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 …
Surprised over non-compliance of its order even after a lapse of three years by Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, the Madras High Court has refused to extend deadline for modern rice mills to obtain pollution clearance certification from the Board. Stating that the High Court had passed an order in …
Based on the daily maximum air temperature data from 176 stations in India from 1969 to 2013, the climatological distribution of the number of days with high temperature (HT) defined as days with maximum temperature higher than 37◦C during summer season (March–June) are studied. With a focus on the regional …
The Madras High Court has directed the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government to respond to a public interest litigation petition seeking a SIT probe into illegal beach sand mining in the State. The petitioner, a geologist, alleged massive corruption and illegalities in the mining of beach sand minerals such …
This paper examines the feasibility of implementing a congestion tax for the city of Chennai in the State of Tamil Nadu. Based on secondary data, it calculates the time cost, fuel cost and cost of emissions due to congestion and makes recommendations regarding the effective design and application of such …
CHENNAI: Olive Ridley turtles are finding it tougher to nest on the city's beaches with each passing year, having to elude fishing nets, find their way through piles of garbage and past illegal constructions along the shore. To make matters worse, Corporation of Chennai came up with projects as part …
Even as hundreds of residents are waiting for a decision on new guidelines and rules for regularisation of unauthorised buildings constructed on or before July 1, 2007, urban planners have started focusing on ‘structural stability’ and ‘fire safety.’ Once the recommendation on new guidelines and rules are made, Chennai Corporation …
With the rising vehicular pollution across metros becoming a matter of concern, the National Green Tribunal earlier this week asked the Centre to place before it the Dr. Mashelkar Committee Report on auto fuel quality, vehicular emission norms and related issues. An NGT bench headed by Justice P. Jyothimani directed …
Of its daily requirement of 7,000-8,000 sand loads, city is being supplied only 5,000. The recent extension of a ban on sand quarrying in Kancheepuram district by a year has hit a construction industry already affected by a scarcity of river sand and an escalation in its price over the …
Real Time Continuous Ambient Noise Monitoring has been conducted at 35 locations in seven cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Bangalore and Hyderabad) since 2011. Ambient Noise Level Trend in these seven cities on the occasion of Deepawali 23/10/2014, 03/11/2013, 13/11/2012 and 26/10/2011 along with data are presented in this …
For start-ups, there’s money in the dust bin. Mohammed Dawood S, 27, slaps on his gloves and digs through layers of compost-in-the-making to show me his earthworms. They’re pleasantly plump and feasting on the collected decomposing organic waste of apartments and hotels in MRC Nagar, an affluent locality in south …
The Chennai Corporation Council approved a non-motorised transport (NMT) policy to promote walking, cycling, cycle rickshaws, pushcarts and other forms of mobility powered by humans. The civic body has set a target of increasing the mode share for pedestrians and cyclists to at least 40 per cent by 2018. It …
The Supreme Court today dismissed the petition filed by the Tamil Nadu government challenging the order of the Madras High Court appointing an IAS officer to inspect and verify steps taken to stop illegal mining. A bench headed by Chief Justice RM Lodha said that "facts are eloquent enough" that …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Sree Balaji Nagar Residential Association Vs State of Tamil Nadu & Ors. dated 10/09/2014 regarding a scheme for development of a proposed canal by name Madhavaram Left Flank Water Surplus Course, on the ground that the scheme is misconceived …
Corpn, Voluntary Groups To Start Pilot Project In Zone 13 From October. People in the city started an active civic movement to clean the city's beaches and roads in the '90s. With the garbage problem completely out of hand 20 years later, and Corporation of Chennai's plan to close the …
The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in Chennai, India, using national and international age- and sex- specific body mass index (BMI) cut-off points. Original Source
CHENNAI: The city’s road safety has come under fire with the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) report pointing out that the maximum number of road accidents occur here. And activists, motorists and road safety experts are not in the least surprised that there were 9,663 accident cases recorded in …
CHENNAI: Chennai’s roads are the second deadliest in the country, says a report published by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi-based research organisation. According to the statistics of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Chennai had the highest number of traffic accident cases in the country. The city saw …
The Madras High Court Bench here on Thursday ordered the government-appointed special team, probing the alleged irregularities in beach and sand mining in southern districts, to submit a detailed report to the Chief Secretary within a month. Passing interim orders on a writ petition filed by the Beach Mineral Producers’ …
Finally here is a sure-shot-method of measuring a child’s progress towards obesity. With doctors warning of a rise in the number of children being brought in with adult lifestyle diseases – including obesity, diabetes and hypertension – a multi-centre, cross-sectional study done on 10,842 children in five cities – Delhi, …
A batch of writ petitions have been filed in the Madras High Court Bench here challenging the refusal of National Green Tribunal to restrain Public Works Department from quarrying sand in 11 different locations in Cauvery and Kollidam riverbeds. When the matter came up before a Division Bench of Justice …
