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The primary health centre at Medavakkam becomes a free bar for tipplers during night. (Photo: DC)

Safety takes a backseat at public health centre in Medavakkam

Clinic becomes hub for anti-social elements, doctors demand police outpost.

17 Oct 2016 6:20 AM IST

Diverting connections from Nanganallur

Suburban Chennai to have connected sewage system

Residents of South Chennai merged with Chennai corporation in 2011.

14 Oct 2016 8:09 AM IST

Dredging works being carried out to restore the storage capacity of Buckingham canal. (Photo: DC)

Making North Chennai water bodies ready for monsoon

Ennore fishing villages deployed 120 boats to rescue more than 30,000 stranded people during the devastating floods of...

13 Oct 2016 6:29 AM IST

Setting aside self-respect, most of them indulge into cheap tricks to earn easy money.

It may appear most demeaning, but begging trade is a profession to...

Over 90 per cent of the beggar fraternity is fake.

10 Oct 2016 6:22 AM IST

Medicinal plant Garcinia found in IIT-Madras.

Environmental degradation takes toll on floral species

Care Earth Trust has recorded few Garcinia species at IIT-Madras, and is developing them.

9 Oct 2016 6:19 AM IST

North and South Telangana received 29 per cent excess rainfall. (Representational image)

Failure to save rainwater caused shortages in Tamil Nadu

Annamalai tiger reserve which houses Chinnakallar and Valparai rainforests receives heavy rainfall throughout the year,...

9 Oct 2016 6:17 AM IST

This polluted water later gets mixed with water bodies in which a variety of fish species thrive.

Micro bead pollution may affect Adyar, Cooum

Polyethylene or polypropylene particles capable of wiping away fish species.

8 Oct 2016 6:22 AM IST

80 per cent of lands in Chennai were in wet condition in 1980.

Chennai has lost substantial wetlands to development

Can Chennai be ready to face natural disasters like flood and drought? The answer is a big No.

7 Oct 2016 8:00 AM IST

Chennai can be developed as water conservation model

Deliberate destruction to the ecology and non-limited human intervention could have spelt doom to the health of the...

6 Oct 2016 6:18 AM IST

Headquarters of Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (Cipet) at Guindy Industrial Estate (Photo: DC)

Employees against shifting Cipet HQ

Centre has decided to shift it to New Delhi.

5 Oct 2016 7:08 AM IST

Sustaining religious beliefs and importance to joint families are the underlining factors promoting the culture of sacred groves in Tamil Nadu, say environmental activists. (Photo: theviewspaper.net)

Religious conversion poses threat to grove culture

Tamil Nadu is an exception, as researchers have been identifying a large number of groves with diversified customs in...

4 Oct 2016 6:29 AM IST

Explaining the problem in forming the BMC, a villager from Sivagangai said, It is mandatory to include a person from scheduled tribe in the committee.

Casteism stalls setting up of biodiversity panels

In many villages of TN, there are groves separately maintained by tribals and upper caste people, indicating existence...

4 Oct 2016 6:22 AM IST