E-waste toxins in mum’s milk

TILL NOW, it was believed that pesticides like widely banned DDT were contaminating breast milk. Now, a group of researchers has found another threat. It has detected high levels of industrial chemicals in breast milk in women from various parts of the country.

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Literacy Panorama

How about a long drive

IT IS the star attraction on the campus of SRM University in Chennai. Though in a nascent stage, it has the potential to give solar car manufacturers like Reva and Venturi a run for their money. Its innovators, a team of 10 electrical engineering students in their final year and pre-final year, claim the car is highly energy efficient and could hit the market in a year.

Call to ground airport plan

OPPOSITION to the Tamil Nadu government's plan to construct a greenfield airport at Sriperumbudur near Chennai is growing.

Road open for development

On december 1, 2009, the Tamil Nadu government changed the landuse classification for three villages on the Chennai coast. Environmentalists say the move would regularize illegal houses overlooking the beach and lead to a real estate boom in the area.

Dump wars

INDIA generates over 10,000 tonnes of plastic waste daily. This is almost 10 per cent of the entire solid waste generated. Mukesh Doble and his student Trishul Artham from the Indian Institute Technology in Chennai spent a year experimenting with fungii that can degrade bisphenol A (BPA)-containing plastic.

Little boxes of herbs

Coastal flyway to flatten 16 villages

people living in the fishing villages along the Chennai coast have used the Right to Information (rti) Act to find out the real intent behind inducements offered to them by the government. They discovered the state highway authorities plan to build a 9.7 km elevated road along the beach by ploughing through 16 villages that fall in the way.