A Rs.1,000-crore project of building one lakh concrete houses in cyclone-hit districts such as Cuddalore and Villupuram was the highlight of Governor K. Rosaiah's address to the Assembly on Monday.

Mr. Rosaiah, who delivered his first address as Governor since assumption of office in August, said the State would take up the construction immediately to replace the damaged huts in the districts

The National Food Security Bill is based on Sarvodaya principles as it has adopted a human life cycle approach, looks at providing coarse grains (nutri-cereals) at subsidised rates, giving impetus

Activists protesting against the nuclear power plant staged a mock funeral of the controversial project 'cremating' its model here today.

Thousands of residents of this coastal village took part in the 'funeral procession' organised to coincide with Mahatma Gandhi's death anniversary and cremated the model of the Indo-Russian plant.

The DHAN Foundation, a leading non-government organisation in the city, in partnership with the Department of Environment, Government of Tamil Nadu, organised the ‘Madurai Walkathon 2012' here on S

The Tamil Nadu Government would construct one lakh concrete houses at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore to replace the damaged huts in the cyclone Thane affected districts of Cuddalore and Villupuram, the G

Tamil Nadu Government would construct one lakh concrete houses at a cost of Rs 1000 crore to replace damaged huts in the Cyclone Thane affected districts of Cuddalore and Villupuram, Governor K Rosaiah said on Monday.

The state government has also presented a memorandum spelling out the quantum of damage and has sought an assistance of Rs 5248 crore from the Centre, he recalled.

Farmers representatives who participated in the monthly farmers' grievances day meeting held at the Collectorate on Friday urged the State government to come out with a separate budget for agriculture.

They said the government of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka have been presenting separate budget for farm sector since 2011. D. Thiagarajan, senior regional manager, Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC), presided over the meeting.

While appealing to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to cooperate with the Central Government to ensure the early commissioning of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president B.S. Gnanadesikan said the Congress will conduct awareness meetings across the State to mobilise public support in favour of the upcoming nuclear power programme.

Crop water requirement and crop physiology has changed in the recent times. Hence, knowledge on climate change effects need to be updated to work out mitigation strategies, Ashwani Kumar, Director, Directorate of Water Management, Bhubaneshwar, said here recently.

Inaugurating a two-day training on “Stakeholders' Consultation on Climate Change Platform” at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, he called for developing new climate change mitigation models that could be field tested on farmer holdings for them to see and believe.

Design of route map of all 200 wards completed

A new garbage collection and street cleaning mechanism has been introduced in the city. This follows the completion of design of the route map of all 200 wards of the Chennai Corporation.