The four-member committee set up by the Tamil Nadu government on Sunday virtually gave a clean chit to the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), saying it was well-equipped to withstand natural c

CHENNAI: The four-member experts committee formed by the Tamil Nadu government held its first meeting on Friday and called on Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa at the Secretariat ahead of their visit t

CHENNAI: The State Government on Friday gave its nod to the Rs 500-crore Chennai Mega City Development Mission aimed at improving basic amenities and safe drinking water supply in the 42 local bodi

Officials sensitise owners, vendors to Food Safety and Standards Act of 2006

Ambur, Vaniyambadi and Pernambut areas are reportedly bearing the brunt

The Ministry of Environment and Forests has commissioned a study on the impact of radiation from cellular phone towers on the avian population, Union Minister of Environment Jayanthi Natarajan said

CHENNAI: In a fresh attempt to break the impasse over commissioning of the nuclear power plant at Koodankulam, the state government-appointed expert panel will meet protesters and other stakeholder

A five-member Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) team, which has camped at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project's Anu Vijay Township for the past five days, is unable to enter the KKNPP site for car

Arrangements made to collect plastics from students too

“Food security and environment sustainability are the major challenges faced across the globe and collaborative efforts between countries alone will solve these problems,” says John J. Kennelly, Dean Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta (UA), Canada.

He was speaking to The Hindu after visiting tribal villages in Valappur Panchayat atop Kolli Hills in Namakkal district on Wednesday, where the university and the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India, is jointly implementing the ‘Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition in Agro Biodiversity Hot Spots.'

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