Petitioner alleges that it has been sub-leased without Centre's nod

A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court Bench here seeking a direction to the Centre as well as State Government to take back 1,200.97 acres of Mullakadu Reserve Forest land handed over to Tuticorin Port Trust in 1918 on the ground that it had been allegedly let on sub lease to various public and private establishments thereby affecting its ecology.

The four-member expert committee set up by the Tamil Nadu government to look into the people’s concerns about Koodankulam nuclear power project will meet in the city on Friday.

The team is expected to start its work soon and submit its report to the state government. Sources say the team will also visit the Koodankulam site and interact with people and allay their fears.

More than 2,000 people attached to 15 associations in Tiruchengode took a massive procession on Wednesday urging the State Government to start electricity generation at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power

The authorities are planning to invoke emergency clause of the Land Acquisition Act for acquiring land for the proposed drinking water reservoir in Thervai Kandigai of the Tiruvallur district.

The reservoir is meant for the drinking water supply to Chennai with a capacity to hold water up to one thousand million cubic feet (TMC). A total of about 1,250 acres of land is required, of which 560 acres belong to the government. The private land will be around 700 acres.

Following reports of a Tamil Nadu-based school discriminating against a 12-year-old student after he was found HIV-positive, an NGO Wednesday announced to launch a nationwide initiative to raise pu

The Madras High Court Bench here has disposed of a public interest litigation petition filed against large scale felling of trees at Saraswathi Narayanan College campus at Perungudi near here after

VELLORE/ THIRUVANNAMALAI: The unscheduled power cuts prevailing across the state have led to the convergence of a focused demand for the early commissioning of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (

Reiterating that the nuclear power plants in Kudankulam were “the safest in the world”, Russian Ambassador to India Alexander M.

Authorities giving final touches to draft document

Entire Pettai area is experiencing power cut for nearly 9 hours a day which badly affects the students

Demanding the immediate commissioning of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), a group of Muslims from Pettai near here submitted a petition to Collector R. Selvaraj during the weekly grievance day meeting held at the Collectorate on Monday.

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