A group of NGOs, which were involved in conducting a survey in various parts of the Kerala to identify bonded labourers, have formed a federation for eradicating bonded labour in the State and has

"People-centred planning" alone can combat desertification and drought. For this, the Government should make it mandatory that all programmes to combat desertification should involve local people,

batik units' plea: The Erode Screen Printers' Association wanted dyers to be permitted to transport effluents through tankers to the common effluent treatment plants. At the association's annual

The Tamil Nadu Afforestation Project has caused a remarkable change in the lives of the villages of Thudukkanahalli in Krishnagiri taluk.According to an official press release, the project which is

The Coast Guard today established contact with the oil tanker adrift in the Bay of Bengal and continued operation to bring the vessel to the Chennai port, averting a major ecological disaster. Two

The Tamil Nadu AIDS Control Society has asked the Chennai Corporation to form a society for concentrating on the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in the city. The anti-AIDS activities in the entire

What was considered a less polluted waterway of Chennai till now, the Adyar river appears to be becoming another large sullage carrier. For the last 15 days, pollution of the water in the river in

Giving a boost to tree planting activity in the city, a voluntary organisation in Mandaveli has announced that it will make available saplings to the public as part of a campaign to increase green

As most parts of the Tamil Nadu continue to be relatively free from mosquitoes due to the intensity of summer, the Directorate of Public Health (DPH) records indicate that in the first quarter of

The New Life Trust, an NGO entrusted with a project to combat AIDS, is advocating a 'theme care centre' to tackle the spectre of AIDS haunting Namakkal for the past few years. It had estimated that