Seventeen children, most of them below five years of age, were taken ill after they drank contaminated water at Kalyanapuram in North Chennai on

After the environmentalists, it is now the turn of Comptroller and Auditor general of India(CAG) to pull up the Tamil Nadu government for bungling the textbook perfect Green Belt for Abatement of

With no proper drainage system and contaminated ground water, the residents of Thiruvottiyur in Tamil Nadu have to face the brunt of environmental degradation caused by pollution. To make the matters

A mysterious malady afflicting some persons in Bharathiar Street of Avarampatti second ward in rajapalayam municipality is causing concern among the population. It is also said that some of the

While the Tamil Nadu state government is mulling inclusion of illegal sand quarrying in the proposed bill to counter organised crime, the existence of Mettupalayam, a village on Kosathalaiyar River

The National Fishworkers' Forum, on a do or die agitation and a yatra demanding implementation of 42 demands, reached the Chennai city with fishing people from Chennai, Kancheepuram and Thiruvallur

A bill to ban smoking and spitting in public service vehicles was passed in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Friday. According to the Bill, anyone who smokes or spits in public places or vehicles or anyone

The Tamil Nadu state government has sanctioned a new scheme on 'development of a new hybrid rice variety' to the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) for a period of three years with a budget

The Tamil Nadu state, in its efforts to develop fisheries based on the needs of the international market, will destroy the ecology and livelihood resources of the coastal communities, says a report

Even before the furore sparked by the Bill banning strikes in essential services is yet to die down, the Tamil Nadu state government has come up with yet another controversial legislation. This time