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KANCHEEPURAM: Residents of Kancheepuram Municipality have started feeling the pinch of drinking water shortage with a sudden and steep reduction in daily water supply duration.
TAMIL Nadu is planning to increase the forest area in the State to 33 per cent and the State forest department has launched a slew of measures to attain the target, according to forest officials.
The court had passed the earlier order on a petition which sought to restrain the PWD from using machinery
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has modified its earlier direction to the authorities not to use any machinery for sand quarrying in Palar river bed in some villages in Kancheepuram and Tiruvannamalai districts.
MODIFYING its earlier order, a division bench of the Madras High Court on Friday permitted the contractors of the State PWD department to use machineries for quarrying sand from Palar river in Kancheepuram and Tiru- vannamalai districts with the ap- proval of the authorities con- cerned.
Says a report released by the Forest Survey of India
CHENNAI: There has been a marginal increase in the forest cover in the State, according to a report released by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) recently.
A SILENT revolution is sprouting out of Andhra soil.
Just like the free distribution of colour television sets by the Tamil Nadu government, the Andhra Pradesh government is distributing portable soil testing kit that helps ascertain the fertility of the soil.
Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) plans to set up a 4,000 MW capacity ultra mega power project at Cheyyur in Tamil Nadu's Kanchipuram district, a top company official said on Monday.
At present, NLC generates 2,490 MW power from three power stations here, Mr A. R. Ansari, chairman- cum-managing director of the Corporation, said here.
KANCHEEPURAM: Two teams of experts from National Institute of Communicable Diseases, New Delhi, and National Institute of Virology, Pune, are in Tamil Nadu to determine the causes of the
