TIRUNELVELI: The recent campaign conducted in 19 blocks of the district through mobile cultural troupes to create awareness among the rural masses about HIV/AIDS has created significant impact over the villagers.
TIRUNELVELI: The Corporation has proposed to appeal to the District Collector not to carry out sand mining activities in the Tamirabharani within 10 km radius from the periphery of the city as sand quarrying being carried out near the water sources of the local body has badly hit the drinking water supply to the residents.
TIRUNELVELI: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) conducted an awareness programme on environment for bankers, NGOs and farmers recently at Tenkasi to sensitise the stakeholders on environmental degradation and the strategies to mitigate the danger.
TIRUNELVELI: Scientists should work in unison towards inventing technology for the best possible energy efficiency and discover more zero carbon energy sources to reduce greenhouse gas emission into atmospheric air, A. Ramachandran, Director, Centre for Climatic Change and Adaptation Research, Anna University, Chennai, has said.
CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will lay the foundation stone on February 9 for the Rs.369-crore project to interlink the Tamirabarani river with the Karumeniyar and Nambiar, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala told the Assembly on Wednesday. The project envisaged diversion of surplus water of the Tamirabarani to dry areas in Tuticorin and Tirunelveli districts.
TIRUNELVELI: An anti-plastic campaign was carried out at the Manimuthar dam check-post when hundreds of revellers were allowed entry to bathe at the Manimuthar waterfalls on Thursday last in view of
TIRUNELVELI: Researchers from the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, involved in an International Union for Conservation of Nature study of wetlands around the Kalakkad- Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve in the district have discovered a lake that is used by thousands of birds for nesting and roosting.
It will cater for both the nuclear plant and NPCIL township
All set for pure supply: The desalination plant at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site. In the background is the huge reactor building of the first unit (1000 MWe) which will be commissioned this year.
