With emotions running high in Kerala over apprehensions about the safety of the Mullaperiyar dam, Congress and DMK MPs from Tamil Nadu met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh separately on Tuesday and so
Jayalalithaa holds a review meeting with senior officials
An immediate allocation of Rs. 150 crore has been sanctioned towards repairs of roads in the State.
Announcing this, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, who conducted an aerial survey of the flood-hit areas in Chennai and neighbouring areas, stated, in a release that she held a detailed review meeting with senior officials.
Kancheepuram Municipality Chairman Mythili Thirunavukkarasu has announced that a new drinking water source will be set up in Thenambakkam area to augment supply.
She was addressing the first meeting of the recently elected Council, on the Municipality premises on Tuesday.
The Centre is in regular touch with Tamil Nadu government to solve the stalemate at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, Union Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office V.
A subsidy of Rs.1.13 crore will be given to nearly 4,055 livestock breeders and farmers in the district under the fodder development programme this year.
In a press release issued here on Monday, B.Maheswari, District Collector, said that the scheme sponsored by the Central and State government, aimed at giving a fillip to fodder cultivation.
Residents and shop-keepers near the Karuvadikuppam crematorium, maintained by the Oulgaret Municipality, are constantly bothered by the smoke from the complex that pollutes the environs around the facility.
Rebuttal by People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy soon
The People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) on Sunday slammed the report of the Government-appointed expert committee on Kudankulam as being extremely flawed, premised on obsolete demographic data and opaque on the risks from sub-volcanic activity near the site or health impact on the local population.
Mr V. Narayanasamy, the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, said he expects a breakthrough in the impasse over the Koodankulam nuclear power project.
The Tiruchi Corporation would adopt trenchless technology to lay pumping mains of the on-going Drinking Water Supply Augmentation Scheme in critical junctions and crossings at 11 places in the city.
The drinking water scheme is being executed at an estimated cost of Rs.221.42 crore with financial assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
