Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation is of the firm view that the menace of non-biodegradable and non-recyclable plastic bags should be eliminated for its waste management programme to be successful. The ongoing drive against plastic carry bags and other items of below 20 microns is to ensure that the Corporation
Staff Reporter COIMBATORE: The worst affected victims of climate change are developing countries, though those who are responsible for high levels of green house gas emissions are the developed ones. The United States is the largest consumer of energy, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Honorary Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said …
Coimbatore: Siruthuli, a public initiative for conserving ecology and water bodies, has commenced a drive to plant 10,620 saplings in lieu of the 1,062 trees chopped off on Avanashi Road last year for widening the 17.2 km stretch into a four lane road. The afforestation activities commenced recently. Students of …
COIMBATORE: Solid waste management is progressing in all the 52 town panchayats in the district, even though at least half of them are struggling to find land to create landfills for the disposal of non-biodegradable waste. But, almost all of them have managed to find ways to make manure out …
COIMBATORE: India should take the lead in mobilising world nations to launch measures to prevent the phenomenon called global warming, organic scientist G. Nammalvar told a press conference here recently. Food riots He said the world faced two major threats, namely global warming and acute scarcity of food grains in …
Special Correspondent COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation is closely watching the water position in the Siruvani Dam, which provides drinking water to one half of the city and also three municipalities and some panchayats south and west of the city. With the number of water connections rising in the city and …
As part of integrated solid waste management programme Photo: M. Periasamy PROMOTING CLEANLINESS: Mayor R. Venkatachalam (third right) hands over garbage bins to residents at Saibaba Colony in the city on Friday. Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra (right) is in the picture.
COIMBATORE: The Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology (TNSCST) will establish Patent Cells in some universities to enhance patent filing of biotechnology products in the State, S. Vincent, Member Secretary of the Council, said here recently. Inaugurating a two-day conference on
KARUR: Farmers in the pollution-hit Noyal river basin have urged the State Government to quickly disburse the compensation awarded to them by the Loss of Ecology Committee.
Coimbatore: The district administration and district engineer of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board have announced that orders have been served on 40 dyeing units for closure and disconnection of power supply connection on the charges of polluting the Noyyal Rajavaikkal and the ground water table in the area. District …
COIMBATORE: A fervent call for segregation of waste at the point of generation, a warning that licences of shops will be revoked if they littered their environs and emphasis on awareness on these marked a recent review by District Collector V. Palanikumar of the status of solid waste management across …
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered notice on a writ petition by a panchayat ward member in Coimbatore district, seeking a direction to authorities for collecting taxes and other revenues from 10 companies that had set up a windmill project in his village. Rathinavadivel of Pongallur post in …
Coimbatore, VILLAGERS near Madukkarai on the city outskirts are under the grip of fear after two leopards gained entry into a farm house here. The villagers had been complaining of a leopard that had been ransacking the plantations situated on the foothills of Madukkarai Dharmaraja Koil area for the past …
M.J. PRABU Safe & secure: The farmer, Subbaian in his lush organic farm in Tamil Nadu. The importance of good soil and clean water for raising any crop can hardly be overemphasised. A soil with low fertility and a contaminated water source can make life very difficult for farmers.
The Water Technology Centre (WTC), Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore was established in 1982 with financial assistance from Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) to play a lead role in developing appropriate technology, knowledge base of the available water resources for maximizing agricultural production and to evolve suitable water …
