K. Manikandan

Wood gas-fired crematoriums have several advantages

New facility: A wood gas-fired crematorium under construction in Chitlapakkam town panchayat.

TAMBARAM: Wood gas-fired crematoriums have the become the convenient choice for administrators of urban local bodies and the Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply to replace conventional cremation methods, owing to the comparatively lesser costs incurred for burning of bodies.

Yogesh Kabirdoss |
Chennai
UNTIL six months ago, Muthamma, an elderly woman, used to cook food using clean water from a well in her house.
No longer. She now approaches her neighbours for clean water as her well has been contaminated with sewage.

Muthamma is the only one in the locality who has a well.

The rest source their water from hand pumps. Fortunately, sewage has not contaminated their water source so far.

P. Oppili

CHENNAI: The State Forest Department will plant 25,000 saplings in Chennai and its suburbs this year as part of the

CHENNAI-BASED BGR Energy Systems has secured a Rs 4,900-crore EPC contract from Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadam Ni-gam for its 2x600 MW Kalisindh Thermal power project at Jhalawar in Rajasthan. This greenfield project is perhaps the largest engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract in the country. The scope of the project includes design, engineering, supply of boiler and steam turbine generator, BGR Energy CMD B G Raghupathy said.

Watch major Titan and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has signed a pact to come out with watches on five endangered species of India. "The dials of these watches will be shaped like that of tiger and four other species,' Titan industries vice-president (global business head) told a press meet here. The revenue earned from sale of these watches, priced between Rs 2,000 and Rs 4,500, would be given to WWF for its operations, he said.

In comes the deal, so does the demand. Even as dust over the Indo-US nuclear deal is yet to settle in the political circles, the academia is moving forward to meet the demand for hundreds of trained hands to man the power stations envisaged for the future.

J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday paved the way for expansion of the Chennai airport by dismissing a special leave petition challenging the proceedings initiated by the Tamil Nadu government for acquisition of about 1,070 acres of land for this purpose.

Chennai The Madras High Court has directed the Pollution Control Board (PCB) to issue notice to the stone crusher units in the cluster areas in Tirusoolam and Pallavaram near Chennai asking why their units should not be closed down if operated without the consent of the PCB and without complying with the norms laid down by the NEERI, irrespective of their distance from the residential area.

ANXIOUS MOMENTS Tremor felt at parts of Nungambakkam, Kodambakkam, T Nagar, Koyambedu and Padi at 5.10 pm on Friday; epicentre at Andaman Islands; measured 6.7 on the Richter scale Chennai THE mild tremors in a few places in the city took people by surprise and rumour-mongers had a field day sending panic SMSs and offices of newspapers were flooded with telephone calls seeking to know the correct position. This newspaper received a dozen calls in a span of about one hour from 6 pm.