K.T. Sangameswaran

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has pulled up the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board for its failure to strictly implement the Central rules with regard to the sale and use of plastic materials.

Thermocol waste lay scattered all over the paddy fields behind Margao

Fifty miles east of Los Angeles, a small and inconspicuous facility is using something most of us would rather not think about -- household sewage -- to create a resource we can't live without -- fuel.

The definition of renewable energy seems clear cut: The sun continues to shine, so solar energy is renewable. The wind continues to blow, so wind turbines churn out renewable power.

WHAT could be the world

Participants of a multi-topic international symposium have overwhelmingly demanded reversal of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) privatisation, observing that the private management has failed to enhance the utility

COIMBATORE: The menace of burning garbage returned to the Coimbatore Corporation

New Delhi: When retired scientist V Ramachandran walked about his neighbourhood in Dwarka, he found that the only pedestrian zones were the steep foot-and-a-half high footpaths.
And when social scientist P V S Kumar spoke to children around Dwarka, he found science for them was mostly about

Bathinda: In its tourism development master plan report submitted to the Government last month, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (WTO) has warned that the perception of health risks due to dirt and pollution could spoil state