The district administration has warned eateries, tea shops and shops selling food items not to pack food items or snacks in printed materials including newspapers and plastic covers.

Production has been subdued in Tamil Nadu compared to other southern States

VIT Chancellor G. Viswanathan said that the new government at the Centre soon should accord the highest priority to linking rivers so that the country’s people and farmers will benefit.

Use of newspapers, recycled papers, and plastic sheets to wrap food directly has been banned by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).

Porous borders: Four months after the ban kicked in, plastics are omnipresent. This is partly due to their import by wholesalers from States such as Maharashtra.

World Bank and KfW likely to give major chunk of funds

The National Highways plans to plant 13,000 saplings on either side of the road from Sulur to Vellakovil at a cost of nearly Rs. 2 crore.

The Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission came out with a Rooftop Solar Generation order on March 25.

Vedanta insists on a joint inspection by officials from MoEF and CPCB

More than 2,000 voters, mostly farmers and their family members, in at least four villages, have boycotted polling in protest against non-payment of crop insurance for the year 2017-18.