The relay fast against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) set up in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu continued for the 50th day on Tuesday, with former naval chief L.
State Planning Commission holds consultation meeting in Madurai
In the last 10 years, cultivable land in the State has shrunk by a whopping five lakh hectares owing to urbanisation and industrialisation, resulting in agriculture and allied sectors registering 0.69 per cent growth in the first four years of the 11th Plan (2007-12) against the targeted four per cent.
“Heavy pollutants” emptied into canal had residents gasping
Early Sunday morning residents of Kamarajar Nagar near Ginger Hotel woke up to the acrid smell of chemicals that had spread across area through a drainage canal.
According to a pollution control board official, “heavy pollutants” were emptied into the canal in Kamarajar Nagar.
The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has on Friday commissioned a solid waste management facility at its campus.
The university will use the facility to treat the three tonnes biodegradable waste the university generates every day. The other three tonnes non-biodegradable waste will be stored in bins for disposal to the Coimbatore Corporation.
Five major road works will take off in the city shortly, at a total cost of Rs. 13.3 crore, and these would be completed by the end of March next year.
The major fishing grounds for shrimp in Tuticorin coast has shrunk due to discharge of industrial effluents. Earlier on, shrimp fishing was a sustainable activity due to a balanced ecosystem, M.
Revenue Minister asks officials to complete works on water schemes soon
State Revenue Minister and Kumarapalayam MLA P. Thangamani has urged officials of Municipalities, Town Panchayats and rural local bodies to give priority to executing drinking water schemes and to complete them soon.
For the many hoping for improvement in the dismal power scene in Tamil Nadu, there is now light at the end of a long tunnel of resistance against the Koodankulam nuclear power plant near here.
The crowd under the protest-shamiana at Idinthakarai, close to the plant, is thinning.
