CHENNAI: Not long before, realtors would market residential complexes as quiet corners of comfort within the city.

Chennai: Metro rail will be installing solar street lights at their staff quarter premises at Koyambedu in an effort to maximise the use of renewable energy.

CHENNAI: In the country's diabetes capital, it is only natural that worries of most residents are about high blood sugar and other complications.

BENGALURU: Spiralling levels of pollution in the city have prompted lawmakers to contemplate setting up a separate pollution control board for the megacity.

Trichy: The Trichy Corporation seized around 670 kg banned plastic carry bags from commercial shops and collected a fine of Rs 26,000 from the dealers in the city on Thursday.

A study published in Current Science says that ambient noise levels in India's metropolitan cities are way above safe limits.

A study which analysed data on noise levels in seven big cities of the country came to the conclusion that finding a quiet place in these cities is next to impossible.

The neighbourhoods of hospitals are declared as silence zones so that patients receiving treatment are not disturbed.

CHENNAI: Even as the Chennai Corporation and state health department organised a massive awareness camp aimed at dengue prevention and control in Pudupet on Thursday, residents complained that the