The deadline set by the Green Bench of the Madras High Court for the dyeing and bleaching units at Tirupur to start the effluent treatment plants by May 11, failing which they must be closed down,

More than 5,000 fishermen's families living along the 27 km long coast from Kattumavadi to Enathi signed what they described as a 'Magna Carta' urging the State and Central Governments to strictly

Door-to-door collection, household segregation and vermi composting will be covered under the pilot conservancy project of the Chennai Corporation to be launched in Nungambakkam zone from June. This

TNPCB staff being trained: With two sites identified near the city for setting up hazardous waste treatment facilities, the TN Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has begun training its engineers and

For the second time in the last six months, the dyeing and bleaching industry in Karur district has run into trouble and about 434 units have been forced to close down due to the delay in the

The first of the 13 biosphere reserves proposed in the country, the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR) covering 5,520 sq.km. in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, came into being about 12 years ago, but

The Chennai Corporation for the second time in a year will experiment with biocide to control the mosquito menace prevalent in many parts of the city. The earlier initiative to use the bio-larvicide

An Australian organisation has prepared a total health programme for schools in Tamil Nadu, that claims to help students gain knowledge and develop living skills to overcome health and nutritional

The Centre has cleared two major forest conservation projects - Eastern Ghat Development Project - for Tamil Nadu under the Ninth Five Year Plan, according to Mr. R. Annamalai,Conservator of Forests,

A legislation to prevent the employment of children in hazardous industries, like match and fireworks factories and tanneries, has been mooted at an UGC-sponsored State-level seminar on 'Child rights