Chennai (D)

In Court

damage control: The Tokyo District Court awarded US $458 in damages to a municipal employee over passive smoking he suffered at his workplace. This is the first such ruling in Japan. The court said

Publication Date:

14/08/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040815

pp:

0

Tags:

Dams, Smoking, High Court, Japan, Chennai (D)

Air Pollution

Final report on particulate pollution reduction strategy in seven critically polluted cities

On August 14, 2003, the Hon

Publication Date:

01/01/2004

Source: Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority

Tags:

Vehicular Pollution, RSPM (PM 10), Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), Alternative Fuels, Fuel Quality, Supreme Court, Hyderabad (T), Ahmedabad (T), Bangalore (T), Chennai (D), Kanpur (T), Lucknow (T), Air Quality and Health

India

Probe completed

The commission inquiring into the death of three tribal protesters in police firing in Orissa's Rayagada district seems to have made light of the local people's concern over bauxite mining. Justice P

Publication Date:

29/11/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20031130

pp:

0

Tags:

Mining, Tribals, High Court, Orissa (Odisha), Chennai (D)

India

Novel medical waste treatment facility in Chennai

Tamil Nadu will soon have its first centralised biomedical waste treatment facility. The unit is being set up in Chennai by the Hyderabad based G J Multiclave India Private Limited and can treat medical waste of 15,000 beds

Publication Date:

30/05/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Hospital Waste, Waste Treatment, Tamil Nadu, Chennai (D)

Climate Change

Pollen count

To help asthmatics in Chennai

Publication Date:

30/01/2003

Author(s): Vibha Varshney

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Asthma, Medical Research, Chennai (D)

India

Water and wit

NAMMAL MUDIYUM . Produced by Srinivas Youngmen's Association of Triplicane . 30 minutes Nammal Mudiyum in English means "We can do it". That's exactly the message of

Publication Date:

14/09/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, India, Chennai (D)

India

Rain centre inaugurated in Chennai

considering that groundwater levels are rapidly declining in Chennai, the launch of the

Publication Date:

14/09/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Groundwater Recharge, Water Harvesting, India, Chennai (D)

Water Resources

Reining it in

Chennai shores up its laws to curb groundwater depletion, with renewed emphasis on rainwater harvesting

Publication Date:

14/07/2002

Author(s): Janakiraman Saravanan

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Groundwater, Groundwater Recharge, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Drought, Education, Legislation, Governance, Tamil Nadu, Chennai (D)

Climate Change

Culmination of the IT revolution

Ashok Jhunjhunwala, professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, is the man behind the wireless local loop technology cor dect and the TeNeT Telecommunications and Computer Networks group.

Publication Date:

30/05/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020531

pp:

0

Tags:

Rural Development, Electronics Industry, Technology, Karnataka, Chennai (D), Internet, Computers, Electronics

India