanathan, Chancellor, VITU ( third from right), is in the picture. VELLORE: All efforts to tackle global warming should become …
Dharmendra Pratap Yadav VELLORE: Human destruction of forest wealth and deprivation of food and water for wild animals in their natural habitat are the reasons for the animals straying into agricultural land in search of food and damaging crops , Collector Dharmendra Pratap Yadav said here on Tuesday. Participating in …
VELLORE: The scheme which facilitates scientific disposal and treatment of biomedical waste from all government hospitals in Vellore district is to be implemented with effect from September 1. It includes Government Vellore Medical College Hospital, Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Hospital and all 30-bed primary health centres (PHCs) in the …
V Narayana Murthi | ENS Vellore THE Vellore Forest Division has removed encroachment by farmers from around 450 acres of forest land from border villages in Gudiyattam and Odugathur ranges in the past three months, thanks to the support given by the Village Forest Councils and local bodies. Except in …
V NarayanaMurthi | ENS Vellore THE experimental trials conducted in Vellore district on the new vaccine evolved by the Tamilnadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS), to combat the deadly anthrax, have proved to be successful, according to its vice-chancellor Dr P Thangaraju. He was here on Wednesday to visit …
V NarayanaMurthi THE Olympic Games to be held this August in China appears to be playing a cruel game on the lives of thousands of people of Gudiyattam, near Vellore, who are engaged in handmade and mechanised match factories. The banning of export of phosphorus by the Chinese Government in …
VELLORE and and its surroundings experienced mild tremors at 11.40 pm on Saturday. According to sources, the tremor, which lasted for about a minute, was felt in places like Sathuvacheri, Otteri, Shenbakkam, Kinamattom, Bagayam, Saidapet, Infantry Road and Officers Line in the Fort City. Reports about tremors in Vaniyambadi and …
AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on Monday urged Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi to take steps to prevent the Andhra Pradesh government from going ahead with its plans to construct 10 checkdams across the Ponnaiyaru. In a statement here Ms Jayalalithaa said the Ponnaiyaru was the source of drinking water for Vellore, …
In the present study, an attempt has been made to evaluate the treatability of a combined tannery and domestic wastewater using lab-scale activated sludge reactor under extended aeration. Studies on the efficiency of the activated sludge reactor were carried out by varying the hydraulic retention time of 15, 20, 25 …
Chromium is one of the toxic and hazardous pollutants in industrial wastewaters leading to soil contamination. In this study, the feasibility study of remediating chromium contaminated soil using indigenous microorganisms and Pseudomanas fluorescens was evaluated.
