Bajaj auto will launch a battery operated 'electric vehicle' within the next five months. The company's general manager C K Rao told on the sidelines of the launch of its diesel goods three wheeler

The Chennai Corporation in collaboration with the Centre For Research in Medical Entomology in Madurai has launched a comprehensive package to create awareness to curb the spread of dengue through

Pattabiram residents in Tamil Nadu are pestered by a problem of a different kind, the attack by beetles. The ubiquitous presence of these insects in food, water and in the air, are giving them

The Irugur terminal of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited near Coimbatore has been awarded the Golden Peacock Environment Management Award for 2003. The award was given on the occasion of the fifth

The Madras High Court has extended until further orders the operation of its earlier interim order suspending an order of a single judge staying the notification of the Union Environment and Forest

When Tirupur Municipal Chairman M N Palaniswamy announced at a press conference on May 28 certain measures to check pollution in the town, the entire population of the Knit city welcomed them, with

The prolonged drought in Walayar area in Tamil Nadu has once again forced the elephant population to come to the farm lands in search of food. Usually, the south west monsoon brings rains in the

The fourth floor Chennai office of Deputy Conservator of Forests Amit Asthani might far cry from the densest and darkest of Tamil Nadu's forests but then, with the mere click of his console, Asthani

In a move aimed at getting a good price for locally produced timber, the Tamil Nadu Government has lifted the ban on interstate transport of timber. The GO 88 dated May 13 effectively annuls the

Tribals, those inhabitants of the hills in Tamil Nadu, who have been forced down to the plains, have been struggling to get into the mainstream because of the denial of community certificates to them