Best efficiency of power plants could be achieved only through placing orders for spares with original equipment manufacturers, A.V.Krishnan, Executive Director, BHEL, Tiruchi, said.
Speaking at a customer meet organised by the Spares and Services Business Groups of BHEL's New Delhi, Tiruchi, and Ranipet units at Chennai recently, he assured efficiency of spares supplied by BHEL.
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) raided on Monday two illegal dyeing units in Tirupur knitwear cluster.
The units were located at Pitchampalayam Pudur and Thottiamannarai and found discharging effluents into the open despite the Madras High Court directive last year asking dyeing/bleaching units to strictly follow zero liquid discharge in the dyeing process.
CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday announced a comprehensive special package worth `790.18 crore for farmers in Cuddalore and Villupuram districts, the worst affected in Cyclone Tha
CHENNAI: In a move that could end the impasse over the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP), Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday announced that an expert committee would be constituted by
Residents attribute poor garbage mechanism of the local bodies as the primary causative of increase in the stray dog menace in Namakkal.
Last year 17,848 persons have been administered with anti rabies vaccine in this district due to increase in the stray dog menace.
Local people say miscreants set fire to the waste material
The practice of dumping biomedical waste in the open continues unchecked in a few parts of Erode district though the health department has issued specific instructions on the safe disposal of such waste.
Renewable energy has become vital, says Farooq Abdullah
Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah has urged the wind energy sector to focus on research. Wind machines were essential as they did not pollute. Renewable energy had become vital. India needed to have energy from different sources, such as fossil fuel and nuclear power.
While appealing to the Tamil Nadu Government to cooperate with the Centre in ensuring the early commissioning of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), Union Home Minister P.
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project can be readied for commissioning in three months if the local agitation against it comes to an end, the project's Site Director M. Kasinath Balaji has said. Now what was left to be done before the project could be commissioned was to remove the dummy fuel, prepare the machine for the real run, and submit the requisite reports to the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board for clearance.
