CHENNAI: The death toll due to rain-related incidents since the northeast monsoon set in TN reached 44 on Tuesday with the drowning of seven persons in flash floods in Tirupur. Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has doubled the solatium for the families of the victims.
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has asked all the local bodies of Madurai district to establish plastic waste collection centres and dispose them of at cement kiln of Madras Cements in Virudhuna
Representatives of the anti-Koodankulam nuclear power project protesters presented a ‘questionnaire’, seeking answers to 50 questions, during the first meeting of the committees set up by the Centr
The committees set up by the Centre and Tamil Nadu government to resolve the standoff over the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant met here on Tuesday for the first time when representatives of the pro
Dotted with waterfalls and herbal parks, Kolli Hills in Tamil Nadu’s Namakkal district will be developed as an eco-tourism destination at a cost of over Rs 2 crore.
Relief for damage to huts, death of cattle also hiked
The State government hiked the compensation paid to the families of those who die in rain-related incidents to Rs.2 lakh even as the death toll touched 34 on Monday.
The Communist Party of India has called for a fresh environment assessment to be carried out at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site and its vicinity.
Justifying the need for such an assessment, D. Raja, CPI National Secretary, told journalists that the last such assessment, carried out prior to the establishment of the plant, was done in a very casual manner.
A Rs 200-crore 10-point action plan for development of the area around Koodankulam nuclear project was mooted by former President A P J Abdul Kalam as he appealed to people not to have even a ‘nano
