WHILE more than 600 families living behind a petrol filling station at Fourth f Block in Mogappair West f complained that gasoline (from the fuel outlet) had seeped into their wells and rendered water unfit for cont sumption, officials of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) strongly denied the allegation, saying leakage from t the storage tank was not possible.

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Oily: A sample of the contaminated water in West Mogappair.

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Chennai: Recycling waste from tanneries, Chennai-based Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) and Delhi

No subsidy, but over 99% of the TN capital complies with the rules
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New Delhi: Like other metros in India, rapidly-urbanizing Chennai too faces the risk of its groundwater levels plunging to new depths. But this southern city has resolved to replenish its groundwater and secure its future.

Generated in thermal power plants at Ennore, North Chennai, Mettur and Tuticorin

The city's seashore is often remembered as beautiful thanks to the 12-km-long Marina, which got a face-lift after the 2004 tsunami.

But sea erosion has been reducing North Chennai's coastal strip to tiny strips, writes G Pattabi Raman in his photo essay

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The mahouts are tribals born in Kozhikamuthi in Topslip, Pollachi, where an elephant training camp is functioning

As kids: The mahouts' family taking the calves for a walk inside the enclosure at the Vandalur zoo on Wednesday.

CHENNAI: The second Cauvery Combined Drinking Water Scheme will be implemented at a cost of Rs.47.74 crore and will benefit Kankeyam town panchayat (now elevated as municipality), Vellakoil Municipality and 174 rural habitations, Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said on Monday.

New Delhi: You will have to pay up to 50 paise more for cleaner motor fuels in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and nine other major cities that plan switch to Euro-IV grade.

Petrol in Delhi will be costlier by 50 paise per litre at Rs 47.93 per litre and diesel by 26 paise at Rs 38.10 a litre.