Petitioner alleges that it has been sub-leased without Centre's nod

A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court Bench here seeking a direction to the Centre as well as State Government to take back 1,200.97 acres of Mullakadu Reserve Forest land handed over to Tuticorin Port Trust in 1918 on the ground that it had been allegedly let on sub lease to various public and private establishments thereby affecting its ecology.

The DHAN Foundation, a leading non-government organisation in the city, in partnership with the Department of Environment, Government of Tamil Nadu, organised the ‘Madurai Walkathon 2012' here on S

The Madras High Court Bench here on Thursday ruled that there was no prohibition on the police to book sand smugglers on charges of ‘theft' under the Indian Penal Code as well as ‘illegal mining' u

In a major step towards an effective implementation of the Food Safety and Standards Act, all hotels, eateries and road side food vendors have been asked to register their particulars with food saf

Kerala Irrigation Department engineers accompanied it

The Supreme Court-appointed Empowered Committee on Sunday inspected Tamil Nadu Hydel Power generation station at Lower camp and Vaigai dam as part of its inspection of Mullaperiyar dam here.

National Highways Authority of India organises public hearing on realignment

Farmers from villages in the outskirts of the City have opposed the proposed move to build the bypass road, to come up as part of the widening of the Tiruchi-Karur section of National Highway 67, cutting across fertile agricultural lands.

Expressing dissatisfaction over the action taken so far by the Centre and Tamil Nadu governments on Mullaperiyar row, DMK chief M.

The Rural Development Department is going to undertake an Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaign on solid waste management in rural areas of Madurai under a Central Government sche

Construction of solar-powered green houses for the rural poor is likely to commence in Madurai district by the third week of November.

The Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RD and PR) Department has almost completed the identification of beneficiaries for this scheme.

Extending support to locals agitating against Kudankulam Nuclear Power project, about 100 anti-nuclear activists will embark on a yatra from Madurai to the site on Thursday.

The activists, under the aegis of Chennai Solidarity Group for Kudankulam Struggle would start their journey from Madurai on November 10 and stop at towns and villages en route to Kudankulam to explain “the terrible environmental and health effects of nuclear energy.”