<p>Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of Arulmigu Meenakshi Sundareshwar Devasthanam Vs State of Tamil Nadu & Others dated 18/03/2024.</p> <p>The matter related to 3009.84 acres of land situated
Primary school dropout rates have dropped because of the supply of eggs in the noon meal scheme for school students in the State, Social Welfare Minister Poongothai Aladi Aruna informed the Assembly on Monday. "In primary schools, the dropout rate in 2002-03 was 12 per cent. This came down to 2 per cent in 2006-07. One of the main reasons for this was the introduction of the scheme to give three eggs a week to the students,' she said and added that she had taken the statistics from the Audit report.
The Tatas have shut down their offices in Tirunelveli and Sattankulam earlier this year and stopped any attempt to buy land, say company officials. The Rs 2,500-crore Tata Steel titanium dioxide project has been stalled with the Tatas giving up trying to buy land for the project in Tamil Nadu. According to company officials, the Tatas have shut down their offices in Tirunelveli and Sattankulam earlier this year and stopped all attempts to buy land. In the last one year, against an estimated 9,829 acres needed for the project the company has been able to get 25 acres.
Muniyamma, 30, and her family survived the tragic Boxing Day of 2004. But its aftermath has left her a widow and her four children fatherless. Her husband Pazhanivel, 38, immolated himself as the district administration tried to evict tsunami refugees from a temporary shelter in Kadambadi, near Nagapattinam.
THE Chennai Corporation, as part of its cost-cutting measures, has planned to install more solar-powered streetlights in narrow streets and slum areas in the city According to May . or M Subramanian, the Corporation spent nearly Rs 18 crore a year for powering streetlights. By introducing solar-powered lights, the Corporation could reduce its expenditure, he added. The Mayor on Saturday inaugurated 60 solar-powered streetlights of 18 watts capacity, built at a cost of Rs 11 lakh, at a slum dwellings near Tod Hunter Nagar in Ward-139.
Water being an emotive issue, only a mandated institution can provide a platform to build consensus among States On the occasion of World Water Day, 2002, Kofi Annan, the then U.N. Secretary General, had warned that "water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.' Similar sentiments were echoed recently by Ban Ki-moon in his message on World Water Day, 2008, that the problems growing from the scarcity of a vital resource (like water) would spill over state borders creating a high risk of violent conflict.
POLICE in the city are in an unenviable position as sandalwood trees continue to be the target of thieves who smuggle them to Kerala, from where they are taken to other states. This despite various measures taken by them to bust the smuggler gangs. Police sources said some time back there were factories in Kerala making oil from sandalwood smuggled from Tamil Nadu, but as the Kerala Government has banned production of sandalwood oil, the smugglers clandestinely transport the logs to other states through Kerala.
Two government orders issued last month clarify procedures for declaring brain death and make it mandatory for hospitals in the State to adopt them The government orders clarify several procedures that are ambiguous in the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994. For instance, it gives the procedure for performing apnea tests, which are essential for declaring brain death } Chennai
Ties up with farmers for contract farming of prawns Unveiling plans The proposed processing plant will have two units (to process marine foods and vegetables and fruits) with an overall 3.5 tonnes an hour capacity. The firm's hatcheries division will supply seed and feed with buyback guarantee to farmers with whom it has tied up for contract farming. R. Ravikumar
The BJP and the Congress' politics over Hogenakkal is undermining national integrity EVEN IN normal circumstances, the regional chauvinistic politics of Karnataka can be detestable. With the state assembly elections round the corner, it has only worsened. Tamil Nadu government's Hogenakkal drinking water project has provided the platform to whip up sentiments in both the states. The project, when completed, would provide safe drinking water to people in the arid districts of Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri in Tamil Nadu. Ground water in this region is contaminated
Political tensions over the disputed Hogenakkal water project have eased, but for how long? PC VINOJ KUMAR & SANJANA report
