“It appears that the municipality has joined hands with textile processing and tannery industries, which have been causing irreversible damage to the environment by dumping untreated, toxic effluents, many residents in the town say.

The farmers have been fighting for years to protect River Cauvery and its tributaries from the textile processing and the tannery units.

Minister radiates hopes of power-surplus situation by 2014-15

Despite its enormous potential for tapping solar energy, the State has been sanctioned fewer projects under the Jawarhalal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), Electricity Minister Natham R. Viswanathan said on Monday.

Kuttanad Package to be taken up in three phases

The State government would soon launch various projects as part of the first phase of the Kuttanad Package prepared by M.S. Swaminathan Commission, said Sam Eapen, Upper Kuttanad Nelkarshaka Samiti (UKNS) president, here on Sunday.

Calls upon State to stand by Centre in its efforts to make project functional

Union Minister for Shipping G.K. Vasan has called upon the State government to keep the anti-Kudankulam nuclear power project activists under check.
Unveiling the bronze statue of veteran Dalit leader and former president of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee L. Ilayaperumal (1924-2005) at Kattumannarkoil near here on Saturday,

Forum for government to respect sentiments of local people

The newly floated Anti-Nuke Teachers' Forum here on Saturday evening has urged the Centre to convert the Kudankulan Nuclear Power Project nuclear reactors into natural gas-based power generation units as it was done at Shoreham nuclear power plant in the United States following stiff resistance from the locals.

Claims to contrary nonsensical: Nobel Peace laureate

At a time when the debate over nuclear energy is on the boil in Tamil Nadu, German physicist and Nobel Peace laureate Hans-Peter Duerr is as clear on his anti-clear standpoint as his advocacy of solar and other alternative sources for energy security.

CHENNAI: The Central expert group's report on the Kudankulam nuclear power plant issue has answered all questions raised by protestors and was satisfactory, a senior member of the Tamil Nadu government panel, appointed to look into concerns of the locals, said today.

"We have reviewed all concerns raised by the protestors in our report. We also analysed the central expert group committee's report, which has answered all 44 questions raised by the protestors.

‘Initiate criminal action against those running such units'

After a brief lull, the menace of illegal dyeing units has resurfaced in the Tirupur-Namakkal belt. The units have come up even after the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board carried out an extensive demolition drive a few months ago.

Here is good news for residents of wards 19, 26 and 27 as the much-awaited drinking water scheme for them, executed at an outlay of Rs.17.80 crore, is expected to be commissioned before April 15 following a trial run to be conducted within a fortnight.

As final works like connecting the main pipes near the overhead tanks, installing the electric panels in the pump houses, giving facelift to the pump rooms etc. are to be completed, trial run of this ambitious drinking water programme to check for leakages, if any, is to be taken-up within March 25.

Tiruneveli and Tuticorin districts to benefit; cost estimated at Rs.369 crore

Work on the first phase of the Tamiraparani-Karumeniyar-Nambiyar river interlinking project is likely to be completed by the year-end. Nearly three-fourth of the work, covering two stages of the project, has been carried out. In three years of execution, Rs.160 crore out of the sanctioned Rs.213 crore was spent, said sources.