MADURAI: Two groups of 37 trekkers, including 26 women and three children, got trapped in a forest fire in the Kurangani hills near Bodi in Theni district on Sunday.

CHENNAI: The state government kick-started the second phase of the pulse polio immunisation campaign on Sunday with close to 65 lakh children below the age of five receiving oral form of the vaccin

When he is not attending to patients, Dr V Soundarrajan, the head of a primary health centre in Seruvaviduthi village near Peravurani in Thanjavur district, would be seen clearing the ground, sowin

TUTICORIN: A detailed project report (DPR) is being prepared to divert a portion of excess water from the Godavari river to Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema region, Union minis

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government’s attempts to get immediate release of 15tmcft of Cauvery water did not yield a positive response from the Centre, with the ministry of water resources pointing t

CHENNAI: In a move that has cheered real estate developers but left environmental activists fuming, the state environment department on Monday announced a draft revised coastal zone management plan

CHENNAI: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has requested a reassessment of the runway bridge across Adyar River to extend the second runway after the ministry of environment and forests and cli

CHENNAI: Though the only study on monitoring of air quality in Chennai is two years old, it still holds good.

London has a live tracker measuring each breach of hourly levels of toxic nitrogen dioxide and is accordingly shifting clean buses onto the most polluted routes, and Delhi has tried out everything

CHENNAI: In what could signal the end of the plan for an International Container Transhipment Terminal at Enayam, the environment appraisal committee of the ministry of environment and forests rece