The Supreme Court on Tuesday, while permitting Sterlite Industries at Tuticorin to continue the operations at its copper plant, directed the company to file a fresh application before the Tamil Nad

After carrying out anti-plastic bag drive in May and June last year, the Coimbatore Corporation seems to have taken it easy. Sources in the Corporation say that the officials who are supposed to have taken forward the drive have been asked to focus on waste management in added areas.

Contrast the position with May-June 2011. Corporation officials, armed with the new mandate under Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rule 2011, went after traders and retails asking them to stop use of plastic bags less than 40 microns.

To prevent the pachyderms from straying into human habitations

The Forest Department has completed the work of identification of land, demarcation and removal of exotic weeds to facilitate tilling of the lands for creating fodder resource inside the reserve forest to prevent wild elephants from straying into human habitations.

The Coimbatore Corporation is moving towards the status of a “Solar city”, which is aimed at reducing the conventional energy consumption by a minimum of 10 per cent at the end of five years, throu

Closed-door meeting at Kanyakumari on January 29, 30
The 15-member Central Expert Group constituted by the Union government on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in the wake of protests is looking forward to reaching out to a cross section of people and create a ‘win-win situation' for all.

An internal/closed-door meeting of the central panel whose members are drawn from various disciplines including oceanography, radiation safety, oncology and fisheries is taking place at Kanyakumari for two days, on January 29 and 30, to discuss the strategy forward for winning public confidence and convince people on Kudankulam project's safety.

With the State witnessing a high level of migration from rural areas to urban localities and as cities were expanding at a rapid pace, the government has launched Rs.6,654 crore ‘Integrated Urban Development Mission' to provide basic facilities in corporation, municipal and town panchayats.

The government will spend Rs.757.28 crore this fiscal for works in urban localities related to laying new underground drainage and storm water drains, provide safe drinking water, roads, solid waste management, streetlights and other basic amenities, said an official release.

CHENNAI: To improve basic infrastructure facilities in cities and urban areas in the state, Tamil Nadu government today decided to start a scheme at a cost of Rs 6,653 crore.

It will be taken under rural employment guarantee scheme

The State Rural Development Department has planned to remove encroachment on scores of water bodies, falling under its jurisdiction, and restore the storage of the water bodies to their original capacity.

In an effort to enhance green cover, Forest Department would embark on the task of planting seedlings of various fast growing tree species outside forest areas in the district.

The seedlings would be planted in government offices and institutions, industrial premises, private education institutions and along roadsides.

Free seeds for replanting crops with government bearing maintenance cost